Broadway Performers on Film/Television (Part 2)

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Nickelodeon will be presenting the SpongeBob SquarePants musical on TV with most of the original Broadway cast reprising their roles this December.
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/197270/the-spongebob-musical-live-on-stage-featuring-broadway-cast-to-air-on-nickelodeon/

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Several Broadway alums have joined the cast of Liesl Tommy’s upcoming Aretha Franklin biographical film starring Jennifer Hudson titled Respect. Which are Audra McDonald, Heather Headley, Hailey Kilgore, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, and Forest Whitaker.
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/197298/audra-mcdonald-heather-headley-hailey-kilgore-tituss-burgess-to-join-jennifer-hudson-in-aretha-franklin-biopic-respect/

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More Broadway is coming to Netflix as the live filming of Mike Birbiglia’s recent one-man show, The New One, will be launching on the streaming platform on November 26th.
https://www.broadway.com/buzz/197306/mike-birbiglias-broadway-solo-comedy-the-new-one-to-appear-on-netflix/

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Tony nominee Amber Gray has been cast in Oscar winner Barry Jenkins’ upcoming Amazon Prime miniseries, The Underground Railroad.
https://deadline.com/2019/10/amber-gray-the-underground-railroad-amazon-limited-series-broadway-hadestown-1202767310/

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Two-time Tony winner Katie Finneran is among the newly announced cast members for an upcoming film from Blumhouse.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Katie-Finneran-Alan-Ruck-Join-Upcoming-Blumhouse-Film-20191024

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BroadwayHD has announced their new slate of content coming next month.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BroadwayHD-Announces-November-Lineup-Including-PUTTING-IT-TOGETHER-Starring-Carol-Burnett-NUNSENSE-and-More-20191025

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Colton Ryan has joined the cast of the Sara Bareilles-Jessie Nelson TV show Little Voice. https://deadline.com/2019/10/apple-sara-bareilles-jj-abrams-little-voice-music-series-shalini-bathina-brittany-ogrady-colton-ryan-sean-teale-1202768

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Jefferson Mays will guest-star on the November 1 episode of The Blacklist. http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-winner-jefferson-mays-tapped-for-guest-role-on-the-blacklist

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Fellow Broadway alums Rebecca Naomi Jones (who is currently in the revival of Oklahoma!) and Patrice Covington have both been cast in the previously announced Genius: Aretha starring Cynthia Erivo as the Queen of Soul.
http://www.playbill.com/article/rebecca-naomi-jones-and-more-join-nat-geos-cynthia-erivo-led-genius-aretha

Covington previously appeared in the most recent Broadway revival of The Color Purple starring Erivo.

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We’re getting another film adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, which will be a musical directed by Bill Condon with an original score by Stephen Schwartz.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/heat-vision/bill-condon-disney-team-musical-imagining-a-christmas-carol-1250509

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Tony nominees Noma Dumezweni and Cristin Milioti have joined the cast of the HBO Max series Made For Love. https://deadline.com/2019/10/made-for-love-noma-dumezweni-cast-hbo-max-series-based-novel-1202770952/

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Sutton Foster will be guest-starring on A Million Little Things. https://tvline.com/2019/10/29/a-million-little-things-sutton-foster-cast-season-2-chloe/

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It’s official, Andrew Garfield will be starring in the Lin-Manuel Miranda-directed film adaptation of Tick, Tick… Boom!.
https://deadline.com/2019/10/andrew-garfield-lin-manuel-miranda-rent-playwright-jonathan-larson-tick-tick-boom-netflix-1202772429/

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On December 22, CBS will broadcast A Home for the Holidays with Idina Menzel. This holiday series focuses on the stories of children in foster care and spotlights a different musical performer each year. Tony winner Menzel will perform songs from her new Christmas album with guest performers such as NE-YO and Adam Lambert.

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Helen Mirren and Jim Broadbent will star in the film The Duke, which will be written by Richard Bean. https://deadline.com/2019/10/jim-broadbent-helen-mirren-art-heist-story-the-duke-greenlit-pathe-afm-1202770727/

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