Just a day after resuming performances following breakthrough COVID cases in its company, Disney Theatrical announced that Aladdin will once again shut down this time for two weeks.

Following negative PCR testing ahead of Thursday’s performance that allowed the show to resume, additional breakthrough COVID-19 cases within the company on Friday were detected. As result, the production will shut down for two weeks beginning today, with performances slated to resume on Tuesday, Oct. 12th at 7 p.m.

“Given my evaluation of this real-world data, I believe these positive cases are most likely related to an exposure from one positive case. This 12-day pause allows the Aladdin company ample time to ensure that people with breakthroughs recover, and any other potential breakthroughs are identified before the Aladdin company gathers again,” Blythe Adamson, the epidemiologist working with Disney Theatrical Productions, said in a statement.

“Daily PCR testing allows us the opportunity to detect a positive case before it is contagious,” she continued. “This allows us to isolate it before anyone else is put at risk, as we have done several times with the Aladdin company. Morning and evening swabs collected on Thursday returned highly accurate negative molecular PCR test results for all cast, crew and musicians that affirmed a safe performance environment for our company and audience.”

Tickets for all dates will be refunded. The news follows an earlier decision today by the Broadway League to extend its existing COVID protocols and requirements, agreed upon by all 41 Broadway venues, with no reductions in the vaccine or mask mandates for audiences, performers, backstage crew and theater staff through the end of the year.

Aladdin’s initial shutdown marked the first canceled show since Broadway’s official reopening on Sept. 14, with the Disney Theatrical show also the first production to announce breakthrough COVID cases within its company. The production’s Wednesday performance was canceled due to these initial breakthrough cases.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

This week, Martin Solveig reached the top of Dance/Electronic Songs with his Dragonettes collab “Hello.” Over in Amsterdam, ADE announced that all of the musical programming for the ADE Festival would shift to daylight hours to abide by recently instated Dutch protocols for nightclubs. Back in the States, LCD Soundsystem announced a whopping 20-show run starting in November at New York’s Brooklyn Steel.

Meanwhile techno legend Adam Beyer answered 20 questions about collaborating with Kevin Saunderson and loving Billie Eilish, UK-based ticketing and streaming platform Dice announced its acquisition of beloved livestream series Boiler Room, and Burning Man launched a a fundraising auction with Sotheby’s as it tries to recoup losses incurred during the pandemic.

Beyond all that, we’ve got the week’s best new dance music. Let’s dig in.

Maya Jane Coles, “True Loves to the Grave”

Maya Jane Coles and vocalist Claudia Kane demonstrate the thin line between love and hate in the video for Coles’ latest, “True Love to the Grave.” In the sort of Kill Bill meets Mortal Combat clip — a sequel to September’s equally noir-ish video for “Run to You” — Skin, lead vocalist of the legendary British rock band Skunk Anansie, barks orders over a cell phone before Kane, in striking black pleather, punches and stabs her way down a hallway to the beat of Coles’ sinewy, slightly sinister beats and then engages in a fight to the death with the masked producer. Who wins? Watch and see. — KATIE BAIN

Arca, “Incendio”

After remixing the Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande collaboration “Rain on Me” last month (for Gaga’s chart-topping Dawn of Chromatica remix album), Arca conjures hellish fire on her latest original, “Incendio.” The new single (co-produced by Omar) features Arca singing and rapping in Spanish at lightning speed; images of blood and ash-marked foreheads unfold over maximalist club production designed to throttle you to the core, from the engulfing bass and lethal synth stabs to the chaotic percussion that sticks to the ears like stubborn sweat. Arca’s vocals at times become distorted, multiplying and transforming into disembodied beings shrieking from the shadows. Mildly terrifying, but oh, so good. — KRYSTAL RODRIGUEZ

Blastoyz, Dimibo, Jason Ross, Kill the Noise, Seven Lions, Trivecta & Wooli, “Pantheon”

This track is as wild as you’d expect from the (long) list of artists who contributed to it. A frenetic dash through hard-hitting styles including psytrance, riddim and melodic dubstep, “Pantheon” took a year to produce and is the 100th release from Seven Lions’ Ophelia Records. It features seven of the label’s biggest acts — Blastoyz, Dimibo, Jason Ross, Kill The Noise, Trivecta & Wooli and Seven Lions himself, along with a whopping six drops. The song also shares a name with the label’s first official tour, which launched Thursday in Michigan and extends across the United States through late November. — K.B.

