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‘Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of The Wizard of Oz’ Animated Pic In The Works At Warners With Alex Timbers Directing
EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Tony nominated director Alex Timbers is closed to direct a feature musical adaptation of the Harper Collins Michael Morpurgo book Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz for Warner Bros..
John August penned the script which is loosely based on the book, which tells the story of The Wiza…
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‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’ Review: All You Need Is Love Songs By The Dozens
Even the most wholly original works of art can, in the service of story or character or heart, summon the stray memory, the whispery chill of déjà vu. They’ll switch on the bittersweet recall of better times or drip-drop echoey little splashes of the worst. Most, though, remember to turn the damn spigot off.
Watching B…
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‘Beetlejuice’ Broadway Review: It’s Showtime, Ready Or Not
Maybe if they’d said it a fourth time. Three times – “Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!” – summons to life the stripe-coated, fright-wigged demon that made a superstar of Michael Keaton way back when. Could a fourth have magically conjured that extra something needed to transform Broadway’s Beetlejuice into…
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Drama League Names 2019 Special Honorees: Kelli O’Hara, Alex Timbers And Taylor Mac
Tony-winning actress Kelli O’Hara, playwright Taylor Mac and Beetlejuice director Alex Timbers will receive special honors at the upcoming Drama League Awards. The three recipients, along with winners in five competitive categories, will pick up their awards at the Drama League’s annual event in Manhattan on May…
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‘Beetlejuice’ Musical Sets Pre-Broadway Engagement, Announces Creative Team
Broadway just got a step closer to summoning Beetlejuice: The stage musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s ’80s classic will make its world premiere next October in a pre-Broadway run at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.
Directed by two-time Tony nominee (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Peter and the Starcatcher)…
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Live ‘Moulin Rouge’ Sets Beantown Premiere As Boston Reclaims Tryout Status
Broadway’s latest screen-to-stage adaptation, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, has booked Boston for its Broadway tryout next summer, restating Beantown’s status as a shake-out city for Gotham-bound shows. That status had largely been usurped by neighboring Cambridge, where the non-profit American Repertory Theatre has…
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David Byrne’s Inspired ‘Joan Of Arc’ Rocker & ‘The Outer Space’ At The Public: Review
David Byrne’s boisterous segue from Imelda Marcos (Here Lies Love) to Saint Joan (Joan of Arc: Into the Fire) is the ultimate example of crab-walking from the ridiculous to the sublime. It’s also true that in Here Lies Love, his shape-shifting disco dance-a-thon about the imperious Philippine First Lady (co-authored…
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Alex Timbers Negotiating To Direct ‘Cruella’ At Disney With Emma Stone
EXCLUSIVE: The latest twist in the Alex Timbers/Disney saga is news that the acclaimed Broadway director/writer and co-creator of Amazon’s Mozart In The Jungle is negotiating to direct Cruella at Disney. Emma Stone, who received both a Golden Globe and SAG nomination this week for her role in La La Land, has been…
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T-Rex Masters Plan Broadway Invasion With ‘Moulin Rouge! The Musical’
Global Creatures, the outfit behind Walking With Dinosaurs — The Arena Spectacular, announced this morning that it’s signed up a top-rank duo of director Alex Timbers (Rocky – The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher, Here Lies Love) and writer John Logan (Spectre, Skyfall, Red) to develop Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 pop…
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‘Frozen’ Musical Switches Gears With Director & Choreographer Change
Alex Timbers has exited as director of Frozen, the in-the-works musical based on the wildly successful Disney animated movie. The move comes after an Actors Equity casting notice posted yesterday for a fall development lab for the project in New York that listed Timbers as director. It also listed Christopher Gattelli…
Alex Timbers’ ‘Robber Bridegroom’ Revival Takes Flight; ‘Southern Comfort’ Is The Public Theater’s Latest Musical Triumph – Review
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s exceptionally charming revival of The Robber Bridegroom is exactly the kind of intimate extravaganza you would expect from Alex Timbers, among the most inventive young directors working in the musical theater today: crowned by Disney to usher Frozen from screen to stage, Timbers’ c.v…
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Steven Pasquale, Alex Timbers Team For ‘Robber Bridegroom’ Revival Off-Broadway
Director Alex Timbers (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Rocky) and leading man Steven Pasquale (FX’s Rescue Me, The Bridges Of Madison County) will join forces in a revival of the Alfred Uhry/Robert Waldman musical about a Mississippi rogue, based on the Eudora Welty story. The 1975 Broadway premiere, with its signature…
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