Odds & Ends: Lin-Manuel Miranda & The Rock's Anti-Phone PSA, Thomas Kail Boards Fox Comedy & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today.

Don’t Text During Moana. Love, Lin & The Rock
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson are willing to go to great lengths to prevent movie-goers from texting during Moana, Miranda’s next highly anticipated musical project. The Disney film hits theaters on November 23, and The Rock demonstrated exactly what’ll happen to those who feel the need to be on their phones in the audience. He may or may not have smashed the Hamilton compoer's cell with his bare hands just to prove a point, but the two don’t seem to be challenging each other to a duel anytime soon. Watch the PSA below!


Thomas Kail Tapped for Fox Comedy
After winning an Emmy for directing Grease: Live, Thomas Kail has another small screen project lined up. The Hamilton Tony winner is teaming up with Oscar-winning rapper and actor Common and How to Make It in America creator Ian Edelman to produce 93 Til Infinity. The Fox single-camera comedy, according to Deadline, is written by Edelman and follows a rapper who had a prolific career in the ‘90s but is now questioning the next stages of his life.

Rachel Bloom's Sugar Ray Jukebox Musical
Before she was the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, she was “the Mimi of a Sugar Ray jukebox musical.” Golden Globe winner Rachel Bloom stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to discuss her “Rent-like” take on the late-90s band’s sonic gems. And guess what? You can watch the blissful, Smashbox-bashing musical here. It makes us just wanna fly.