Rush Davis & Kingdom, “Element”

Have you ever experienced a love so easy that being with the person felt as natural as breathing? It’s a sensation in which L.A. producers Rush Davis and Kingdom indulge on “Element,” the latest single from their forthcoming collaborative album Transmission. This bedroom electronic-R&B blend, according to a press release, pulls inspiration from Kenny Dope and Janet Jackson, delivering wall-vibrating bass and robust production glistening with a cherry flush. “A fish out of water, long nights without you,” Davis sings in a sugary falsetto. “Our love’s not a talker, you know what to do.”

Davis writes on Instagram: “This one is for love. This one is about soul ties. Bound together beyond the mind. The time we spent. The laughs. The tears. The f–ks. The makeups breakups & breakdowns that transform people into legacy.” Transmission is out on November 12 via Tokimonsta’s Young Art Records. — K.R.

Bob Dylan is nothing if not confident.

The music legend has quietly put concert tickets on sale for a tour in support of last year’s album, Rough and Rowdy Ways. His website bills it as a “World Wide Tour 2021-2024.”

The concert business is slowly ramping up after the pandemic pause, which grounded Dylan’s so-called Never Ending Tour. He toured every year from 1988 until 2019.

He plans to return to live performing Nov. 2 in Milwaukee, Wis. Dylan has 21 concerts scheduled through Dec. 2, hitting cities like Chicago, New York, Boston and Washington, as well as Moon Township, Pa., and Knoxville, Tenn.

Dylan turned 80 on May 24.

The No. 2 debut of Rough and Rowdy Ways on the Billboard 200 albums chart in June 2020 made Dylan the first act to have achieved at least one new top 40-charting album in every decade from the 1960s through the 2020s.

Billie Eilish is bringing her love of cartoons to a live stage this Halloween. The “Happier Than Ever” singer is set to join producer and singer-songwriter Danny Elfman for Disney’s live-to-film concert experience of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas for two nights at LA’s Banc of California Stadium on Oct. 29 and Oct. 31.

Eilish will perform “Sally’s Song” at the event, which will contain a full orchestra led by acclaimed conductor John Mauceri to perform the film’s score and songs live. The singer will be accompanied by Elfman, who will be reprising his role of Jack Skellington, King of the Pumpkin Patch, for both nights of the concert. Other guests include “Weird Al” Yankovic  and Ken Page singing the roles of Lock and Oogie Boogie, respectively. “I’m absolutely thrilled to have Billie joining up with the nightmare crew!” Elfman said in a statement. “This will be a real treat (not a trick)!”

The 19-year-old has yet to comment on performing as Sally for the live show, but she is a longtime fan of Burton’s. The two posed together for a photo at the Universal Music Group’s Grammys afterparty in January 2020, and the director also appeared in Eilish’s video with Vogue in which famous fans asked her questions about her life or her music.

Tickets for the event are currently on sale via Ticketmaster and range from $39.50 to $179.50. Attendees are encouraged to dress up — and follow COVID-19 safety guidelines — as trick-o-treating and a fan-voted costume contest will take place at the venue.

See the official poster for the event below.

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Gloria Estefan revealed during Thursday’s (Sept. 30) episode of Red Table Talk: The Estefans, titled “Betrayed By Trusted Adults,” that she was sexually abused as a child.

Seated next to her daughter Emily Estefan and niece Lili Estefan, the music icon began, “93 percent of abused children know and trust their abusers, and I know this because I was one of them.”

Her niece said as the three ladies held hands, “You’ve waited for this moment a long time.”

Gloria replied, “I have,” and continued: “He was family, but not close family. He was in a position of power because my mother had put me in his music school and he immediately started telling her how talented I was and how I needed special attention, and she felt lucky that he was focusing this kind of attention on me.”

She added that abuse “starts little by little and then it goes fast.”

“I told him, ‘This cannot happen, you cannot do this.’ He goes, ‘Your father’s in Vietnam, your mother’s alone and I will kill her if you tell her,’” Estefan recalled. The singer said she knew she was not responsible for her abuser’s actions, but she worried he would hurt her mother. She feigned sickness to get out of going to music classes.

Emily asked if Gloria’s mother was aware of the abuse. “No, mama, because first of all, that was not talked about at all in her lifetime,” she responded. “And then my dad was in Vietnam. I remember sending him tapes saying, ‘Dad, I really don’t — I’d rather sing songs and I don’t want to do classical music.’”

The show played audio recordings from cassette tapes of Gloria speaking with her father about her music lessons.

