{"id":224172,"date":"2026-02-20T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/matthew-morrison-returns-to-broadway\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T21:20:21","slug":"matthew-morrison-returns-to-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/matthew-morrison-returns-to-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Morrison returns to Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote lj-screenable=\"social:newinsta:parse\" class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"data-instgrm-captioned\" data-instgrm-version=\"7\"><p> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DU8SqabDSL0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DU8SqabDSL0<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, remember back in 2022 when Glee star Matthew Morrison joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/123417916.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new panel of judges on So You Think You Can Dance<\/a> and then a week after the S17 premiere <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/123473032.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he abruptly left the show for &#8220;failing to follow production protocols&#8221;<\/a> and then it turned out that <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/123499803.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he was fired<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/123520646.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">texting one of the contestants<\/a>? <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s been lying low since then, starring in a 2023 Netflix Christmas movie and a tv movie called From Embers in 2024. He has mostly been working in the theater &#8211; he played <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/glee-star-matthew-morrison-heads-cast-of-chicago-in-japan-beginning-april-18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Flynn in a Japanese production of Chicago<\/a>, participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/broadways-leading-men-a-musical-celebration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadway&#8217;s Leading Men concert with the American Pops Orchestra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/betty-buckley-matthew-morrison-alex-joseph-grayson-liz-callaway-celebrate-sondheim-and-lloyd-webber-march-28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Broadway Birthday: Sondheim, Lloyd Webber, and Friends<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/rachel-bloom-matthew-morrison-and-neema-muteti-to-join-reefer-madness-l-a-revival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guest starred in a Los Angeles production of Reefer Madness<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/performance-only-tickets-digital-lottery-added-to-upcoming-south-pacific-reunion-concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a South Pacific reunion concert at Lincoln Center<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/watch-matthew-morrison-revisit-songs-from-finding-neverland-and-hairspray-at-54-below\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">performed at 54 Below<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of November, Tony winner and fellow Glee alumnus Jonathan Groff announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/jonathan-groff-sets-final-splash-in-just-in-time-on-broadway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his final performance in the Bobby Darrin musical Just in Time would be on March 29, 2026<\/a>. In January, it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/jeremy-jordan-will-be-broadways-next-bobby-darin-in-just-in-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smash\/Newsies star Jeremy Jordan would take over the role of Bobby Darrin on April 21<\/a>. This week it was announced that Matthew Morrison will have a limited engagement as Bobby Darrin for the three weeks between when Groff leaves and when Jordan takes over. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DU8SqabDSL0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131954441.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DU8SqabDSL0 Hey, remember back in 2022 when Glee star Matthew Morrison joined the new panel of judges on So You Think You Can Dance and then a week after the S17 premiere he abruptly left the show for &#8220;failing to follow production protocols&#8221; and then it turned out that he was fired for texting one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-224172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}