No, it still isn’t over for The Notebook — because its Broadway debut is inching closer.
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West Side Story” and “Fiddler on the Roof” in is totally unrecognizable.Once we’re acclimated to the changed space, however, we start to ask more of the story. Broadway, after all, is a vastly different place than the Public Theater where I first saw the musical in the smaller LuEsther Hall 10 years ago and liked it a hair more.
Some of the intimate downtown charm of the immersive show has not made the trek from Eighth Street to one of Midtown’s biggest houses. And standing in the theater that once hosted the original production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Evita” — a similar story about Argentina’s power-hungry first lady Eva Peron — makes you crave a stronger point of view on Marcos, rather than just an excuse for party time. The musical, somewhat shallowly, paints the woman as a kindly victim who was swept up by the decadence and momentum as much as we are.That aside, it is indeed awfully easy to lose yourself to the glamorous escape that director Alex Timbers (“Moulin Rouge”) and his team have so splendidly built, accompanied by a devilishly catchy score.“Here Lies Love” — the phrase now-94-year-old Marcos has said she wants engraved on her headstone — jauntily traces Imelda’s (Arielle Jacobs) origins from a little girl who wore “hand-me-downs and scraps” after her family’s fortune dried up to a hot-button international icon. She becomes a beauty pageant contestant and dates promising politician Ninoy Aquino (the always excellent Conrad Ricamora), who gets the audience chanting “Give our people a break!” Aquino’s music has the most recognizably “Talking Heads” sound of Byrne’s score, particularly the haunting spoken-word number “The Fabulous One,” and Ricamora has the ideal stump-speech voice to sell it.Imelda then
.No, it still isn’t over for The Notebook — because its Broadway debut is inching closer.
season 4 contestant Irina Solomonova is taking time to focus on herself. The 26-year-old business owner took to Instagram to share before and after photos of herself from July 2022 and this past July. «It was so hard for me to share them, but also so proud of my body.
Una Healy has reportedly begun dating Irish comedian Stephen Mullan, after bringing an end to her "throuple" relationship with David Haye and his girlfriend Sian Osborne five months ago. The former Saturdays star, 41, previously claimed she had been "tricked" into the throuple by the boxer, who pushed the throuple narrative online, despite Una and Sian never being involved with one another - although they were both dating him.
Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul, Lizzo’s “About Damn Time” and Harry Styles’ pogo-pop powerhouse “As It Was.”There’s no denying the summer of 2022 was nothing short of a boppity bopfest, one that would send us all twirling into the dog days with an extra pep in our step.Fast-forward to the start of another August, and the top trio looks a whole lot different: Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town,” Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” and CMA Entertainer of the Year Luke Combs’ “Fast Car,” a Tracy Chapman cover. So that’s two problematic — to put it mildly — country artists in Aldean and Wallen, and a wistful classic borrowed from a ’90s folk-rocker.
Nearly 60 per cent of families punished by the “cruel” two child benefit cap introduced by the Tories are in work.
Believe and its TuneCore subsidiary have surveyed nearly 1600 self-releasing artists about generative AI. Half of those surveyed said that they had a positive perception of artificial intelligence and would be willing to offer their music for the training of AI models.Around a third said they were interested in using AI as part of their music-making process, with a similar amount reckoning AI technologies could help them with their marketing and promotion.Commenting on the study, TuneCore CEO Andreea Gleeson says: “As AI continues to be a conversation topic across creative industries, we sought to engage directly with independent artists to determine their awareness of AI and how they’re most interested in engaging with it”.“TuneCore’s main priorities lie in the interests of our artists”, she adds, “so the responses to this survey will help us enable them to utilise AI on our platform with consent, control, transparency, and fair monetary compensation”.Of those surveyed, 35% said that they are interested in using AI in their creative process, while 31% said it could help with marketing and promotion around releases.Meanwhile, 18% said they might use AI technologies to create promotional content – including videos to post to TikTok and Instagram – while 16% said they were interested in how AI could help them more generally engage and develop their fanbases.In terms of allowing tech companies to use their creative output in order to train generative AI models, 50% showed a willingness to allow that to happen.
It's finally the night everyone tuning into the ITV reality show has been waiting for, as the couple to be crowned winners of Love Island 2023 will be named on tonight's show, as the girls get glammed up and the boys impress in their suits.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster is getting married and Love Actually fans are going to love the way he announced the news!
Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor Award-winning scenic designer David Korins calls his work on Broadway’s newest sensation “Here Lies Love” the “most ambitious piece of theater I’ve ever done.” And that’s a high bar: Korins counts The Oscars, “Beetlejuice” and “Hamilton” among his credits. Set to throbbing beats from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, “Here Lies Love” centers on the Philippines’ controversial former First Lady, Imelda Marcos. The idea was to make the show as immersive as possible and turn a Midtown Manhattan theater into a disco ballroom.
Here Lies Love,” a stage musical created by David Byrne, is to let audiences know that the Broadway Theatre in Times Square is a disco. Or, at least, it has been transformed into a reasonable facsimile of one, with the audience on the floor standing, shifting and swaying, and occasionally even dancing, in an immersive experience the likes of which Broadway has rarely if ever seen.
Air-conditioned Broadway held its own as New York City plunged ever deeper into a hot summer last week, with total box office receipts keeping steady at $31,520,593, a tiny increase of 2% over the previous week.
The highly-anticipated new musical Here Lies Love has officially opened on Broadway!
Jo Koy is reflecting on the “beautiful” time he spent with Chelsea Handler, one year after their breakup.
New York, New York, the John Kander & Fred Ebb musical that arrived on Broadway last spring to considerable anticipation, will play its final performance on Sunday, July 30, having played just 33 preview and 110 regular performances.
Jo Koy has nothing but love for his ex, Chelsea Handler. spoke to Koy at the David Byrne/Fatboy Slim musical, , where he gushed over the comedienne. «She's a beautiful person, and, you know, we're still friends,» Koy, who serves as one of the producers on the Broadway production told the outlet Thursday. «It was a beautiful time,» he added of their nearly year-long relationship, «And she's doing beautiful things right now. She's crushing it right now, so I have nothing but the best love for her.»Handler and Koy — who worked together years ago on the comedian's late-night show, -- made their relationship Instagram official in September 2021 and dated until June 2022, splitting just ahead of their one-year anniversary.Handler opened up about the end of their relationship in December, during an appearance on Brooke Shields's podcast.«Towards the end of the relationship, it just became clear that this was not my person,» she told the model actress.As far as what exactly happened to end the relationship, Handler kept things fairly vague, but admitted, «walking away from him was one of the most difficult things that I ever had to do.»«There were just some behaviors that we couldn't agree on, and it felt to me like I would have to abandon myself -- which maybe I would have been OK to do if I were 20 or 25 -- but I wasn't willing to do that,» she recalled.
Here Lies Love (★★★★★) works so well. Patrons expecting the ambiance of a standard theater will be shocked to see the major transformation that has occurred at the Broadway Theater, which for 10 years was home to both the original production and revival of Miss Saigon.Gone are the plush crimson-red orchestra seats.
Follow OK! on Threads here: https://www.threads.net/@ok_mag Pet lovers are a universal phenomenon- owners around the world love spoiling their dogs, cats, rabbits and everything in between.They give them delicious food and treats and let them sleep in their beds. However, for some animals, the life of luxury goes even further. Devoted families have taken to throwing them parties for birthdays and other occasions, complete with cake, champagne, balloons and hats.The craze has also swept the celebrity world, with stars from Paris Hilton to Faye Winter showing their affection for their furry friends with expensive soirees.
Naveen Kumar Imelda Marcos demands to know, near the end of “Here Lies Love,” why we don’t love her. The unlikely belle of this propulsive and glittering ball, from musicians David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, is perched in the front mezzanine of the radically transformed Broadway Theatre, where the immersive musical opened on Thursday night. The answer to her question seems all too obvious. In the world of “Here Lies Love” — a title that refers to the convicted former first lady’s desired epitaph — Marcos is addressing the Filipino people, over whom she ruled alongside president-turned-dictator Ferdinand Marcos until they were airlifted out of the country in 1986, after two decades of corruption, scandal and human rights abuses.
Disco despotism isn’t exactly a new genre – Cabaret hinted the way, Evita made it clear, American Psycho, in its fashion, added a variation, all in service of social horrors offset by catchy tunes – but Here Lies Love, the rambunctious new immersive musical from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim, pushes the concept to an extreme that likely won’t be matched until someone has the bright idea to transform Party Monster into The Michael Alig Musical.
BTS’ Jungkook has performed an emotional cover of Oasis’ ‘Let There Be Love’ on the Radio One Live Lounge. Check out footage of the moment below.The singer appeared on the BBC radio programme earlier today (July 20) and surprised fans by breaking out a rendition of an Oasis classic.Hailing from iconic K-pop band BTS, Jungkook made his solo debut on the Live Lounge and kicked off his slot with a live performance of his hit single ‘Seven’.