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News: ‘Heartstopper’ Star Kit Connor Beefs Up + More

L-R Nathaniel Massiah, Kit Connor
L-R Nathaniel Massiah, Kit Connor (via Instagram)
Some news items you might have missed: • OUT: Heartstopper star Kit Connor must be bulking up for an upcoming movie role. Check out his arms and abs in photos posted by trainer Nathaniel Massiah on Instagram. Continue reading “News: ‘Heartstopper’ Star Kit Connor Beefs Up + More”

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People In Theater Seats Saw Live Performances On A Broadway Stage Today

“NY PopsUp is an expansive festival consisting of hundreds of pop-up performances that will regularly permeate the daily lives of New Yorkers,” reads the official website. “It is intended to revitalize the spirit and emotional well-being of New York citizens through the energy of live performance.” Today, lights lit up a Broadway stage for the first time in over a year as Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Savion Glover took to the stage of the St. James Theater to a small but thrilled live audience. #Progress The brief matinee was directed by Broadway veteran Jerry Zaks. In a 20-minute tap-dance stream of consciousness, Glover reflected on his life in the theater dropping bits of “Memory,” “One,” and “Fabulous Feet.” Lane performed a new monologue by playwright Paul Rudnick, which told the story of a theater-obsessed man cooped up in his studio apartment during quarantine, his particularly hilarious encounter with Hugh Jackman and others. The video below shows the audience arriving and making its way through safety precautions plus excerpts from each of the two stars’ performances.

The festival continues through Labor Day, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival and the Festival at the new Little Island at Pier 55. Performances are not announced in advance, thus the reference to “PopsUp.” You can follow the program on Instagram here.

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National Theatre’s “Angels In America” Coming To Broadway February 2018

The celebrated National Theatre production of Angels In America is coming to Broadway this February starring Andrew Garfield (The Amazing Spider-Man) and Nathan Lane (The Producers).

Via press release:

A quarter-century after stunning the theatre world, one of the greatest theatrical journeys of our time returns to Broadway in an acclaimed new production from the National Theatre.

Angels In America, Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic, won 7 Tony Awards®, The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award and The Evening Standard Award on its groundbreaking debut. Now Marianne Elliott (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, War Horse) directs a spectacular new production of this landmark play, starring Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield, and featuring Susan Brown, Denise Gough, Amanda Lawrence, James McArdle and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett.

An instant sellout in London, Angels In America arrives at Broadway’s Neil Simon Theatre in February 2018 for 18 weeks only.

The New York Times says the true star of the production is “the two-play drama itself, a staggeringly ambitious look at identity, illness and Americanness, set against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis and the Reagan administration.”

Sadly, hunky Russell Tovey (and his bare backside) will not be making the transfer 🙁

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Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick Reunite For ” Trumped The Musical”

As is his tradition, Jimmy Kimmel hosted his post-Oscars show on ABC following the annual film awards celebration.

Lots of funny stuff with perhaps the best served up by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick reuniting as their “The Producers” characters with a new scheme to bilk millions from old ladies and using Donald Trump as the frontman for the job.

The original musical focuses on two Broadway producing con-artists who plot to create a show guaranteed to fail so that they can present it as the next big hit and abscond with the investment funding and profits. In Kimmel’s take, Lane and Broderick are political consultants with a similar plan to profit off the fundraising for a doomed candidate, and they realize that Trump is exactly the kind of “train-wreck, gold-plated nincompoop,” they’re looking for.

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From the producers of “The Producers,” #Trumped starring Matthew Broderick, Nathan Lane, Cloris Leachman and Donald J. Trump…
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