tl;dr for January 8th

• "Waitress" composer Sara Bareilles will play Mary Magdalene to John Legend's Jesus and Alice Cooper's Herod in NBC's Easter Sunday telecast of "Jesus Christ Superstar Live! in Concert" 
• The Barrow Street Theatre's lease on the Greenwich House, current home to "Sweeney Todd", was not renewed in order to make way for ArsNova ("K-Pop" "The Great Comet"), which will take over the space in 2019; meanwhile, Carolee Carmello and Hugh Panaro will exit "Sweeney Todd" February 25th (read my review)
• The beloved 1992 Gershwin musical masterpiece "Crazy for You", which received a 25th anniversary concert at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall last February, appears to be aiming for Broadway after all, following a cancelled run in Los Angeles this spring; a workshop this month will reunite concert stars Laura Osnes (“Bandstand”), Tony Yazbeck (“Prince of Broadway”), Rachel Dratch (“Saturday Night Live”), and Rachel Bloom (“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”); with director/choreographer Susan Stroman once again at the helm, producers are looking for a theatre for a fall 2018 opening