Lin-Manuel Miranda Photobombs and More: The Best of September in Review

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Corey Cott (second from left) takes his first curtain call as Jack Kelly in Broadway’s Newsies with cast members Ben Fankhauser, Kara Lindsay, and Matthew Schechter.
(© Tristan Fuge)

Legendary singer Frankie Valli outside of the Broadway Theatre, where he’ll be soon appearing in concert.
(© David Gordon)

Phantom of the Opera stars Hugh Panaro, Marni Raab, and Kyle Barisich peruse the 2013 Guinness World Records book, of which the long-running musical is a part.
(© David Gordon)

Talk show legend and Scandalous book writer/lyricist Kathie Lee Gifford at the new musical’s meet-and-greet.
(© David Gordon)

Broadway favorites Ashley Spencer (Rock of Ages, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Bonnie and Clyde) tied the knot on September 8.
(Photo via @JeremyMJordan)

TV producer Richie Jackson (Showtime’s Nurse Jackie) and Jujamcyn head honcho Jordan Roth also got married on September 8.
(Photo via @Richie_Jackson)

The Broadway on Broadway audience fills Duffy Square.
(© David Gordon)

At Broadway on Broadway, Carolee Carmello performs “For Such a Time Like This” from Scandalous.
(© David Gordon)

Broadway favorite Michael Cerveris, a member of the band Loose Cattle, performs at the Third Avenue Street Fair on September 9.
(© Tristan Fuge)

A little girl awaits her prize at the TheaterMania section of the Third Avenue Street Fair.
(© Tristan Fuge)

Patti LuPone and Debra Winger at the meet-and-greet for David Mamet’s new play, The Anarchist.
(© David Gordon)

The cast of A Summer Day: Pamela Shaw, Karen Allen, translator/director Sarah Cameron Sunde, Maren Bush, Samantha Soule, Carlo Alban (kneeling), and McCaleb Burnett (kneeling).
(© David Gordon)

Richie Coster in a scene from Athol Fugard’s The Train Driver, which opened on September 9.
(© Richard Termine)

A scene from Chaplin, featuring Rob McClure (center), Lisa Gadja (left), and Emily Tyra (right).
(© Joan Marcus)

Rob McClure takes his opening night curtain call as Charlie Chaplin at the Barrymore Theatre.
(© David Gordon)

Jonas Brothers Joe and Nick attend the opening night of Chaplin at the Barrymore Theatre.
(© David Gordon)

Pals Tony Danza and Peter Cincotti smile for the camera at Chaplin’s opening night.
(© David Gordon)

An Annie family photo: Katie Finneran (Miss Hannigan), Anthony Warlow (Daddy Warbucks), Lilla Crawford (Annie), and Sunny (Sandy).
(© David Gordon)

Miss Hannigan’s Orphans strike a pose at the revival’s meet-and-greet on September 12: Taylor Richardson, Georgi James, Madi Rae DiPietro, Emily Rosenfeld, Tyrah Skye Odoms, Junah Jang, and standby Jaidyn Young.
(© David Gordon)

Downton Abbey heartthrob Dan Stevens and Academy Award-nominee Jessica Chastain lead the cast of Broadway’s The Heiress as the charming Morris Townsend and the shy Catherine Sloper.
(© David Gordon)

On September 13, political journalist Imogen Lloyd Webber, the daughter of legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, signed copies of her new book, The Twitter Diaries.
(© David Gordon)

Paul Rudd signs autographs at the stage door of the Cort Theatre after his first preview in Grace on September 13.
(© Tristan Fuge)

Ed Asner greeting the crowd outside the stage door of the Cort Theatre after his first preview in Grace.
(© Tristan Fuge)

Kinky Boots composer/lyricist Cyndi Lauper with book writer Harvey Fierstein at the production’s meet-and-greet on September 14.
(© David Gordon)

Lola (Billy Porter) and the men of Kinky Boots.
(© David Gordon)

Lola (Billy Porter, right) confronts Charlie (Stark Sands, left) on the runway in a scene from Kinky Boot during the show’s September 14 press preview.
(© David Gordon)

Tommy Walker, Leslie Kritzer, Christine Pedi, and Michael West are too busy for Perez Hilton at his theater debut in NEWSical the Musical.
(© Tristan Fuge)

True Blood star Michelle Trachtenberg was also in the house to support Perez Hilton’s theater debut in NEWSical on September 17.
(© Tristan Fuge)

