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Crush Links: Kanye’s Cover Art Gets Nixed
• The man is trying to censor Kanye West! His cover art idea for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has been banned in the US, probably because it is terrifying and involves bird boobs. (Twitter)
• Flashdance: The Musical should probably stay in London theaters. You know, American audiences won’t just buy into nostalgia just because someone put it to pop music. (J/k, Glee!) (Variety)
• Is Lady Gaga getting “fat”? No, she’s probably getting “less sickly thin.” Still, time for a costume change. (RadarOnline)
• Paris Hilton‘s aunts, Kim and Kyle Richards, caused huge family drama when they decided to go on The Real Housewives of Beverley Hills. That family has a reputation to uphold! (People)
• The Internet vigilantes are at it again: This time trying to track down a British man who was taped kicking his dog. Michael Bay, ready to pony up another bounty for his head? (Buzzfeed)
• The real sleazebag of Facebook isn’t Mark Zuckerberg, it’s Peter Theil, the billionaire who thinks women’s votes ruined America and started a fellowship for kids to drop out of college and start their own tech companies (that he can glom onto). (Slate)
• Justin Bieber got a little too aggressive at laser tag in Canada and may be facing assault charges. Come on Canada, time to man up if you’re crying over a shoulder-check from America’s most adorable lesbian. (TMZ) More »
Video: ‘Clear Blue Tuesday’ is ‘Rent’ Meets September 11th
“And when you’re living in America, at the end of the millennium, you’re not aloooone!” sings the chorus to one song in Rent, Jonathan Larson‘s now hopelessly pre-9/11-dated rock opera, Rent. For fans of both NYC and musicals, Rent was the best thing about the late 90s, but when you talk about AIDS being the biggest problem in New York, we know that your little ditty was written before the twin towers fell.
Luckily (not luckily), someone has come to remedy this, with Clear Blue Tuesday, a musical about a group of New York natives living –and singing — their way past the tragedy of September 11th. Won’t you join us know as we cringe along to this weird, mumblecore musical? More »
An Open Letter to Karaoke Ringers
You guys know who you are, even though you come in to the karaoke bar every night pretending not to know each other from acting/improv/voice class. You hog the microphone with your musical numbers (that would be numbers from musicals, which often involve props you’ve brought along like a funny hat, or nearby stool to Fosse-out on), and make sure that for every one song somebody else sings, you’ve cued up three. The announcer gets embarrassed after the fourth or… More »
Video: High School Vampire Musical
Well, this was inevitable: The combination of every guilty pop culture pleasure in movie form, designed specifically to raise teenage girls’ dopamine levels so high that they will stop having sex and cutting themselves. So you guys: I Kissed A Vampire, starring High School Musical’s Lucas Grabeel. There will be blood (and choreographed dance numbers! And catchy songs!). We want to pretend like we are too good for this movie, but we have already pre-ordered our tickets. Sorry guys, see… More »
Ricky Martin To Star In Broadway Revival Of Evita – No, he’s not playing the titular character. Though that’d be awesome. (via Variety)
Video: Law & Order: SVU…The Musical!
I always wondered why the Specials Victims Unit is everyone’s favorite Law and Order spin-off. “Oh yeah, I like the shows, but I’m really big into the rapey show.” What? Either way, we want the girls from this video to do an interpretive dance to the Criminal Intent intro…which we guess would be the same music, but if they could get that Vincent D’Onofrio neck-craning thing down into a graceful piqué turn, we’d die. More »
Could Katie Holmes Next Project Be “Finding Neverland”?
Way back at the beginning of January, there were rumors swirling that Katie Holmes was offered the role in “Finding Neverland” on Broadway. Sources were saying that Katie had also taken part in a workshop in New York and that “The workshop centers on Sylvia’s relationship with J M Barrie, who she inspired to write Peter Pan.” I found this small little blurb on Back Stage, that may mean something or it may not. Who knows! It’s a… More »
