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Live Musicals

replacements Nov. 12, 2021

Annie Live! Swaps Jane Krakowski Out For Smash’s Megan HiltyAfter Krakowski contracted a breakthrough COVID-19 case.

By Rebecca Alter
live musicals Jan. 8, 2020

Of All Possible Musicals, ABC Has Decided to Do Young Frankenstein Live!The musical ran on Broadway from 2007 to 2009.

By Jackson McHenry

live musicals Oct. 6, 2019

Auli’i Cravalho Welcomes You Under the Sea in Little Mermaid Live! TeaserWhat have you got? A lot of sand. They’ve got a hot crustacean band featuring Shaggy.

By Halle Kiefer
live musicals Aug. 5, 2019

ABC Is Staging The Little Mermaid Live With Auli’i Cravalho and Queen LatifahNot to be confused with the live-action movie with Halle Bailey.

By Jackson McHenry
winter tca 2019 Feb. 6, 2019

Fox Exec Probably Wishes He Didn’t Tell Rent: Live Cast to ‘Break a Leg’“Sunday morning, I came in early and rewrote a lot of notes.”

By Whitney Friedlander
live musicals Feb. 4, 2019

NBC Gives Hair Live! Musical Event the ChopWhoever they hired to handle the merkin situation can finally get a decent night’s sleep.

By Halle Kiefer
no day like yesterday Jan. 28, 2019

Why Rent: Live Wasn’t Actually LiveThe actor playing Roger broke his foot in a dress rehearsal, and Fox didn’t have an understudy.

By Jackson McHenry
live musicals May 24, 2018

NBC Will Stage Hair As a Live Musical, So Start Wondering About the NuditySo, did anyone tell them about all the full frontal?

By Jordan Crucchiola
jesus christ superstar live Mar. 14, 2018

Trailer: Sara Bareilles and John Legend Chant in Jesus Christ Superstar LiveResurrecting Easter Sunday.

By Jackson McHenry
jesus christ superstar Dec. 19, 2017

Please Accept John Legend As Your Lord and Savior in Jesus Christ Superstar LiveNBC’s next live musical will air Easter Sunday.

By Jackson McHenry
a christmas story live Dec. 17, 2017

The Highs and Lows of A Christmas Story Live!The good, the bad, and the leg lamp of Fox’s live musical.

By Jen Chaney, Jackson McHenry, and Tara Abell
Dec. 17, 2017

How A Christmas Story Live! Made Its Chinese-Restaurant Scene Less RacistThe carolers sing “Deck the Halls” flawlessly.

By Stacey Wilson Hunt

musicals May 12, 2017

Fox Is Giving Rent the Live Musical TreatmentFive hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes of … something.

By Dee Lockett
live musicals May 10, 2017

NBC Will Revive Jesus Christ Superstar Live Next Easter SundayWhat’s the buzz? Tell me what’s a-happening.

By Jackson McHenry
ratings Dec. 8, 2016

Hairspray Live! Fails to Be a Megahit in the RatingsThe numbers for Hairspray suggest live musicals are no longer a no-brainer for the network.

By Josef Adalian
live musicals Oct. 28, 2016

Jennifer Lopez to Star in Bye Bye Birdie Live!It’ll air in 2017.

By Karen Brill
casting couch June 21, 2016

Kristin Chenoweth Joins Hairspray Live!More like Velma Von High Note.

By Jackson McHenry
live musicals June 9, 2016

ABC Is Getting In on That Live Musical Racket With For the Record LiveThe L.A. theater production turns film soundtracks into “immersive live entertainment events.”

By Jackson McHenry
live musicals May 12, 2016

Here’s Laverne Cox in Rocky Horror Picture ShowWelcome, Transylvania Medical School Class of 2016!

By Halle Kiefer
live musicals Jan. 13, 2016

NBC’s Next Live Musical Will Be HairsprayYou can’t stop the beat.

By Nate Jones
the industry July 29, 2015

Queen Latifah, Mary J. Blige Join NBC’s The WizThey’ll play the Wiz and the Wicked Witch, respectively.

By Nate Jones