Fractured fairy tale musical to use Britney Spears music

Jon Burlingame editor“In the Heights,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tale of the immigrant community of New York’s Washington Heights, will be released on Friday. Its four Tony Awards for the original Broadway show included best musical, best original score, and best orchestrations for Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman — who oversaw the musical transition from stage to screen.

Angelique Jackson Veteran advertising exec Mike Densmore is joining UTA Marketing, the brand consulting division of United Talent Agency, as its first-ever head of growth and innovation.In the newly created role, Densmore will be responsible for spearheading the agency’s new business efforts with brand clients globally and expanding relationships within the broader advertising industry.

NEW YORK -- Linda Martell, one of the pioneers for Black acts in country music and the first Black woman to perform solo at the Grand Ole Opry, will be honored at the 2021 CMT Music Awards.The 86-year-old will receive the CMT Equal Play Award at Wednesday night's show.

The MTV Video Music Awards will return to the Barclays Center for a live ceremony on Sunday, September 12th.

Chris Willman Music Writer+ Nick Petropoulos, who joined Arista Records early last year after an 11-year run at Glassnote Records, has been upped by Arista to oversee the label’s promotion department.

EXCLUSIVE: The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in earnest later this week and one of the indisputable highlights of this New York-centric fest as far as I am concerned is a new documentary having its sold out World Premiere on June 15 and chronicling a certain Southern California musical legend.

One of the best rap albums of the year so far is Mach-Hommy's Pray For Haiti. The New York City rapper reunited with Griselda rapper Westside Gunn, who served as the project's executive producer, and delivered song after song of punishing lyricism and deep emotion rooted in his cultural pride.

NEW YORK -- Artists including Chloe x Halle, Black Thought of the Roots and H.E.R. have recorded songs honoring Juneteenth for Apple Music.Some artists recorded cover songs, while others composed new tracks for the exclusive “Juneteenth 2021 Freedom Songs" playlist, which launches Friday on the streaming platform.

Gloria Gaynor belts out “I Will Survive” at Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage at the Coney Island Amphitheater on July 17, the 1978 anthem will take on a whole new meaning after the world came to a pause — and live music stopped — in 2020.Because it will symbolize that, once again, New York has endured.“It’s a really big moment,” said Erika Elliott, Executive Artistic Director, noting that SummerStage — whose biggest shows take place at Central Park — had a series of digital events

EXCLUSIVE: Allie Avital has signed with Michael Sugar’s Sugar23 for representation.

NEW YORK -- Disney’s iconic “Winnie the Pooh” will travel from the forest to find a home off-Broadway this fall.“Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Adaptation” will bring together Pooh, Christopher Robin, Eeyore, Tigger, and the gang in a new production developed by Jonathon Rockefeller.The show will feature songs by the Grammy-winning Sherman Brothers with additional music from A.A. Milne, and will be told using life-size puppetry.

The New York Times. Roughly 43 per cent of New York state’s residents have been vaccinated, and over half the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine.The state has also been trialling the use of a new app, titled Excelsior Pass, which shares vaccination and negative test results with high-traffic venues and businesses by use of a QR code.

Jordan Moreau The sentencing for “Smallville” actor Allison Mack, who was indicted in 2018 on sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labor charges for her involvement in Keith Raniere’s NXIVM cult, has been scheduled for late June.The hearing will take place on Wednesday, June 30, at 11 a.m., ordered by New York judge Nicholas G. Garaufis on Friday.Mack was arrested by the FBI in April 2018 on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy.