Florence Welch to Score New Broadway-Bound 'Great Gatsby' Musical

The name Halston is synonymous with American fashion and New York City nightlife during the disco era — now, the famed fashionista the subject of a new Netflix docu-series. Moulin Rouge star Ewan McGregor stars as the iconic designer in the Ryan Murphy-produced biopic, which follows the life of the eccentric fashion powerhouse. Before watching the new series, learn more about who Halston was.

announced it would be moving from its former location back in January, saying a new New York location would be revealed later in the year.It was previously located in an enormous, 10,000-square-foot warehouse space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and contained both a record store and concert venue. The store opened in 2013 as an offshoot of the UK chain.As the New York Times reports, the store’s new Rockefeller Center location is 2,100-square-foot, and previously housed a shoe store.

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Amazon’s free streaming service IMDb TV has unveiled a sizeable development slate with projects from the likes of The Good Place creator Mike Schur, All American showrunner Nkechi Okoro Carroll and CSI: New York star Melina Kanakaredes.

cruising gets ready to restart next month, one cruise line has unveiled what could be the most luxurious ship ever to set sail. Celebrity Beyond, the latest ship from Royal Caribbean-owned Celebrity Cruises, wants to “take the cruise industry into the next era of luxury”.

What’s Florence Welch been doing in lockdown? That’s what we’re all wondering, isn’t it? Well, turns out she’s been writing a musical. Adapting F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ into a big sing-song.

Florence Welch is bringing a musical adaptation of to Broadway! The Florence + the Machine frontwoman has been tapped to write the music for the stage production of F.

A new stage musical adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald masterpiece The Great Gatsby is headed for Broadway, with music by Florence + the Machine’s Florence Welch and Oscar-nominated “Mystery of Love” song producer Thomas Bartlett.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaFlorence Welch will journey into the Jazz Age for her new musical project, one that will offer up fortune seekers and flappers, rum runners and rich dilettantes, self-made men and high society standard bearers.In short, it’s F. Scott Fitzgerald’s glittering masterwork, “The Great Gatsby,” which will provide the spine of a new stage show that is eyeing a Broadway run.

Power Book III: Raising Kanan will hit screens in July, with a new teaser revealing more about what to expect from the Power spinoff prequel series.50 Cent‘s drama series has been confirmed for a July 18 premiere date on the US network Starz.

Six60, who recently played one of the world’s largest gigs since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, will tour the UK and Europe this winter.The pop-rock band made international headlines earlier this month after playing a show to 50,000 people without social distancing in Auckland, New Zealand.

Ellise Shafer administratorFollowing allegations of workplace abuse, Scott Rudin is resigning from the Broadway League.In a statement to the New York Times on Saturday, Rudin apologized for his behavior and revealed his resignation from the national trade association, which organizes the Tony Awards every year along with the American Theatre Wing.“I know apologizing is not, by any means, enough,” Rudin told the Times.

Jim Steinman, songwriter. Born: 1 November 1947 on Long Island, New York State. Died: 19 April 2021 in Connecticut, aged 73. At a time when the dull throb and vapid lyrics of disco ruled the popular music scene, record company executives had no interest in long, bombastic musical melodramas sung by some sort of sweaty giant and composed by a songwriter whose biggest influence was Wagner.

John Carney— the director behind critically acclaimed musical dramas Sing Street and Once— has set his next feature, which will include music from legendary composer George Gershwin.