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Dolly Parton is bringing a musical about her life to the Broadway stage!
The legendary singer-songwriter announced the new musical while on stage at CMA Fest on Thursday (June 6) in Nashville, Tenn.
“Hello, I’m Dolly, and I lived my whole life to see this show on stage. I’ve written many original songs for the show and included all your favorites in it as well. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll clap, you’ll stomp, it truly is a Grand Ol’ Opera. Pun and fun intended. Don’t miss it!” she said in a statement.
The musical, which is a play on words from the classic musical Hello, Dolly, borrows its title from the name of Dolly‘s first studio album released in 1967.
Dolly wrote the score for the new musical and included some of her biggest hits, as well as new songs written especially for the musical.
Producer Adam Speers said, “I first had the pleasure of working with Dolly Parton in 2019 when she trusted us to develop a new version of her musical 9 to 5 for London’s West End. I had always heard she wanted to do a musical based on her life, so when she asked if I would be interested in producing it, I was bowled over. As the world knows, Dolly is a magical blend of talent, hard work, intelligence, charm, wit, and a gigantically big heart. I’m thrilled we’re going to bring her inspiring story to Broadway.”
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Liam Gallagher has hit out at Just Stop Oil protesters for vandalising the “mystical” Stone Henge structure.Yesterday (June 19) two protestors sprayed orange powder paint over Stone Henge. They were both arrested with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying: “This is a disgraceful act of vandalism to one of the UK’s and the world’s oldest and most important monuments,” (per The Guardian).The former Oasis frontman took to his official X/Twitter account to react to the protesters’ latest stunt and tweeted: “Don’t fuck with the stones man they have mystical powers hope they all wake up tmoz and are all orange toads”.Don’t fuck with the stones man they have mystical powers hope they all wake up tmoz and are all orange toads— Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher) June 19, 2024As per The Guardian, the public tried to stop the protestors from vandalising the structure with one visitor taking one of the spray cans away from them.Wiltshire police said: “We have arrested two people following an incident at Stonehenge this afternoon.
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Nick Jonas and Adrienne Warren walk the carpet together at the 2024 Tony Awards held at David H Koch Theater at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday (June 16) in New York City.
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The White House is slamming the New York Post for pushing out a video on social media, and later a cover story, claiming that President Joe Biden wandered off as he and other world leaders watched a skydiving demonstration at the G7 summit in Italy.
28 Years Later will be set in Newcastle, and lead star Jodie Comer has revealed she’s studying Cheryl‘s accent in preparation for her role.Comer will star alongside Cillian Murphy, Ralph Fiennes, Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jack O’Connell in the third instalment of Danny Boyle‘s zombie apocalypse trilogy, which reportedly began filming in Newcastle last month.Now, in a new profile piece for ELLE, Comer has revealed that she’s been watching clips of Cheryl on The X-Factor in order the grasp the Geordie accent.“I’m excited to get the first day done,’ she said, ahead or shooting her scenes. “Danny just seems like such a confident, intuitive and intelligent director.
Tony-winner Idina Menzel will return to Broadway next year in the new musical Redwood written and directed by Mother Play director Tina Landau, producers announced today.
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& Juliet, the playful, pop-infused musical that gives Shakespeare’s lovestruck heroine a second chance at life, has recouped its $17 million capitalization, the first new musical of the 2022-23 to do so, and only the fourth new musical to become profitable since the Covid pandemic shutdown.
Marcelo Cajueiro RIO DE JANEIRO — Top Brazilian production company Gullane Entretenimento will make a feature-length doc and the third season of an animation series about Brazilian Formula One racing driver Ayrton Senna, company directors Fabiano and Caio Gullane told Variety. Produced by Gullane for Netflix, the highly anticipated “Senna,” a bio drama TV series helmed by Vicente Amorim and Julia Rezende, is due to open late this year. Designed for global audiences, “Senna” is the highest-budgeted Brazilian series ever.
Rihanna is making a very big fashion statement during a New York City outing with A$AP Rocky on Thursday (June 6).
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Dolly Parton has revealed she was surprised that Beyoncé’s cover of her seminal song ‘Jolene’ featured different lyrics.In an interview with E! News, Parton said “it was very bold” of Beyoncé to give her 1973 song a new spin on her latest album ‘Cowboy Carter’. “When they said she was gonna do ‘Jolene,’ I expected it to be my regular one, but it wasn’t,” Parton said.“But I love what she did to it.
Beyoncé‘s lyrics change to Dolly Parton‘s classic song Jolene weren’t expected by the song’s composer, one Dolly Parton.
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