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Hulu’s acclaimed “Only Murders in the Building,” currently vying for 11 Emmys, has gone all razzle dazzle in its third season. Make that rattle dazzle! Beleaguered Broadway director Oliver (Martin Short) was hoping for a comeback on the Great White Way with the mystery thriller “Death Rattle.” But when his leading man (Paul Rudd) is murdered, he decides to turn the straight play into a musical, “Death Rattle Dazzle!” And in the third episode, Meryl Streep’s nervous journeyman actress and Ashley Park’s leading lady performed the show-stopping ballad “Look for the Light” co-written by Sara Bareilles. One almost forgot the prime suspects in “Death Rattle Dazzle!” are the infant Pickwick triplets.

The 1959 multiple Tony winner “Redhead” also has a rather strange plot for a musical: a serial killer is stalking women in London in the 1880s during the time Jack the Ripper was terrorizing the city. Sounds like a real toe-tapper.

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Happy 4th of July! Posting will be a bit light today, with normal service returning over the weekend. Everybody be safe out there and return to work Monday with all your fingers, toes and other dangly appendages you started the weekend with!

Ice T was questioned about a lyric on Manslaughter in which he declared “manhood dead” but he was quick to point out that it had nothing to do with the gays. “I think right now you’re dealing with the pussyfication of the male sex. Men are just being so passive, not standing for something; they’re very politically correct. This has nothing to do with the gay male. The gay male is gay and I have no problem with that. Men are just soft.

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Andrew Rannells talks to Playbill about stepping into the shoes of Hedwig after Neil Patrick Harris finishes his run, and why audiences respond so well to the show. “I think she wants what we all want. She wants to be loved and to find love. I think it’s kind of as simple as that. She compromises a lot in the name of finding love… The journey that she goes on, at least in broad strokes, is pretty universal. Anybody who is searching for something better for themselves can relate to what she goes through. She wanted something better. She wanted to get out of East Berlin. She wanted something more, and the cost of that was very high for her.” Rannells also notes what we all suspected but hadn’t seen confirmed in an interview,...

"Cabaret is the first and only career open to them," claims Sidney Myer about newcomers to New York and the opportunities for exposure offered by cabaret.Myer, who books acts for the small, hospitable Don't Tell Mama, mentions the names of entertainers he's worked with who have advanced to other arenas, including Billy Porter, Jonathan Larsen (composer-author of "Rent"), Ray Jessel (about to hit Broadway in the Michael Feinstein–Dame Edna show "All About Me"), and Tom Lenk ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"). Lenk came to New York to audition for the Broadway musical "Rock of Ages" and called Myer for a slot at Don't Tell Mama. He didn't want the show's producers to just see him audition, Myer says; Lenk wanted them to see his show: "He wanted to be seen in cabaret. He set aside a table for those very producers." He got the role.But do producers and...