Odds & Ends: Javier Munoz & Lexi Lawson Talk 'Sexy Hamilton,' Laura Osnes & Will Swenson Set for Blueprint Specials & More

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

Javier Muñoz & Lexi Lawson Talk 'Sexy Hamilton'
Javier Muñoz and Lexi Lawson recently assumed the roles of Alexander and Eliza Hamilton, respectively, in Hamilton, and the pair sat down with MetroFocus on October 24 to discuss taking center stage on Broadway. "I was excited. I wasn't nervous at all," said Muñoz, which segued into a chat about how he became known as the "sexy Hamilton." Lawson added: "Just being with everyone night after night is really, really something phenomenal." Check out the interview below; as you definitely know by now, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning tuner is playing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.


Laura Osnes & Will Swenson Set for Blueprint Specials
Tony nominees Laura Osnes and Will Swenson will star in a revival of the Blueprint Specials, a series of lost WWII-era musicals composed principally by Broadway legend Frank Loesser. Helmed by Tom Ridgely and brought to us courtesy of Waterwell, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum and The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, additional casting will be a combination of civilian artists and U.S. Military Veterans. The production is scheduled to play six performances on the hangar deck of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum from January 6, 2017 through January 11.

Release Date Set for Alexandra Silber's Fiddler Novel
We now know that Alexandra Silber's After Anatevka: A Novel Inspired by Fiddler on the Roof, will be released on July 4, 2017. Described as "a sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls," it sounds like a massive undertaking that we can't wait to get our hands on! The actress is currently playing Tzeitel in the Main Stem revival of the classic tuner, which is scheduled to close at the Broadway Theatre on December 31.

Emma Rice to Exit From Shakespeare's Globe
Eyebrows were raised around London's "Theatreland" today with the announcement that Emma Rice would be departing her position as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, which she only assumed this past April. According to a statement, this is because the Globe’s board want to go in a different direction with “designed sound and light rigging.” Rice will remain with the venue through April 2018; her summer 2017 season is set to include productions of Romeo and Juliet, Jessica Swale’s Nell Gwynn, Twelfth Night, Kneehigh’s Tristan & Yseult, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, and the world premiere of Tristan Bernays’ Boudica.

P.S. Netflix's Gilmore girls: A Year in the Life will begin streaming on November 25; check out the below trailer, which includes a blink and you miss it shot of Sutton Foster and Christian Borle...