Since its inception in 1990, Destiny’s Child has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won multiple Grammy Awards, served as an inspiration to many musical acts and garnered generations of fans. Now audiences will be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the greatest girl groups of all time was created courtesy … Continue reading
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra ‘s upcoming performance of “New Water Music” will literally be on the water. Musicians will perform from the decks of a moored barge and moving shrimp boats on Lake Ponchartrain (PONCH-uh-trane) — the big tidal basin bordering New Orleans. More than a dozen additional shrimp boats will … Continue reading
So, perhaps you’ve heard: “La La Land” didn’t win best picture at the Oscars. But if every cloud has a silver lining, this one might be called golden: The Emma Stone-Ryan Gosling musical, which did win six Oscars, has been racking up box office numbers remarkable for a musical — nearly $417 million globally so … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — A musical based on the novel that was turned into the Shirley MacLaine film “Madame Sousatzka” is hoping to make it to Broadway. Producer Garth Drabinsky said Wednesday the show “Sousatzka” has songs by the composer-lyricist team of David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr., whose Broadway shows include 1996’s “Big.” It … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — The Tony Award best musical nominee “Something Rotten!” — a valentine to Broadway shows — will close on the Great White Way early next year. Kevin McCollum, the Tony-winning producer whose Broadway credits include “The Drowsy Chaperone” and “Rent,” said Thursday the show will end its run Jan. 1 after 742 … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro is coming back to Broadway, but you won’t find him onstage. The Oscar-winner will be co-directing “A Bronx Tale,” this time as a musical. Chazz Palminteri’s coming-of-age story, which was a one-man play off-Broadway in 1989 and was turned into a movie starring De Niro four years later, … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — The magic supergroup “The Illusionists” is coming back to Broadway for a new holiday show — and this time they’re bringing a time machine. Eight magicians — including, for the first time, a female contingent — will be part of a show celebrating the tricks and mood of the Golden Age … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Lin-Manuel Miranda’s revolutionary stage musical “Hamilton” has won a Grammy, a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation and now another honor — one of the largest prizes given for dramatic writing. Columbia University said Monday that “Hamilton” had won The Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History, which … Continue reading
More alive than most of the year’s films put together, Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” is urgent agitprop that pulsates with unalloyed rage for the “self-inflicted genocide” of South Chicago and explodes with full-hearted (and gloriously lewd) pleas for peace. It’s wildly uneven but it is wild. There’s plenty here to quibble with (the film’s title prompted … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — On tour this winter is a Broadway musical about the one that got away, in more ways than one. “The Bridges of Madison County,” with a superb score by Jason Robert Brown, starts an eight-month U.S. tour on Saturday that features both a story about a lost soul mate and a … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Maurice Hines’ show that looks back at his life is tapping its way to New York. “Maurice Hines: Tappin’ Thru Life,” a song and dance revue backed by the Diva Jazz Orchestra, will play New World Stages starting Dec. 23, directed by Jeff Calhoun. In the show, Hines pays tribute to … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — With some U.S. presidential candidates on the campaign trail demonizing immigrants, a powerhouse husband-and-wife team, who both happen to be immigrants themselves, hope they can offer some balance — and some pop songs. Gloria Estefan and her husband, Emilio, are shepherding their musical biography “On Your Feet!” to Broadway this … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — The creator of “Orange Is the New Black” says though the Emmys switched the hit show from the comedy category to drama, she’s not a fan of people boxing the series into a single genre. “The whole label thing is frustrating — just people’s needs to define us. OK, you know, … Continue reading
NEW YORK (AP) — The stage lights have been hard to get used to and she worried about limited rehearsal time, but ballerina Misty Copeland has put aside her nervousness and is finding her feet on Broadway. “It’s an incredible feeling,” she said this week after making her debut in the dance-heavy musical “On the … Continue reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — The cast of Disney’s “Newsies” musical is hosting a dance workshop with Washington-area students at the Newseum. The workshop Friday will include 200 students from Manassas Park Middle School in northern Virginia. It is part of Disney’s initiative to promote healthier lifestyles through the arts. The Tony Award-winning “Newsies” will be at … Continue reading
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