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Practice pinning your corsages and reserve your limousines: Ryan Murphy is bringing The Prom to Netflix. RELATED STORIES The American Horror Story producer is turning the Broadway musical comedy into a “movie event” for the streaming giant, Murphy announced via his Instagram on Tuesday. “The Prom is one of the most uplifting, heartfelt and special […]
Uk audiences know him best from Supergirl, where he plays the sweet Winn. Before that, he was part of the short-lived musical show Smash, alongside Katherine McPhee, who is currently wowing London’s West End in Waitress. Jordan is a major Broadway star back home and his London dates last year sold out fast. This time he is […]
Rent Live ended its broadcast Sunday true to its name, switching to a live telecast after a broadcast that consisted mostly of a taped dress rehearsal held Sunday. Injured cast member Brennin Hunt, who broke his foot during the Saturday rehearsal, appeared during the musical’s final scene with his foot — in a cast — propped up […]
Hands clasped, Mecca Verdell paces slowly under the park’s fluorescent street lights. Night has fallen in Baltimore. Firm and commanding, she launches — from zero to 60 — into the combative opening lines of “Petty,” a poem that unpacks her complicated relationship with her father. Eyes wide, her voice drips with sarcasm as notes of […]
Wicked, one of Broadway’s most popular (sing it with us, “Pop-uuuuu-lar!”) musicals, turned 15 this year, and the witches that got the whole spell started are teaming up with NBC for a celebration of the long-running show. The musical, as its tagline likes to tout, looks at what happened in the land of Oz, but from […]
The last time we saw King Kong careening around New York City was in the virtual world of the OASIS in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One. Before that, it was at the end of Peter Jackson’s 2005 film adaptation (which, by the way, is better than you remember). But now the giant ape is heading […]
Broadway’s two-part Harry Potter and the Cursed Child production is a fascinating beast. It brings with it most of its West End cast, acting as direct sequel to the books yet trading on the iconography of the film series, all while making its own unique mark on Harry Potter canon. Picking up from the originals’ […]
Break out the top hats and awkward lip-syncing: The Greatest Showman may be headed to Broadway. The Hugh Jackman-starring musical was a surprise hit, and now it might make the leap from screen to stage. Time for a confession: I really liked The Greatest Showman. Yes, all the scenes that don’t have singing are kind of bad. […]
You might soon be celebrating Rex Manning Day on Broadway. Empire Records, the cult comedy that some people really love, is being developed as a musical with hopes of a Broadway run in 2020. There’s only one question: will GWAR recreate their cameo for Broadway? The 1995 comedy Empire Records is set in a record store, so […]
The movie musical has been something of a surprise smash hit, having made over $ 400 million worldwide on a budget of just $ 84 million. Not only that but the The Greatest Showman soundtrack album has gone platinum and remained UK No 1 album for the last 11 weeks – a record shared only […]
