Britney Spears Could Give You More Cinderella, Daniel Radcliffe Is the Anti-Patti & More Lessons of the Week

It’s Friday, so let’s celebrate by washing that man right out of our hair with birthday girl Kelli O’Hara and the Weather Girls (yes, the Weather Girls discofied South Pacific, so you’re welcome). Before you go down that YouTube wormhole, let’s go through this week’s wackiest and wildest stories from the Great White Way. Take a look below at the Lessons of the Week!


Nick Cordero Wants to Attend the Tale
If Jessie Mueller ever gets tired of making pies in Waitress, maybe she can switch shows and make the worst ones in London. Tony nominee and co-star Nick Cordero told Broadway.com he’d love to play Sweeney Todd some day and that Mueller would make a fantastic Mrs. Lovett. Why wait? Do it in rep with Waitress. Keala, you in? We’ve always wondered what “City on Fire” would sound like screlted.


LMK Had a Bloody Good Time with Depp
If you do end up starring in Sweeney Todd together, Jessie and Nick, take a note from Laura Michelle Kelly: don’t spit blood at your co-star. The Finding Neverland standout recalled an embarrassing moment while working on the film opposite Johnny Depp, choking on fake blood and spitting it on him. We know Johnny was courteous enough not to say anything, Laura, but maybe don’t try that with Alfie Boe.


Ben Platt Has the Taste You Can See
Ben Platt's wowing audiences in Dear Evan Hansen, but now all we want is for him to wow us with this signature cheesecake. According to the Pitch Perfect fave, the key is to use crushed Cinnamon Toast Crunch in the crust. Gluten, sugar and cheese: a few of our favorite things. If you're down for another play date, Ben, let us know. We'll supply the kites; you bring the dessert and riffs.


The Newsies Are Always Watching AKB
In the first episode of Andrew Keenan-Bolger's vlog, the Tuck Everlasting star showed off a gift from yours truly: a canvas print of the Newsies cast in rehearsal. AKB's not in the shot, but he now has his former cast mates looking down on him. We'll miss the watchful eyes of Jeremy Jordan and co., but it brings us comfort to know they're protecting AKB as he shaves in his Froot Loop-scented dressing room oasis.


Max Can Never Say Goodbye (to a Bear)
While giving us a tour of his dressing room at Disaster!, Max Crumm showed us not a picture of the Newsies cast (that’d be weird), but a giant teddy bear. Who gave it to him? Well, he did, after he gifted it to the female ensemble on Valentine’s Day. Crumm liked it so much that a few days later, he took it back to display in his own digs. Is that how gifts work? That’s not the way we always heard it should be, Max.


JRB Will Always Be Ariana's Piano Man
Earlier this year, Ariana Grande and 13 composer Jason Robert Brown joined forces again for a nightclub act, but we had no idea that would only be the beginning of this reunion tour. When Grande sang "Dangerous Woman” at the MTV Awards, JRB himself was on hand to help give the tune a lounge act spin. We think it’s about time he wrote more songs for her. Perhaps a Jennifer Lawrence bio-musical?


Bobby Flay Owes Kimiko Glenn a Bracelet
Kimiko Glenn is also serving pies in Waitress, and she has some previous work experience to channel. The stage and screen alum told us all about one of her less glamorous gigs: working at Bobby Flay’s restaurant. No, not as the pastry chef, but as a coat check attendant. Somehow during the stint she managed to lose a bracelet. Did you at least bring up the missing bracelet during this encounter, Kimiko?


Daniel Radcliffe Wants You to Charge Up
We have a feeling Patti won't be attending this one. Five-time Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Daniel Radcliffe will return to the stage this summer in the new play Privacy off-Broadway. The show encourages audiences to keep their phones on, presumably to live tweet or catch up on Broadway.com's Lessons of the Week. Of course, the question remains: does AT&T get service over at the Public?


Oops, Britney's Doing Cinderella Again
It looks like someone’s managers have been doing emails lately to London! After understudying Laura Bell Bundy way back when in Ruthless!, Britney Spears might hit the theater stage, baby, one more time. The superstar is in talks to headline a Cinderella panto in the West End. Before you go crazy, keep in mind: this is a pantomime, meaning they can create whatever they want to make it work(, bitch). So leave Britney alone.


Brennyn Lark Should Bring Back BKLYN
When we ask Broadway stars their dream roles, one of the most common answers is Sweeney Todd. (No offense, Cordero, but get in line with Betty Buckley!) But Les Miz’s Brennyn Lark threw us for a loop when she called for a revival of the 2004 tuner Brooklyn. For those unfamiliar, it’s two and half hours of screlting while making costumes out of literal garbage, and we fully support this. Happy Friday, indeed.