Gloria remembered the early morning when she revealed the abuse to her mother. “Then the police came, and she said, ‘This is what’s happening,’” Gloria explained. “And they told my mother not to press charges because they said I was going to go through worse trauma having to get on a stand.”

She continued, “And that’s the one thing that I feel bad about knowing that there must’ve been other victims.” Her abuser, who she says was considered a “respected member of the community,” wrote to a paper years later criticizing her music after her first hit, “Conga.”

“At that moment, I was so angry that I was about to blow the lid off of everything. And then I thought, my whole success is gonna turn into him,” she explained. “It’s that manipulation and control. But that’s what they do. They take your power.”

Gloria said she had previously only opened up about the abuse to her family and that even the show’s producers were not aware she planned to share this story.

The Estefans then introduced the first Latina Bachelorette, Clare Crawley. In July, Crawley shared a post on Instagram and in the caption she said she is “a child of sexual abuse.”

After reading the entire caption to the Estefans, Crawley provided more details about her abuse: “I believe I was right around 5 or 6 years old. I was in first grade. And one of the biggest things in going to school for me was that I was just painfully shy.

“I grew up going to a Catholic school, and I was a victim of a predator,” Crawley said, with Gloria adding that the man was a priest. “My parents looked at Catholic priests as — they held them on a pedestal.”

The former Bachelorette added, “The Catholic school treated him as a counselor. My parents did the best they could and reached out for the resources they could at the time and sent me to this priest, and I don’t think there was any counseling that was done — it was one-on-one time to be a predator.”

In telling her story, Crawley added that she is “not a victim, but a survivor.”

Watch the full episode here.

This article was originally published by The Hollywood Reporter.

The year is flying by so fast, but before we enter October, we want to know: What was your favorite Latin collaboration released in September?

Every month, Billboard highlights all the collaborations featured on our weekly First Stream Latin and compiles them in a fan-based poll.

The new poll includes Sofia Reyes and Becky G’s heartbreak cumbia “Mal de Amores,” Christian Nodal and Banda MS’ long-overdue collab “La Sinverguenza,” and Tokischa’s flamenco-dembow “Linda” featuring Rosalia, to name a few.

The previous winning collaborations are Sebastian Yatra and Jhay Cortez’s “Delincuente” (August); Enrique Iglesias and Farruko’s “Me Pasé” (July); Nobeat and Khea’s “Medio Crazy” (June); J Balvin and Maria Becerra’s “Que Mas Pues” (May); Sebastian Yatra and Myke Towers’ “Pareja del Año” (April); Danny Ocean and Justin Quiles’ “Cuantas Veces” (March); VF7 and Lunay’s “Codigo Secreto” (February); and Maria Becerra, Cazzu, “Animal” (January).

Which song should take the crown in September? Check them out and vote below!

The Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show will have a quintuple-superstar threat with Dr. DreSnoop DoggEminemMary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar performing together onstage for the first time.

The star-studded show, which was put together by the NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation, will take place at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2022. Pepsi vp marketing Todd Kaplan noted how Dr. Dre and Snoop “were at the forefront of the West Coast hip-hop revolution” — but they won’t be the first artists to bring hip-hop to the Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Billboard compiled a timeline of hip-hop performers at the Super Bowl Halftime Show.


1998: Queen Latifah, Boyz II Men, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves and The Temptations

The Super Bowl XXXII Halftime Show at San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium served as a tribute to Motown for its 40th anniversary, and among the label’s signees, Queen Latifah put a subtle hip-hop spin on a Motown classic. She performed her 1988 single “Paper,” one of her first songs that doesn’t feature her rapping and which features new lyrics to Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong’s famous 1968 composition “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”

2001: Aerosmith, *NSYNC, Britney Spears, Mary J. Blige and Nelly

Nelly’s first (but not last) appearance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show was quite brief, as he joined the entire A-list lineup of performers to sing Aerosmith’s 1975 single “Walk This Way.”

2004: Diddy, Nelly, Janet Jackson, Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake and Kid Rock

Once more, Nelly contributed to a star-studded lineup for the Super Bowl XXXVIII Halftime Show at Houston’s Reliant Stadium, where he got his first solo to perform his 2002 No. 1 hit “Hot in Herre.” Puff Daddy slid in with the fur-collared puffy jacket to bring his own medley of hits, from “Bad Boy for Life” to “Mo Money Mo Problems.” Before both rappers shared the stage, a group of cheerleaders chanted their names to the tune of the 1982 bubblegum anthem “Mickey.”

