Odds & Ends: Jane Lynch Teams Up With Sting & Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher Turns Cop for the Peacock & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.

Jane Lynch to Team Up With Sting & Patti LuPone for Concert
Broadway favorite and Emmy winner Jane Lynch will host Uprising of Love, the previously reported benefit concert for global equality, which will feature Sting, Patti LuPone, Billy Porter and more. The Great White Way casts of Wicked and Once, along with the cast of I Am Harvey Milk, are also now set to appear at the event at Broadway’s Gershwin Theatre on September 15.

Peter Gallagher Turns Cop for the Peacock Network
Peter Gallagher is going to be a busy man. Along with soon starring on Broadway in On the Twentieth Century with Kristin Chenoweth, he’s landed a recurring role in Law & Order: SVU. TVLine.com reports that he will play Deputy Chief William Dodds, the tough but charismatic boss of all New York City’s special victims units in the hit NBC show’s 16th season.

Bonnie Langford & Gary Wilmot Are Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
West End vets Bonnie Langford (Spamalot, Cats, Dr Who, Bugsy Malone) and Gary Wilmot (The Pajama Game, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Me and My Girl) will waltz their way into the West End’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels from September 16 at the Savoy Theatre. Langford will succeed Samantha Bond as Muriel Eubanks, while Wilmot will replace John Marquez as Andre Thibault.

Tam Mutu & More Join Samantha Barks in London's City of Angles
London Les Miz favourite Tam Mutu, Katherine Kelly, Peter Polycarpou and Rebecca Trehearn will join the previously announced Samantha Barks, Rosalie Craig and Hadley Fraser in the Donmar’s City of Angels. The revival will be helmed by Josie Rourke. This sounds like one you need to beg/borrow/steal a ticket for.