May 19th, 2008
It’s official - Katie Holmes is coming to Broadway! Tom Cruise’s wife will be making her Broadway debut this fall in the revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. Holmes will play the part of a woman who visits the family of her former lover, a missing pilot. Her co-stars will include […]
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May 13th, 2008
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The night when the theatre geeks get to shine is almost upon us: The Tony Awards! Nominated for Best Play is August: Osage County, Rock ‘n’ Roll, The Seafarer, and The 39 Steps. Nominated for Best Musical is Cry-Baby, In the Heights, […]
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May 9th, 2008
Producers of this year’s Tony Awards don’t want to take their chances and have a similar incident to the 2005 Super Bowl. The song “We Just Had Sex” from the new Broadway musical “Passing Strange” has been cut from the CBS pre-awards show on June 7 because it’s “too racy.” The show’s producer Oskar Eustis […]
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May 5th, 2008
Remember that rumor that Katie Holmes was in talks to take a part in the Broadway revival of “All My Sons”? Though Katie’s still said to be negotiating with producers, Tom Cruise allegedly told her that she doesn’t have the voice to do stage work! Cruise supposedly told his wife that she didn’t have […]
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April 24th, 2008
Will Blazing Saddles be the next Mel Brooks movie to be turned into a Broadway show? Reports are coming out that Brooks is bouncing back from the less-than-critics-favorite “Young Frankenstein” and developing a stage version of his funniest, most politically incorrect movie. Can you imagine Matthew Brodderick riding out to the chorus, “He roooode a […]
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April 15th, 2008
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Much thanks to Wendy from one of our sister-blogs, Snarky Gossip, for bringing this story to our attention! Mario Lopez, currently enjoying the end of his second 15-minutes of fame, is currently rockin’ out as a cast member in the […]
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April 11th, 2008
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Once a musical lover, always a musical lover. John Travolta was spotted in the front row of “The Little Mermaid” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Saturday with his 8-year-old daughter, Ella. Naturally, he was singing along to “Under the Sea” (and who […]
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March 30th, 2008
Since it’s been somewhat of a Broadway themed week here at StarkedNY, here’s one final piece of news: Katie Holmes is said to be “in final negotiations” to make her Broadway debut in the revival of Arthur Miller’s post-World War II family drama, All My Sons. Mrs. Tom Cruise would play a woman […]
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March 28th, 2008
Andrew Lloyd Webber is writing a sequel to the popular West End/Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera. The show’s plot has been described as follows: “The Phantom has slipped away to New York and has set up a fairground world on Coney Island, along with Madame Giry and her daughter, Meg. He organizes a […]
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March 27th, 2008
“Rent” is getting a little reprieve for at least another 139,680 minutes (yeah, that math is probably way off, so just play along) . The immensely popular Broadway show, which opened on April 29, 1996, was set to close on June 1 but a flurry of interest and ticket sales from Rentheads (and probably future […]
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March 27th, 2008
Brooke Shields, who recently bought an apartment in the West Village, is having surgery on her foot. Her rep confirms that this is the second surgery she’s had on it, due to an “old injury she got from dancing on Broadway.” Shields was most recently in “Chicago” on Broadway. Feel better soon, Brooke!
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March 11th, 2008
Nicole Richie and Joel Madden are about to become NYC residents. The couple purchased a two-bedroom, two-bath downtown condo on Bowery for $999,999. Madden’s reps confirmed that they will consider it a primary residence. The new apartment is 1,000 square-foot and on the 11th floor. It’s described by the building’s senior agent Shelley O’Keefe of […]
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March 6th, 2008
Don’t they know proper theatre etiquette?! Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon were in town this past weekend, where they caught the matinee performance of the show “August Osage County” on Sunday. A fellow audience member reports that the couple kept their heads down and were “texting on their BlackBerrys the entire time” before leaving at intermission.
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February 29th, 2008
Come on, Paris, why don’t we paint the town?
And all that jazz
I’ll hike my skirt above my knees
You pull your panties down
And all that jazz
Okay, so it’s a bit of a cheesy stretch and the “knees” line doesn’t fit with the melody unless you sing “above” really fast (do it), but the bottom line is […]
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