Lea's Having Fun

Currently starring in Allegiance with George Takei, Lea Salonga has already planned her next musical venture: The Tony-winning actress will play Helen Bechdel in the Manila premiere of Fun Home in late 2016.

Salonga announced the show's first post-Broadway production in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

She won a Tony in 1991 for Miss Saigon—which is making its own return to Broadway—and also provided the singing voice for Aladdin's Jasmine.

Earning five Tonys this year, Fun Home is the first Broadway musical with a lesbian as its central character.

Cherry Picking

Roundabout's production of The Cherry Orchard comes to American Airlines Theatre next season, in a production adapted by Stephen Karam and directed by Simon Godwin.

Karam has received acclaim for his work with Roundabout, Speech & Debate, Sons of the Prophet and The Humans—the last of which will transfer to Broadway this spring.

Chekhov's classic centers on an aristocratic Russian woman and her family who return to their estate just before it's auctioned to pay the mortgage. It was last revived in 2011 at Classic Stage Company in a fierce production with Dianne Wiest, John Turturro and Michael Urie.

Performances will begin September 8 on Broadway. Casting for the new staging has yet to be announced.

Holiday at Studio 54

After a debut at Connecticut's Goodspeed Opera House last year, Holiday Inn is coming to Broadway in 2016.

The 1942 film providing the show's inspiration starred Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire and included beloved Irving Berlin songs like "White Christmas," "Cheek to Cheek" and "Easter Parade."

Jim, a former song-and-dance man, settles down with Linda on a Connecticut farmhouse, which they transform into a fabulous inn with dazzling performances to celebrate each holiday—from the Fourth of July to Thanksgiving. (A dazzling celebration of Thanksgiving? Yes!)

But when Jim's best friend Ted tries to lure Linda away to Hollywood, will he be able to keep their love alive?

Roundabout's musical has a book by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, direction by Gordon Greenberg and choreograph by by Denis Jones. An offensive blackface scene in the original film has been wisely cut.

Holiday Inn begins performances September 1, 2016 at Studio 54.

"Tin" Ear

Another musical set in the world of Oz is returning to New York.

Last seen at 59e59, The Woodsman offers live music, Bunraku puppetry and an origin story for the Tin Woodsman.

Nick Chopper is the woodcutter who is in love with Nimmee, slave-girl to the Wicked Witch of the East. Determined to prevent their marriage, the Witch places a powerful curse on Nick's axe so that it dismembers him whenever he swings it.

But his undying love drives Nick to replace each of his lost parts with a tin one until he transforms completely into the Tin Woodsman.

The Woodsman opens January 27 at New World Stages.

Marry the Man Today!

Tony winner Nathan Lane married producer-playwright Devlin Elliott this week in a small ceremony at City Hall.

The couple recently co-authored Naughty Mabel, a children's book based on their "spoiled" French bulldog.

Elliot was a producer for Deuce and the revival of Ragtime. Lane, of course, is best known for performances in The Producers, Guys and Dolls and The Nance, and was last seen in It's Only a Play.

The guys, who tied the knot on November 17, have been together for 18 years (or 41 years in gay years).

New Year's Eve

Ann Harada's steamy holiday show is returning for 2015.

Harada originated the role of Christmas Eve in Avenue Q and her "ruvable" character lives on in "Christmas Eve's Holiday Hunkfest," a one-night-only event benefiting Broadway Cares.

The show promises to "reinterpret everything you know about Broadway romance in Christmas Eve’s shamelessly unapologetic exploration of the modern songbook."

Great White Way hunks Adam Jacobs, Ryan Silverman, José Llana, Telly Leung, Joe Carroll and Howie Michael Smith are among the "hunks" on display December 14 at The Cutting Room.

A Broadway Disaster!

If you didn't see Disaster! , Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick's campy musical lampoon of '70s disaster flicks, when it was off-broadway in 2013, don't worry—the show is arriving at the Nederlander this spring with an all-star cast.

Roger Bart, Kerry Butler, Kevin Chamberlin, Adam Pascal, Faith Prince and Rachel York join Rudetsky “aboard New York’s first floating casino and discothèque.”

As the ship starts to sink, and the body count starts to rise, the audience is treated to '70s classics like "Hot Stuff," "I Am Woman" and "Knock on Wood."

Previews begin February 9 with opening night slated for March 8.

Below, we chatted with Seth and Jack when the show was Off-Broadway.

The Rise of Saigon

Next spring, Miss Saigon will helicopter onto the New York stage in 2017, with Eva Noblezada as Kim and Jon Briones as the Engineer reprising their roles from the successful West End revival.

Based on Madame Butterfly, the musical tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance between an Asian woman and her American GI lover during the Vietnam War.

The original 1991 production sparked controversy when Caucasian actor Jonathan Pryce was cast as the Engineer. Pryce and Lea Salonga still both won Tonys for their performances but the show lost Best Musical to The Will Rogers Follies.

This first-ever Broadway revival of Miss Saigon will play a limited engagement from spring 2017 through January 2018, before going on the road.