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Merrily We Roll Along: Sondheim's Cult Musical Gets the Hollywood Treatment
A journey from rock bottom to new beginnings - but told backwards? That's the magic of Stephen Sondheim's Tony award-winning Merrily We Roll Along, which is now officially making its way to the big screen. A filmed version of the recent Bro...
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He may have little stage time (9 minutes, with 6 of those minutes sung), but his British Invasion-inspired songs, paired with his over-the-top cape-flipping, make this loony monarch a complete standout. In honour of Daniel Boys (Hamilton UK...
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The 2024 Tony Winner for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score! A century ago, Suffragette women in the United States were fighting for the right to vote. 100 years later, SUFFS, directed by Leigh Silverman and written by Shaina Taub, the most exciting new voice in theater, won two Tony Awards in 2024 for Best Book of a Musical and Best Original Score and has even been backed by Hilary Clinton! SUFFS played its final Broadway performance at the Music Box Theatre on January 5, 2025, and now takes to the road on a national tour. You're invited along for the same ride they took all those years ago, so grab your placard and get ready to fight for what's right....
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Winner of the 2024 Tony Award for Best New Musical! Based on S.E Hilton's 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola's era-defining motion picture The Outsiders follows a gang of young greasers as they cling to survival. With music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival and a book by the award-winning Adam Rapp, The Outsiders is directed by Danya Taymor....
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Millions also did indeed scream ay-oh with Freddie Mercury! If you didn't know, many of your favourite shows have a past life with real events so interesting that they made it to the stage, where their memory could live forever. Check them...
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The 97th Academy Award nominations were announced earlier today and Wicked gained an impressive 10 nominations in total.In a live stream today, Rachel Sennot and Bowen Yang officially announced that the Wicked movie has been nominated fo...
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