Angelina Jolie is hard at work on her new movie.
02.06.2022 - 21:53 / variety.com
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic“Almost Famous” is almost ready for Broadway. The specific New York theater has yet to be announced, but opening dates for the musical adaptation of the Cameron Crowe film were revealed by the Shubert Organization on Thursday, with previews set to begin Sept.
13 and an official opening night of Oct. 11.If not for the pandemic, “Almost Famous” almost surely would have been opening a year or two earlier, as it was considered very much ready for prime time during a rapturously received preliminary engagement at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater in 2019.
Los Angeles Times critic Charles McNulty wrote then that the seemingly hitch-free show was “destined to conquer Broadway.”Jeremy Herrin, a stalwart of the British theater, directs, as he did with the Old Globe’s successful production, with a score featuring music by Tom Kitt (“Next to Normal,” “If/Then”). Kitt and Crowe collaborated on the lyrics, and Crowe wrote the musical’s book, based on his original screenplay from the semi-autobiographical 2002 film hit.
(Although the songs are almost all original, the show also includes a handful of outside period ’70s numbers.) Sarah O’Gleby is handling the choreography. The show is produced by Lia Vollack Productions and the Michael Cassel Group.
A cast album is also due this fall. A music video created by Crowe for one of the songs, “Everybody’s Coming Together,” featuring the cast in casual hang-out mode, was released Thursday.Most of the principal cast members who took part in the San Diego production are carrying their roles over to Broadway, including Solea Pfeiffer, who did the seemingly impossible and made theatergoers momentarily forget about Kate Hudson as she assumed the
.Angelina Jolie is hard at work on her new movie.
The West End hit musical Back to the Future will, as widely expected, get a Broadway staging in 2023, producers confirmed in a tweet today.
Former One Direction star Zayn Malik looked unrecognisable in his latest Instagram picture where he shows off curly locks and a full beard as he updates fans on his latest career move – his clothing collection. The 29 year old singer shared the snap with his 45.9 million followers sporting full curly locks and a full beard.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt as a couple is long history, the two recently admitted to each other that there is still love between them. The two Hollywood stars got together for a conversation published on Paltrow’s site, Goop.
Gwyneth Paltrow completely approves of Brad Pitt’s foray into fashion.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticOn the heels of the release of his “Twelve Carat Toothache” album, Post Malone is announcing a 33-city fall arena tour, with one of the featured artists on the album, Roddy Ricch, as the opening act on all but a few dates.The “Twelve Carat Tour” kicks off Sept. 10 in Omaha at the Chi Health Center and wraps up Nov. 15 at L.A.’s Crypto.com Arena.Actually, two of the final dates are in L.A., albeit at different venues — there’s a Nov.
Lights are bright on Broadway! When it comes to bringing a new musical to the Great White Way, producers find inspiration in all sorts of places — including beloved movies.
Donald Glover shows off his muscles in a tank top while on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith in New York City on Friday (June 10).
Britney Spears and Sam Asghari will soon be husband and wife. On 9 June, it was reported that the pop star will marry her fitness instructor fiancé, whom she has been dating for five years. According to People, the two will be wed during an intimate ceremony in Los Angeles today, with 60 guests in attendance.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaElmo, Cookie Monster, Grover and more are New York City bound.Rockefeller Productions and Sesame Workshop are teaming for “Sesame Street: The Musical,” a new Off-Broadway stage production adapted from the beloved children’s TV program, Variety has learned exclusively. Previews will start on Sept. 8, 2022, with opening night set for Sept.
Brad Pitt can’t seem to catch a break in “Bullet Train”.
The stage musical adaptation of Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film Almost Famous will will begin Broadway previews on Tuesday, September 13, with an official opening on Tuesday, October 11, and a cast featuring Chris Wood, Anika Larsen, Solea Pfeiffer, Drew Gehling and Casey Likes.
Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Andy Garcia, Don Johnson and Craig T. Nelson are returning for Book Club 2 – The Next Chapter, which has entered production in Italy, with Giancarlo Giannini (Across the River and Into the Trees), Hugh Quarshie (Breeders) and Vincent Riotta (House of Gucci) joining the sequel as new cast members. (A first-look still unveiled today by Focus Features, Endeavor Content and Makeready can be found below.)
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSinger Elissa, soprano Hiba Tawaji, composer Oussama Rahbani, trumpetist Ibrahim Maalouf and more than 50 musicians performed at the “Night of Hope” at Lebanon’s Forum de Beirut on Sunday night in the largest concert to be held in the country’s capital since the devastating explosion in August of 2020 that killed more than 200 people, left an estimated 300,000 homeless and caused more than $15 billion in damage. The Forum de Beirut was also destroyed by the blast, but has been rebuilt.The concert paid tribute to the families of the explosion’s victims in a brief video, and patriotic songs were performed as part of a broader call to unite the country, which has seen its economy devasted in recent years.
The Simpsons took aim at Fox News and Facebook during a musical number in Sunday’s (May 22) season 33 finale.In the episode titled ‘Poorhouse Rock’, Hugh Jackman and former US Labor Secretary Robert Reich led a song about the death of the US middle class.During the number, a character resembling Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson is shown (via Deadline), saying: “Putin for president, next on Fox News.”Facebook is similarly called out for spreading misinformation in the song’s lyrics: “Facebook feeds our fright / They convince us things were great when gas was cheap and men were white.” A Mark Zuckerberg-like character is also seen pressing a red button which reads “death of democracy”.Is that a new carbon blob in Sector 7-G, @RealHughJackman? pic.twitter.com/8xjZ7HqxV7— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) May 23, 2022Jackman, voicing a singing janitor, begins the eight-minute musical number as a challenge to Bart Simpson – who is inspired by his father Homer’s job at the nuclear power plant.
The great majority of us could only aspire, before “Moonage Daydream,” to step into the mind of David Bowie — the persona, the artist, the entity not yet proven terrestrial. Eclectic, unashamedly maximalist, and variously philosophical: all true of both the man himself and Brett Morgen’s feature-length docu-odyssey, which borrows its title from the 1976 hit, and just debuted as part of Cannes’ Midnight slate.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are clearly pulling out all the stops ahead of their big day, as Andrea Bocelli is believed to perform at the star-studded ceremony. Less than a week ago, Kourtney, 43, and Travis, 46, officially tied the knot in a low-key do, becoming husband and wife in Santa Barbara.