‘Funny Girl’ With Lea Michele Sets Closing Date on Broadway

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Streaming platform Paramount+ has set a release date for Korean series “Yonder” that is one of the first titles flowing from Paramount Global’s alliance with CJ ENM. The show will premiere on April 11 in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France.  Set in 2032, “Yonder” is a science fiction-drama series about a man who receives a message from his deceased wife inviting him to a mysterious space. The space is designed for the dead to be able to live on by uploading memories of their lifetime from their brain. The show raises questions about life and death and what it means to have eternal happiness as humanity faces a world altered by advancements in science and technology.

Lea Michele is currently bringing the house down every night with her starring role in the Broadway musical Funny Girl, fulfilling a longtime dream of hers to play the iconic role.

Katie Reul editor “Dear Coach Stringer,” a 30-minute documentary centered around the career of women’s basketball hall of famer C. Vivian Stringer, is coming to CBS and Paramount+ Mar. 25 at 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. PT. In 2009, Stringer was also inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The seasoned coach is best known for leading the female ballers of Cheyney State to the NCAA Women’s Final Four — the first and only historically Black college to do so. Stringer went on to coach two other teams to the NCAA Women’s Final Four: Rutgers University in 2000 and 2007 as well as the University of Iowa in 1993. Produced by Coaches+ Media, “Dear Coach Stringer” chronicles the team’s groundbreaking victory during the 1981-1982 season and highlights Stringer’s legacy through interviews with family, friends, former players and other coaches.

, celebrity stylist Law Roach is not going to let conspiracy theorists get between him and .On March 16, Roach sat down with The Cut editor-in-chief Lindsay Peoples to discuss the that shocked the fashion world. Earlier this week the surprised everyone when he revealed he was stepping back from the “politics” and “lies” of the fashion business. With little else to go on, fans on TikTok and Twitter quickly began pointing to a recent video of Roach and Zendaya at a Louis Vuitton fashion show to explain his sudden exit.

EXCLUSIVE: FBoy Island, the breakout HBO Max reality format, is getting another date.

Ben Croll Cannes acclaimed filmmaker Marie Amachoukeli and leading French studio Miyu Productions will pair on “Happy End,” a macabre comedy Amachoukeli will co-direct with Vladimir Mavounia Kouka. Set for production in 2024, the project has already received backing from Bac Films and MK2, with the latter handling international sales. Variety has scored a first look at the project, which recently presented at the Cartoon Movie pitch and co-production forum in Bordeaux. Imagining a world without death and employing a visual style reminiscent of Max Fleischer, the 2D, adult-targeted film follows Bertha King, a suicidal career soldier who has the bad to luck to finally end things right as the grim reaper hangs up his scythe. Left yearning to die while death has gone on strike, the depressed hero must navigate a morose new existence all of sudden freed from the bonds of mortality.

Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter has set a June 16 date for the official opening. Tickets go on sale beginning March 22. 

Harry Potter will open in Japan. Billed as the world’s largest indoor Harry Potter attraction, it is set to open its doors this summer, on Friday June 16. Ticket sales will begin on March 22. It is also set to be the first Warner Bros. Studio Tour in Asia. The attraction, which will feature exclusive sets and experiences, will be located on the site of the Toshimaen amusement park in Nerima, Tokyo, which shut down in Aug. 2020. Potter fans will be able to step into the world of Hogwarts and more, learning how the films were made, exploring costumes, props and sets and special effects.

Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan's new Disney+ series, , has a premiere date.Ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, where Yeoh and Quan could make history if they win Best Actress and Best Supporting Actor for, Disney+ announced the upcoming series will drop Wednesday, May 24. A 30-second teaser highlights Yeoh and Quan's performances, along with their co-star, Stephanie Hsu, who guest stars on  Based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang,  tells the story of Jin Wang (Ben Wang), an average teenager juggling his high school social life with his home life.

Disney+ will launch its upcoming series American Born Chinese on May 24, hoping that the Everything Everywhere All at Once magic of Michelle Yeoh, Key Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu boosts the streamer.

K.J. Yossman Lewis Capaldi’s feature-length documentary “How I’m Feeling Now” has been snapped up by Netflix. The streamer has acquired worldwide rights to the doc, which is set to drop globally on April 5, via Independent Entertainment. The project was produced by BMG and Pulse Films, a VICE Media Group company, and co-financed by Quickfire Films. “Lewis Capaldi: How I’m Feeling Now” is directed by Joe Pearlman (“Bros: After the Screaming Stops”) and gives fans an inside look into the multi-platinum, award-winning artist as he returns to his roots following unimaginable global success including five headline tours and chart-topping singles.

Blindspotting,” which will return with a two-episode premiere on April 14 at 9 pm. Created by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, the series stars Casal as Miles, the recently imprisoned husband to wife, Ashley (Jasmine Cephas Jones) and father to Sean (Atticus Woodward), who at the beginning of Season 2, are readjusting to their “new normal.”

“Funny Girl” starring Lea Michele — in the Fanny Brice role made famous by Barbara Streisand — is closing on Sept.

won’t rain on Lea Michele’s parade.Broadway’s “Funny Girl” announced Thursday that the musical will take its final bow later this year — despite seeing a massive boom in ticket sales following the casting of the “Glee” alum.The show revealed the news on Instagram. “Hey, gorgeous! We’re having so much fun with you on Broadway, we’re sticking around until September 3rd,” reads the post.Michele, 36, will continue to star as Fanny Brice — a role made famous by Barbra Streisand in the original 1964 production — through the end of its tenure at the August Wilson Theatre.

DGA Award winner and 5x Emmy nominee Paul Feig has found a stellar trio to lead his new action-comedy Grand Death Lotto for Amazon Studios in John Cena (Peacemaker), Awkwafina (Renfield) and Simu Liu (Barbie).

Lea Michele has extended her run with Funny Girl on Broadway, but with this news, we also learned that the show will be officially closing later this year.

“Funny Girl” has extended its Broadway run until September, as principal players Lea Michele, Ramin Karimloo, Jared Grimes and Tovah Feldshuh have all signed on for more show dates.After breaking an all-time box-office record at Broadway’s August Wilson Theater, “Funny Girl” is laughing itself all the way back on stage for more dates, with the show coming to an end in New York City on Sept. 3. The American tour will officially open at Providence Performing Arts Center in Providence, from Sept.

Funny Girl, Broadway’s riches-to-rags-to-riches smash hit, will close on Sunday, Sept. 3, with stars Lea Michele, Ramin Marmloo, Jared Grimes and Tovah Feldshuh extending their planned runs to see the show through to its final date.

Prime Video this morning released first look at its global spy series from Anthony and Joe Russo, Citadel, which will premiere April 28 with two episodes, followed by a new episode released weekly every Friday through May 26. The images for the big-budget series, starring Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Richard Madden, feature British actor Lesley Manville which is being revealed as a core series regular alongside previously announced Madden, Chopra Jonas and Stanley Tucci.

Jen Psaki’s new show for MSNBC will debut on March 19 at noon ET and will be streamed the next day on Peacock.