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Marin Mazzie in PASSION. Is it true that Jere Shea was also nude and walking about onstage, but they cut out his bits for the DVD?

Is Mary J. Blige wearing a wig in a box?

Yay! I understand the misgivings, but I personally can't help but feel thrilled. At the very least, the return engagement will be brimming with euphoric nostalgia. It'll just be one big lovefest.

I agree, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE deserved a Best Picture nomination over MUNICH and CRASH. Even over CAPOTE, if it came down to it.

Hmm, maybe I'll audition as an extra. There were Asians in 1960s Baltimore, weren't there?

My confidence in Bill Condon is being tested....

Reuters now has an article on the adult shows.

Of course it won't happen, since MULAN was only a minor hit (I'm surprised they're doing TARZAN as it is), but in another universe.... If a stage adaptation MULAN was conceived in the vein of Taymor's THE LION KING (incorporating elements of the source culture into the staging), it would be amazing. Imagine Chinese theatrical devices, design and acrobats. MULAN is also an ideal choice for adaptation because there are four or five songs in the film, which means a large amount of new musical ma...

We need to see more of Michael Arden. Both temporally and bodily.

Ugh, I hated BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. I felt like I was watching Disney On Ice, only without the ice. THE LION KING, all the way. I found the plot more appealing, and I liked how Julie Taymor made the impossible possible, while also bringing out the story's mythical elements.

Yeah, he REALLY wanted PHANTOM at the Palace, and was quite peeved that he had to concede. But I've never heard of him attacking the quality of LES MIZ, though; would be quite strange for him to do it publicly, seeing as he had to work with Cameron Mackintosh for PHANTOM. And am I the only one who thinks LES MIZ has a distinctly different musical vein from ALW's work?

You mean the kind of show that leaves a knot in your throat and your face chapped with the salt of your tears? In no particular order: THE NORMAL HEART (2004 revival) THE LARAMIE PROJECT (an outstanding college production in Toronto, 2005) DEATH OF A SALESMAN (on the West End, with Dennehy and Claire Higgins) INTO THE WOODS (silly, I know, but "No One Is Alone" hits a deep nerve in me) KING LEAR (with Ian Holm, for the National Theatre)

The Brits enjoyed the Brian Dennehy revival of DEATH OF A SALESMAN well enough, even though it's a deeply American work. And ANGELS IN AMERICA -- which takes place in a complicated, American historical context -- was a big hit in London before it hit Broadway. Not to mention MISS SAIGON (though one could argue MISS SAIGON was a distinctly foreign interpretation of a Viet-American phenomenon). I'd say CAROLINE OR CHANGE has enough universal themes for it to be appealing to British audiences. I...

Dollypop is right: most of the "bad luck" that surrounds MACBETH is because it's a play that demands a lot of effects, and was originally written for the candle-lit private playhouses, not the open-air public theatres. Another source of superstition is, of course, the witches. Any Elizabethan/Jacobean play that had occult elements were always regarded with a bit of fear and dismay by a Devil-fearing audience, since chants, potions and spells are being made onstage (another example is Marlowe'...

Don't know if these have been posted, by the blog JustJared has some photos taken during the recording session: Also Beyonce (?) on the set / screen test (?):

I cherish my MISS SAIGON and OLIVER! CDs. I'd say Jonathan Pryce is vocally stronger than John Lithgow, although both are good. They actually sound quite similar.

6" and 6.5". I won't say whose is which, though I think you'd be pleasantly surprised.

As I had predicted, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN took home four awards. Michelle Williams didn't win, but I was pleasantly surprised that the film took Best Song. Highlight of the evening: Sandra Oh. She was truly ecstatic about getting an award. She still has that innocence and passion for her art. I've been watching her career since she was doing indie Canadian films in the mid-90s, and I'm glad that her career has blossomed so nicely. Overall the speeches were better than usual. People/things I hate...

Yes, I think grizzabella's comments were uncalled for, especially since Anne Rice's financial contributions to the rebuilding of New Orleans has been quite substantial and fairly well documented. I haven't read anything by Rice in years, but that blurb doesn't sound like it was written by her at all. I remember her being quite modest in interviews and the like.

Begins January 26th.