Broadway Performers on Film/Television (Part 2)

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Additional casting has been announced for Netflix’s upcoming film adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, which includes Tony nominee Jeremy Shamos.
https://deadline.com/2019/07/ma-raineys-black-bottom-taylour-paige-jonny-coyne-denzel-washington-august-wilson-netflix-1202641389/

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Marlee Matlin will be starring in the Disney+ comedy series Life And Deaf. https://deadline.com/2019/07/marlee-matlin-star-disney-plus-comedy-life-and-deaf-lizzy-weiss-patricia-heaton-cbs-tv-studios-1202641439/

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Jordan Fisher will be starring in the Netflix dance film Work It.
http://www.playbill.com/article/jordan-fisher-tapped-for-new-dance-film-work-it

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Dusan Brown, who played Young Simba in the national tour of The Lion King, has joined the cast of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Also, Tony and Oscar winner Ann Roth will serve as the film’s costume designer. https://variety.com/2019/film/news/dusan-brown-viola-davis-black-bottom-netflix-1203262553/

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Emmy and Oscar winner Regina King will direct the film adaptation of Kemp Powers’ play One Night In Miami. https://deadline.com/2019/07/regina-king-direct-adaptation-of-one-night-in-miami-kemp-powers-1202643921/

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Andrew Garfield will be serving as a guest judge on the U.K. version of RuPaul’s Drag Race. http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-winner-oscar-nominee-and-rupauls-drag-race-fan-andrew-garfield-to-guest-judge-on-drag-race-uk

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Darren Criss will write and star in a new musical series called Royalties for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new streaming platform Quibi. http://www.playbill.com/article/darren-criss-to-write-and-star-in-musical-series-royalties-for-quibi

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Tony Goldwyn has joined the cast of the upcoming HBO series Lovecraft Country, which as I reported about in the first Broadway Performers On Film/Television thread, will also star Emmy and Tony winner Courtney B. Vance. https://deadline.com/2019/07/lovecraft-country-tony-goldwyn-cast-hbo-series-misha-green-jordan-peele-1202644480/

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Matthew Morrison has joined the cast of American Horror Story: 1984. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/american-horror-story-1984-teaser-billie-lourd-cody-fern-star-1223850

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Here’s the first look at Ariana DeBose as Anita in West Side Story. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/west-side-story-first-look-at-ariana-debose-as-anita-1224202

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Holland Taylor has joined the cast of Bill & Ted Face The Music. https://deadline.com/2019/07/holland-taylor-to-play-the-great-leader-in-bill-ted-face-the-music-1202645095/

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Austin Butler, who made his Broadway debut last year in the Denzel Washington-led revival of The Iceman Cometh, will be starring as Elvis Presley opposite Tom Hanks as Colonel Tom Parker in a biographical movie directed by one of the world’s most polarizing filmmakers, Baz Luhrmann.
https://deadline.com/2019/07/austin-butler-elvis-presley-movie-baz-luhrmann-tom-hanks-colonel-tom-parker-warner-bros-1202646290/

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Lea Michele will star in the holiday-themed TV movie Same Time, Next Christmas, which will premiere on ABC this December. https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/lea-michele-abc-christmas-movie-1203267484/

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The 45th Annual Saturn Awards, which honor the best in film and television for genres like science fiction, fantasy, action and horror from February 2018-July 2019, announced their nominations yesterday, and the following stage alums who got recognition include:

Melissa Benoist–Supergirl
Josh Brolin–Avengers: Infinity War
Emilia Clarke–Game Of Thrones
Toni Collette–Hereditary
Jon Cryer–Supergirl
Peter Dinklage–Game Of Thrones
Cynthia Erivo–Bad Times At The El Royale
Chris Evans–Avengers: Endgame
Danai Gurira–The Walking Dead
Ed Harris–Westworld
Scarlett Johansson–Avengers: Endgame
Shahadi Wright Joseph–Us
John Lithgow–Pet Sematary
Lin-Manuel Miranda–Mary Poppins Returns
Lupita Nyong’o–Us
Tonya Pinkins–Fear The Walking Dead
Bill Pullman–The Sinner
Jeffrey Wright–Westworld

Also, the Saturn Awards have a category for Best Local Live Stage Production within the Los Angeles area, and the nominees this year are:

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Segerstrom Center for the Arts)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (3-D Theatricals at Cerritos Center)
An Inspector Calls (Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)
The Old Man and the Old Moon (The PigPen Theatre Company at The Wallis)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – The Immersive Experience (After Hours Theatre Company)
Puppet Up! Uncensored (Henson Alternative)
The Secret Garden (3-D Theatricals at Cerritos Center)

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Congratulations to each of the following Broadway alums who’ve earned Emmy nominations this morning:

Christina Applegate
Alan Arkin
Angela Bassett
Rachel Brosnahan
Anna Chlumsky
Emilia Clarke
Patricia Clarkson
Paul Dano
Viola Davis
Robert De Niro
Vera Farmiga
Jessica Hecht
Cherry Jones
Ron Cephas Jones
Jessica Lange
John Leguizamo
Laura Linney
Jane Lynch
Michael McKean
John Mulaney
Chris O’Dowd
Billy Porter
Phylicia Rashad
Sam Rockwell
Liev Schreiber
Tony Shalhoub
Fiona Shaw
Chris Sullivan
Kristin Scott Thomas
Cicely Tyson
Ben Whishaw
Bradley Whitford
Michelle Williams

https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/2019-emmy-nominations-full-list-71st-emmy-awards/?fbclid=IwAR1BWW-2bVO1JG7l7jt5y-Yf6a7BZDtrM8BG61u6MtvacngqMjkBiDojKKg

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