Tory Lanez was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison forshooting her. “F – – k all my haters.
25.07.2023 - 19:43 / deadline.com
Air-conditioned Broadway held its own as New York City plunged ever deeper into a hot summer last week, with total box office receipts keeping steady at $31,520,593, a tiny increase of 2% over the previous week.
Total attendance for the 30 Broadway productions was 257,204, consistent with the previous week but up nearly 15% over the same period last season.
A trio of shows ending their runs last week – the week ending July 23 – saw box office climb even higher as last-chancers snapped up tickets. Camelot took in $780,457, a boost of $189,142 over the previous week, with attendance at 96% of the Vivian Beaumont’s capacity. Life of Pi closed its run on a strong note, grossing $585,043 ($75,517 over the previous week), with 93% of the Schoenfeld’s seats occupied. And Peter Pan Goes Wrong, struggling in recent weeks after a strong start in the spring, was up by $102,412 to $550,082. Still, the popular West End farce filled only 75% of seats in its final week at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore.
A roster of recent arrivals continued to attract audiences, with the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love filling nearly every seat at the Broadway Theatre, even if receipts were down a tad (to $760,065) what with opening week comps and press seats.
Back To The Future: The Musical, in previews at the Winter Garden, seems to have the making of the summer’s breakout hit, grossing $1,376,420 for the week and playing to near-capacity audiences. The adaptation of the classic Michael J. Fox film comedy opens August 3.
The Cottage played seven previews at the Hayes, filling 94% of seats and grossing $292,887 with a modest $76 average ticket price. The Sandy Rustin comedy, directed by Jason Alexander and starring Eric McCormack, Laura
Tory Lanez was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison forshooting her. “F – – k all my haters.
David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim’s historical musical Here Lies Love is currently running on Broadway in New York and, last month, NME attended an exclusive preview of the show.Based on the duo’s album of the same name – which was released in 2010 and featured a host of guest vocalists, including Florence + The Machine’s Florence Welch, Santigold, and Tori Amos – Here Lies Love tells the sensational and true story of Imelda Marcos.Marcos was the wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the country’s “first lady” from 1965 to 1986. An all-Filipino cast, quickly shifting immersive stage design (stagehands in pink jumpsuits directed the crowd as the catwalk took on different configurations during the show) and state-of-the-art sound technology help bring the biography to life.The Broadway Theatre, where the musical has been running in previews since June 17 before opening on July 20, has been transformed into a retro club, with the orchestra converted into a standing-room-only nightclub (all 900 of the seats that are typically housed there have been removed) under a towering mirror ball and fuschia neon lights in homage to Studio 54.
Megan Thee Stallion returned to the stage on Sunday for the first time since Tory Lanez was sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting her in the feet.
Tory Lanez is speaking out about his recent sentencingin his felony assault trial for shooting Megan Thee Stallion.The Canadian-born rapper — who was born Daystar Peterson — took to Instagram on Thursday evening with a message for his fans and supporters, in which he claimed he was wrongly convicted and stressed that he will be working to clear his name.«I have never let a hard time intimidate me. I will never never let no jail time eliminate me. Regardless of how they try to spin my words, I have always maintained my innocence and I always will,» Lanez wrote in a statement.
sentenced to 10 years in prison for shooting fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion in the feet in 2020.“I have never let a hard time intimidate me. I will never never let no jail time eliminate me,” the “Say It” rapper, 31, started a lengthy Instagram statement Thursday.
was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for shooting fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion in the feet back in July 2020, according to multiple news reports.Los Angeles prosecutors had asked a judge to give Lanez, whose legal name is Daystar Peterson, a 13-year sentence. “If I could change it, I would but I can’t,” Lanez said at his sentencing, reported NBC News.
Tory Lanez has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2020 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion. He faced up to 22 years and eight months in prison for his conviction on three felony counts last December, though prosecutors suggested a 13-year sentence. Attorneys for the defense asked that Lanez be released on probation while they attempt to appeal the initial verdict.] The FADER has reached out to attorneys for both Megan Thee Stallion and Lanez for comment.
Megan Thee Stallion is asking the Los Angeles County Superior Court to hold Tory Lanez fully accountable for shooting her in the feet as the 31-year-old awaits his sentencing.
Megan Thee Stallion is asking the Los Angeles County Superior Court to hold Tory Lanez fully accountable for shooting her in the feet as the 31-year-old awaits his sentencing.On Monday, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Kathy Ta read a statement written by Megan during Lanez’s sentencing hearing at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. The GRAMMY winner, who wasn’t at the hearing, gave a pre-written statement detailing how she has suffered since the Canadian-born rapper shot her in the feet three years ago.«Since I was viciously shot by the defendant, I have not experienced a single day of peace,» Megan wrote.
Hakuna Matata! Disney got a revenue boost in the UK thanks in part to audiences returning to West End stage plays like The Lion King following the pandemic.
Clifton Oliver has sadly died at the young age of 47.
Broadway is mourning the death of one of their own. Clifton Oliver, who starred in Broadway productions of The Lion King, Wicked and In the Heights, died on Aug. 2, his sister, Roxy Hall, confirmed. He was 47.
The Lion King, Wicked and In the Heights, died on Aug. 2, his sister, Roxy Hall, confirmed. He was 47.«My baby brother, Clifton Oliver, has had his final curtain call,» Hall posted to Facebook on the day of his death.
A24 will be releasing its first movie musical later this year and it looks hilarious!
The trailer for the NSFW movie “Dicks: The Musical” is here.
Clifton Oliver, a stage actor who appeared on Broadway in The Lion King, In The Heights and Wicked, died yesterday following a lengthy illness.
the upcoming film adaptation of Josh Sharp and Aaron Jackson's off-Broadway musical is a raunchy, hilarious, -style romp. When two douchey business bros, played by Sharp and Jackson, discover that they're long-lost identical twins, they scheme to switch places (despite looking nothing alike) and get their parents back together.This is complicated by the fact that their father, played by Nathan Lane, is «queer as a three-dollar bill, and just as thin,» and their mother, played by Megan Mullally has plans to «drown them in the bathtub, in the old fashioned way.»Megan Thee Stallion makes her feature debut in the film, playing the twins' «lady boss,» who gets a few musical moments of her own (in addition to literally dog-walking some of her underlings).The wild musical also features lyrics like «life's a f*cking handjob, and I always play to win,» co-stars Bowen Yang, and introduces something called the Sewer Boys.
Sophia Scorziello editor “Dicks: The Musical,” the first film musical from A24, has everything: Megan Thee Stallion, a “Parent Trap” plotline, a pair of twins singing penis euphemisms, Nathan Lane and a cage full of mutant sewer boys. The independent banner released the first trailer for the R-rated comedy on Thursday morning, shortly following the announcement by the Toronto International Film Festival that the film will play in the event’s Midnight Madness section.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Award-winning scenic designer David Korins calls his work on Broadway’s newest sensation “Here Lies Love” the “most ambitious piece of theater I’ve ever done.” And that’s a high bar: Korins counts The Oscars, “Beetlejuice” and “Hamilton” among his credits. Set to throbbing beats from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, “Here Lies Love” centers on the Philippines’ controversial former First Lady, Imelda Marcos. The idea was to make the show as immersive as possible and turn a Midtown Manhattan theater into a disco ballroom.
Here Lies Love,” a stage musical created by David Byrne, is to let audiences know that the Broadway Theatre in Times Square is a disco. Or, at least, it has been transformed into a reasonable facsimile of one, with the audience on the floor standing, shifting and swaying, and occasionally even dancing, in an immersive experience the likes of which Broadway has rarely if ever seen.