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performance previously ran this spring and scored four Tony nominations, despite the leaked nude photos scandal.The “Grey’s Anatomy” alum, 41, stars as Darren Lemming, a baseball player who comes out as gay, while Ferguson, 46, plays Lemming’s business manager. The “Modern Family” actor won the Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play earlier this year for his work.“Fran and I are so honored to serve as pinch-hitters and take the show into extra innings,” Barry Weissler, who produced the show, said in a statement.

With more than 1,500 performances during its initial 2016-2020 Broadway run, and a subsequent three-month post-Covid-shutdown remount, Waitress: The Musical baked its way into the hearts of theatergoers, and in December folks who didn’t make it to New York City will get a chance to see what the fuss was about: Bleecker Street and Fathom Events have set nationwide special-event screenings for five nights only beginning December 7.

McKinley Franklin editor Following its world premiere at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, Bleecker Street has acquired the U.S. rights to Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson’s “Waitress: The Musical,” which is set for a nationwide release on Dec. 7, the studio announced Wednesday.

Bleecker Street has picked up U.S. rights to hit musical production Waitress: The Musical, from composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles and Jessie Nelson following its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June. Bleecker Street is teaming with Fathom Events for a December 7, 2023 nationwide release of the Broadway show, which was captured live on stage in 2021 during its long stage run. 

Actor Bill Heck (Broadway’s Cabaret, Hulu’s The Old Man) will join the return Broadway engagement of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out co-starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Jesse Williams.

"Take Me Out" is coming back to Broadway with "Modern Family" actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson and former "Grey's Anatomy" star Jesse Williams both reprising their roles. The Tony award-winning play written by Richard Greenberg, directed by Scott Ellis and produced by Barry and Fran Weissler will be playing for 14 weeks at the Schoenfeld Theatre, beginning on October 27.  The play ran for a limited run this past spring and received four Tony nominations.The play is about Darren Lemming, a fictional baseball professional baseball player played by Williams who comes out as gay.

Tony winner Jesse Tyler Ferguson and nominee Jesse Williams are suiting up again as stars of the baseball-themed Take Me Out, which is set to return to Broadway in the fall. The hit revival will re-take the field October 27 at the Schoenfeld Theatre for 14 weeks, it was revealed today.

Take Me Out is going for another run!

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Take Me Out,” the Tony Award winning best revival of a play, will make a rare return engagement on Broadway after taking its final curtain call in June.The comedic drama about a star baseball player who comes out as gay and the impact that has on the team’s clubhouse, nabbed four Tonys, including a best featured actor in a play prize for Jesse Tyler Ferguson. It also generated a lot of buzz for its ample on-stage nudity (that aspect led the show’s producers to require patrons to lock their phones in Yondr pouches to prevent photos from leaking online).Ferguson will return for the production, as will Jesse Williams, the “Grey’s Anatomy” star who won raves for his lead performance. “Take Me Out” will open its doors on Thursday, October 27 at the Schoenfeld Theatre.

Broadway’s long-running musical Chicago has cast Madam Secretary actor Erich Bergen in the role of Billy Flynn, producers announced today.

Pamela Anderson received a lot of support on her big night.  The actress, 54, was showered with love from her two sons, Brandon, 25, and Dylan, 24, during her first show on Broadway.  Anderson made her musical debut starring as Roxie Hart in "Chicago" on Tuesday night.The show will be performed through June 5 at Ambassador Theatre. Pamela Anderson received support from her two songs during her Broadway debut in "Chicago".  (Photo by Bruce Glikas/Getty Images) At curtain call, Anderson was pictured with a bouquet of red roses, and her costume consisted of black fishnets and a black leotard. "From ‘Baywatch’ to Broadway.

