The legacy of Country Strong lives on: Glee‘s Ryan Murphy is planning a Gwneth Paltrow musical movie, costarring Bridesmaids star and SNL alum Maya Rudolph. “We want to do a musical together — an original,” Murphy told E! at the Emmys, “For Gwyneth and Maya Rudolph, both of whom I’m great friends with.” Um, we [...]
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Phantom Sequel Love Never Dies Closing In UK: Will It Ever Open In The US?
You know your sequel’s a flop when it closes before the original. Though Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s Phantom Of The Opera is still running in London’s West End after almost 25 years, Webber’s long-heralded follow-up Love Never Dies has announced plans to close this August, less than 2 years after its March 2010 debut. Like a [...]
Bono Brings Big Names To Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Opening Night
Bono and The Edge may tell the media that Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is only “90% done,” but that didn’t stop them from rolling the red carpet out for the powerful pals at Tuesday’s opening night performance. Among the celebs on hand for the musical’s first “official” performance (following months of notorious “previews”) were [...]
Stephen King And John Mellencamp Musical To Debut Next Year
It’s been about twelve years in the making, but a musical co-written by John Mellencamp and Stephen King will finally debut next year. Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is based on a news story from 1957 about the deaths of two brothers who, as ghosts, tell their family’s story. Mellencamp and King staged several readings [...]
Julie Taymor To Leave Spider-Man Musical?
Though Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is still scheduled to premiere on Broadway on March 15th (as of 2:30pm EST), it doesn’t look like anyone should put money down on their rental tux. The New York Times says producers are telling investors that embattled director Julie Taymor may be leaving Spider-Man, once they hash out [...]
Spider-Man Actor Falls Off Stage, Paramedics Called
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark‘s long road to Broadway just hit its scariest snag. Already infamous for the technical delays and cast injuries that have plagued its preview performances, lat’s night’s show was brought to a premature end when aeralist Christopher Tierney fell off a stage platform high above the audience. A stagehand told Broadway [...]
Spider-Man Musical Preview Annoys Audience With Tech Delays
Spider-Man, Spider-Man: he’ll float back down to the stage when he damn well can. Last night’s Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark preview was apparently fraught with technical issues, keeping audience members in their seats for about three and a half hours thanks to five long delays and an extended piano number from the Green Goblin. [...]
Eva, Tony And His Mistress In Grease Lip Sync? Tell Us More, Tell Us More!
What’s more embarrassing than a sex tape? An elaborately staged lip sync featuring you, your husband, and you husband’s mistress! In an unprecedented twist, this unbelievable video has surfaced featuring Eva Longoria, Tony Parker and Erin Barry acting out a musical number from the classic film Grease. Apparently the video was made last year to [...]
Anne Hathaway Mentally Casts Herself On Glee…As A Broadway-Singing Lesbian
If the creators of Glee can deliver us a more likable Gwyneth Paltrow and a totally coherent Britney Spears, we can only image what an Anne Hathaway Glee episode would do for the actress’ success. While on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Thursday to promote her new film with Jake Gyllenhaal, Love & Other Drugs, [...]
Daniel Radcliffe Can’t Wait To Have Sex With His Back-Up Dancers
Daniel Radcliffe could not be more excited about his upcoming musical, and no, it has nothing to do with the music, choreography or acting! Gushed Radcliffe about starring How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, “I’ve been in relationships from the age of 14 and now I’m single. I said to a friend the [...]
