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Hi and welcome to Today on Broadway for October 10, 2025. I'm Broadway Radio's Matt Tamineni. I am coming to you solo because Grace is out accompanying a bunch of Stranger Things folks over at New York Comic Con. So I'm going to run you through today's news on my own and to be honest with you, there's quite a bit of news, so I'm excited to dive into it all with you. But remember, I'm heading up to New York this weekend. I will be there for the duration of next week and I will be talking about everything that I see. Travelogue episodes that'll hit over on patreon@patreon.com broadwayradio broadwayradio.com Patreon still waiting to hear exactly everything that I'm going to see, but here's what I do have scheduled. I have Ragtime on Sunday afternoon. Not exactly sure what I'm seeing on Sunday evening, but I think it is going to be the new cast of Hadestown. Then on Monday I'm going to be heading up to New World Stages to be checking out Heather's Tuesday night. Not sure what that's going to be. Hopefully art. But if not art, maybe seeing C. Jack and Jessica Vosk in Hell's Kitchen as was recommended by Grace. Then the Wednesday matinee, I'll be heading to the Hudson to see Waiting for Godot Wednesday night heading up to the Richard Rodgers to check out one Leslie Odom Jr. In Hamilton Thursday night going to be seeing just in time with new co star new Connie Francis Sarah Hyland and then wrapping up my trip on Friday at the Atlantic Theater Company seeing let's Love starring Austin Aubrey Plaza. So if you want to hear all about that patreon.com broadwayrade broadwayradio.com patreon sign up at the Mezzanine Tier and above but the news that we all kind of knew was gonna happen was announced on Thursday. I had heard that this show was gonna be off Broadway, then it was gonna be on Broadway, then it was gonna be off Broadway again. And now officially it is coming to Broadway as Cats. The Jellicle Ball will hit the main stem starting this spring. It will begin performances at the Broadhurst Theater on March 18. Ahead opening many of the cast members from the Off Broadway run at Pac NYC will return to the show including Andre de Shields as old Deuteronomy Temperance Chastity Moore as Grizabella Jr. Le Biaja as Gus Sydney James Harcourt as Rum Tum Tugger Jonathan Burke as Mongo Jerry Baby Byrne as Victoria Deva Hueska as Rumpel teaser Dudney Joseph Jr. As Monk Strap Robert Silk Mason as Magical Mr. Mistoffeles Primo the Ballerino as Tumble Brutus Xavier Reyes as Jenny Anydots Nora Schell as Bustopher Jones Bebe Nicole Simpson as Demeter Emma Sophia as Cassandra and Skimbleshanks Garnett Williams as Bumble arena Teddy Wilson Jr. As syllabub and there will be additional casting announced at a later date. What is interesting here is that the Off Broadway show was done with with kind of a three quarter thrust. For the majority of the show there was a huge catwalk that was like the center playing area with people on both sides. We don't exactly know what this show is going to look like, but the creative team will be back and Rachel Hauck, who is the the scenic designer, also did Hadestown, a set that I obviously adore. She she is back to recreate that show. But according to the New York Times, a publicist for the show said that the Runway will be quote, reimagined for Broadway audiences and that there will be, quote, some upgrades, enhancements and a few surprises for the proscenium architecture. I have heard from some sources that it is very much going to still have a catwalk, but it is not going to be in the same way that we saw at PAC nyc It is not going to be a completely reconfigured Broadhurst Theater to make this a more immersive, three quarter thrust kind of thing. Based off this and what is said in the New York Times article, I imagine it will be, you know, a catwalk that comes out into the audience, but it will not be like the central playing area. We will see more of it happening, more of the show happening on stage, but who knows what that looks like? I cannot begin to tell you. Again, the show will be directed by Zion Livingston and Bill Rauch and choreographed by Omari Wiles and Arturo Lyons. But very excited that this is actually happening, that this is going to have a longer life. Having just seen Cats on a cruise ship, a production that I think was the best cruise ship production of anything I've ever seen on like a main stage. I'm excited to revisit this one in this new way. I loved it at PAC NYC and excited to kind of figure out what exactly this is going to look like for a Broadway audience and I hope Broadway audiences show up. This is a show that I think deserves to have a long life and maybe not 18 years like the original did, but. But I'm hoping that this appeals to more people than just the normal Broadway set and then folks who are familiar with ballroom culture. But we will certainly see what it looks like in just a few short months time. Also, Cats released a great kind of minute long teaser video that if you didn't see it off Broadway gives you a pretty good indication as to what the characters look like, what the movement is like. A very good vibe check on this show. So I will have a link to that in the show notes if you want to watch that video. Now that is not the only Broadway news that we got yesterday, although I will say that some of the Broadway news that we got yesterday I have been teasing here for quite a while and that is the fact that Jeremy Jordan will be returning to the role of Jay Gatsby in the Great Gatsby on Broadway, the role that he originated. Of course he will come back into the part in just one month's time on November 10th, the Broadway theater following Ryan McCarten who will play his final performance in the role on November 9th. So Jeremy will be starring alongside Aisha Jackson who is playing Daisy and they released a Gatsby green Light mashup. So if you want to watch the video and see what these two sound like, we will have that in the show notes as well. Jeremy will be joining the current Broadway cast that features Michael Malia Kel as Nick, Lenadi Hanau as Myrtle Austin Colby as Tom Buchanan, who originally was an understudy for Jeremy in the role of Gatsby. Then Samantha. Polly is also still in the show from the original cast as Jordan Baker. Charlie Pollock is playing George and Eric Anderson is playing Meyer