major role in the rise of Nirvana, died on Jan. 18 at her West Seattle home after several years living with frontotemporal dementia, a progressive neurological disorder, her family confirmed.
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Sarah Rice, who performed the pivotal role of the endangered Johanna in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, died Saturday of cancer. She was 68.
Her death was announced in an Instagram post by her friend and fellow performer Rebecca Caine, who remembered Rice for her love of animals. “May you be greeted by every animal you ever loved on the other side and may green finch and linnet birds sing you to your rest,” wrote Caine, referring to the Sweeney number “Green Finch & Linnet Bird” performed by the Johanna character.
Rice, whose Sweeney role in 1979 was her first and only Broadway performance, revisited her signature song just two years ago at the Sondheim Unplugged concert staged at New York’s 54 Below.
Born March 5, 1955, in Okinawa, Japan, where her father was stationed while serving in the U.S. Air Force, Rice was raised in Arizona and moved to New York at age 18 to pursue a stage career. Rice would later write that she “arrived in NYC with $100, two cats, and a piano.”
Prior to her Broadway breakthrough in 1979, Rice originated the role of Marianne in Hang On to Your Ribbons Off Off Broadway and then stepped into the long-running Off Broadway musical of The Fantasticks as The Girl. During that era she also performed in productions of A Little Night Music, Candide, The Tempest and The Sound of Music. She originated the role of Susan in the New York Theatre Workshop Virginia Woolf musical The Waves.
A soprano, Rice also performed with such opera companies as Italy’s Gran Teatro la Fenice in Venice, the Santa Fe Opera, Central City Opera, Dallas Opera and others.
Rice was long a familiar presence in New York’s cabaret scene, winning a 2010 Bistro
major role in the rise of Nirvana, died on Jan. 18 at her West Seattle home after several years living with frontotemporal dementia, a progressive neurological disorder, her family confirmed.
As shocking as it may seem to people who are having trouble admitting they’re old (myself included), Denzel Washington’s post-apocalyptic action film, “The Book of Eli,” is turning 14 this year. Yes, that means there are kids who will attend high school this year that were born the same year ‘Eli’ was released.
Kerry Washington is responding to people who are curious about why she tends to go for “political work.”
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Sunny Day Real Estate have teased their first new music in 10 years on their social media.The emo legends, who announced their reunion in 2022, posted a minute-long snippet of a song on their Instagram. The song, which currently does not have a title, soundtracks a video of an artist drawing the phrase “novum vetus” (Latin for “everything old is new again”), then sketching out a boat at sea.Listeners can also hear frontman Jeremy Enigk singing the following verse: “The day we died inside, the world was suffering / 10,000 words collide but no one said a thing / the day we died inside the walls come tumbling down.”If the band are planning to tease an LP, it will be Sunny Day Real Estate’s first new record since their 2000 album ‘The Rising Tide’.
“And Just Like That …” for being a “waste of airtime” as widely unpopular character Che Diaz.The non-binary actor, 48, implied on Instagram Tuesday that they were being fired from the Max series because of their pro-Palestinian politics, including their participation in several pro-Palestinian marches.“While they give awards away, casting directors and agents are making blacklists of actors and workers who post anything in support of Palestinians in Gaza to ensure they will not work again,” they wrote, in part.Ramirez recently participated in a Palestinian protest in Brooklyn, waving a transgender flag, and also took part in the Jan. 13 March for Gaza in Washington, DC.But a source close to “And Just Like That …” told the Daily Mail that Ramirez was “on the chopping block since last season” because of Che, a comedian and podcast host who was in a relationship with Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) that busted up Miranda’s marriage to Steve Brady (David Eigenberg).Che and Miranda later split in Season 2 of the Max series.“Sara was not fired because they support Palestine and the cease fire,” the source told DailyMail.com.“Sara was fired because Che brought nothing to the show anymore.
Todd Chrisley may exist in very poor living conditions at Federal Prison Camp Pensacola in the Florida panhandle, but a potential transfer to a new prison could be worse!
