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Broadway

I See What They Did There

Watch Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill Start A Band, Star On Broadway

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:32 am, April 20th, 2013

Matt Mira and Jonah Ray of The Nerdist crew recently travelled to London and accidentally wound up starting a successful band with Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill. Watch their epic rise and tragic downfall in under three minutes!

Also, tangentially related, we just found our Darvill is taking over the role of “Guy” in Once on Broadway for the next nine months. So if you ever wanted to hear him sing in person, now’s your chance.

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Offered Without Comment

Star Trek’s George Takei Gives A Very Personal TED Talk [VIDEO]

by Jill Pantozzi | 5:47 pm, April 2nd, 2013

I’ll just leave this here. George Takei, you’re awesome.

(via TED Blog)

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it's time to play the music

Aladdin Might Be On Its Way to Broadway, I Hope They Bring His Mom

by Susana Polo | 2:43 pm, January 8th, 2013

According to the New York Times, a stage version of Disney’s Aladdin will be making its way to the New Amsterdam Theater. There’s a lot of reasons why this is a pretty cool thing. Not only is Aladdin a pretty dang good Disney movie, it’s was also the first of Disney’s animated features to include a lead female character of color (although we’d have to wait three years to get one as the lead), second only to the The Jungle Book as the earliest Disney feature animated film where the main character is not of white-European descent. Broadway musicals are already a field of work where starring (and in many shows even secondary) roles for actors of color are thin on the ground.

But a stage musical can also be a chance to escape the usually-around-ninety-minute limit of the animated feature, expand upon secondary characters, introduce original songs or even reintroduce songs that were cut from the original film. Which brings us to the very sad story of Aladdin’s mom and the song “Proud of Your Boy.”

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Cautiously Optimistic

Will Pushing Daisies Head to Broadway?

by Alanna Bennett | 11:11 am, July 18th, 2012

Bryan Fuller‘s been dropping hints of upcoming Pushing Daisies news for the past few months, and we have been clawing at our computer screens for just as long screaming “TELL US!” The Pushing Daisies, Dead Like Me, and Mockingbird Lane producer swore it had nothing to do with a return of the cancelled-too-soon show to television, or of a jump to the big screen. So what does that leave? Broadway, apparently!

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