Sherri Shepherd to be Disney’s first woman Genie in ‘Aladdin’
The Emmy Award-winning talk-show host will step into Broadway’s “Aladdin” for a limited time.
Today is Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Preview: School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play Broadway Baby Birthdays: Julie Kurnitz Alan Feinstein Bob Leslie Frances Freeman Sid Caesar Sir Harry Secombe Sarah Cunningham Christine Johnson Henry Wilcoxon Gavin Muir Queenie Smith Howard Dietz Hayward Ginn W. W. Jacobs Thomas F. Fallon Antonin Leopold Dvorak Fred Benjamin Michael Frayn Eleanor Phelps Teal Wicks Brandon Pearson Alan E. Muraoka Michael Ayr Maureen Sadusk Bobby Cole Vantile Whitfield Rogelio Douglas, Jr.