Broadway Vacation The Musical, with characters from the popular Chevy Chase-fronted film franchise, will make its world premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre this Fall.
Though no announcement was made regarding actual Broadway plans for Broadway Vacation, the Seattle venue has been the starting ground for various New York-bound productions over the years, including Hairspray, Aladdin, Memphis and First Date starring Zachary Levi, among others.
The Seattle production was announced today by 5th Avenue’s Artistic Director Bill Berry and Broadway producer Ken Davenport.
The musical will feature a book, music and lyrics by David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, with direction and choreography by Donna Feore. Casting was not announced.
“We could not be more thrilled to create the world premiere of this joyfully riotous story at The 5th,” said Berry. “I can’t wait to begin our 2020/21 season with...
Though no announcement was made regarding actual Broadway plans for Broadway Vacation, the Seattle venue has been the starting ground for various New York-bound productions over the years, including Hairspray, Aladdin, Memphis and First Date starring Zachary Levi, among others.
The Seattle production was announced today by 5th Avenue’s Artistic Director Bill Berry and Broadway producer Ken Davenport.
The musical will feature a book, music and lyrics by David Rossmer and Steve Rosen, with direction and choreography by Donna Feore. Casting was not announced.
“We could not be more thrilled to create the world premiere of this joyfully riotous story at The 5th,” said Berry. “I can’t wait to begin our 2020/21 season with...
- 1/13/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
R.E.M. rolled out plans this week for a deluxe reissue of their 1995 hit album Monster. The four-cd, one–Blu-ray set will feature a remastered version of the album, unheard demos, a new remix of the disc, a complete concert from the Chicago stop of the Monster tour, the tour documentary Road Movie, and six music videos. It will be released on November 1st.
Monster was R.E.M’s heaviest album to date, coming right after the relatively mellow discs Out of Time and Automatic for the People.
Monster was R.E.M’s heaviest album to date, coming right after the relatively mellow discs Out of Time and Automatic for the People.
- 9/5/2019
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Arthur Buck, Arthur Buck (New West)
For two weeks in September, Arthur Buck — the newly minted duo of singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and ex-r.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck — toured with the songs from their debut album, Arthur Buck, as a quintet with keyboard player Gregg Foreman, drummer Linda Pitmon of Steve Wynn’s Miracle Three and longtime R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey, looking hale and sounding hearty on bass and backing vocals after suffering a stroke last year. The effect was robust and promising, adding the bond and fortified...
For two weeks in September, Arthur Buck — the newly minted duo of singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur and ex-r.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck — toured with the songs from their debut album, Arthur Buck, as a quintet with keyboard player Gregg Foreman, drummer Linda Pitmon of Steve Wynn’s Miracle Three and longtime R.E.M. sideman Scott McCaughey, looking hale and sounding hearty on bass and backing vocals after suffering a stroke last year. The effect was robust and promising, adding the bond and fortified...
- 10/30/2018
- by David Fricke
- Rollingstone.com
IFC channel subscribers, at 8:35pm Est tomorrow, Tuesday night, you might want to tune in for this: the 1976 blaxploitation classic (although maybe forgotten), Brotherhood Of Death, about 3 black Vietnam veterans who become vigilantes against the Kkk-inspired racism prevalent in their Southern hometown. Shit gets raw, as the trio helps their community rise up and violently face down their white oppressors!
They just don’t make them like they used to, do they? I’d love to see a film like this produced and distributed widely today. If Quentin Tarantino can get away with the WWII revisionist Inglorious Basterds, I don’t see why Spike Lee (for example) couldn’t do something similar, with obvious appropriate changes of course – a lynching retribution pic perhaps.
Coincidentally, Tarantino is said to be a big fan of the film, and his support of it was reportedly one of the reasons it was released...
They just don’t make them like they used to, do they? I’d love to see a film like this produced and distributed widely today. If Quentin Tarantino can get away with the WWII revisionist Inglorious Basterds, I don’t see why Spike Lee (for example) couldn’t do something similar, with obvious appropriate changes of course – a lynching retribution pic perhaps.
Coincidentally, Tarantino is said to be a big fan of the film, and his support of it was reportedly one of the reasons it was released...
- 5/25/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
By Matt Singer
By this point, we're all familiar with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and "Superfly" and "Shaft," we know all about Pam Greer and Fred Williamson and Jim Brown. But the 1970s produced dozens and dozens of blaxploitation films beyond the handful that have come to stand-in for the entire genre. Many were formulaic, some were downright terrible, but a lot were a cut above. These four uniquely superb blaxploitation films, largely forgotten to history, deserve rediscovery by new audiences and fresh eyes.
"Across 110th Street" (1972)
Directed by Barry Shear
Some 30 years before the groundbreaking crime series "The Wire," an unassuming blaxploitation picture covered similar territory with much the same complexity, albeit on a much smaller scale and with significantly fewer critical accolades. Both were shot in real locations with local actors; both draw parallels between the structure and politics of the underworld and the police force. Often in "Across 110th Street,...
By this point, we're all familiar with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" and "Superfly" and "Shaft," we know all about Pam Greer and Fred Williamson and Jim Brown. But the 1970s produced dozens and dozens of blaxploitation films beyond the handful that have come to stand-in for the entire genre. Many were formulaic, some were downright terrible, but a lot were a cut above. These four uniquely superb blaxploitation films, largely forgotten to history, deserve rediscovery by new audiences and fresh eyes.
"Across 110th Street" (1972)
Directed by Barry Shear
Some 30 years before the groundbreaking crime series "The Wire," an unassuming blaxploitation picture covered similar territory with much the same complexity, albeit on a much smaller scale and with significantly fewer critical accolades. Both were shot in real locations with local actors; both draw parallels between the structure and politics of the underworld and the police force. Often in "Across 110th Street,...
- 2/12/2009
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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