musicals

Do not throw away your shot because the “Hamilton” trailer is here. Launching on Disney Plus on July 3, the minute-long trailer shows off footage from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical. The film features footage with the original cast, including Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr., Daveed Diggs, Phillipa Soo, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson, Anthony Ramos, Jonathon …

Next time you go see “The Phantom of the Opera,” if British officials have their way, you might listen to the small-talk of the night. Andrew Lloyd Webber told BBC Radio 4 Friday that a government official bizarrely suggested that West End musicals come back “without any singing” to reduce the spread of the coronavirus. …

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is in talks with “Black-ish” and “BlackAF” creator Kenya Barris and “Happy” singer Pharrell Williams to develop a feature-length musical about Juneteenth – the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Deadline understands that the streamer and the pair are in the early stages of working up a plan for …

HBO has landed the Spike Lee-directed version of Broadway show “David Byrne’s American Utopia.” The film will launch on the premium cable network later this year and comes after Deadline revealed the filmed version of the show in January. The Broadway production, which opened October 2019 and ran through February 16 at the Hudson Theatre, …

Walt Disney Studios is developing a new movie musical based on Lionel Richie’s song catalog, as Variety reports. The live-action project is tentatively titled after his 1983 song, “All Night Long,” and will utilize some of his greatest hits. According to the report, the artist pitched the concept to the studio, where it was accepted …

Beauty business insiders say former “Glee” diva Lea Michele is known to be toxic in the industry because of her ugly behavior. The actress, 33, has been caught up in a storm of damning headlines with a host of former co-stars calling her a mean girl. Now, those behind the scenes are joining in. One …

Lea Michele was “well aware of her disgusting behavior” before her former “Glee” co-stars began to call her out, a source told Page Six on Wednesday. “She was rude to all cast members,” a source close to the show emphasized to us Wednesday. “Nobody likes her. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a cast member that …

Sunday was supposed to be the 74th Tonys. The first broadcast was on WOR in 1947. First on TV was in 1967, on ABC, from the Shubert Theatre. For the first time ever, they are postponed indefinitely. So no Radio City, no long speeches, no long gowns, no red carpet, no p.r. man Rick Miramontez’s …

Talk about meta. “Smash,” the TV series about backstage drama that attracted a rabid but small fanbase when it aired for two seasons on NBC, has inspired an upcoming show that is eyeing a Broadway run. “Smash, A New Musical” is setting its sights on the Great White Way and its mega-watt producing team includes …

Thank you, Dolly. Renowned Broadway and Film veteran Bette Midler has promised to match donations up to $100,000 for the Broadway Cares/ Equity fights AIDS’ Covid-19 fund says Deadline. Broadway Cares launched the fund in early march with an initial donation of $250,000. Since then, initiatives to raise money for the fund have included The …