Here's a quick roundup of stories you might have missed today. Cynthia Erivo to Play Aretha Franklin in Third Season of Genius Cynthia Erivo, the Tony-winning Color Purple breakout star who will soon embody Harriet Tubman in the upcoming biopic Harriet, has been cast as another icon, Aretha Franklin, in the third season of the National Geographic series Genius, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Erivo will portra…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 06:54PM on October 3, 2019