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Fighting With My Family’ Stage Musical Set; Dwayne Johnson Among Producers
A stage adaptation of Stephen Merchant’s 2019 feature film, Fighting with My Family, starring Dwayne Johnson and Florence Pugh, is currently in development. The stage production is a collaboration between Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions, Merchant, Kevin Misher, Tilted Musicals, and Birmingham Hippodrome. Jon Brittain (Rotterdam) will write the play and lyrics, with […] More
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in Alex Brightman, Ana Gasteyer, Broadway, Broadway Review, News, Reviews, Sarah Chase, Schmigadoon, Schmigadoon!
‘Schmigadoon!’ Broadway Review: Musical With Enough Corn Puddin’ For All
Titaníque is more outlandish (and funnier), Something Rotten! was sharper (and funnier) and Smash, well, Smash was none of those. Taking a comfortable, crowd-satisfying spot somewhere in the middle of recent (or recentish) stage musicals that mock stage musicals (and Titaníque qualifies for its ad-lib Just In Time or Two Strangers excursions), Schmigadoon!, based on […] More
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Sands Film Festival Opens Milestone Fifth Edition With John Carney’s Musical Comedy ‘Power Ballad’
The Sands International Film Festival opened Friday evening, marking a new milestone for the Scottish event: its fifth year in operations. “What nobody tells you at the start of new things is just how fragile beginnings can be,” Festival Director Ania Trzebiatowska said in her opening speech on Friday. “Half of new ventures don’t make […] More
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J.T. Harding Musical ‘Music City’ Finds New Home Off Broadway
EXCLUSIVE: The critically acclaimed, Nashville-set Off Broadway musical Music City, featuring the music of multi-platinum hit songwriter J.T. Harding, has found a new home weeks after plans to begin performances at a custom-renovated Times Square area venue were dashed days before performances were to begin. Gabrielle Palitz tells Deadline that Music City now will begin […] More
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‘Thelma & Louise’ Musical World Premiere Set For London’s Young Vic In The Fall
A musical stage version of Thelma & Louise, the 1991 feminist outlaw classic written by Callie Khouri and directed by Ridley Scott, will receive its world premiere at London’s Young Vic Theatre in the fall. The original movie starred Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis as two friends who take off in a green Ford Thunderbird. What […] More
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in Breaking Baz, Broadway, News, Olivier Awards, Paddington Bear, Paddington: The Musical, Sonia Friedman, West End Theater
‘Paddington: The Musical’ Eyes 2027 For Broadway Transfer
EXCLUSIVE: The beloved Andean, marmalade-munching bear, better known by all, including our late Queen Elizabeth II, as Paddington, may have a new habitat next year — on Broadway. Sonia Friedman, lead producer with StudioCanal and Eliza Lumley of Paddington the Musical, winner of seven Olivier Awards on Sunday night, including Best Musical, reveals to Deadline that she’s hoping […] More
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‘Titaníque’ Broadway Review: An Unsinkable And Uproarious Musical Parody
Ah, another Broadway musical that positions Tina Turner as a lethal iceberg, a leading man who quotes 20 year old YouTube memes and a time-traveling Céline Dion whose surreal version of a historical tragedy is so much better than the real thing. Dime a dozen, right? Wrong. Titaníque, the outrageously campy musical that puts Dion […] More
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in Casting, Freddie Fox, High Society, London, News, West End
Freddie Fox To Make Musical Theater Debut In West End’s ‘High Society’
House of the Dragon‘s Freddie Fox will make his musical theater debut next month in the West End‘s High Society revival. Costars will include Helen George (Call the Midwife), Felicity Kendal (The Good Life) and Julian Ovenden (Downton Abbey, Bridgerton), among others. The musical opens May 19 at the Barbican Theatre for a limited eight-week […] More
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‘Michael’: Michael Jackson Movie Eyes $55M+ Record Musical Biopic Opening
Lionsgate‘s Michael is bound to be a chart-topping hit when it opens on April 24. Three-week tracking today indicates an opening between $55M-$60M, besting the previous box office record set by a musical biopic, that being the 2018 Freddie Mercury movie, Bohemian Rhapsody, which bowed to $51M. Advance tickets sales at this point in time, […] More
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in Broadway, News, The Danish Girl
‘The Danish Girl’ Stage Musical In Development
EXCLUSIVE: The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff’s bestselling novel that was adapted for a 2015 film starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar winner Alicia Vikander, is being developed as a stage musical, producer George Strus announced today. The musical will feature book and lyrics by Nora Brigid Monahan, an original score by Alex Parker and direction by Georgie […] More
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Lin-Manuel Miranda To Direct Film Adaptation Of Musical ‘Octet’
Lin-Manuel Miranda will direct a film adaptation of playwright-composer Dave Malloy‘s Octet, a critically acclaimed musical that debuted Off Broadway in 2019. The project was revealed today by Miranda’s 5000 Broadway Productions, which also announced that producer Julie Oh is joining the company as the new Head of Film & TV and will serve as […] More
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‘Elvis’ Producer Schuyler Weiss To Reunite With ‘How To Make Gravy’ Filmmakers Nick Waterman & Meg Washington On Musical Feature ‘Rosaleen’
How to Make Gravy filmmakers Nick Waterman and Meg Washington have set their next project, a feature film titled Rosaleen, that will be produced by Schuyler Weiss (Elvis). The film is said to be a romantic musical inspired by the untold affair behind the birth of the Sydney Opera House. The project is being developed […] More
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