tl;dr for December 6th

• Show Announcements: Off-Broadway's critic's pick "Little Shop of Horrors" has extended to March with Gideon Glick as Seymour; "Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation" will play at the York Theatre Company in January-February (read my review); and not to be outdone by "MJ" the musical headed to Broadway, Johnny Depp is producing another Michael Jackson-themed musical in Los Angeles, titled: "For the Love of a Glove: An Unauthorized Musical Fable About the Life of Michael Jackson, as told by his Glove”

• News: Beth Leavel and Taylor Iman Jones will star in the Broadway-bound musical version of "The Devil Wears Prada", premiering in Chicago in 2021; Jordan Fisher will be the first actor of color to play the title role in "Dear Evan Hansen" on Broadway; critic's pick "Soft Power" will get a cast album; Jo Ellen Pellman will star as Emma in the Netflix film adaptation of "The Prom"; Camille A. Brown will participate in a development lab of Elton John, Tim Rice, and David Henry Hwang's "Aida"; check out the cast for "Hangmen" on Broadway; and read about the new plans for a renovation of David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center

• Rumor: a stage musical version of the hit film "Hustlers" might be in the works

• Listen: to the Encores! cast album of 2017's concert of Cole Porter's "The New Yorkers"

• Read: about a talkback melee at critic's pick "Slave Play", and how the Broadway-bound "Mrs. Doubtfire" is soliciting and learning from feedback (taking a lesson from "Tootsie"!)

• RIP: director Marion McClinton, interpreter of August Wilson, is dead at 65; dancer Valerie Taylor-Barnes is dead at 88; acerbic and often racist, sexist, and homophobic theatre critic John Simon is dead at 94