The Romy and Michele musical ("Romy And Michele's High School Musical?") is officially a thing! Playbill has an exclusive up about the 2-year-old project helmed by the three original producers of "Romy And Michele's High School Reunion," which finally saw a private reading in New York last week. Tony nominee Kerry Butler ("Xanadu," "Catch Me If You Can") read for the part of Michele, and Lesli Margherita ("Zorro") read for her deep-voiced compadre Romy. (Side note: someone named "Lesli Margherita" in this role --> yes.)
Playbill's other pertinent reveals: the ever-important score for the musical has already been written by "Weeds" soundtrack-scribes Gwendolyn Sanford and Brandon Jay, selected for their "special" "80s-90s rock sound"; the script is a "reimagining," with scenes from the movie mixed with new stuff; and the ultimate destination is indeed Broadway, though one producer told Playbill, "we don't want to blow the show up just...
Playbill's other pertinent reveals: the ever-important score for the musical has already been written by "Weeds" soundtrack-scribes Gwendolyn Sanford and Brandon Jay, selected for their "special" "80s-90s rock sound"; the script is a "reimagining," with scenes from the movie mixed with new stuff; and the ultimate destination is indeed Broadway, though one producer told Playbill, "we don't want to blow the show up just...
- 12/14/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Among the stars of the upcoming new movie Repo Chick - Alex Cox's so-called "official non-sequel" to his 1984 sci-fi cult classic Repo Man - is Us actor/writer/producer Danny Arroyo.
The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, is co-produced by David Lynch's production company (Eraserhead, Dune, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks) and produced by Daren Hicks and Simon Tams (producers of Batman: Dead End, Searchers 2.0, Hunter Prey).
The official synopsis of the project is: "Against the background of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the Us, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high, the repo business has expanded to everything from boats, houses, aeroplanes, small nations...children."
Jaclyn Jonet stars as the central character Pixxi de la Chasse, a rich girl disinherited by her family for her antics. She ends up...
The film, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September, is co-produced by David Lynch's production company (Eraserhead, Dune, The Elephant Man, Twin Peaks) and produced by Daren Hicks and Simon Tams (producers of Batman: Dead End, Searchers 2.0, Hunter Prey).
The official synopsis of the project is: "Against the background of the credit crunch and the subprime mortgage crisis in the Us, where repossessions of homes, cars and other forms of property is at a new high, the repo business has expanded to everything from boats, houses, aeroplanes, small nations...children."
Jaclyn Jonet stars as the central character Pixxi de la Chasse, a rich girl disinherited by her family for her antics. She ends up...
- 11/23/2009
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
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