Ice Age… on ice! you know, for kids
See lovable contortionist acrobats in squirrel costumes on skates, singing Ice Age favorites including “Ode to the Glacier (My Heart Is Melting)” and “Top of the Food Chain, Ma!”
stage buzz
someone should really do something about piracy!
Don’t worry: they figured it out! And no, no one said, “Hey, why don’t we give movie and TV fans a way to legitimately pay for and download the stuff they’re screaming at us that they want.” Of course not.
London photo of the day: Shakespeare’s Globe theatre
The stunning re-creation of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre on Southbank.
pix of David Tennant and Catherine Tate in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in the West End (and my first reaction)
I don’t want to say too much about the show yet, because it was still in previews when I saw it, but I will say this, because it’s hard to see how it could change: This production of Much Ado About Nothing is the third funniest thing I’ve ever seen on stage…
question of the day: If they asked you, would you be willing to replace Julie Taymor as director of ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’?
A classic conundrum, says reader Bruce: risk being known as the fool who agreed to take over as captain of the Titanic in mid-sink or, if you succeed in turning the $65 million debacle around, become the greatest savior in show biz history.
omg: Peter Davison is still in ‘Legally Blonde’ in the West End!
It never ever occurred to me to imagine that Peter Davison — who’s starring in the role Victor Garber played in the movie, with all-new singing and dancing — would still be in the show all these many many months later. But he is, and I’m so there…
trailer break: Danny Boyle’s ‘Frankenstein’ at London’s National Theatre
It’s theater, but it’s cinema, too…
Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Children’s Hour’ (West End): give it a miss
Did director Ian Rickson make the conscious decision to replace emotion with a studied old-fashionedness? If so, why?
guess who snagged a ticket for Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss in ‘The Children’s Hour’ in the West End?
Elisabeth Moss from Mad Men is making her West End debut this weekend when the classic drama The Children’s Hour opens on Saturday night. And I’ll be there to see it…
question of the day: What movie would be the most horrifying one to adapt to a stage musical?
The other day I lamented the West End arrival next year of Ghost: The Musical. Today in the Telegraph there’s a review of the new stage version of Flashdance, and it ain’t pretty…
