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Spring Awakening Co-Stars Groff and Michele Reunite on Fox's Glee
Here’s your daily dose of theater nerd news: Yesterday, EW’s Hollywood Insider announced that actor Jonathan Groff will appear in a few upcoming episodes of Fox’s new hit drama Glee. Groff, who starred for several years in the anachronistic Broadway revival of Frank Wedekind’s Spring Awakening (and recently appeared in Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock) will play the leader of Vocal Adrenaline, the unmatched rival of McKinley High’s fledgling glee club.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsGreen Day Play Moves Forward, as Movie Rumors Fly
In 2004, Green Day released American Idiot, a punk-rock opera that was written as an anthem to a generation fed up with the Bush Administration and everything that went along with it. For a while now, the band has been plotting a musical based on the album, to open early next month at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatre. It was an unforeseen turn of events, to be sure (even frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told the New York Times, "It doesn't make a lot of sense."), but it's definitely going to happen, as the actors who will bring St. Jimmy, Jesus of... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsThe Who's Quadrophenia Premieres Onstage in U.K.
Forget Green Day--the Who were the original masters of the rock opera, and now their classic Mod masterpiece Quadrophenia is heading to the stages of England in just a few weeks.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsU2's Spider-Man musical holding open casting calls
If you've ever:a) Dreamed of frolicking around onstage as a lead role in a Broadway musical, b) yearned for those musical numbers to be blessed by Bono himself, or c) spent your alone time pretending to shoot spiderwebs out of your fingers and making out with your Mary Jane pillow, then your stars have aligned. ... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsHeathers musical on the way
“Dear Diary, my teen-angst bullshit now has a body count."... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsU2 and Spider-Man join hands for...musical?!?
U2 is helping bring Marvel's first musical to Broadway this year. That's right, Spider-Man will finally get to show his "spirit fingers" and project those thought bubbles into lyrical outbursts and/or subdued dramatic stage-whisper monologues.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsMusical version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" in the works
Michael Jackson's 1983 music video for "Thriller" is heading to the stage.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsThe Kinks' Ray Davies to debut musical in September
We've been waiting all day and all of many nights (at least seven years' worth of them) for former Kinks lead singer Ray Davies to finish up his musical Come Dancing. But wait no more: NME reports Davies is finally finished and ready to fulfill your rock and roll fantasy by debuting and starring in his opus this September in London. ... read more
Found in: NewsSam Raimi's Evil Dead becomes hit Broadway musical
We are currently in an age where books are adapted into movies, movies are turned into TV series, TV series morph into Broadway plays, and plays turn into running online commentaries authored by the actors. You just never know whether you'll see your favorite comic strip turn into a blockbuster or a Saturday morning cartoon first; it's a slow, gradual transformation from one medium to the next. Kind of like the Animorphs. But you know you've struck gold when your favorite b-list movie becomes a musical.... read more
Found in: Culture, NewsBruce Lee musical slated for Broadway
The elements of a quality Broadway musical can be difficult to master. It takes finesse, agility and poise. However, the elements of a Bruce Lee performance could prove even more difficult. Notwithstanding, for the 2010-11 season this martial arts master will see reincarnation in the form of a Broadway production called Bruce Lee: Journey to the West.... read more
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