Lin-Manuel Miranda isn’t the only one to do it all. Do you know who else has written their full musicals?

The much-rumored casting of Rebecca Luker as Marian the Librarian in the upcoming Broadway revival of The Music Man was confirmed by a spokesperson Jan. 4.

The sound of 76 trombones will blare on Broadway April 3, 2000, when Susan Stroman's revival of The Music Man begins performances at the Neil Simon Theatre, a spokesperson confirmed. Film actor Craig Bierko ("The Thirteenth Floor") will play the corrupt salesman, Prof. Harold Hill, who sells an Iowa town on the idea of forming a boys' marching band. The New York Times reported Dec. 10 that Rebecca Luker (Show Boat, The Sound of Music) will be the revival's Marian the Librarian, but a production spokesperson told Playbill On-Line that could not be confirmed.

Actor Craig Bierko will be Harold Hill in the spring 2000 Broadway revival of The Music Man, a spokesperson for the show confirmed Oct. 18.

The list of names being "mentioned" for the lead role in The Music Man, slated for Broadway in early 2000, keeps growing.

The list of names being "mentioned" for the lead role in The Music Man, slated for Broadway in early 2000, keeps growing.

The timetable for the Dodger Endemol Theatrical Productions revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man is for early 2000, with rehearsals beginning in December. It was previously mentioned as a fall 1999 possibility.

LAURIE BEECHMAN
The theatre and cabaret worlds lost one of its most talented performers this past week when Laurie Beechman lost her decade-long battle with ovarian cancer. Beechman will probably be best remembered for her work in two of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, where she performed the role of the Narrator and received a Tony nomination for her work; and Cats, where she succeeded Betty Buckley in the role of Grizabella, the faded Glamour Cat. Beechman possessed a voice that seemed to originate from deep in her soul, evoking both the joys and pains of life. She had one of the strongest belt voices around, but she could also create delicate, softer sounds that moved listeners just as profoundly.

I had the good fortune to see Beechman perform live on a number of occasions, and the first time was actually one of my very first Broadway experiences, the Charles Strouse-Martin Charnin hit Annie. I believe I was nine or ten at the time, but I do remember this one woman who appeared as different characters throughout the show and had a great trumpet of a voice that she used during her solo in "N.Y.C." That woman was Laurie Beechman; years later, I read that the composers had actually beefed up her solo when they realized what a wonderfully powerful voice she had.

LAURIE BEECHMAN
The theatre and cabaret worlds lost one of its most talented performers this past week when Laurie Beechman lost her decade-long battle with ovarian cancer. Beechman will probably be best remembered for her work in two of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, where she performed the role of the Narrator and received a Tony nomination for her work; and Cats, where she succeeded Betty Buckley in the role of Grizabella, the faded Glamour Cat. Beechman possessed a voice that seemed to originate from deep in her soul, evoking both the joys and pains of life. She had one of the strongest belt voices around, but she could also create delicate, softer sounds that moved listeners just as profoundly.

I had the good fortune to see Beechman perform live on a number of occasions, and the first time was actually one of my very first Broadway experiences, the Charles Strouse-Martin Charnin hit Annie. I believe I was nine or ten at the time, but I do remember this one woman who appeared as different characters throughout the show and had a great trumpet of a voice that she used during her solo in "N.Y.C." That woman was Laurie Beechman; years later, I read that the composers had actually beefed up her solo when they realized what a wonderfully powerful voice she had.

Marin Ireland plays the title role in Primary Stages' revival of Willy Holtzman's Sabina, opening Off-Broadway at 59E59 Theatres Feb. 2.

Marin Ireland stars in Willy Holtzman's Sabina as the 1996 hit returns to Primary Stages at the company's Off-Broadway home at 59E59 Theatres, Jan. 18.

Primary Stages returns to its 1996 hit as it revives Willy Holtzman's Sabina with a new cast at its new Off-Broadway home at 59E59 Theatres, Jan. 18, 2005.

How the Off-Broadway theatre supports theatremakers who self-produce through subsidized resources, space, and more.

Director Baz Luhrmann invited movie audiences in 2001 to think in a new visual language for his picture, "Moulin Rouge." Now, if the gasps of previews audiences at La Bohème are any indication, his new staging of the Puccini opera for Broadway, opening Dec. 8 at the Broadway Theatre, will keep people talking for a long time.

What bar did Al Pacino go to for a post-show drink? Where did Florenz Ziegfeld drown his sorrows? From Colony Records to Café Edison, Playbill.com remembers 11 theatrical landmarks.

What bar did Al Pacino go to for a post-show drink? Where did Florenz Ziegfeld drown his sorrows when he thought his show was a failure? Take a tour through Broadway's history of watering holes and hamburgers, remembering 10 unofficial landmarks that no longer exist.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Decca Broadway 440 017 565
Two Gentlemen of Verona starts with a blast — a trumpet blast. That's a good way to describe the show, which rode a clutch of rave reviews from the open-air Delacorte in Central Park to the St. James on 44th Street. Two Gentlemen of Verona was, indeed, a blast. It opened on December 1, 1971, running for 627 performances, beginning Joe Papp's invasion of Broadway. By the time the show closed in 1973, Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival had four Broadway hits and three Tony Awards. After 30 years, the long out-of-print original cast album has finally been transferred to CD.

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Decca Broadway 440 017 565
Two Gentlemen of Verona starts with a blast — a trumpet blast. That's a good way to describe the show, which rode a clutch of rave reviews from the open-air Delacorte in Central Park to the St. James on 44th Street. Two Gentlemen of Verona was, indeed, a blast. It opened on December 1, 1971, running for 627 performances, beginning Joe Papp's invasion of Broadway. By the time the show closed in 1973, Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival had four Broadway hits and three Tony Awards. After 30 years, the long out-of-print original cast album has finally been transferred to CD.

LisaGay Hamilton stars in Adrienne Kennedy's Ohio State Murders, which officially opens at The Duke Nov. 4. Previews of the Theatre for a New Audience production began Oct. 27.