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1 week ago | playbill.com | Logan Culwell-Block |Margaret Hall |Andrew Gans

Presenters, coaches, and judges for the 16th annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, fondly referred to as the Jimmy Awards, have been revealed. Broadway favorite Josh Groban (Sweeney Todd) will host the upcoming event, which recognizes the best in U.S. high school theatre actors. The ceremony is set for June 23 at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. The evening's special guest presenters will include Julia Knitel, Apollo Levine, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Aki Nishino, and Jasmine Amy Rogers.

1 week ago | playbill.com | Margaret Hall |Logan Culwell-Block |Andrew Gans

The nominees for the 16th annual National High School Musical Theatre Awards, fondly referred to as the Jimmy Awards, have been revealed. Broadway favorite Josh Groban (Sweeney Todd) will host the upcoming event, which recognizes the best in U.S. high school theatre actors. The ceremony is set for June 23 at Broadway's Minskoff Theatre. The event will also livestream for free online beginning at 7:30 PM ET June 23. Streaming links and information will be available prior to the ceremony.

1 week ago | playbill.com | Andrew Gans |Logan Culwell-Block

Get a sneak peek at the forthcoming premiere of Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical, which was shot onstage at London's Theatre Royal Drury Lane, in the video below. Watch Samantha Barks, who stars as Elsa, belt out "Let It Go" from the filmed production, which debuts on Disney+ June 20. News of the filming broke last year at fan convention D23.

2 weeks ago | playbill.com | Meg Masseron |Andrew Gans

Get ready to voulez-vous with Mamma Mia! again on Broadway this summer with a brand new video montage of the incoming limited engagement revival, coming to the Winter Garden Theatre, where the musical made its Broadway debut 2001. See the new video, featuring the upcoming Broadway cast, above. Performances will begin August 2, ahead of an August 14 opening night.

2 weeks ago | playbill.com | Andrew Gans |Meg Masseron

A new note from the famed Opera Ghost indicates that a new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is inching closer to fruition. Although the details are scarce in the enigmatic letter released to the press by the O.G., it looks like the forthcoming production will be presented at a venue on West 57th Street. "It is here that I shall present a grand Masquerade, a spectacle that will astound you and that further explores my legend," the letter reads.