Sarah Silverman’s comic memoir “The Bedwetter” is being turned into a musical by Adam Schlesinger, the guy who co-wrote most of the music in “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.” The script will be by Joshua Harmon, who wrote the play “Bad Jews,” which is about talking about the Holocaust at a funeral. Is this what a stroke feels…
Almost no one wanted to publish Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita.” After multiple rejections, the Russian writer finally managed to place the novel at Olympia Press, a publisher with a reputation for accepting borderline pornographic work, in 1955. While many might have applied those terms to “Lolita,” the narrator of which, Humbert Humbert, is a pedophile, Nabokov…
Born of cold and winter air And mountain rain combining This icy force both foul and fair Has a frozen heart worth mining! So cut through the red tape, negotiate well Get Idina Menzel and Kristin Bell There’s piles of cash in tickets to sell Split the frames apart! Give ‘Frozen II’ a start. Yes,…
Something has changed within me. What is this feeling, so sudden and new? The smash Broadway musical “Wicked” is finally, finally going to be a big-budget Hollywood movie, produced by Universal pictures for December 2021. Thank goodness! When “Wicked,” the untold story of the Wicked Witch of the West (and all that happened before “Dorothy…
The musical “Rags” has a complicated history. It premiered on Broadway in 1986, closing after four performances and 18 previews. It’s been rewritten and restructured and revived so many times that, reading a plot synopsis for a previous version after seeing a dress rehearsal of NYU’s new iteration of the show, I barely recognized the…
“Magic Mike” is getting down off the pole and heading over to the great white way. The story of a man trying to leave stripping for a quiet life of carpentry and monogamy, which earned whoops and hollers at the box office in 2012, has been stripped down to a stage musical. The show will…
I love you, “The Notebook, the Musical.” I am who I am because of “The Notebook, The Musical.” “The Notebook, The Musical” is every reason, every hope, and every dream I’ve ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I…
“Almost Famous,” the cult-classic 70’s coming-of-age movie, bombed when it first hit box offices in 2000. 18 years later, it will be given a new life, in the form of a musical. via GIPHY Since its disappointing debut, the bittersweet comedy film has garnered the attention it rightfully deserves, winning an Oscar for its original…
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