I suppose it was inevitable.  With the departure of Lea Michele, the Broadway revival of Chess is closing.  But we really can’t put all the blame on Michele – the lack of Tony love certainly didn’t help.  We can also blame the revised book, which certainly contributed to lots of people being unemployed.  Lea’s replacement, JoJo Levesque said this:  “Was supposed to start first day of rehearsals TODAY.  So bummed.  All my love to the company.”

Lots of you have asked about the West End run of Joy Behar’s play, My First Ex-Husband.  People tell me there’s no place to buy tickets.  In fact, nobody could even find the play listed anywhere in London.  So I did some digging.  On the Behind the Table podcast, Behar announced that she would be joined by Jackie Hoffman and “two other British actresses”.  Could she be more vague?  Then she got specific and said it would be playing at the Boulevard Theatre.  A perfect venue…except the play is not listed on their website.  Some people tell me this is not an actual commercial run but a closed series of performances for an invited audience.

Last week, I came across the following headline: “Derek Hough was jumped, hung upside down, then expelled.”  Which begged the question, what happened on the second date?  Actually, Hough went public about being tormented as a kid by bullies – one of whom actually held a gun to his head.  He says the taunting stemmed from being smaller than the other boys and being obsessed with dance.  That’ll do it.  After all, y’know, Utah!  That’s when his family moved him to London to live with Mark Ballas and his family.  The rest, as they say, is history.

Someone else who was small was little Danny Pintauro.  He was also picked on, but enough about the Who’s The Boss? set.  We recently told you how he’s scrambling to make ends meet.  Last week, he was interviewed on Entertainment Tonight when Kevin Frasier said this: “You never know who’s going to wander through Entertainment Tonight because it happens all the time.  We have people just pop through at any given moment, and you might know this beautiful lady,” and out popped Judith Light, exclaiming, “It’s your mom!”  Pintauro was visibly shocked.  The twosome gabbed for a bit, and then Light asked, “Life is good?  You’re OK?”  Danny said that’s what they were talking about.  “I’m working for Amazon Flex – that’s the big news story for me.”  Judith’s response?  She threw her hands up and said, “OK!”  You can watch the reunion on BillyMasters.com.