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*Gabourey Sidibe is showing off her range as an actress. She’s playing a bully in a recently released independent film, “Yelling to the Sky.” The chocolate-kissed actress told Essence that she’s all about changing it up and showing the world that she can transform herself into various characters and try new things. Her newest dream [...]
*Wendy Williams is taking over y’all! The talk show diva is about to rock your socks off in her Broadway debut. She’s set to play the role of “Matron Mama Morton” in Broadway’s “Chicago” musical. In an interview with Essence.com, the gossip queen dished about her experience and upcoming performances. ESSENCE.com: You hosted Broadway.com’s Audience [...]
*One of R&B’s greatest singers is being remembered in a new theatrical drama, “My Brother Marvin,” based on the book by the same name. It’s the untold story of Marvin Gaye’s relationship with his family, as told by sister Zeola “Sweetsie” Gaye. “Through the years, I became taken aback and disappointed with everything that had [...]
*Berry Gordy is gearing up for something totally new. He’s writing a Broadway musical about his life. But don’t expect a whole lot of the real Motown in there. It could be void of many themes most are familiar with. Like EURweb on Facebook One critic is on the fence about how this actually might [...]
*Jennifer Hudson is again getting her acting and singing on. The singer just landed a gig with NBC’s “Smash” musical series as “Veronica Moore.” An award winning Broadway star, Moore influences Karen, played by Hudson’s fellow “American Idol” contestant Katharine McPhee, and Ivy, played by Megan Hilty. “This series is a showcase for some of [...]
*Tupac Shakur was one of the best hip hop artists, arguably the best hip hop artist, that the world had ever seen. For a long time, there were many conspiracy theories that he was living on an island in the Caribbean living like the elusive Makaveli pseudonym he assumed to write his last album. Now [...]
*Producer and musician Nile Rodgers is reportedly eyeing a move to Broadway after penning a musical. The former member of Chic, who was given the all-clear earlier this year after undergoing treatment for cancer, tells Mojo magazine, “I’ve just written a show called Double Time. It’s a musical and I’m determined to take it to [...]
*The Broadway revival of Chicago will welcome back a familiar face later this month at the Ambassador Theatre. On Feb. 28 Roz Ryan returns as Cook County’s tough-as-nails prison warden, Matron “Mama” Morton. Perhaps best known for her role as Amelia Hetebrink in the NBC series “Amen,” Ryan has been a longtime Chicago fixture, having [...]
*It seems like David E. Talbert has been making audiences and readers alike say “Omigoodness!” and “No she didn’t!” for years. And the brother is back at it again with the new stage play “What My Husband Doesn’t Know.” It features the talents of Michelle Williams (formerly of Destiny’s Child, the Color Purple the Musical), [...]
*A producer of the Oscar-nominated film “Ray” who was planning to bring the story of Ray Charles to Broadway has filed a lawsuit claiming the production’s primary investor committed fraud. In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, Stuart Benjamin says that Maurice Grant promised him $9 million in several installments to get “Ray [...]
*To celebrate her West End run in the musical “Sister Act,” Madame Tussauds London unveiled a wax figure of Whoopi Goldberg wearing an exact replica of the costume she wears on stage for her role as Mother Superior. In the 1992 original film and 1994 sequel, Goldberg played Deloris Van Cartier — a Reno lounge [...]
*The debut of a new Broadway musical based on the life of Ray Charles has been postponed until 2011, producers announced. Unchain My Heart, produced by Charles’ longtime collaborator Stuart Benjamin, was supposed to begin previews this October, but the launch has been pushed back to next spring due to “logistical reasons.” The play, starring [...]
*Fresh from winning a 2010 Tony Award for Fela!, choreographer Bill T. Jones is already looking forward to working on four new projects, including a musical based on the career of Berry Gordy. Jones revealed he’s in talks to bring the Motown founder’s story to the theater, as well as stage adaptations of three films: [...]
*Singer Jordin Sparks, the 2007 winner of “American Idol,” will make her Broadway debut this summer in the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights. Sparks, 20, will play Nina Rosario, the college student who returns (with a secret) to her Washington Heights neighborhood for the summer. Her run will begin Aug. 19 and end on [...]
*A musical based on the life of Ray Charles is set for a fall opening on Broadway, producers announced Thursday.” Unchain My Heart” will bow Nov. 7 with preview performances beginning Oct. 8. Casting will be announced in the coming weeks. Producer Stuart Benjamin said the show would feature direction by Sheldon Epps and a [...]
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