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*Pippin is headed back to Broadway. The original Broadway version starred Ben Vereen as the Leading Player, an emcee-like role that won him a best-actor Tony. It was directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse and starred John Rubinstein in the title role. Producers of the revival that is currently playing at the American Repertory Theater [...]
*Raven-Symone’s Broadway show “Sister Act,” co-produced by Whoopi Goldberg, is set to take its final bow in August, reports the New York Times. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The Tony-nominated musical, based on the 1992 film starring Goldberg, premiered at the Broadway Theatre on March 24, 2011. According to the Times, the production has struggled [...]
*Earlier this week, the National Enquirer reported that former Disney star Raven Symone is a closeted lesbian, and she’s currently in a relationship with an openly gay woman who competed on the current season of “America’s Next Top Model.” Today, the star of Broadway’s “Sister Act” is speaking out via Twitter, saying that her sexuality [...]
*Raven-Symone has sat out a series of appearances in Broadway musical Sister Act after coming down with the flu last week. The actress/singer is starring as aspiring disco diva-turned-nun Deloris Van Cartier, originally played by the show’s producer Whoopi Goldberg in the “Sister Act” films. An understudy stepped in to fill the 26-year-old’s place for [...]
*Get ready for “Sister Act” on Broadway and the star is Raven Symone. This is a different side of acting for the 26-year-old. Coming from “The Cosby Show” as a little girl to starring in a self titled Disney show (“That’s So Raven”), Symone is all grown up and is taking her skills to the [...]
*Two decades after she made her Broadway debut at the age of 5, singing with the Boys Choir of Harlem, Raven-Symoné returns to the stage as the star of a Broadway musical, reports Deadline.com The actress-singer is set to take over the lead role in the musical Sister Act based on the hit 1992 movie, [...]
*Nearly two decades after the Whoopi Goldberg film “Sister Act” hit theaters, Walt Disney Co. and Sony Pictures are being sued by a woman who claims her autobiography actually inspired the movie and subsequent stage musical. The plaintiff is Delois Blakely, representing herself with allegations of breach of contract, misappropriation of likeness, unjust enrichment and [...]
*”Sister Act” producer Whoopi Goldberg defended this on “The View’ this morning, saying, “I was confortable, I’m being myself and nobody there looked like me.” Indeed.
*Critical and box-office darling “The Book of Mormon” won a leading nine trophies at the Tony Awards last night, including best musical, and best featured actress in a musical for star Nikki M. James. “I didn’t expect to be standing here tonight and tried to write a speech and I feel silly,” James said in [...]
“The Scottsboro Boys,” a searing tale of 1930s injustice framed as a minstrel show, received 12 nominations, including best musical, best book of a musical, best original score as well as a leading actor and two featured actor nods. The show received the second-highest nominations after “The Book of Mormon,” who leads with 14, including [...]
*Whoopi Goldberg continues to cope with the loss of her mother Emma Johnson, who died on Aug. 29 from complications following a stroke. “I’m here, but it’s not easy,” she told the Associated Press Wednesday at the New York launch party for purewow.com, a website with daily tips for women 35 and over. The co-host [...]
*Whoopi Goldberg fought through emotions Tuesday to discuss the recent death of her mother, Emma Johnson, from a stroke. My mom passed on the 29th of August,” Whoopi announced to the audience, calling her “truly one of the great women.” Two days before her death, news broke that Whoopi left her run in the London [...]
*Whoopi Goldberg has exited the London production of “Sister Act” to fly back to the U.S. after her mother suffered a stroke. The actress and co-host of “The View” was due to appear as the Mother Superior in the convent-set musical until the end of the month. Producers say the 54-year-old star flew home Friday [...]
*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 [...]
*Before beginning another season of “The View” this fall, co-host Whoopi Goldberg will head to London’s West End next month to star in the stage version of “Sister Act,” a musical based on her 1992 film. The Oscar-winning actress will take over the role of Mother Superior from Sheila Hancock, who has played the role [...]
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