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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Clive Davis pre-Grammy gala has been called off for this year, but that’s not stopping the legendary mogul from throwing a big party — his 90 th birthday is April 4, the day after the big show, and he’s throwing a star-studded bash at Casa Cipriani in New York two days later, on Wednesday the 6th, a rep for Davis confirms to Variety. The event is sure to include a guest list that outshines even his famously star-studded pre-Grammy parties — while many of these names are longtime Friends of Clive, the New York Post says invitees include Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, David Foster, Katharine McPhee, Pat Houston, David Geffen, and entertainment lawyer Allen Grubman, as well as label heads such as Monte Lipman, Tom Corson, Rob Stringer and Julie Greenwald. Davis wrote on the invite: “I personally hope you will one day be told that the next birthday you celebrate will be your 90th.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 20-26:Feb. 20: Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 81.

When people who dislike musicals talk about the musicals they dislike, there’s a decent chance they’re talking about musicals like The Music Man – whether they’ve ever actually ever seen The Music Man or not. Meredith Willson’s nostalgic slice of Americana was already proudly old-fashioned when it debuted in 1957, with “Seventy-Six Trombones” leading Broadway down a cornpone path that shows like the moody Carousel or the finger-snapping West Side Story were trying so hard to avoid. Not even The Beatles could make Music Man‘s lilting “Till There Was You” sound cool.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter“The Music Man,” a musical revival featuring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, is one of the hottest tickets on Broadway.For students in the New York City area, the price of admission will finally be affordable.“The Music Man” producers Barry Diller, David Geffen and Kate Horton are making available 10,000 tickets priced at $20 to New York City students, their families and their teachers.Created and spearheaded by the Music Man’s Black Theatre Coalition fellow Amy Marie Haven, the effort hopes to make Broadway more accessible to the masses. Reduced ticket prices were made possible through partnerships with the New York City Department of Education and a dozen local youth non-profits, including Artists Striving to End Poverty, Art Start, Arts For All, Arthur Miller Foundation, On Broadway Training Program, Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Education Through Music, Rosie’s Theatre Kids, R.Evolucion Latina and Broadway Bridges.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorA new documentary will tell the story about the fight against HIV/AIDS in Los Angeles.APLA Health announced on Wednesday, World AIDS Day, that production has begun on “Commitment to Life,” a feature-length doc about how AIDS activists, doctors, celebrities and studio executives changed the course of the epidemic.

EXCLUSIVE: The new Academy Museum in Los Angeles will be holding its first inaugural red-carpet film premiere on Monday, Oct. 25 with Focus Features’ Edgar Wright psychological thriller Last Night in Soho. 

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorAt Thursday night’s 20th anniversary celebration of Eric Eisner’s scholarship program YES for disadvantaged and underserved youth, David Geffen made a surprise $1 million donation, as did Mellody Hobson. Christina Aguilera performed in a sparkly pink dress and former “Bachelorette” star Rachel Lindsay passed out red roses (natch!) to guests gifting $10,000 donations.

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of FX’s Impeachment: American Crime Story which debuts on Sept. 7, 2021. 

Some 200 students per year will now attend the prestigious Yale School of Drama without paying tuition, thanks to the generosity of David Geffen.

The Lehman Trilogy, Stefano Massini’s acclaimed play adapted by Ben Power, will begin post-shutdown performances at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 25, with an opening night set for Thursday, Oct. 14.

New York Post, Braun reportedly claimed that the new business Scope Capital Partners could raise between $500million and $700million from high-profile investors he described as “close friends”.They included Interscope Records and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine, Dreamworks founder David Geffen, who Braun reportedly described as his “Godfather,” the multi-billionaire Soros family and more.The lawsuit said that “Braun, by all outward appearance, was the real deal,” but that he turned out to be a

Producer Scott Rudin recently stepped away from his Broadway projects in the wake of a bombshell article in The Hollywood Reporter in which several of his former assistants accused him of being an abusive boss who left employees traumatized.

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Feb. 21-27Feb. 21: Actor Gary Lockwood (“2001: A Space Odyssey”) is 84.

avid yachter David Geffen, who recently incurred backlash for posting pics from his $590 million big boat during the COVID-19 lockdown, has sold an empty lot in Beverly Hills’ Billionaire’s Row for close to $34 million, Realtor.com reports.The one-acre development site is on a dead-end road in one of the costliest streets within the famously high-priced Trousdale Estates space of Beverly Hills, set in a cul-de-sac of nine properties.

James McClain Last month, former Dreamworks CEO-turned-founder of the struggling Quibi venture Jeffrey Katzenberg electrified L.A.’s luxury real estate market by inking a deal to sell his custom-built Beverly Hills home for $125 million in cash.

David Geffen posted a picture of his massive yacht recently on social media, but the response wasn’t exactly celebrated amid the coronavirus pandemic. As it was previously reported, the record label juggernaut posted a picture of his $590 million yacht amid the pandemic and people accused him of being “tone-deaf” for showing off his massive fortune.

James McClain Back in April, Jeff Bezos paid a record $165 million for David Geffen’s famed Jack Warner estate, the 10-acre compound that lies in Beverly Hills’ lower Benedict Canyon neighborhood.

The opening of Hugh Jackman’s Broadway production of The Music Man has been pushed back to May, 2021. The original opening date was set for 15 October, before the coronavirus shutdown forced all productions on The Great White Way to close temporarily.

If anyone can reawaken Broadway from an unprecedented shutdown that has left many insiders fearful for the theater industry's future, it's Hugh Jackman. Producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen on Wednesday confirmed that their large-scale revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man, which will star Jackman alongside another returning Broadway treasure, Sutton Foster, is now scheduled to begin previews April 7, 2021, at the Winter Garden Theatre.

Come next May, audiences will applaud Hugh Jackman during one of the first long-awaited curtain calls of Broadway when the revival of Meredith Willson's The Music Man opens.

Mackenzie Nichols Staff WriterWhen Broadway closed its doors on March 12 due to the coronavirus pandemic, The Great White Way saw closures and rescheduling that would mark the longest shutdown in history and create a monumental economic impact.Now, Hugh Jackman’s Broadway comeback of “The Music Man” has rescheduled preview performances and the opening night until April 7, 2021 and May 20, respectively, according to an announcement by producers Scott Rudin, Barry Diller and David Geffen on

James McClain Fresh off selling his legendary Beverly Hills estate to Jeff Bezos for a California record $165 million, multibillionaire mogul David Geffen has opted to downsize his living circumstances, in a manner of speaking, by purchasing a nearby compound that also boasts Old Hollywood ties.The Los Angeles Times first reported rumors of the impending transaction, and now sources say the deal is essentially done.

LOS ANGELES — Taylor Swift is sending cash to some of her fans and Rihanna has donated $6 million to support people whose livelihoods have been upended by the coronavirus pandemic.

Songwriters are straining to meet the moment as the coronavirus crisis intensifies — and John Mayer has definitely met this one with a new song, “Drone Shot of My Yacht,” that captures all the angst felt by billionaires as they wait out the pandemic, adrift on the high seas.

Billionaire music mogul David Geffen set his Instagram to private after he shared a tone-deaf post from his luxury yacht that unleashed backlash from the 99 percent.

John Mayer is poking fun at billionaire David Geffen‘s viral yacht pic.

John Mayer is poking fun at billionaire David Geffen‘s viral yacht pic.