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This past Friday evening I attended the opening night of FELA! which is now back at downtown Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre by popular demand! I saw the musical (which originally premiered on Broadway back in 2009) a couple of months ago when it first played here in LA, and I loved it, so I couldn't resist seeing it for a second time. This time the lovely Michelle Williams (of Destiny's Child fame) joined the cast as Sandra Isidore, the woman who MORE
Win a copy of Les Misérables on Blu-ray Combo Pack from PopBytes! Few movies this last year seemed to be as divisive as Les Misérables. The film adaptation of the hit stage musical split critics and audiences like the Red Sea. On one side, there were those who found Tom Hooper’s in-your-face directing to be haunting, enthralling, and downright beautiful. On the other side, there were those who missed the grand-scale production of the MORE
The other night I attended the official opening night for Backbeat, at downtown's Ahmanson Theatre, hosted by the lovely folks from Center Theatre Group. It's a musical (originally staged over in London) about the early beginnings of The Beatles (particulary their time in Hamburg, Germany), and the little known fifth member Stuart Sutcliffe, who was the band's original bassist and sadly died at age 22 from a brain hemorrhage. There was also a MORE
If you're like me, you've been praying for a sequel to Tina Fey's 2004 movie Mean Girls. Specifically, one that doesn't totally suck donkey nuts. (Seriously, did you ever see the 'sequel' they made? Awful.) Well, good news! Tina Fey might adapt Mean Girls into a musical (don't get excited Lindsay Lohan, you won't be in it) along with her hubby and 30 Rock's resident music man, Jeff Richmond! Via TooFab ... You guys, this is so fetch -- Tina MORE
A few weeks ago I was able to attend the opening night of Cole Porter's classic 1934 musical Anything Goes at downtown Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theatre. It's the Roundabout Theatre Company production that walked off with three Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical! To be completely honest, I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy it (I'm more about modern musicals), but gosh was I completely wrong, not only did I like it, I LOVED it! I was MORE
I wanted to make sure everyone had a chance to catch Stephen Sondheim's classic 1971 musical Follies (with a book by James Goldman), now in its final days down at the Ahamanson Theatre. I had the chance to see it a few weeks ago, it was everything I hoped it would be, it was excellent. I'm a huge fan of Sondheim's work, and this truly is one of his masterpieces, probably his best musical (besides Company or Sunday in the Park with George). This MORE
The first trailer for the highly-anticipated Les Misérables (directed by Tom Hooper, out this Christmas) been released online, and admittedly it doesn't exactly go too far into detail. It's mostly shots of the cast (including Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Amanda Seyfried) backed by Anne Hathaway singing I Dreamed a Dream, and if you had any doubts as to whether or not she'd be able to pull off the role, yet prepare to have those fears erased. MORE
Broadway’s longest running hit, The Phantom of the Opera, hit 10,000 performances this past Saturday. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical has been running continuously at the Majestic Theatre (located on New York City's famed 'great white way') since opening night took place over twenty years ago back on January 26th, 1988, with many of the same cast members still intact. This accolade follows many others of very long running shows, something of a MORE
This past Friday evening I was at the official opening night of Bring It On: The Musical at Los Angeles' downtown Ahmanson Theatre. Of course I'm a huge fan of the movie (2000) so I was super excited to see what this brand new musical had in store! I'm happy to report the show was hilarious and a total blast, including a new story not based on any of the five films with original music. The audience ate up everything the highly energetic young MORE
A few weeks ago I attended the Los Angeles premiere (with my pal Cindy) of Les Misérables, the award-winning musical (translated into 21 different languages, productions have played in 42 countries / 291 cities) which is now celebrating it's 25th anniversary! I did see the show years ago on Broadway twice, I'm not going to lie, it's not certainly not my favorite musical (I'm more of Miss Saigon fan, which was created by Claude-Michel Schönberg MORE
Here's your first look at Tom Cruise rocking out in the upcoming film adaptation (directed by Adam Shankman) of the smash-hit Broadway musical, Rock of Ages. Although I haven't see the show on Broadway, I did see it twice here in Los Angeles before it ended up getting picked up for the great white way, and I thought it was totally fabulous! When I first heard that Tom was starring, I scoffed a bit but based on the just released still below, he MORE
Hey everyone! Two of my favorite movies ever are now available on Blu-ray, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Hair - plus New York, New York, which I've never actually seen but now I'm going to especially because it stars my darling, the legendary Liza Minnelli along with Robert DeNiro! To celebrate the release, I have three packs of all three Blu-ray discs to toss out to my readers, just follow the simple instructions below for MORE
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