Odds & Ends: Jessie Mueller Will Teach Kids the Broadway Ropes, Derek Hough is Bicoastal & More

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

Jessie Mueller to Bring Broadway to the Kids
Tony-winning Beautiful star Jessie Mueller will give kids the chance to live out their showbiz dreams on April 18. The Grammy winner will make her Carnegie Hall debut with the family concert, Take The Stage with Broadway Stars. The interactive event will teach the music and moves to some of the toe-tapping-est shows of the Great White Way. Hosted by Chicago couple Leslie Stifelman and Melissa Rae Mahon, the show will also feature composer Thomas Cabaniss. Additional Broadway names will be announced later.

Derek Hough Will Balance Stars & Rockettes 
Dancing With the Stars announced their lineup for the competition’s 20th season, and while we absolutely cannot wait for Broadway alum Patti LaBelle to show off her sweet moves, there’s another name on the roster that we’ve been shouting often as of late. Five-time DWTS victor Derek Hough will return, balancing his time between the ABC series and Radio City’s New York Spring Spectacular. He’ll fly back and forth between L.A. and New York to appear in both shows. He’ll dance with Olympic gymnast Nastia Liukin on DWTS and Laura Benanti and the Rockettes at Radio City.

Tony Winners & More Set for Our Class Reading
Tony winners Nina Arianda and Ellen Burstyn will join a whole host of stage and screen favorites—Kim Cattrall, Alvin Epstein, Brian Murray, John Pankow, Hunter Parrish and Austin Pendleton—in a staged reading of Our Class. The Tadeusz Słobadzianek drama will celebrate its New York premiere on April 13 (during Holocaust Remembrance Week) at the Temple Emanu-El Skirball Center. The drama follows 10 people, some Catholic and some Jewish, from their time as classmates in 1925 to present.

Evan Rachel Wood Will Sing John Hughes Soundtracks
Evan Rachel Wood, who starred in the Julie Taymor-helmed Across the Universe will appear in the Broadway in Chicago production of For the Record: Dear John Hughes. According to the Chicago Tribune, the staged concert, which will celebrate the soundtracks of the legendary director’s films, will play beginning March 5 at the Broadway Playhouse. The originally reported Rumer Willis will depart on March 8 to compete on the aforementioned new season of Dancing With the Stars. Wood will take over beginning March 12.