Ralphie’s quest for the Red Ryder BB Gun is coming to the live stage. A Christmas Story: The Musical — a theatrical show based on the 1983 holiday classic — opens with live shows at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre on Dec. 9!
Next stop Broadway?
Mary J. Blige has started negotiations to join Tom Cruise and Taylor Swift in the cast of the upcoming movie musical Rock of Ages alongside Tom Cruise.
Brendan Fraser’s Broadway debut has been cut short. After 22 previews and nine performances, the curtain will close on the New York stage production of Elling on Sunday, Nov. 28, giving the play one of the shortest runs in recent memory.
Funnyman Dane Cook will join Robin Williams on the Great White Way next year, making his Broadway debut in Neil LaBute’s adaptation of Fat Pig.
In the news that may be music to the ears of a generation of nostalgic fans, we hear that a stage adaptation of the popular ’80s adventure-comedy The Goonies is presently in the works.