Playbill:  Merrily We Roll Along Live Stage Film Sets Release Date With Fathom Entertainment

Last month's rumors were evidently correct: December 5 in the US; international dates TBA.

NYT:  Broadway's Gypsy Revival, Starring Audra McDonald, Will Close
              The show is the sixth musical to announce a closing date since last month's Tony Awards,
              reflecting financial challenges facing producers.


The open-ended run, which had been booking through October 5, will instead close August 17.

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Also:

Roses' Turn

Oh, I was aiming for the obvious; my thinking stopped short of even wondering whether there might be a third instance of "like a song" somewhere, never mind actually investigating the possibilty.   

realize

I'm assuming there is another, less-obvious one, but I'm going for the obvious:

It started out like a song.
We started quiet and slow,
With no surprise
And then one morning I woke
To realize
We had a good thing going.

(I know of two, which means there are probably at least six in the pantheon.   )

That Misery design is beautiful, @DiveMilw .  I even like it enough to not nitpick — in any case, the few quibbles I might have are probably more with the technical execution than with the designer's intentions; and if I'm right in assuming there were a few discrepancies, well, I certainly know how that goes.  Regardless, for pure atmosphere it's a gorgeous photo.  I'd be curious to see this set revolve for the other rooms and especially the porch (I'm guessing the designer, the estimable Jack Magaw, might be following David Korins's original overall strategy — i.e., a turntable letting us travel seamlessly through the house — only with a more spare, Expressionist aesthetic).

When I got to work this morning, the weather display said it was 85F with a "real feel" of 100F.   
As I came back from lunch the temp was up to 90F with a "feels like" of 106F
Tomorrow I drive to Austin for the remainder of the work week.  The temperatures there are predicted to be in the high to mid 90s.  I've never been to Austin before so I'm hoping for low humidity.  
I could have flown but coming home I might have had to connect via Chicago with a mere 39 minutes between flights.  I decided catching up on podcasts and driving is the better option.  Including time to get to the airport early, the drive won't take much longer than flying.  A plus is that I can stop at two different polish bakeries to get kolaches.  I'll try a new one on the way there and one I've been to before on the way back. 

I'm finally getting one (a haircut, that is), a month or two overdue, in a couple of hours.  I will leave extra time to get there, as last night's thunderstorm apparently caused flooding which may affect the subway (though it's said to be "largely" back to normal now).  Up here in the heights, it just seemed like a brief downpour with some lightning.

After our 100º+ heat wave a few weeks ago, temperatures have been comparatively mild, rarely breaking 90º and more commonly varying from the low 70s at night to mid-80s during the day — though the humidity has made it a lot less comfortable than that sounds.  Apparently that will get worse this week, with highs approaching 90º but feeling significantly hotter.  I'm glad to have installed a new window AC last week, which has been humming along nicely; it's one of those new U-shaped ones, and it is indeed as miraculously quiet-yet-effective as claimed.  I will be curious to see, on next month's ConEd bill, whether it's also as energy-efficient as claimed.

The other day I read an article that actually seemed to hold out plausible-sounding hope for a future in which humanity doesn't end in climate catastrophe.  I wanted to share it, because I think it's literally been the better part of a decade since I read a hard-news piece that left me feeling hopeful rather than depressed.  Hopefully this link works:

The New Yorker:  Annals of a Warming Planet (7/9/25)

You know it isn't massacres and laughter all day long.
Still, there's something about a war
That's like a song!

Today is another pleasantly warm day.  Right now it's 91°F and I don't know if it's scheduled to get warmer or if this is it. The humidity is 24% and the dew point is 44°.

I have no news to report, but I was wondering how pleasant it was (temperature-wise and otherwise) in other parts of the world.

I do need a haircut.  

The Peninsula Players in Fish Creek, WI are currently staging "Misery".  I think this shot of the bedroom matches very well how I envisioned it when I read the book oh so many years ago.  
You can see more production photos here.