Kristin Chenoweth Is an Evil Clipper, Everyone's Following Aaron Tveit & More Lessons of the Week

It’s Friday, which could only mean one thing: We’re ready to crawl into bed and obsessively refresh Aaron Tveit’s shiny new Twitter profile for the next 48 hours. OK, two things: It’s time for the Lessons of the Week! A lot of exciting news went down on the Great White Way over the last seven days, and we’re here to teach you all about it. Enjoy!

We're Following Aaron Tveit (Even More)
Tweeting Tveitertots, rejoice! Official Broadway.com boyfriend Aaron Tveit has finally joined the Twittersphere! After clapping with one hand, doing a shower dance and, uh, just generally feeling things, we eventually pulled ourselves together to give him a follow. We can’t make any promises that our Tweet of the Week on the Broadway.com show will be anyone other than Mr. Tveit in the foreseeable future. Sorry, Laura.

HBlix Should Bake the Worst Pies in London
On the latest episode of Renaissance Woman, Heidi Blickenstaff revealed that while she’s currently playing a woman in 16th-century London, she’d love to fast forward a couple centuries to play Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd. Maybe she can play Lovett opposite Daphne Rubin-Vega’s Sweeney-esque character in Empanada Loca. You know us, eminently practical and yet appropriate as always.

Broadway Needs More R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Hot off the heels of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, Aretha Franklin wants to see her life on the stage. We’re all for it, if only because A) “Natural Woman” deserves to be in multiple Broadway musicals, and B) we’d really like to see the Queen of Soul stop the show whenever she sees someone texting in the audience. Find out what it means to her. By the way, who do you think will star? Way ahead of you.

J. Hud Has a Key Change Dance
If Jennifer Hudson does end up playing Aretha on stage, we suspect we’d be seeing this move a lot. The Oscar winner and her The Color Purple co-star Cynthia Erivo recently recorded an insane rendition of the show’s title anthem, and at every fierce key change, the Hudson showed off an equally fierce action. So, while you probably can’t belt like J. Hud, you can at least move your fingers like her.

Jefferson Mays Is a Super Villain
Monty Navarro may be the one offing his relatives one by one, but the D’Ysquiths have the last laugh. And it's TERRIFYING. On his latest vlog episode, Gentleman’s Guide star Bryce Pinkham challenged his co-stars to laugh without smiling. Jefferson Mays was the only one who had no trouble. With his dapper suits, mastery of disguise and now this, we think Mays is hiding something...something evil.

God Loves Network TV
It seems the Man upstairs has a type. After assuming the form of The Big Bang Theory Emmy winner Jim Parsons in An Act of God on Broadway, the Almighty will borrow the body of Will & Grace Emmy winner Sean Hayes for the show’s Los Angeles bow. Wait. Do they not have cable in Heaven? For the yet-to-be announced national tour, can You check to see if Jesse Tyler Ferguson is available?

Wesley Taylor Is a Celeb Magnet
All the New York celebrities are flocking to…Hamilton photo ops Wesley Taylor’s benefit reading! The Broadway alum will reunite with his Addams Family co-star Nathan Lane, his Smash co-star Debra Messing, his Addams Family AND Smash bestie Krysta Rodriguez and a ton of other Big Apple big wigs, when a series of his short plays premiere. Has anyone asked Aaron Tveit yet? He's now on Twitter.

Cheno's Still Embracing Evil
Kristin Chenoweth has definitely made us cry before with her beautiful soprano voice, but she hasn't yet made us cry with a pair of tweezers. When the pocket diva paid Conan O’Brien a visit, she showed off her manscaping skills (neck up only) by plucking the crap out of those ginger eyebrows. Were those tears of joy over his new brows or tears of pain? Well, she is the Mistress of All Evil...

Marlee Matlin Has a Tiny, Evil Advisor
In addition to winning Tonys and Emmys and plucking eyebrows, Chenoweth has apparently taken up being a star manager. When Marlee Matlin was offered the chance to make her Broadway debut in Spring Awakening, she called two people: the Fonz and the Mistress of All Evil. They convinced her to take the part. Good work, Cheno, but don’t step on Rory O’Malley’s turf.

Hugh Jackman Can Tap His Heels
Hugh Jackman’s bringing Broadway to Oz back home! That’s right: the Tony winner, Oscar nominee and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner will play Dorothy in the previously announced Broadway revival of The Wiz! Wait. That can’t be right. OK, he’s returning to his home country of Australia to present a revamped version of his 2011 hit Back on Broadway. There’s no place like Oz, right, Hugh?