Two more passings:

Actress Mya-Lecia Naylor. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mya-lecia-naylor-dead-millie-inbetween-star-was-16-1202830

Actor Bradley Welsh. https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/bradley-welsh-dead-dies-trainspotting-2-1203192145/

Actress Mya-Lecia Naylor passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mya-lecia-naylor-dead-millie-inbetween-star-was-16-1202830

Fashion designer Corinne Cobson passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/corinne-cobson-dead-french-fashion-costume-designer-was-62-1202779

Right now, my predictions are 100% in line with Jeffrey’s.

I guess he feels if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, because when William Friedkin made the first film version of The Boys In The Band, he signed on the entire cast from the original Off-Broadway production.

Writer Warren Adler, whose novel The Sunset Gang was adapted into an Off-Broadway musical, passed away.

What about Distinguished Performance? Right now, I’m going with Elaine May.

Four more passings:

Concert promoter/music supervisor Morris I. Diamond. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/morris-diamond-dead-concert-promoter-music-supervisor-movies-was-97-1202306

Manga artist and Lupin III creator Kazuhiko Kato aka Monkey Punch.…[Read more]

Concert promoter/music supervisor Morris I. Diamond passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/morris-diamond-dead-concert-promoter-music-supervisor-movies-was-97-1202306

Jussie Smollett was apparently being considered to play one of the lead roles in next year’s revival of Take Me Out, but given everything that’s happened to him recently, that is obviously no longer the case. https://deadline.com/2019/04/jussie-smollett-broadway-take-me-out-revival-casting-1202597374/

Playwrights Horizon has announced their 2019-2020 season lineup. http://www.playbill.com/article/playwrights-horizons-unveils-20192020-season

Daphne Rubin-Vega’s play Empanada Loca, which was adapted into a podcast The Horror Of Dolores Roach, is now being adapted into a TV series by Blumhouse, using the same name as the podcast. Rubin-Vega will serve as a consulting producer for the series.…[Read more]

Ethan Slater, Gizel Jimenez, Javier Munoz, Lena Hall, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Eric Petersen, Robert Cuccioli and Aury Krebs will participate in a private industry reading of the musical Reefer Madness on April 18. http://www.playbill.com/article/ethan-slater-javier-munoz-lena-hall-more-to-take-part-in-reefer-madness-reading

As part of its 50th anniversary, York Theatre Company will be re-staging a production of Enter Laughing: The Musical from May 7-June 9. http://www.playbill.com/article/alison-fraser-farah-alvin-robert-picardo-more-cast-in-yorks-enter-laughing-the-musical

Ann Reinking and Ben Vereen will co-host the Chita Rivera Awards. http://www.playbill.com/article/ann-reinking-and-ben-vereen-to-host-chita-rivera-awards

RIP Georgia Engel. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/georgia-engel-dead-actress-mary-tyler-moore-show-everybody-loves-raymond-was-70-1202247

RIP five-time Emmy nominee Georgia Engel. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/georgia-engel-dead-actress-mary-tyler-moore-show-everybody-loves-raymond-was-70-1202247

RIP Georgia Engel. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/georgia-engel-dead-actress-mary-tyler-moore-show-everybody-loves-raymond-was-70-1202247

Actress Susan Harrison, who made her sole Broadway appearance in the 1957 play The Cave Dwellers, passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/susan-harrison-dead-sweet-smell-success-actress-was-80-1202087

Actress Susan Harrison passed away. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/susan-harrison-dead-sweet-smell-success-actress-was-80-1202087