Michaela Zee Tom Shales, a Pulitzer-winning television critic at the Washington Post who spent nearly 40 years at the publication, has died. He was 79. Shales died Saturday at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va., from complications due to COVID-19 and renal failure, his caretaker, Victor Herfurth, told the Washington Post.
Tom Shales, a Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post, died Jan. 13 at a hospital in Fairfax County, Va. He was 79.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Niecy Nash-Betts may be the nicest person in Hollywood. In a town where getting your next role could be cutthroat, Nash-Betts actually tells her actor friends to audition for roles that she may already be reading for. “Before I was even cast in ‘Getting On’ on HBO — I had not even gone in yet — I called every actress I knew and was like, ‘This is going to be something.
Jaden Thompson Universal Pictures has released the trailer for the upcoming horror film “Abigail,” set to release on April 19. The film is helmed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — also known as Radio Silence — who directed recent popular horror movies including “Scream” (2022), “Scream VI” (2023) and “Ready or Not” (2019). “Abigail” follows a group of kidnappers who get in over their heads when their young target, a girl named Abigail, turns out to be a vampire.
Marvel’s “Madame Web” swings into theaters Valentine’s Day, and a first look at Sydney Sweeney’s Spider-Woman costume has just been unveiled.The “Euphoria” star, 26, appears in the superheroine flick alongside “Fifty Shades of Grey” star Dakota Johnson in the role of Julia Carpenter, a.k.a. Spider-Woman.The Chinese poster for the Sony-produced film features Sweeney donning a black and gray latex suit and a mask.
Broadway box office was back on earth last week following the previous week’s unusual double-holiday surge, when both Christmas and New Year’s Eve fell within the same theatrical window.
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Ed Sheeran has reacted to the win of his first-ever Emmy, saying he “was not expecting” to take home the award.The singer-songwriter was announced as the winner of the Emmy in the Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics category, thanks to the track he wrote for the TV show Ted Lasso.News that the superstar was asked to write music for the show’s third season was first revealed in October 2021. The series also commissioned Eurovision runner up Sam Ryder to write a song, called ‘Fought & Lost’.Titled ‘A Beautiful Game’, the singer shared the award with co-writers Max Martin and Foy Vance, and was unable to attend the ceremony due to scheduling conflicts with his ongoing tour.“We won an Emmy last night,” Sheeran wrote, addressing the victory on social media.
Lev Akabas The 2023-24 College Football Playoff championship game between the Michigan Wolverines and the Washington Huskies is a fitting end to the season in multiple ways. Both teams finished the regular season undefeated and were No. 1 and No.
Katie Price's life has unarguably been eventful, from several divorces to numerous business ventures - and there's no doubt a film based upon her life would make for great viewing. That could become a reality sooner rather than later, as the ex-glamour model, 45, has shared her hopes of one day creating a film about herself, with the helping hand of actress Daisy May Cooper. Daisy, 37, has thrown her support behind the project, saying she would write the script and star in the the movie as Katie, who she has struck up a friendship with.
Stuart Miller Da’Vine Joy Randolph had grown weary of scripts that offered her shallow or one-dimensional characters. “I’ve felt like I had to fight for fully realized characters with complexities or even start writing or producing myself,” she says. Then she was sent David Hemingson’s script for “The Holdovers,” for the role of Mary Lamb, who works in the cafeteria of a prep school for the wealthy, soldiering on even as she mourns the death of her sonin Vietnam. “I was so overjoyed to read this character, someone who was really struggling, but also trying to persevere in spite of her situation,” says Randolph, who was nominated for a Tony Award in 2012 for her performance in “Ghost: The Musical.” She has since appeared in everything from “Dolemite Is My Name,” “High Fidelity” and “Only Murders in the Building” to “The United States vs.
Joseph Lelyveld, who won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his book, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White, and was a former executive editor and foreign correspondent for The New York Times, died on Friday at his Manhattan home.
America Ferrera turned to Kerry Washington after giving birth.