November is officially here, and the kickoff to the winter holiday season is growing near. Though the cold is starting to set in, we would like to send our warmest wishes to all the Scorpio and Sagittarius stars of Broadway whose birthdays fall throughout the month of November. Below, see what they're currently working on, and check out the Playbill Vault for other theatre notables with November birthdays.

Ladies, let's lunch with Beth Leavel (Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends and Anthony Ramos (Hamilton) on their November 1 birthday. 

We would be Ruined if we didn't celebrate gifted playwright Lynn Nottage (MJ: The Musical) and Broadway's brilliant bass Phillip Boykin (Hadestown), who share a November 2 birthday.

There's "Nothing Like the City" on November 3, when Terrence McNally (bookwriter of the current Broadway revival of Ragtime), Lois Smith (The Inheritance), and Fina Strazza (John Proctor is the Villain) celebrate their birthdays. 

It wouldn't be a "Bad Idea" to make November 5 all about performer Keala Settle (Waitress, part one of the Wicked films). 

June Squibb hive, rise up! The actress, soon-to-be-seen on Broadway in Marjorie Prime, celebrates her 96th birthday on November 6. Squibb (Waitress, Gypsy) isn't alone. Patina Miller (Into the Woods, Pippin) and Michael Cerveris (Fun Home and the upcoming Off-Broadway Christmas Carol) are also celebrating their birthdays on this day.

Tony-winning composers Jeanine Tesori (Kimberly Akimbo, Fun Home) and Tim Rice (lyricist of the current Broadway revival of Chess) will "Make a Wish" and blow out their birthday candles on November 10. Today is also a day to put out the "Razzle Dazzle" for the late performer-choreographer Ann Reinking (Chicago).

Let's have dinner with actor-playwright Wallace Shawn (Off-Broadway's upcoming What We Did Before Our Moth Days) for his birthday on November 12. We'll invite fellow celebrants Megan Mullally (It's Only a Play, Young Frankenstein), Mary Louise Wilson (On the Twentieth Century), Jamie Lloyd (the current Waiting for Godot Broadway revival), and Lynne Meadow (soon-to-be-retired leader of Manhattan Theatre Club).

We've got Whoopi Goldberg (whose Whoopi Monologues is upcoming at Lincoln Center) and Jaquel Spivey (A Strange Loop) to celebrate November 13.

November 16 is a momentous occasion to celebrate good Company, when we'll drink to the "Side by Side by Side" birthdays of Broadway veteran Donna McKechnie (Company, Wicked) and revered playwright Paula Vogel (How I Learned to Drive, Indecent). Also born on this day is performer Jelani Remy (Back to the Future), who takes another trip around the sun in their "Circle of Life," and lyricist Scott Wittman (SMASH, Some Like it Hot, Hairspray). 

We'll be ringing "The Bells of St. Sebastian" on November 18 for Steven Pasquale (of the upcoming High Spirits), and Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent). 

On November 20, we raise a glass to theatre's favorite "old sport"—the incomparable Jeremy Jordan (who returns to The Great Gatsby on Broadway this month).

November 21 is a double-billing birthday! On this day, we celebrate Cherry Jones (The Lifespan of a Fact, The Glass Menagerie). 

On November 22, life is beautiful for Auli'i Cravalho (Cabaret) and Bob Odenkirk (Glengarry Glen Ross). 

Suddenly, it's November 24! A day to celebrate Ruben Santiago-Hudson (currently in This World of Tomorrow at The Shed) and Sarah Hyland (currently in Just in Time on Broadway). 

Hear ye, hear ye! November 26 shall henceforth be known as a day when we must "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," because it is the day performer Christopher Fitzgerald (Spamalot, Waitress) was born!

"Get Ready" to sing "Happy Birthday" to Don Cheadle (soon-to-be-seen on Broadway in Proof), Jackie Hoffman (leading a "miserable" cabaret at Joe's Pub on her birthday), and Nik Walker (currently a Masquerade Phantom) on November 29. 

"Everybody Loves" Broadway legend Mandy Patinkin (Sunday in the Park with George, Evita) and writer David Lindsay-Abaire (Kimberly Akimbo) who share a birthday on November 30. It is a show-stopping finale to a month of celebration.

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