[ad_1] Tina Fey on “Mean Girls” musical film, working with Lindsay Lohan again – CBS News Watch CBS News Tina Fey brought “Mean Girls” back to the big screen 20 years after the original film became a massive hit, this time as a musical based on the “Mean Girls” Broadway show. She talked to Gayle…
[ad_1] Oprah talks casting Danielle Brooks in “The Color Purple’ – CBS News Watch CBS News First on “CBS Mornings,” Oprah Winfrey and award-winning actor and singer Danielle Brooks are live in studio to discuss the highly-anticipated musical adaptation of “The Color Purple.” They discuss the advice Winfrey — who starred as “Sofia” in the…
[ad_1] For more than a dozen years, pop star Alicia Keys has been working on a musical. Now, “Hell’s Kitchen” is being performed at the Public Theater in New York. “This is what I’ve been dreaming about, the whole time,” she said, walking up to the theater’s entrance. “And we’re here!” What took so…
[ad_1] Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” returns to Broadway – CBS News Watch CBS News Stephen Sondheim’s musical about the long, complicated friendships of a trio of creatives, which was savaged by critics when it first debuted in 1981, has been rethought and restaged in an acclaimed revival that is now back on Broadway. Correspondent…
[ad_1] At the Hudson Theatre on Broadway, three friends are playing three friends, in a revival of “Merrily We Roll Along,” with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Jonathan Groff, who drew raves as King George III in “Hamilton,” plays composer Franklin Shepard: “He goes from being a super-excited young composer into a marriage, has…