Wolfsheim. Sticking with some fairly familiar names coming to Broadway shows, yesterday we found out that Kandi Burruss, who is not only a Real Housewives of Atlanta star, but a real previous Broadway performer and a Broadway producer. She is going to be stepping into the role of Angelique and and Juliet for a limited run beginning on December 11th. She's going to stick with that show through March 8th. It was just announced earlier this week that Kandi had joined the producing team for the upcoming Broadway revival of Joe Turner's Come and Gone. Now she's going to be on Broadway in the same season as that show comes. Of course, she has produced a lot of shows in the past, including another August Wilson show, the Piano Lesson. She produced the Wiz and Othello recently. But she's also a very accomplished singer and songwriter in her own right. She was a member of the R B group Escape. She also wrote songs for Destiny's Child, Bills, Bills, Bills, tlc, no Scrubs, Ariana Grande, Break up with your girlfriend, I'm bored. So like she is a very well rounded and accomplished artist on both stage and screen. So certainly excited to have her in Ann Juliet now moving off of Broadway News to Genius News. I guess I don't know how you want to say that, but yesterday the MacArthur Genius grants were announced and there are two arts related people and one theater related folk that was presented with one of the 22 MacArthur Foundation Genius grants. And the theater creator included is Heather Christian, the playwright and composer whose Oratorio for Living Things is getting a revival off Broadway as we speak. It is currently playing through November 16th. All 22 of these artists receive $800,000, which is amazing that can go so far to helping these people just kind of focus on doing whatever it is that they are geniuses in. And they don't have to wor making ends meet. They can just kind of focus on their work. Also included this year are an atmospheric scientist, a photographer, an epidemiologist, an archaeologist, an astrophysicist, a visual artist, a political scientist, a photographer, an anthropologist, a biologist, multidisciplinary artists, writers, cartographers, and more. So just a very cool honor for Heather Christian. Makes me even more excited to see Oratorio for Living Things. Well, I don't think that Alan Cumming has gotten a MacArthur genius grant. He is certainly a genius and while his work on stage and on screen has always been remarkable, he has opened up his his audience to even more people because of the reality show the Traitors that he is the host of. But he is going to have an opportunity to present another side of the work that he does in a new six part streaming documentary series that will look at his nightclub and gay bar Club Coming. It is being produced by Drag Race producer World of Wonder and and it is going to look at some of the people who perform there. Also go behind the scenes with Alan and the co owner and manager Darren Dryden. Not exactly sure where this is going to end up streaming, but it is certainly exciting. I would not be surprised if it ends up on Paramount plus or Peacock. Paramount plus is the place where you can watch Drag Race. Peacock is where you can watch the Traders. So those make a lot of sense that this will end up there. But very cool. One of those highlight places that you never know what crazy thing or what crazy star is going to show up at Club Coming. Like there's videos of Paul McCartney showing up at Club Coming and and singing and performing. So very cool, very exciting. And we'll have to keep an eye on that for when it is eventually released. Let's get into some developmental work news and yesterday it was announced that some of our favorites, Caroline Bowman and Major Attaway, along with Megan Masako, Haley, Will Connolly and Xavier McKinnon will be a part of an upcoming reading of a new musical called the Parts I Keep Inside. It'll happen in New York on Wednesday, October 22nd. It was conceived by Jeffrey Smelkin and he wrote the music. The book, lyrics and additional music are by Andrea J. Love. Alex Sanchez will direct and it was actually inspired by a real life therapy assignment that Smelkin had and it follows a 25 year old named Sam in Seattle who appears fine but is unraveling inside with his sister's sudden return as well as a fragile romance unfolding. So if you want more information on that we will have links in the show notes. And then as part of the New York Theater Barnes New Musicals presentation they have a new work series that will conclude on November 3rd and they will have presentations from two new shows. The first is called the Pelican. It is going to feature a book and lyrics by Will Lacquer and music and lyrics by Dylan Glaythorne and it follows a group of residents in a climate change ravaged Florida town faced with the decision of moving or staying in their homes and facing a potentially devastating hurricane. Camille Howard is directing and this upcoming presentation will feature such names as Diana DeGarmo, Austin Scott Nasia Thomas, Judy MacLaine, Michelle Doughty and Timothy Warman. The other show is Today We Celebrate Earth Day, which centers on a seemingly ordinary Earth Day celebration that takes a dark turn, features music and lyrics by AJ Freeman and music by Fernanda Douglas. And then we will wrap up the show this week with a presentation of three songs from the upcoming Broadway production of Two Strangers. Parenthetically, carry a Cake Across New York. They did a very, very cool presentation for media and for influencers on top of a building. So we saw performances by Christiani Pitts and Sam Tutty of three songs that will be included. They also had a presentation by the show's writers, Jim Barn and Kit Buchan and the director Tim Jackson. So if you want to see and hear a little bit more about what this specific production of Two Strangers is going to say, sound like, we will have that video in the show notes as well. All right everybody, that is all that we have for today. Thanks for listening to Today on Broadway. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram BroadwayRadio. And if you want more BroadwayRadio, including my travelogue episodes for my next New York trip, head over to patreon.com broadwayradio broadwayradio.com Patreon have a wonderful Friday, a wonderful weekend and we'll be back to talk to you on Monday.