The Little Mermaid is hitting Broadway in just a few shorts months!
Here is one of the first pictures of Sierra Boggess as Ariel (bigger picture inside). Her big break was creating the character of Christine Daae in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera in Las Vegas in June 2006.
The Little Mermaid begin previews November 3 at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. The official opening is set for December 6.
WILL YOU BUY TICKETS to watch “The Little Mermaid” on Broadway???
This is not the one that I want!
Reviews for the Broadway revival of Grease are sucking! NBC’s reality TV series You’re the One That I Want chose Max Crumm and Laura Osnes to play the lead roles.
The Hollywood Reporter: “Tackily produced and utterly lacking the sort of fun comic spark that the original production and certainly the movie possessed (though not the most recent Broadway revival in 1994), this is a Grease that only will be appreciated by young TV viewers who don’t know any better.”
Variety: “The most dismal thing about this Grease is that aside from the two discoveries plucked from a mediocre TV talent pool and thrust into this sorry walk-through, no-one appears to be trying very hard. Like the drag-queeny wig slapped on Sandy when she finally conforms to the cool-kid ethos by unleashing the bad-girl within to win Danny, it all seems somewhat counterfeit.”
The TV show may have bombed but the strong ticket sales ($14 million box-office advance) may mean Grease could be around longer than expected. Apparently Broadway and reality TV go together like rama lama lama ka dinga de dinga dong!
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Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac will be revived on Broadway for a ten-week run in October at the Richard Rodgers Theatre.
Cyrano de Bergerac is a romantic classic about the lover-warrior with a heart as big as his unsightly, overlong nose.
Tony Award winner Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner (Alias) are currently in negotiations to play the roles of, respectively, Cyrano and Roxane.
WILL YOU BUY TICKETS to watch Jennifer Garner on Broadway?
Caught Curtains on Broadway early this month, so without further ado, here’s a mini-review!
Curtains is an old fashioned type of song and dance musical, that relies more on an actual story told through expository singing and clever chorus configurations than on a funny premise, glitzy set pieces and ironic jokes about today’s world.
Curtains opens with a parody of terribly cheesy all-American musical (think the worst of Lil’ Abner or Oklahoma) cleverly presented from from front and back stage. It almost seems reminiscent of Kiss Me Kate for a moment, with a bad-tempered leading lady in a not-quite wonderful show, but that all ends in the 2nd scene when it’s [SPOILER!] CURTAINS [/SPOILER!] for her.
The setup in the first act does drag a little. Songs seem like they could be tightened up. The actors are fun and the lyrics are witty, but there were a few scenes in which the show seemed to indulge a little too much in itself. The 2nd act, where the story really picks up, was wonderfully good.
And, of course, the great highlights of the show were the actors. Standouts among them included Megan Sikora as Bambi (the not-so genuine blonde bimbo), Jill Paice as Niki Harris (the unbelievably sweet and innocent chorus girl) and David Hyde Pierce as Lieutenant Frank Cioffi (the stagestruck cop with a heart of gold who sounds nothing like Niles Crane).
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is being made into… (drum roll, please) Spider-Man: The Broadway Musical. Can you imagine??
Marvel Studios is taking the Spider-Man franchise and extending it into a full-fledged Broadway musical.
The superhero musical will be directed by Tony winner Julie Taymor (The Lion King), with U2’s Bono and the Edge working the music and lyrics.
No dates have been set yet for Spider-Man’s Broadway debut but Spider-Man 3 will hit theaters on May 4.
Doesn’t Broadway already have a giant spider and spider web in Tarzan: The Musical?
The new Sandy and Danny from the Broadway production of Grease actors Max Crumm and Laura Osnes get familiar with their new “home” in Times Square on Tuesday morning in New York City.
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Congratulations to Max Crumm and Laura Osnes for being cast as the lead roles of Danny Zuko and Dumbrowski in the $10 million revival of Grease, opening on Broadway this summer!
Max, 21, and Laura, 20, were chosen by and voted for by America, announced Sunday during the final episode of the NBC reality series Grease: You’re the One That I Want.
Other Grease cast members known so far: Kirsten Wyatt is Frenchie, Matthew Saldivar is Kenickie, Robyn Hurder is Marty Maraschino, Jenny Powers is Betty Rizzo, and Jose Restrepo is Sonny, and Lindsay Mendez is Jan.
Christina Sivrich (The Wedding Singer) has also joined the ensemble, understudying Frenchie, Marty, and Miss Lynch.
The musical opens Aug. 19 at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Preview performances begin July 24.
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