A scene from Lisa D’Amour’s Detroit featuring Sarah Sokolovic, Darren Pettie, David Schwimmer, and Amy Ryan.
(© Jeremy Daniel)

The Detroit cast stops for a family photo on their September 18 opening night: Sarah Sokolovic, Darren Pettie, Amy Ryan, John Cullum, and David Schwimmer.
(© David Gordon)

Coffee is for closers! Al Pacino has his cup at the September 19 Glengarry Glen Ross press conference.
(© David Gordon)

Stockard Channing poses with exonoree Sunny Jacobs at the opening night of Culture Project’s revival of The Exonerated on September 19.
(© Tristan Fuge)

Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Gomez, Brian F. O’Byrne, and Annie Funke in a scene from Nick Payne’s If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, which opened on September 20.
(© Joan Marcus)

Brian F. O’Byrne and Jake Gyllenhaal stop for a photo following their opening night performance.
(© David Gordon)

On-stage mother and daughter Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson pose for a photo with a life-size cut-out of Ranson’s on-stage persona at the September 20 CD listening party for Carrie: The Musical
(© David Gordon)

Carrie cast members Christy Altomare and Mackenzie Bell with their new favorite CD.
(© David Gordon)

Broadway’s newest Martha and George, Amy Morton and Tracy Letts, share a photo at the meet-and-greet for Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
(© David Gordon)

Madison Dirks and Carrie Coon make their Broadway debuts in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
(© David Gordon)

A crowd hunts for Playbills at the Broadway Flea Market on September 23.
(© David Gordon)

Colman Domingo, Malcolm Gets, and Bebe Neuwirth smile for our cameras at the Broadway Flea Market’s autograph table.
(© Tristan Fuge)

Dressed as Anne L. Nathan’s character Baruska, Jeffrey Wallach, the Costume Shop Manager at New York Theatre Workshop, poses with Once Tony-winner Steve Kazee.
(© David Gordon)

The men of the West Side Story film, Harvey Evans, Bert Michaels, Eddie Verson, and David Bean, were also on hand to sign autographs.
(© David Gordon)

Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis share one last kiss on stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre after the closing performance of The Gershwins’ Porgy And Bess on September 23.
(© David Gordon)

Lin-Manuel Miranda inadvertently photo bombs this shot of Jason Gotay and Adrienne Warren at the September 23 CD listening party for Bring It On.
(© David Gordon)

Red Dog Howls cast members Florencia Lozano, Alfredo Narciso, and Kathleen Chalfant at their opening night party.
(© David Gordon)

Kathleen Chalfant and Alfredo Narciso in a scene from Alexander Dinelaris’ Red Dog Howls, which opened on September 24.
(© Joan Marcus)

Members of the Redgrave Family, Carlo Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Kika Markham, Carlo Gabriel Nero, at the American Theatre Wing Gala on September 24, where they were honored.
(© David Gordon)

Henry Winkler snaps a photo of the photographers at the meet-and-greet for The Performers on September 25.
(© David Gordon)

The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, arrives at the Nederlander Theatre with William Wilkerson for the launch of Motown: The Musical on September 27.
(© David Gordon)

Smokey Robinson (right), who will be a character in Motown: The Musical, arrives at the show’s launch with wife Frances.
(© David Gordon)

Lamont Dozier (left) and Brian Holland (right) of Holland-Dozier-Holland take a photo with the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
(© David Gordon)

Kathleen McNenny, Richard Thomas, and Boyd Gaines in a scene from An Enemy of the People, which opened on September 27.
(© Joan Marcus)

Richard Thomas stops for a photo with TV mom Michael Learned at the opening night of An Enemy of the People.
(© David Gordon)

The Waterston family, (from left) Lynn Louisa Woodruff, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Waterston, Katherine Waterston, and Graham Waterston, attend in support of son/step-brother James.
(© David Gordon)

Fresh from rehearsal, Glengarry Glen Ross stars Richard Schiff, Bobby Cannavale, and Jeremy Shamos arrive at the Friedman Theatre.
(© David Gordon)

Broadway openings, incoming stars, downtown theater, and random celebrity visits—who can keep up?

We’ve got all the best September had to offer—from a Lin-Manuel Miranda photobomb to a costumer in drag channeling Once‘s Anne L. Nathan—in case you missed it.