Ashton Kutcher will make his Broadway debut next month in The 24 Hour Plays - the Twitter king will star in a production written and rehearsed in a single day.
The former That 70s Show prankster is among an ensemble of actors, writers and directors who will produce six short plays for the ninth annual event.
The production will raise money for Rosie Perez’ Urban Arts Partnership, an organization that brings arts education programs into New York City public schools. Rosie revealed Ashton’s involvement on The Wendy Williams Show Monday.
“I’m going to break the news here. I know the producer’s going to be pissed off at me. We are going to have a wonderful actor making his Broadway debut November 9th – and that’s Ashton Kutcher.”
The Broadway revival of musical Bye Bye Birdie has been panned by New York’s theater critics – who have dubbed the John Stamos and Gina Gershon-starring revenue “boneheaded.”
The Spice Girls are bringing their story to the stage in a two-hour musical described as a “pop extravaganza”
This is almost as bad as another reunion tour!
Insiders claim Geri Halliwell a.k.a. Ginger Spice is producing the theatrical version of the band’s rise to fame as the most successful girl group of the 1990s. Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Emma Bunton, and Victoria Beckham will also help select the actresses playing them.
“The project is Geri’s baby really but all the girls are backing it,” a tipster tells The Mirror. “The idea is for five relatively unknown actresses to take the parts and hopefully the girls will each have a say in who is cast,” the source added.
Pamela Anderson will play the role of Genie in an upcoming production of Aladdin on the London stage. We hear the 42-year-olf former Baywatch star will perform her two-week stint around Christmas at the New Wimbledon Theatre.
Listen up, Gleeks: No wonder NBC is peeved — Glee became an instant fan favorite after premiering earlier this year — so much so, there’s a musical tour of it in the works!
The Hollywood Reporter tells us Warner Bros. is developing a stage musical based on Tim Burton’s 2005 film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, based on the classic novel of the same name, of course…..
Hugh Jackman really knows how to stop a show! The Wolverine star was captured on video admonishing a theatergoer whose ringing cell phone interrupted a weekend performance of A Steady Rain — co-starring Jackman and James Bond star Daniel Craig — at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway.
The audience erupted into cheers as Hugh broke character and bellowed at the owner of the ringing cell phone: “You want to get that? Come on, just turn it off.”
The popular cheerleading-themed film franchise, which began with the 2000 film starring Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku, and Gabrielle Union, is being developed into a musical stage extravaganza, Variety reported on Wednesday. An all-star, Tony Award winning creative team has been assembled to create Bring It On: The Musical, an original musical set in the world of competitive cheerleading.
The show is expected to debut in 2011. Fight To The Finish, the fifth — and most recent — addition to the Bring It On series, starred recently wed singer Christina Milian.
Agents for actress Evan Rachel Wood are reportedly desperate to win back a number of film roles the Thirteen star turned down to work on the currently stalled Broadway musical Spider-Man.
Evan had been cast in the role of Peter Parker’s true love Mary Jane Watson in the new production opening early next year, but rumors are abundant that the stage show is in financial trouble and work has been suspended as producers at Hello Entertainment come up with ways to fund the project.
