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A Back To The Future musical? We don't know how to feel about this. More »
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It's time to champion this lovely and engaging Steampunk musical Futurity. Don't believe me? Then take a listen right now. More »
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Behold the reason the internet was created. To match up Disney music with surprisingly appropriate movies about mutants stopping the The Cuban Missile Crisis. We give you the Disney/X-Men mash-up set to the tune of Mulan's "I'll Make a Man Out of You" sung by Donny Osmond. More »
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Everybody keeps saying the Spider-Man musical is finally on track, but meanwhile there's a new alternative: Stephen King has teamed up with country-rocker John Mellencamp to create The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County, a play about ghosts and sibling rivalry. More »
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From the same crew that created the astounding short Heartless: The Story of the Tin Man comes Blood On My Name, a dark gothic musical. Watch two men awaken an ancient evil in the wilderness, by singing. More »
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In the wake of the Spider-Man musical's total disaster, somehow the Batman Live Arena Tour has gotten a free pass. But just check out these photos. Nothing good can come of a stage show with Schumacher undertones. Or can it? More »
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Oh my! You must watch George Takei's video audition for the floundering Spider-Man musical. Yes! This is a great way to save this flop - geek stunt casting! Someone get Wil Wheaton on the phone. More »
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The stage version of Re-Animator was supposed to end its run the other day, but it's been extended until the end of May. Unlike Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Re-Animator: The Musical is a low-budget DIY affair. More »
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Check out this concept art from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: That's the first sketch of Bad Horse, the mastermind of the Evil League of Evil. Costume designer Shawna Trpcic originally read the script and thought Bad Horse was a person. More »
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Referring to Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark as a train wreck is both a tautology and inaccurate. After all, never in human history have two trains — upon crashing — suddenly morphed Voltron-style into a patchwork homunculus made of stray bits of caboose and bar car who suddenly begins bellowing, "THIS LOOKS BAD BUT WE CAN MAKE IT WORK." More »
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You've seen Jon and Al Kaplan's Arnoldriffic musical revues of Conan, T2, and Total Recall. For their Schwarzenegger swan song, the brothers bring us "If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It" — a rousing number about murdering the universe's number one ugly motherfucker — featuring vocals from Dutch, Anna, Mac, Billy, Dillon, and those other guys who weren't the Governor of Minnesota. More »
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And the hits for the Spidey musical just keep coming. After a few weeks without any reported injuries, Julie Taymor's Spider-Man musical takes another swipe, this time from the New Yorker. Plus, more skits poking fun at the troubled production. More »
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What's Glee's next pop victim? Michael Jackson's zombie dancing horde from Thriller. Let's be honest, "The Rocky Horror Glee Show" was a bit of a bust, so Glee, you've really got to bang this one out. Here's a first look. More »
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Interesting news about the musical sensation from somewhere over the rainbow. Wicked, the novel and hit musical, is not getting turned into a movie. Instead it's going to get its own miniseries from Salma Hayek. More »
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Decades before Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was just a twinkle in Julie Taymor's eye, Broadway had weathered a prior most expensive scifi musical ever: 1972's Via Galactica, a spacey extravaganza starring Raul Julia and a set made of trampolines. More »
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More trouble for Julie Taymor's Spidey musical. Natalie Mendoza, who plays Arachne, and sings five numbers (including the title track), is leaving the production after suffering from a concussion last month. Will this inspire others to jump ship? [NY Times] More »
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The $65-million Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is not unlike eating a caramel-covered, poisonous arachnid. It's a deranged spectacle that's sweet going down. More »
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The latest TV spots for the Spider-Man musical have hit the web. Check out footage of the high-flying stunts, Carnage, Kraven, and the gangster Hammerhead, who has been transformed into a macrocephalic parade float. More »
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Annie Leibovitz used the cast of the new Spider-Man musical for a Vogue fashion shoot. Take a closer look at the $60 million musical. Fingers crossed for a Carnage solo where he writes on the walls with his own blood. More »
