UPDATED with video:Saturday Night Live has been skewering Disney for decades (remember Lindsey Lohan in Real Housewives of Disney in 2012? Or Debbie Downer aT Disney World in 2004?) and this weekend’s edition used the studio’s billion-dollar animated hit Frozen 2 to lob some satirical snowballs at corporate Hollywood…
NBC’s A Little Late with Lilly Singh host had some fun with those Disney+ “outdated cultural depictions” disclaimers that accompany some old animated product like Dumbo and The Aristocats. “Outdated, because we all know racism is dead in 2019,” mocks Singh.
The disclaimers set up a bit in which the Little Late host…
In 2013’s $1.28B worldwide grossing Oscar winner Frozen, Queen Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. Now, in Frozen 2, she must hope they are enough. Disney just dropped a new trailer for the sequel (check it out above) wherein the answer to why Elsa was born with those powers is calling her — and…
With the Broadway production of Frozen about to mark its first anniversary, Disney Theatrical Productions has announced versions of the show will be performed in Australia, London and Germany in 2020 and 2021.
The international rollout follows the previously announced plan for a North American tour of the show…
The Hollywood Pantages on Tuesday unveiled its 2019-2020 Broadway in Hollywood season, which will include eight Los Angeles premieres of national tours direct from their Main Stem runs. The shows, all musicals, include 10-time Tony winner The Band’s Visit among film-to-stage adaptations that includes Frozen, Mean Girls…
Broadway productions celebrated the end of 2018 by shredding box office records like so much confetti, with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and To Kill a Mockingbird setting all-time weekly ticket sale highs for, respectively, a play and an American play.
Potter, the two-part play that premiered in London, took…
Los Angeles-based mobile game developer Jam City is taking over operations of Disney’s Glendale Games Studio, the group that created the popular Disney Emoji Blitz game, as part a multi-year agreement that also gives it rights to develop mobile games based on popular Pixar and Disney animated characters.
Employees of…
Tony Award-winning director Michael Grandage will produce and direct Jack and Lem, a feature film chronicling the thirty-year friendship between John F. Kennedy and Kirk Lemoyne “Lem” Billings. Screenwriter David Scearce (A Single Man) will adapt David Pitts’ book Jack and Lem: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Frie…
UPDATE with Play That Goes Wrong info Disney’s Tony-nominated musical Frozen will skate across North America beginning in the fall of 2019, with an official, exclusive opening at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles during the 2019-20 season.
Casting, dates and and ticket information will be announced later. F…
Frozen‘s Patti Murin missed a show last week. Not unheard of, certainly, but rare enough at the peak of this high-focus (and high-stress) Tony Awards season. And Murin stands a better-than-good chance of getting nominated – as does her co-star Caissie Levy, since both are eligible for lead actress honors. Murin, in a…
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child: Parts One and Two, Angels in America, the Denzel Washington-starrer The Iceman Cometh and the Tina Fey-penned Mean Girls were among the Broadway productions scoring nominations for this year’s New York Drama League awards.
The 2018 Broadway and Off-Broadway nominees were announced in…
Broadway’s Frozen will be Tony Award-eligible for Best Original Score despite a portion of it – and “Let It Go”, of course – coming from the movie.
That eligibility determination was one of seven made today by the Tony Awards Administration Committee. Other decisions include Frozen actresses Caissie Levy and Patti…
