The Day's Odds and Ends

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Just some random things at the end of the day that have caught my eye.  First off, two Broadway shows have entered the Twitter-verse.  The Normal Heart can be found at @TheNormalHeart  and Jerusalem is @JerusalemBWY.  Both are part of the Broadway twitter feed here on ATW.

Elsewhere, this one came as news to me...The Kings Speech seems to have started as a play and there are plans afoot to produce it in London and on Broadway.  Further, Geoffrey Rush has announced that neither he nor Colin Firth have plans to appear in the piece onstage.  This was announced at a dinner at Brooklyn Academy of Music the other night and then, reported on Bloomberg.com.  To read the full story, click here.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE skit - Weekend Update on Julie Taymor and SPIDER-MAN

This comes with a HT to ATC - last night's SNL take on the events of the week at Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark:

BETTY BLUE EYES in London

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Looking at the articles about the Olivier Awards, noticed a feature in the Daily Telegraph about Betty Blue Eyes, the new musical that's based on the movie A Private Function.  The movie happens to be a favorite of mine and so, I'm curious to see what happens with a musical about a group of Britains in a small Yorkshire village who are hoping to celebrate the wedding of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip in style by slaughtering an illegally raised pig.

The show stars star Sarah Lancashire (Joyce), Reece Shearsmith (Gilbert), David Bamber (Swaby), Jack Edwards (Allardyce), Mark Meadows (Lockwood), Adrian Scarborough (Wormold) and Ann Emery (Mother Dear).

Olivier Award Winners Announced - LEGALLY BLONDE Takes Best Musical

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The winners of the 2011 Laurence Olivier Awards have been announced.  Legally Blonde has piced up three awards, including Best New Musical, as ones for Sheridan Smith and Jill Halfpenny. 

In drama categories, Howard Davies won for the Best Director award for his staging of The White Guard at the National Theatre.  The production also picked up awards for Best Lighting (Neil Austin) and Set Design (Bunny Christie).  The Best New Play award has gone to Bruce Norris for Clybourne Park.

You can read more about the Oliviers at the official website:  >www.olivierawards.com

Also, here are some selected articles from other sources around the web:

 

The Week in Review

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The big story this week has been, of course, the fate of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.  The rampant speculation about changes in the creative team was finally confirmed with the announcement of the addition of Philip William McKinley and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to the creative team.  McKinley will be working on new staging and playwright Aguirre-Sacasa -- who has also written comic books -- has come on board to work on the book. 

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