Link Time — What Your Fave '80s Musical Says About You


Updated 06/13/11 3:50 PM · Posted by TresSugar · 0 comments

Favorite 1980s Musicals

A personality test determined by your favorite '80s musical — The Hairpin Why powerful men making public missteps is a good thing — Huffington Post Best bits from Sarah Palin's emails — The Frisky Adele has her sights set on a certain royal ginger — Betty Confidential Watch Bill Maher and Jane Lynch perform the Weinerlogues — Flavorwire Men bare all: new chest hair trend — Yahoo! Read more

Jesus Christ Superstar May Get a "Hipstery" Big Screen Makeover


Updated 08/03/09 6:11 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 5 comments

Jesus Christ Superstar May Get a "Hipstery" Big Screen Makeover

After Mamma Mia!'s global earnings of $600 million last year, Universal may be looking toward Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber for its next movie musical success. The studio is apparently developing an adaptation of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar with an interesting directorial choice: 500 Days of Summer director Marc Webb. Here's more: The story . . . is generally is seen as decidedly a Read more

Green Day's American Idiot to Become Stage Musical


Updated 03/30/09 5:02 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 6 comments

Green Day's American Idiot to Become Stage Musical

'80s and '90s movies like Heathers, Ghost and Sleepless in Seattle aren't the only things to be reworked for the stage these days — a musical version of Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot will open the 2009-10 season at Berkeley Repertory Theater. Here's more: Michael Mayer, who picked up a 2007 Tony for his direction of Spring Awakening, will helm American Idiot. Mayer co-writes the book Read more

Kristen Bell May Star in the Heathers Stage Musical. Wait, What?


Updated 03/16/09 10:43 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 15 comments

Kristen Bell May Star in the Heathers Stage Musical. Wait, What?

You know, I could kind of understand the idea of Sleepless in Seattle becoming a stage musical. And then there came news of a London musical version of Ghost — which also makes about 1,000 times more sense than turning the beloved and darkly funny 1989 movie Heathers into a musical and bringing it to the stage. What's more, Kristen Bell has already taken part in a reading of the musical, Read more

Sleepless in Seattle to Become Broadway Musical


Updated 03/04/09 1:24 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 13 comments

Sleepless in Seattle to Become Broadway Musical

"Horses, horses, horses, horses. . . ." I hope one of the songs in the Sleepless in Seattle Broadway musical begins like that, patterned after Meg Ryan's little moment singing along to the holiday tune in her car. According to Variety, the script for Sleepless in Seattle — The Musical is about half finished, and about 18 songs have been written. The article notes, "Sticking to plot of the Read more

Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal Are Damn Yankees


Updated 03/02/09 1:06 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 8 comments

Jim Carrey, Jake Gyllenhaal Cast in Movie Adaptation of Damn Yankees Musical

Ha, I guess we picked a good time to talk about big-screen musical adaptations, because there's news about a new one heading our way. Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Carrey will star in a modernized film adaptation of Damn Yankees, produced by the folks behind Hairspray. The musical — which was produced for the first time in 1955 — centers on Joe Boyd, a married man "whose devotion to a hapless Read more

Buzz In: What Musicals Do You Want to See on the Big Screen?


Updated 02/27/09 3:41 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 24 comments

Musicals That Should Be Made into Movies

Did you guys hear? The screen musical is back! Well, at least according to Hugh Jackman, who kicked off his Oscar ceremony musical medley on Sunday by talking about the box office success of Mamma Mia!. It does seem like we get a good on-screen musical every few years, between Dreamgirls and Hairspray and even Chicago a while back. I would love to see Mr. Jackman himself singing and dancing in Read more

Would You See a Stage Production of Thriller?


Updated 02/08/09 6:40 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 8 comments

Would You See a Stage Production of Thriller?

Producer James L. Nederlander has reportedly acquired the rights to make a stage version of "Thriller," "Michael Jackson's iconic music-video spoof of horror films." The show will use music from the albums Off the Wall and Thriller. Nederlander says, "I love the idea of making 'Thriller' a musical. Girl meets boy, they fall in love, boy has big secret, now what?" I love the song "Thriller" and I Read more

What Do You Think About a Phantom of the Opera, Part II?


Updated 05/27/09 9:11 AM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 17 comments

Phantom of the Opera Sequel

According to Wikipedia, The Phantom of the Opera's 20-year run on Broadway has been "the most lucrative entertainment enterprise of all time." Capitalizing on the beloved musical's major success, creators of the award-winning show now say a sequel is on the way. Andrew Lloyd Webber confirmed that he has written a new score for a follow-up musical which will pick up where the first story leaves Read more

Would You Go See a Brady Bunch Musical?


Updated 03/21/08 12:30 PM · Posted by BuzzSugar · 8 comments

Brady Bunch Musical

Seems like there is plenty of odd musical news going around right now, and one of the strangest ideas I've heard is A Very Brady Musical, which will take to the stage in L.A. on June 6. At first glance this is really unappealing. Upon closer inspection though, it seems like the producers have come up with a clever twist, calling this the Brady Bunch for grown-ups: Through a misunderstanding, the Read more