With this past weekend’s Grammys, producer Scott Rudin became the latest entertainer to earn the ugly, ineffective title of “EGOT”–having won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. (His new Grammy was for The Book of Mormon.) He’s one of only eleven such winners–and the first in a decade. We demand yet Read More
The Book of Mormon, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical co-created by the South Park team and Avenue Q’s Robert Lopez raked in an astounding $1,428,663 last week for eight performances at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre this weekend. On January 3rd it was reported that the previous week had shattered the theater’s box office records for the 24th consecutive week in a row by bringing in $1,752,601. The show opened in March, and its cast soundtrack also debuted the best Billboard sales since The Little Mermaid‘s Broadway edition. (Though considering how that play sank, maybe that’s not much of a recommendation.)
Why should you care? (Besides the fact that the profits of just one month of this play are enough to feed all of Northern Uganda for ten years?) Read More
So much happens each day–how to keep it all straight? Time to test your memory!
–Which would-be daytime newbie is going to struggle to have a hit–not that flopping has stopped her rise?
–Speaking of failing upwards, which film critic proved that the worst (and most weirdly laborious!) way to review Read More
The Book of Mormon–which The Observer reviews in this week’s issue–isn’t just one of the best-reviewed Broadway shows in memory. It’s also one of the weirdest-reviewed, as practically every critic tries to prove that they know a little bit about the Latter-Day Saints by stuffing in metaphor and churchy tone. To wit: Entertainment Weekly Read More
There is a dirty secret hidden within The Book of Mormon, the high-profile new musical from the subversive and scatological South Park boys that was widely expected to upend Broadway this spring.
Indeed, the infamously irreverent Trey Parker and Matt Stone–whose long-running hit animated series has skewered nearly everyone, from Hillary Clinton to TV censors, Read More
