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As the delightfully stupid and hilarious Mr. Wormwood, Rick Holmes causes raucous laughter and cheers from the audience eight times a week in Matilda. It’s not his first time as the comedic villain; when Peter and the Starcatcher went from Broadway to the New World Stages off-Broadway, Holmes went with it and transitioned from playing patriarch Lord Aster to the conniving Black Stache.

Lauren Patten is one of three actresses to play Alison Bechdel in the Tony Award winning musical Fun Home. As Medium Alison, Patten plays Bechdel in her adolescence as she attends Oberlin College and comes to terms with being a lesbian. Patten made her Broadway debut as a standby for the roles of Medium Alison and Joan, Alison’s college girlfriend, and has stepped into the hit musical full-time while Emily Skeggs, who originated the role of Medium Alison, is on hiatus for TV work.

The rhythm has “gotten” audiences and critics who have seen the new musical On Your Feet! : The Story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan. As a standout in the production for his role as Emilio Estefan, Josh Segarra has received critical acclaim since the musical opened on November 5, 2015. Segarra, along with his leading lady Ana Villafañe, are leading the charge as two of the most powerful Latinos currently on Broadway.

There isn’t anything “pathetic” about the impressive career Allison Case has experienced on Broadway. Known for her bubbly, sweet personality Case is one of the most beloved actresses in theatre – both onstage and off. With a handful of memorable roles as overtly kind-hearted, benevolent characters, Case carried her trademark of playing leading ladies with a heart of gold to the Shubert Theatre where she has played the mild-tempered Miss Honey in the Tony Award winning musical Matilda since last September.

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If there's one thing that sort of defined my first semester of college, it was Lin-Manuel Miranda's masterpiece of a musical, Hamilton. The cast recording was released less than a month into the semester, and since then I've listened to it countless times, while doing homework, walking to class, going home for the weekend and just hanging out in my room.

For fans of Disney’s animated film The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the studio cast recording of the new musical is a real treat. You may be thinking: I didn’t know that Hunchback had been rewritten for the stage. You probably wouldn’t be the only one. The musical premiered in America for the first time in late 2014, at the La Jolla Playhouse in California and opened to extremely positive reviews.

Matt Doyle may be best known for his stage acting but his debut album, Uncontrolled, proves that he is capable of so much more. Since the album’s release on February 26, the Spring Awakening, War Horse and Book of Mormon alum has been garnering accolades from fans and music professionals alike who are impressed with his emergence as an independent artist.