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Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman To Sing Together in Les Miserables

In December 2012, prepare to hear a _Gladiator_ and Wolverine sing together.  read more

Anne Hathaway Leads Casting Rumors for Les Miserables Film

It seems like the end of summer brings nothing but news of remakes and casting rumors. Most of them seem lackluster, but the rumor of Anne Hathaway in a major role in the upcoming _Les Miserables_ adaptation will pique a lot of interest. If casted, she would join the already casted Hugh Jackman, who The Playlist claims is insisting that Hathaway be cast.  read more

Listen Up: The Whores of my Youth

Sometime in the late 1960s, Townes Van Zandt wrote a song called "Tecumseh Valley"...  read more

Decatur native leads Les Miserables cast at the Fox through Sunday

When I heard that, after 23 years, uber-producer Cameron Mackintosh had retooled his great Les Miserables (and was premiering the changes at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre), I was simultaneously excited and horrified. Of all the musicals of our generation, Les Mis is not only easily the greatest and most enduring, but also the most unlikely-- a three-hour-plus show of all original music, based on a French novel over a hundred years old and over fourteen hundred pages long, entitled (loosely translated) “The Wretched,” and which, when not concerning itself with the plight of the urban poor, dwells largely on the fundamental...  read more