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Jonathan Groff’s heartfelt speech after winning Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his performance in Merrily We Roll Along.
While this season’s Broadway musicals weren’t very queer — some are asking if Broadway is dimming the lights on queer and trans characters — there were still plenty of LGBTQ+ wins, including Sarah Paulson (Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for Appropriate), Maleah Joi Moon (Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Hell’s Kitchen), and Lifetime Achievement Awards for George C.
Wolfe and Jack O’Brien. But there was drama offstage, too, when Andrew Rannells spilled the tea on the red carpet that he’d withdrawn from the Broadway production of Tammy Faye, scheduled to begin previews on October 19.
Who will replace him on such short notice? Perhaps producers should call Andrew Garfield, who played Jim Bakker in The Eyes of Tammy Fayeand proved he could carry a tune in the film adaptation of tick…tick …Boom!Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.A post shared by CBS Mornings (@cbsmornings)The famous lyric from Gypsy will, once again, reverberate from the rafters when Audra McDonald steps into the iconic role of Mama Rose (possibly opposite KeKe Palmer, according to our favorite insider source, The Sweaty Oracle).
