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Broadway Legends on the Show That Got Away
Idina Menzel’s Moonstruck opera and Betty Buckley’s stadium-size Annie Get Your Gun.
In the green room of the New York “Legends of Broadway” shoot, Idina Menzel revealed that she’d been in a workshop of a musical adaptation of the 1987 movie Moonstruck with an “Italian, operatic score.” She’d tried to keep the show going but ultimately aged out of playing Loretta, the role that won Cher an Academy Award. In other JPS news, Lin-Manuel Miranda shared with us that he was once in a “magical” reading of a new play by the Pulitzer Prize winner directed by Mike Nichols alongside Don Cheadle and Michael Shannon. Lea Salonga also told us about a Sliding Doors workshop with fellow Disney princess Judy Kuhn, with a book by John Weidman, but she had to drop out because she contracted COVID.
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