Reimagined version of ‘The Wiz’ to make Broadway return

Reimagined version of ‘The Wiz’ to make Broadway return

“The Wiz” is about to ease its way down the road to Broadway once again. The beloved “The Wizard of Oz” show is slated to return to Great White Way in the spring of 2024, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The show will be directed by Schele Williams and include additional material from writer Amber … Read more

Nicole Kidman surprises ‘The Music Man’ audience with $100K donation

Nicole Kidman surprises ‘The Music Man’ audience with 0K donation

We got donations, right here in River City. Nicole Kidman shocked audience members Saturday night with a surprise visit to Broadway’s “The Music Man” … but a visit to River City was not all she had planned. The “Moulin Rouge” actress bid $100,000 for Hugh Jackman’s signed hat that he wears in the show’s final … Read more

Musical about punching bag Staten Island heads to Manhattan

Musical about punching bag Staten Island heads to Manhattan

Staten Island Chuck lives on. The forgotten borough’s beloved groundhog that died after a fall from former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s arms in 2014 has been resurrected to narrate a limited Manhattan production of “Staten Island! The Musical” A pair of high school friends and Staten Island natives have turned the banalities of their oft-hated … Read more

‘Kimberly Akimbo’ review: A weirdly wacky, but sweet Broadway musical

‘Kimberly Akimbo’ review:  A weirdly wacky, but sweet Broadway musical

The cute new musical “Kimberly Akimbo,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, piles on weirdness with a dump truck. The mounting insanity almost becomes too much. Almost. First there’s the main character, Kimberly (Victoria Clark), who is 16 but suffers from a rare unnamed condition that makes her age at an accelerated rate. So, she … Read more

Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Music Man’ extends Broadway run

Hugh Jackman’s ‘The Music Man’ extends Broadway run

Hugh Jackman won’t be heading back to Hollywood any time soon. The Aussie actor’s Broadway hit musical “The Music Man” is extending its run on Broadway until 2023. Its “positively final performance” will occur on Jan. 15, 2023 instead of its original end date of New Year’s Day. “The hunger of audiences for our show … Read more

‘Almost Famous’ Broadway review: Musical doesn’t rock

‘Almost Famous’ Broadway review: Musical doesn’t rock

At the start of “Almost Famous,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, the frontman of the fictional rock band Stillwater, Jeff Bebe, barks backstage in San Diego that a young Rolling Stone reporter in their midst is “the enemy!” Theater review 2 hours and 30 minutes, with one intermission. At the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, … Read more

Adele reveals the one musical that could lure her to Broadway

Adele reveals the one musical that could lure her to Broadway

Adele has revealed the one Broadway musical she’d consider doing.  According to Broadway World, the Grammy winner, 34, was attending a fan event when she was asked if she’d try to get an EGOT by acting on Broadway, so she could win a Tony. (EGOT is the designation given to a person who has won … Read more

Elton John’s lacking ‘Tammy Faye’ musical needs a prayer

Elton John’s lacking ‘Tammy Faye’ musical needs a prayer

Fresh off the atrocious “Devil Wears Prada” musical in Chicago, Elton John is back on the boards a mere two months later with the Televangelist Wears Mascara in London. That’s right. The singer-songwriter’s latest musical is “Tammy Faye,” a biopic of the controversial religious TV personality Tammy Faye Messner, which premiered Wednesday night at the Almeida … Read more

Beloved literary classic ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ getting stage musical

Beloved literary classic ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ getting stage musical

NEW YORK — “A Wrinkle in Time,” the classic sci-fi coming-of-age tale celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, has been adapted into a film, a TV movie, opera, several plays, and a graphic novel. Now it’s time for a stage musical, The Associated Press has learned. For the first musical version of Madeleine L’Engle’s acclaimed … Read more

Cult hit ‘Titanique’ to extend run at bigger off-Broadway theater

Cult hit ‘Titanique’ to extend run at bigger off-Broadway theater

The show will go on and oooooon! “Titanique,” the hilarious off-Broadway musical parody of the 1997 film “Titanic” that’s cleverly told through the songs of Celine Dion, will voyage to the Daryl Roth Theater on Union Square East starting Sunday, November 20.  The show, which The Post called “by a nautical mile, the funniest musical … Read more

Hugh Jackman’s birth chart: The secret behind the showman’s ‘X’ factor

Hugh Jackman’s birth chart: The secret behind the showman’s ‘X’ factor

Hugh Jackman’s astrology and zodiac sign reveal how he has enchanted the world as one of the most prolific theater, musical and film actors of the modern day, Source link

Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds tap their way through ‘Spirited’ Christmas teaser

Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds tap their way through ‘Spirited’ Christmas teaser

Christmas comes early for those who asked Santa for an “Elf” and “Deadpool” crossover movie. Apple TV+ gifted the internet with the first look at Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds in the upcoming musical-comedy “Spirited” on Wednesday. The story is a retelling of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” told from the perspective of the ghosts. … Read more