Odds & Ends: Lin-Manuel Miranda & J. Lo Team Up, Get Looking at #Groffsauce & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today and over the holiday weekend.

Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jennifer Lopez Team Up
What comes next for Hamilton creator and star (through July 9) Lin-Manuel Miranda? The Tony winner has joined forces with Jennifer Lopez for a tribute to the victims of the recent tragedy at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando. Proceeds from the track "Love Make the World Go Round," will benefit the Hispanic Federation's Proyecto Somos Orlando. 95 percent of the victims in the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history were Latino. Check out the video below.

Sooo @JLo & yours truly went in on a tune that will benefit https://t.co/ddyoy7e5T8 here's a taste!#LMTWGRpic.twitter.com/5CPJuZsgPL

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) July 4, 2016

Fun Home Cast to Play Concert for Orlando
The Tony-winning Fun Home will also perform to benefit those impacted by the events in Orlando. All nine of the Broadway show’s onstage company members, including Tony winner Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, Beth Malone, Emily Skeggs and Gabriella Pizzolo will be in attendance for the one-night-only concert at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Orlando on July 24. Money raised will go to Equality Florida and the LGBTQ community of Orlando.

Union Square Theatre to Close
Off-Broadway's Union Square Theatre is to be demolished; it will be replaced by a six-story office building, complete with glass-domed rooftop. "We tried to preserve the theater,” a representative of the building's owners told the New York Times. “But we couldn’t come up with a program that was economically viable.” The theater most recently played host to 39 Steps.

Full Beverley Knight-Led Bodyguard Cast Announced
Final casting has been confirmed for the upcoming return of The Bodyguard to the West End. Joining Beverley Knight as Rachel Marron, Ben Richards as The Bodyguard, Rachel John as Nicki Marron, Carole Stennett as alternate Rachel Marron, Mark Holden as Bill Devaney, Alex Andreas as Tony, Dominic Taylor as Sy Spector, Matthew Stathers as Stalker and Glen Fox as Ray Court will be Omari Bernard, Faye Best, Pablo Ceresuela Torres, Lisa Darnell, Charles Hagerty, Emma Joy Hopkins, Ibinabo Jack, Christopher Jeffers, Verity Jones, Annie Kitchen, Phoebe Liberty, Elliot Powell, Raul Naranjo Garcia, Mary Lynn Tiep, Michael Wade-Peters, Kyle Wardlaw, Matthew Wesley, Emmy Willow and Mark Willshire. Keaton Edmund, Max Fincham, Jaden Oshenye and Mickell Stewart Grimes are set to alternate the role of Fletcher, Rachel Marron’s young son. Performances will begin at the Dominion Theatre on July 15.

Get Looking at More #Groffsauce
After his Tony nominated turn in Hamilton, Jonathan Groff may have no imminent plans to return to Broadway, however we do have multiple small screen appearances to look forward to. Before Netflix's Mindhunter, there's HBO's feature-length series finale of Looking, which will premiere on July 23. Check out a new cast featurette below.


P.S. The latest installment of American Horror Story, starring Broadway fave Cheyenne Jackson, will bow on FX on September 14, a little earlier than usual.