EXCLUSIVE: I Can’t Keep Quiet, a documentary about singer-songwriter and women’s right activist Milck, will make its world premiere on May 11 at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Deadline can reveal.
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“Phantom” would finally end its storied run, ticket sales exploded. During the final two months, the musical has returned to being the highest-grossing production on Broadway, not to mention the hottest ticket in town — despite being more than three decades old.
The hoopla harkens back to January 1988 when “Phantom,” starring a then-unknown-in-America Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman, opened with deafening fanfare and became an impossible ticket. Future President Donald Trump snagged one for the big night. “Donald Trump showed up alone,” The Post’s Cindy Adams wrote the next morning.
“Despite the wind howling and the snow falling and the temperature freezing, Donald posed for photographers from England.” Cindy added: “The show has an $18 million advance. Thus it’s inversely chic to knock it.”Indeed, opening a musical on Broadway is always high-pressure, but especially for a team that had already brought hit after hit to the Great White Way.“The whole show came with such an expectation at that point,” Mackintosh, 76, said, citing his track record of 1982’s “Cats” and 1987’s “Les Misérables.” “But it was amazing to see how American audiences completely fell in love with it.
It was quite obvious from the first preview that this was the show they were dreaming of.” The producer threw a gargantuan opening night soiree at the Beacon Theatre on 74th Street and Broadway, which was transformed into a dinner and party venue. The budget was a hefty $250,000 — before wine and spirits.
Usually, you’d celebrate at Sardi’s or some ballroom. But Mackintosh wanted to evoke the grandeur of the Paris Opera house, Palais Garnier, just as he’d used the Park Avenue Armory to capture the revolutionary spirit of “Les Misérables” for that
.EXCLUSIVE: I Can’t Keep Quiet, a documentary about singer-songwriter and women’s right activist Milck, will make its world premiere on May 11 at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, Deadline can reveal.
Donald Trump, the guy who said anyone who pleads the fifth is guilty, has once again refused to take the stand? Why, we’re just shocked, we tell you…
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right group Proud Boys, was convicted along with three other members of the organization for their roles in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes explained on Wednesday night why he disagrees with rival network CNN hosting a town hall for former President Donald Trump. Trump, Hayes said in part, is “the guy who tried to kill American democracy.”Trump will participate in a CNN presidential town hall on May 10, moderated by “CNN This Morning” anchor Kaitlan Collins.
Janey Godley has hit out at Donald Trump again following his whistle-stop tour of Scotland.
Donald Trump has been accused of "never delivering anything positive for Scotland" by a Green MSP as the former president began a short trip to the country. The American businessman will visit his two golf resorts in Aberdeenshire and Turnberry, South Ayrshire, before flying to Ireland later in the week.
The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will draw loads of attention for the celebrities who show, the jokes that Joe Biden tells and the shtick that Roy Wood Jr. uses in his routine.
NBC News poll about the potential rematch of President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump, saying that “there are only 6% of Americans that would like to see both Trump and Biden run.”“The point is this: There’s large majorities that don’t want either gentleman to run,” he said, flashing a graphic showing that 60% of Republicans don’t want Trump to run and 70% of Democrats don’t want to see Biden run again.“It’s not because of his policies, it’s simply because of questions about his physical ability to do it and his current age,” he told Willie Geist of “Sunday Today.” “But the thing that is most striking in our poll is how much Republicans are rallying around Donald Trump. When you look at this poll, on one hand, if you’re Ron DeSantis, you can say, ‘Well, hey, so I’m trailing by double digits — Barack Obama trailed Hillary Clinton by double digits the entire calendar year of 2007.’ Right? He didn’t overtake her nationally until he won Iowa.
Donald Trump is expected to come to Scotland next month to visit his luxury golf resorts. Reports from the States suggest the former president is planning to roll up at his links courses in Ayrshire and Aberdeenshire.
Sophia Scorziello editor Fox settled its Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit for $787.5 million, but the network’s litigators submitted several clips from “The Simpsons” to be shown in court, had the case gone to trial. Each of these scenes show Homer Simpson voting in a presidential election, as NBC reported: — Season 20’s “Treehouse of Horror XIX” shows Homer attempting to cast a ballot for Barack Obama.— The promotional short “Homer Votes 2012” shows him voting for Mitt Romney.— The YouTube short “Homer Votes 2016” features Russian President Vladimir Putin disguising himself as an American voter and trying to convince Homer to vote for Trump.— Season 32’s “Treehouse of Horror XXXI” finds Homer unsure whether to vote for Trump or Biden.
The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical that closed its Broadway run on Sunday after 35 years, went out on a very high note: Box office receipts for the show’s final week hit a best-ever $3,739,934.
It’s the end of an era on Broadway as the long-running musical "The Phantom of the Opera" delivers its final performance. Sunday marked the show’s 13,981 performance, cementing its record as the longest running show in Broadway history.
Bill Maher and his guests channeled Salt-n-Pepa Friday night on HBO’s Real Time, as the theme of the night was “Let’s Talk About Sex.” Specifically, who is a woman, who has the right to determine a woman’s health and athletic requirements, and whether it’s a smart move to go after Donald Trump over sex-related crimes.
Donald Trump still collects a hefty retirement income from his entertainment-industry past, according to financial disclosure forms that he submitted this week to qualify for the 2024 presidential election.The former president receives between $100,000 and $1 million in yearly pension from the Screen Actor’s Guild. The details were first disclosed on the Citizens for Ethics website on Friday.
“Phantom of the Opera” – Broadway’s longest-running show. “I grew up on his plays and the performances from ‘Phantom of the Opera.’ One of the longest-running performances is closing, but it gave us many years of just joy throughout the years,” gushed Adams outside the Majestic Theater on West 44th Street.“Phantom” will close this Sunday, April 16 after a 35-year-long run on Broadway. The show first appeared in London’s West End in 1986 before coming to New York in 1988.“But you have brought us so much joy, so much happiness.
President Joe Biden plans to appoint producer Bruce Cohen and Lady Gaga as the co-chairs of the revived President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
recent poll from ABC News that indicated more than half of Americans believe Trump knowingly committed an illegal act, after he was charged with 34 counts of felony business record falsification last week.Meanwhile, 20% believe Trump did not do anything wrong, but Kimmel pretty well dismissed those people out of hand.“These are the same people who think JFK’s coming back from the dead to win ‘The Masked Singer,'” Kimmel mocked. The late night host was more interested in the 11% of people in the poll who said they believe Trump did something wrong, but not intentionally.
Katie Reul editor Premiering the night before Easter, the latest episode of “Saturday Night Live” opened with a serene image of the sketch show cast members sitting at a long table, perfectly costumed and positioned to parallel Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.” But the tranquility was short-lived with the arrival of cast member James Austin Johnson, who took over the cold open by telling the story of Easter as a monologue delivered by Donald Trump. Last week’s episode also opened with a Trump spoof after the former president was indicted by a grand jury. On April 4, Trump pled not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. His arrest and arraignment made him the first president in U.S. history to ever be charged with a crime after leaving office. And this milestone was also addressed with this week’s cold open.
“Alas, one of you will betray me,” said Mikey Day tonight as Jesus Christ on Saturday Night Live. “It is foretold and though I have committed no crime, I will be arrested, tried and found guilty,” he added.
Stormy Daniels has described the moment Donald Trump allegedly took off “most of his clothes” in a hotel room. The former US president has been arrested and arraigned over so-called hush money payments to the adult film star in 2016.