2011: The Black Eyed Peas

The night the Black Eyed Peas’ classic lineup of will.i.am, apl.de.ap, Taboo and Fergie took over Arlington, Texas’ Cowboys Stadium during Super Bowl XLV Halftime was, indeed, a good night. They shut the turf down with their hypnotic, robotic lyrical and physical flow on 2009 chart-toppers “I Gotta Feeling” and “Boom Boom Pow,” and the swarming body of neon-green-lit dancers truly embodied their alt-hip-hop aesthetic.

2012: Madonna with Nicki Minaj, M.I.A., Cee Lo Green and LMFAO 

With her own cheer squad taking control of Indianapolis’ Lucas Oil Stadium, Madame X recruited the regal-looking Minaj and M.I.A. to perform “Give Me All Your Lovin,” and that’s exactly what the audience did for the trio. Green led a marching band to their victorious duet of Madonna’s ’80s Hot 100 No. 1 hits “Open Your Heart” and “Like a Prayer” as well as her No. 2 song “Express Yourself.” Yeah, they definitely took us there.

2015: Katy Perry with Missy Elliott and Lenny Kravitz

Sure, the left shark at Perry’s Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show at the University of Phoenix Stadium became one of the evening’s biggest stars, but a blinged-out Missy got a special “Holla” from the headliner during her performance of “Get Ur Freak On.” The two continued flipping the pop-dominant show into a hip-hop-leaning one with their joint performance of “Work It” and Missy’s solo “Lose Control.”

2019: Maroon 5 with Travis Scott and Big Boi 

Scott was notoriously introduced onto the stage by a fan-petitioned clip from SpongeBob SquarePants’ “Band Geeks” episode and a flaming asteroid before the Houston rapper touched down at the Mercedes-Benz Auditorium and launched into the 2018 Drake-assisted Hot 100 No. 1 rage anthem “Sicko Mode.” Then OutKast’s Big Boi rolled in a Cadillac before getting everyone from his Atlanta hometown moving to his 2003 Hot 100 chart-topper “The Way You Move,” with a dash of “Kryptonite.”

A few weeks after debuting his new single “La Funka” at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards, Ozuna is ready to drop his next major collaboration.

On Thursday (Sept. 30), the award-winning Puerto Rican artist took to Twitter to let fans know that his next song, alongside Blackpink, Megan Thee Stallion and DJ Snake, is “97 percent” complete. “BKP + MTS + SNK + [teddy bear emoji],” the Latin superstar wrote.

Fans on Twitter, however, are wondering if the song is with the entire South Korean girl group or just group member Lisa, who although still part of the K-pop phenomenon, debuted her solo project Lalisa earlier this month.

Marking his second collaboration with DJ Snake, following the 2018 hit “Taki Taki” with Selena Gomez and Cardi B, Ozuna first revealed the new collab at the VMAs red carpet. “It’s coming up next,” he excitedly announced.

See his tweet below:

Now that her dad has been suspended as the conservator of her estate, Britney Spears has taken a trip to paradise — and she’s bringing fans into her NSFW tropical celebration.

On Thursday (Sept. 30) — the day after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge suspended Jamie Spears from the conservatorship that has controlled Britney’s personal life and finances for 13 years — the pop star took to Instagram to share a series of posts, including videos and photos of her topless or fully nude on her beach vacation.

“A beautiful day here in paradise celebrating!!!!!!” she captioned a video set to Prince and the New Power Generation’s sexy 1991 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Cream.” In the clip, she’s on a boat with fiancé Sam Asghari surrounded by turquoise water and then on a private beach wearing nothing but her bikini bottoms.

In a second series of photos, captioned “Playing in the Pacific never hurt anybody!!!!,” Spears has edited nude photos of herself using strategically placed cartoon flowers.

On Wednesday, Judge Brenda Penny agreed with a petition from Britney and her attorney that Jamie Spears needed to give up his role as conservator. The decision comes months after the pop star pleaded for her father’s removal in dramatic court hearings. Minutes after the judge’s decision, Asghari celebrated the news on Instagram. “Free Britney! Congratulations!!!!!!!!!” Asghari wrote on his Instagram Story, later adding alongside a photo of a lioness, “She did this. Her fan base is called the army for a reason.”

Spears’ first post after the decision showed her flying a plane for the first time and landing beneath a canopy of palm trees, seemingly where she’s now celebrating. “On cloud 9 right now!!!!” Spears captioned two flying videos. “First time flying a plane and first time in a prop plane!!! Geez I was scared!!!”

See her new vacation video below: