Articles tagged with: musical
September is the month when hopeful nobodies dream of being the next Matthew Fox or Eva Longoria. This season there are some new faces staring down the precipice preparing for instant fame or instant coffee. Could the six Friends have known their fate when the pilot aired? One of them did – but that was later with the spin off. There are some key things to look out for that might help the success of a new show: A familiar face – Worked with: Frasier. Not so much: Joey. A familiar crew – Worked with: Frasier. Not so much: Joey. An established audience – Worked with: Frasier. Not so much: Joey. You can see where we’re going here. Clearly, there is no science to what is popular and what is not.
Poor Michael Jackson - creatively spent, reportedly too ill to perform, lacking the qualifications necessary to become a kindergarten teacher. The man is just running out of options. Apart from one - it's been reported that Michael Jackson is putting together a big-budget Mamma Mia-style musical based on his album Thriller. The Thriller musical is thought to be based on the video to the album's eponymous single, featuring legions of grotesque undead cadavers who terrify you witless the second you glance at them. Goodness, we didn't know that Michael Jackson was going to be starring in it as well.
Elton John has written some wonderful musicals in his time - The Lion King, Billy Elliot, that one where Ben Stiller gets AIDS. With the first one, Elton John really conveyed the majesty of the African Pride Lands. In the second he managed to capture the frustration of living in the north of England under Margaret Thatcher beyond compare, and the final one - well, let's just say that there has never been a more hilarious, dance-in-the-aisle musical ever written about Ben Stiller getting AIDS. No, really. Elton John's writing a musical about Ben Stiller getting AIDS. To be fair, it's too early to say if the Stiller/John AIDS musical will be the funniest AIDS musical ever made - we hear that Billy Joel's adapting Philadelphia into a showstopping musical for Jim Carrey, and the song Bumming A Man At The Cinema is supposed to be particularly rib-tickling.
The world just can’t seem to get enough of David and Victoria Beckham.
With riveting daily appearances of the couple leaving some restaurant, and David modeling undies on banners that are so huge you can actually see his junk from space, it’s no wonder the world in obsessed with the Becks.
Luckily, Ireland has come to provide us with more Beckham madness. A Posh and Becks musical is coming to Dublin. Yes, two straight hours of a man unsuccessfully trying to feed a crouton to a broomstick is finally a reality!
With the frenzied success of Speed Racer ringing in Hollywood's ears, producers have been looking for another nostalgic TV show to adapt into a movie. What's that? Speed Racer wasn't a frenzied success? Speed Racer has actually been one of the most spectacularly unmitigated disasters in recent box office years? Oh well, The Weinstein Co. wants to make a movie based on Fraggle Rock anyway. Yes, you heard right - Fraggle Rock, the TV show that defined your childhood almost as much as wetting the bed and the emotional scars gained during your parent's bitter divorce, is going to be turned into a movie. But not just any kind of movie - Fraggle Rock is going to become a musical, which is like a normal movie, except it's for pricks.
One oft-neglected side-effect of giving birth is the overwhelming desire to star in overtly showy prohibition-era Broadway musicals.
Just look at Nicole Richie, for example. For some logic-defying reason, she's currently weighing up an offer to star as Roxie Hart in the Broadway version of Chicago.
It'd be awfully presumptuous of us to try and second-guess what issues Nicole Richie is weighing up exactly, but we're willing to bet that they include rehearsal schedules, being able to spend time with her new baby and the fact that if she was any less talented at anything other than forgetting to eat she'd be legally reclassified as vegetation.
If you've ever wanted to get murdered by an evil clown in a thick fog while listening to someone hum an unmistakable rendition of Little Pink Houses to the beat of a clunky, blood covered chain saw - we have good news. Naomi Campbell is well on the road to recovery, and she might just do it for you if you look like you really want it.
We heard that after she eats you, her body turns you into a cyst. We really heard that. We think we really heard that. We may have heard it.
Now if you'd like to share in that experience without actually needing CPR and cyst-reversal surgery afterwards, we have good news for that too. Steven King and John Mellencamp have teamed up to write a musical. It's called Naomi Campbell's Raging Cyst.
It's not called Naomi Campbell's Raging Cyst.
Warning: Sweeney Todd is a musical. That’s not breaking news we know, but there are some people out there that are picking themselves up off the floor following that revelation.
The Guardian reports that there were inadequate warnings that singing took place in Tim Burton’s latest edition. “It resembles a vintage Tim Burton movie, but nowhere does the trailer mention the fact that Sweeney Todd is a musical. In fact, it goes out of its way to conceal the fact that the movie is entirely sung, save for a few snippets of dialogue.”
