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Taraji P. Henson is taking on an iconic role!

The 50-year-old Empire actress will play Miss Hannigan in the upcoming Annie Live! NBC musical airing in December, Deadline confirmed Tuesday (June 8).

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Live musicals are back!

NBC announced Wednesday (May 12) that Annie Live will air during the holiday season later in 2021, THR reported.

This is going to be the first live musical event for NBC since Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, which aired back in 2018.

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NBC is launching Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch Musical this December – and The Grinch has just been announced!

The network revealed that Matthew Morrison will be leading the two-hour holiday special, which will air on December 9 at 8 p.m. ET.

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American Horror Story‘s Denis O’Hare plays an older version of Max, with Descendants actor Booboo Stewart playing a younger version. The Lost Girls actress Amelia Minto will star as Cindy Lou Who, People confirmed.

The rest of the cast, including a child Max, has yet to be announced.

The musical will be broadcast from the Troubadour Theatre in London, United Kingdom.

“While the pandemic presents some challenges in bringing the stage musical to life, we are putting together a really special show with some crazy, fun, imaginative things going on,” Matthew Morrison said.

“Dr. Seuss is an indelible part of all of our lives and we’re thrilled to bring a stage production of The Grinch Musical! to our audience. This is a perfect addition to our annual holiday program traditions and a telecast the entire family will enjoy,” said NBC’s Doug Vaughan.

NBC also just announced this scheduling switch-up.

Many major West End productions are staying closed.

Hamilton, Les Miserables, Mary Poppins and The Phantom Of The Opera will not return to the West End until 2021, British theater producer Cameron Mackintosh confirmed on Wednesday (June 17).

He said in a statement, via London’s Evening Standard, that he’s been “forced…to take drastic steps” amid the pandemic and government regulations about reopening, saying the shows will only open “as early as practical in 2021.”

“This decision is heart-breaking for me, as I am sure it is for my employees, as everyone who has worked with me over the last 50 years, on or off the stage, knows how much I care about what I do and how I do it,” he said.

“Despite the Government engaging with the desperate pleas from everyone in the theatre industry, so far there has been no tangible practical support beyond offers to go into debt, which I don’t want to do.”

“Their inability to say when the impossible constraints of social distancing will be lifted makes it equally impossible for us to properly plan for whatever the new future is. This has forced me to take drastic steps to ensure that I have the resources for my business to survive and enable my shows and theatres to reopen next year when we are permitted to. I have no investors or venture capital backing, everything is funded by me personally and already my companies’ considerable reserves have been massively reduced by the complete closure of our industry everywhere,” he continued.

“The commercial theatre provides billions of pounds of revenue to the Economy. It is time this is recognised and the government takes action to ensure this priceless resource at which the British people excel is helped to survive. Without our theatres being ablaze with life, London cannot properly reopen as one of the World’s greatest cities.”

Here is everything that’s been postponed or canceled amid the pandemic.