This month, there are two new movie musicals currently in theatres: Wonka and The Color Purple. And, they're both performing extremely well. The film version of Broadway's The Color Purple is currently exceeding expectations in its first week at the box office—$29 million and counting since its release on Christmas Day....
The song “I’m Here” from The Color Purple musical is not meant to be sung, but roared. It’s not meant to be heard but felt....
The Color Purple opened enormously on Christmas Day to take top spot at the domestic box office, trouncing its nearest competition Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in the process. Wonka finished in third for a top-three triumph for Warner Bros. The Color Purple smashed expectations with an $18.5 million debut, almost double initial...
Stephen Sondheim was a self-confessed “world-class procrastinator,” and he left behind evidence in the form of an unfinished show, Here We Are, that might have otherwise opened in his lifetime. Here We Are—which ends its 17-week run Jan. 21 at The Shed’s Griffin Theater—draws from two films by master surrealist Luis...
As we hurtle towards 2024, it’s time to take a closer look at 20 new musicals coming our way over the next twelve months....
Stephen Sondheim, the great musical theater composer and lyricist, was widely acclaimed as a genius, but during his lifetime he had a bumpy track record at the box office, with many of his shows losing money....
When the stage-musical and camera combine, the two mediums can make a tremendously profitable hybrid. Disney might be considered the master of the form, having churned out family-friendly musical movies for thirty years (from 1937 to 1967)—and then another thirty-plus years (late 80s to the present). By now, no one is shocked...
The films "The Color Purple" and "Mean Girls" were transformed into Broadway musicals; now both are heading back to movie houses in musical form. But this combination of shape-shifting and baton-passing is a tricky task, and the third time is not always the charm....
According to Darren Criss, he and Evan Rachel Wood will be headed to Skid Row for a short run as Seymour and Audrey, beginning in late January through the end of March....
Sickness on Broadway led to a mid-show shuffling of swings and understudies....
The cast for the Mean Girls musical movie has been spilling the beans on which numbers have successfully made it from stage to screen....
There has been a remarkable intersection between video games and musical performance this year, from villains lending vocals to their own theme tunes to interactive songs....
Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production....
Last week, whilst I was overseas doing important journalism in London, I bought tickets to see “Les Misérables” in the West End, because I’m a woman from Utah and that’s just what we do when we go to London at Christmastime. I don’t make the rules; I just enthusiastically keep them....
Broadway brought in more than $31 million last week, playing to nearly 90% full houses at an average paid admission of $140....
In a highly competitive selection process this year, musical stars Kim Jun-su, Cho Seung-woo, Choi Jae-rim, Hong Kwang-ho and Park Kang-hyun were nominated for the best actor award at the 8th Korea Musical Awards....
The cast for Broadway Center Stage’s production of tick, tick... BOOM! at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC has just been announced. It will star Tony Award winner Brandon Uranowitz (Leopoldstadt, Falsettos) as Jon, Tony Award nominee Denée Benton (Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1912; The Gilded Age) as Susan, and...
The 2023 Black List, an initiative that shines a spotlight on the best of Hollywood's unproduced screenplays, is out (see the full list here), and it includes one title that will be especially interesting to Playbill's readers: Boy Falls From Sky by Hunter Toro. The screenplay reportedly follows an "anxious playwright" writing...
Broadway's Tony-winning revival of Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry's Parade will embark on a national tour beginning in January 2025. The production will launch from Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre....
Broadway musicians say they are being preyed upon by violent criminals at the stage door of the beloved “The Lion King” musical and other shows....
Andrew Lloyd Webber has won a court battle with a dancer turned songwriter who claimed to have written the theme to the musical Cats....
For those unfamiliar with the term “diegetic music”, it refers to music that’s actually played in the story rather than just for the benefit of the audience. The characters can hear it too....
In an abundance of riches this weekend, Waitress The Musical from Bleecker Street will pass an estimated $3.2 million in its opening weekend on 1,214 screens in the U.S and Canada. It’s no. 8 at the domestic box office....
Front-of-house workers at leading West End theatres have told Sky News audiences have "forgotten how to behave" - claiming assaults and abuse are a common occurrence....
Alicia Keys is bringing her sold-out musical "Hell's Kitchen" to Broadway next year....