joining the cast of “Chicago” on Broadway.I can now attest that the actress and “Baywatch” babe moves confidently, carries a tune and, you know, all that jazz.Anderson, 54, started her eight-week run as foxy Roxie Hart in the musical Tuesday night, and she was greeted with the kind of crowd euphoria that few shows have received during this tricky season — let alone a production that just turned 25 years old. Her sons, Dylan Jagger Lee and Brandon Thomas Lee, were sitting in the Ambassador Theatre, decked out in their midweek finery, supporting their famous mom. For Tuesday’s other, non-blood-related ticket-buyers, Pam might as well have been Ethel Merman considering the roars. She was swell, she was great.It helps that Roxie — a 1920s adulteress who murders her lover and becomes a tabloid darling as she argues self-defense — is the perfect part for the entertainment icon. Producers Fran and Barry Weissler — whose whole show is in terrific shape — have printed money for decades by cycling out an array of stars in the lead roles. However, hardly any (save for Melanie Griffith, maybe) know first-hand what it’s like to be front-page news the way Anderson does. When her Roxie is bombarded by reporters and flashbulbs at the courthouse with her smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn (Ryan Silverman), there’s a world-weary wisdom and a learned darkness to the actress that, intentional or not, separates her from the many Roxies who so often go overboard with squeals and emoting. Anderson is also very funny.

two-part Netflix documentary will also chronicle her upcoming Broadway debut in the musical “Chicago.” The blonde bombshell, 54, appeared on “Good Morning America” Wednesday and opened up about her role as Roxie Hart and her new doc.“They’re actually following me through this journey, so they get to see a little bit of me preparing for Roxie as well,” the “Baywatch” actress said of the docu-series. “But we weren’t intending on doing that. Roxie just came along literally in the last few weeks.”The show’s producer Barry Weissler had previously called the Canadian starlet about her role “just a few weeks ago.”“How can you say no to him?” Anderson joked about her conversation with the producer.

Pamela Anderson is hard at work promoting Chicago!

One of the planet's biggest celebrities will play a woman desperately craving fame when Pamela Anderson makes her Broadway debut next month in the musical "Chicago," The Associated Press has learned. Anderson will play Roxie Hart from April 12-June 5 at the Ambassador Theatre, a remarkable union of one of the most recognizable sex icons of the last few decades with a show that skewers fame. "From ‘Baywatch’ to Broadway.

merry murderesses of the Cook County Jail will be from April 12 through June 5.The announcement comes on the heels of another project for the former “Baywatch” babe — a Netflix documentary that will share her side of the story regarding her infamous sex tape with ex-husband Tommy Lee.The controversial Hulu mini-series “Pam & Tommy” starring Lily James and Sebastian Stan was created without the consent of any of the parties involved. The mother of two’s documentary will show “the real story” about her life, and will prove that she is “not a victim, but a survivor.”Anderson said her foray onto the stage will allow her to “see what I’m capable of,” Anderson told the Associated Press on Monday in a statement.“From ‘Baywatch’ to Broadway. I am inspired by the unexpected,” she said.

Pamela Anderson will make her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running musical Chicago this spring, producers announced today.

NEW YORK -- One of the planet's biggest celebrities will play a woman desperately craving fame when Pamela Anderson makes her Broadway debut next month in the musical “Chicago,” The Associated Press has learned.Anderson will play Roxie Hart from April 12-June 5 at the Ambassador Theatre, a remarkable union of one of the most recognizable sex icons of the last few decades with a show that skewers fame.“From ‘Baywatch’ to Broadway. I am inspired by the unexpected," Anderson told the AP in a Monday statement. "This is it, and I will not hold back anymore.

Sara Bareilles won’t be the only Waitress cast member with prior stage-diner experience when the musical reopens on Broadway in September: Producers announced today that Waitress vets Eric Anderson, Charity Angel Dawson, Christopher Fitzgerald, Caitlin Houlahan, Dakin Matthews and Joe Tippett will be back for at least part of the show’s limited engagement.

Waitress, the hit Broadway musical that played more than 1,500 performances during its 2016-2020 run, will return for a limited, four-month engagement this September, with composer Sara Bareilles in the lead role, producers announced today.