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McFarland announced “Fyre Fest 2.0” back in April, nearly a year after he was released from prison. In 2018, the disgraced tech entrepreneur/marketing consultant pleaded guilty to multiple counts of fraud in connection with the first Fyre Fest. The event was billed as a high-end music experience in the Bahamas, and secured promotions and investments […]
Netflix is suing the songwriting team behind The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, which is based on the streamer’s hit series Bridgerton, for infringement. Deadline reports the streaming giant has filed a lawsuit against Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear in the federal court in Washington D.C., just days after the pair sold out the Kennedy Center for the viewing of […]
Considering how entrenched Somalis have been in enclaves throughout the city of Toronto since our arrival en masse, I’m regularly met with experiencing ‘firsts’ within my community. This time, it was the debut musical created by Fatuma Adar that featured a familiar tale of displacement and a search for self-fulfillment that I’ve come to know […]
Lady Gaga is in early talks to star alongside Joaquin Phoenix in the forthcoming Joker sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gaga’s rumored involvement comes one week after Joker director Todd Phillips shared a photo of the cover of the script for Joker: Folie à Deux, along with a picture of Phoenix reading through the script. Folie […]
Musical theater is mourning the loss of one of its most celebrated legends. According to the New York Times, award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim died early Friday at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. Though details surrounding his death have not been revealed, his good friend and lawyer F. Richard Pappas told the Times the death was “sudden,” […]
H.E.R. is gearing up for her big screen debut. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the award-winning artist has been cast in The Color Purple musical feature from Warner Bros. Studios. H.E.R. will portray the character of Squeak, a waitress-turned-aspiring singer who was played by Rae Dawn Chong in the original 1985 film. News of H.E.R.’s casting comes just a day after Corey Hawkins […]
Barbra Streisand, the co-star of the 1976 remake of A Star is Born (along with Kris Kristofferson), thought the version that saw Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper getting top billing would’ve tried to be a little more innovative when they re-booted it prior to its 2018 theatrical release. The 79-year-old singer and actress said as much during an appearance on the Australian talk […]
Lin-Manuel Miranda took a moment during this year’s Oscars ceremony to introduce his upcoming film In the Heights, which tells the story of a first-generation Dominican-American bodega owner named Usnavi de la Vega, who is living in New York’s Washington Heights. After inheriting his grandmother’s fortune, Usnavi becomes caught up in an emotional tug-of-war over closing his store and […]
Spike Lee has done almost everything in his long career. Yet, his latest venture still comes as a surprise. On Tuesday, Variety reported that the acclaimed writer and director will be crafting a musical based on the creators of the popular erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra. The Entertainment One film is based on David Kushner’s Esquire article titled: All Rise: […]
Jason Derulo admits he had incredibly high hopes for 2019’s Cats. (Cue the collective LOL.) The 30-year-old singer/actor was among the ensemble cast for the widely panned film, which was a live-action remake of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s hit Broadway musical. Derulo, who took on the role of Rum Tum Tugger, told the Telegraph he initially believed Cats was the perfect film to mark his […]