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Glee's Halloween episode, in which the Gleeks do Rocky Horror Picture Show, has sparked a lot of press attention. And now it turns out the show's creator, Ryan Murphy, is actually in talks to remake the movie. More »
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It's a science fiction double feature! The Rocky Horror Show just made its triumphant stage return, in Dublin. Here are some amazing cast pics. And a version is also hitting LA soon, with the Glee stars and Billy Idol. More »
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Internet reaction to Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has oscillated between abject horror and Doc Brown's face when the model DeLorean catches on fire in 1955. But I'll be a contrarian and say that this musical will be transcendent. More »
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U2 previewed the first song from their Spider-Man musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark this morning, and...wow. It's much, much worse than we'd feared. Did you know if you fly too high, you can get too close to the sun? More »
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The troubled musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will open Nov. 14th at the Foxwoods Theater. Now they just need to sell out the house every night until 2015 to recoup expenses. Image via The L Magazine. [LA Times] More »
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The Wicked movie adaptation is picking up steam, with a lot of Hollywood directors in the running. But it makes us wonder: What would a J.J. Abrams musical look like, and how fast would the actors have to sing? More »
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The devil offers you a gun full of magic bullets. The only catch? One of those bullets will betray you. That's the premise of The Black Rider by Tom Waits, William Burroughs and Robert Wilson. Someone's posted the garage-band bootleg. More »
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Why didn't somebody think of this long ago? U.S.S. Pinafore enlists Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera in Starfleet, with amazing results. If you've ever wished Little Buttercup's libretto included tribbles and Saurian brandy, then watch the trailer below. More »
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Why do magical-ish comedies always feature these weird musical numbers? We don't know, but this song-and-dance routine from Son Of The Mask might be the weirdest, and most embarrassing. Magic allows Jamie Kennedy to blend country, hip-hop and Elvis. What? More »
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Will Fringe's musical episode be called "Once More, On LSD?" No, apparently it'll be called "Overture." And you'll never guess who's serenading Olivia. Spoilers ahead. More »
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If Doctor Who had done a musical episode back in the early 1980s, it might have looked a bit like this. Producer John Nathan-Turner made the cast perform a yearly Cinderella pantomime, and here's one of the numbers. More »
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The release of the organ repossession action flick Repo Men has some crying "copycat." Including Repo! The Opera director Darren Bousman, who claims the projects are way too similar. More »
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Check out the first picture of the Chicago cast of The Addams Family — including Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia. Plus it's hard to believe, but Carrie: The Musical is back! More »
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Good news Horrible fans, the much anticipated sequel is still chugging along, and here's an update from the original cast member Nathan Fillion — or as you know him, Captain Hammer. More »
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We waited and waited for Neil Patrick Harris' big evil cameo on tonight's Emmy Award shows. But we didn't expect the entire cast from Joss Whedon's musical to pop in as well — and then declare war on television. More »
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The Legend of Neil musical episode has finally been released, featuring the whole cast breaking out in song — including Felicia Day's sex-crazed flasher fairy from season one. It's probably NSFW. More »
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A Very Potter Musical was originally posted for friends and family to view, but since has become an internet meme in an of itself among Potter fans. We talked to the musical's creators about PG-13 humor and wizard sex. More »
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The execs from New Line formed their new production company, Unique Features, nearly one year ago. Now we've got the list of films Warner Bros. paid for first dibs on. Ideas include copying people's personalities, and an Elf Musical. More »
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Dr. Horrible himself, Neil Patrick Harris, will guest-star on an upcoming episode of the colorful animated series Batman: The Brave And The Bold. And just like Joss Whedon's internet sensation Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog, the episode will be a musical! More »
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Does the Spider-Man musical make your Spidey-sense tingle with possible lameness? U2's Bono and The Edge felt the same. They explain their change of heart in a video interview, which also shows off what may be the show's logo. More »
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