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Geno Segers Out Of HADESTOWN Over Anti-Trans Remarks + More

Geno Segers (screen cap)

Some news items for you as we close out the weekend:

• Broadway World: Disney star Geno Segers (above) will not be joining the Broadway cast of Hadestown following a backlash from fans due to the actor’s past statements about transgender people and other issues on social media.

• New Music: Ariana Grande’s new music video “petal” is quite the presentation. In the video, she plays an aspiring performer who’s repeatedly dismissed as “Not Good Enough” by the fictional Fame INC. And then the chainsaw comes out.

Over 8 million views in two days and currently #1 on YouTube’s Trending Music chart. Continue reading “Geno Segers Out Of HADESTOWN Over Anti-Trans Remarks + More”

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Remembering Early 90s Phone-Sex Lines + ‘Micropenis’ Infighting Is Funny + More

ad for phone-sex lines (image via The Caftan Chronicles)

Some news stories you might have missed:

• Caftan Chronicles: Tim Murphy chats with Brian Herrera, who went from early 90s phone-sex worker to Princeton professor, about those infamous phone-sex lines the gays used to hook up before the Internet exploded just a few years later.

• JoeMyGod: The Daily Show’s Jordan Klepper dives into the recent infighting among MAGA pundits turning on each other via “micropenis” allegations. Continue reading “Remembering Early 90s Phone-Sex Lines + ‘Micropenis’ Infighting Is Funny + More”

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Marvel Spider-Verse To Introduce Gay Spiderman + More News

Marvel Spider-Verse to introduce gay Spiderman
Tom Holland as Spiderman (image via Marvel Studios)
Some news items you might have missed: • Instinct Magazine: A new Marvel Spider-Verse storyline will introduce a gay Spiderman as well as a T-Rex version named Spider-Rex. DC Comics recently introduced a bisexual son of Superman storyline. Continue reading “Marvel Spider-Verse To Introduce Gay Spiderman + More News”

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Trailer: “Spider-Man – Homecoming”

Via Rolling Stone:

Homecoming brings Peter Parker back to high school. The early Spidey suit he wears features web wings, a design only seen in the earliest of Spider-Man comic book appearances. Spider-Man, played by British actor Tom Holland, is shown scaling the Washington Monument, holding a sliced-in-half ferry boat together with his webbing and dealing with basic high school stuff like staring too long at a crush, zoning out in Science class and preparing for homecoming prom.

Robert Downey Jr. is also in the preview, with Tony Stark serving as a mentor for the fledgling superhero. “Don’t do anything I would do. And definitely don’t do anything I wouldn’t do,” Stark tells Parker. “There’s a little gray area in there and that’s where you operate.”

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Broadway: “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark” adds another injury to long list of accidents

The Friday night performance of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” will go on despite a cast member’s onstage injury one night earlier.

The Thursday show was interrupted near the start of its second act when dancer Daniel Curry’s right ankle became trapped in a hydraulic stage lift inside the Foxwoods Theater.

Witnesses said the 42nd St. theater echoed with Curry’s loud scream as stunned audience members looked on.

A black curtain descended to cover the stage for about 10 minutes before Curry, 23, was freed by emergency first responders.

A spokesman for the play said mechanical failure was not to blame for the mishap and the Friday night show would not be affected.

“The technical elements of the show are all in good working order and we can confirm that equipment malfunction was not a factor in the incident,” said spokesman Rick Miramontez. “Our thoughts are with Daniel and his family.”

Curry is listed in stable condition at Bellevue Hospital Center, but is the latest in a long list of injuries that have plagued the show.

(source)

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Spiderman the musical finally opens – read the reviews

Most reviews say Spiderman 2.0 is an improvement, but still not perfect theatre.  So I think it’s fair to say the show has received mixed reviews.

Box office is very strong right now though, so it will hang around a while.  Whether or not it will sell strongly for many years – enough years to recoup – is another story.

You can read all the reviews in one place at BroadwayWorld.com.