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Sony Pictures Classics ha desvelado el primer tráiler de la película Blue Moon, del aclamado cineasta Richard Linklater (Hit Man).

Firmada por Robert Kaplow, autor de la novela Me and Orson Welles, Blue Moon se adentra en los últimos días de Lorenz Hart, célebre mitad del dúo Rodgers & Hart. La historia transcurre principalmente en el emblemático restaurante Sardi’s, durante la noche del 31 de marzo de 1943, fecha en la que se estrenó ¡Oklahoma!, musical que marcó el comienzo de la alianza entre Rodgers y Oscar Hammerstein II tras la salida de Hart.

La película reúne a un reparto de lujo, con Ethan Hawke al frente, acompañado de Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale y Andrew Scott.

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Toronto International Film Festival announced the lineup for its Centerpiece program on Tuesday, spotlighting 55 total films from nearly 50 countries. “Blue Moon” from director Richard Linklater, a collaboration between the U.S. and Ireland, will have its North American premiere in the largely international section of the festival.

Of the 55 films screening in the Centerpiece program, 51 represent countries outside of the U.S. Some are collaborations with the U.S., while most are entirely international productions. Likewise, only six films are sole productions of Canada, with one co-production between Canada and Hungary.

18 of the films present in the section will have their world premieres at TIFF. These include “Good Boy,” starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough; Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner “Carolina Caroline,” from director Adam Carter Rehmeier, who previously made “Dinner in America” and “Snack Shack”; and “Wasteman,” the debut feature from Cal McMau starring David Jonsson from “Alien: Romulus” and “Industry.

In the official trailer for Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) is killing the vibe. The famed lyricist is settled at the bar in the Broadway staple restaurant Sardi’s, following his sorrows to the bottom of a bottle as he watches his former collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) celebrate.

Rodgers and Hart were once a great duo, creating American songbook classics “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Falling in Love With Love,” and more together in the early years of their partnership. But this was...

Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for Blue Moon, its songwriter drama marking the ninth collaboration between filmmaker Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke, which is slated to hit theaters in Los Angeles and New York on October 17, before expanding nationwide on October 24.

Written by Robert Kaplow, author of the novel Me and Orson Welles — which inspired the Linklater film of the same name — Blue Moon profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart (Hawke), part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart. The film is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, which marked Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.

Also starring Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra) and Andrew Scott (Ripley), the film premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where Scott won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance, for his turn as Rodgers.

The first official trailer has arrived for Blue Moon, the new biographical portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart. The movie, which stars Ethan Hawke as the renowned lyricist, will be released in theaters on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles and New York, before expanding nationwide on October 24, 2025. The movie is directed by Richard Linklater from a script by Robert Kaplow. Watch the trailer and check out the poster below. The movie profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart, and is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement. In the trailer, viewers can see the weight of Rodgers'...

It's the movie that made little princesses everywhere want to lose a glass slipper in hopes of it being found by a charming prince. So many Cinderella films have been made, and many actresses have portrayed the princess, from Julie Andrews to Brandy. Both starred in Rodgers & Hammerstein's version based on the fairytale, and now a limited series from Skydance Television and Concord Originals has landed on Disney+.

Singer and actress Jennifer Lopezwill produce the series under her Nuyorican Productions banner. The project, which is currently in development, will be a musical series emphasizing Cinderella's fairy godparents' perspectives. Deadline also reports that a bidding war ensued between Amazon and Disney for the series, with Disney ultimately emerging victorious.

Rachel Shukert, whose credits include The Handmaid's Tale, Glow, Nine Perfect Strangers, The Baby-Sitters Club, and more, has written the upcoming limited series and is attached as executive producer and showrunner. Skydance...

Over the years, Cinderella has had many adaptations. The folk story of a young girl living in unfortunate circumstances and blessed with a life-changing decision after marrying has been around for centuries, although it's mostly famous thanks to the Disney adaptation.

Cinderella was adapted into opera, theater, musicals, films, and TV. Walt Disney entered the conversation in 1950, giving the character, who is now considered one of the Disney Princesses, her first adaptation. Jennifer Lopez has been interested in a new version of the story for years, and she is now partnering with Disney+ for a new version, Deadline reports.

Lopez has been attached to the limited series based on Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella since May 2022. The singer and actress' production company, Nuyorican Productions, was working with Skydance Television and Concord Originals. The same production companies are still attached to the project, which has now officially landed at Disney+.

Considering Disney...

Sony Pictures Classics has scheduled Blue Moon, Richard Linklater’s latest film, for release on October 17 in New York and Los Angeles, with a broader rollout planned for October 24. The biographical drama centers on lyricist Lorenz Hart, one half of the iconic Rodgers and Hart songwriting duo, during a pivotal evening in 1943.

Set almost entirely at Sardi’s Restaurant, the film unfolds on the night Oklahoma! premiered on Broadway—Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II after parting ways with Hart. Ethan Hawke plays Hart, who reflects on his legacy and confronts the emotional toll of professional displacement. The cast includes Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott.

The story takes place over a single night, capturing the personal and artistic reckoning of a man witnessing the reshaping of American musical theater without his involvement. Hawke and Linklater, long-time collaborators, team up for the ninth time on this project. Their...

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Golden Globe-winning Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is returning to TV with Too Much, the first series she's created since 2018's Camping. The semi-autobiographical romantic comedy series premieres July 10 on Netflix. Dunham writes and directs the series, which she cocreated with her husband, Luis Felber. Megan Stalter (Hacks) stars as Jessica, "a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows. When every block in New York tells a story of her own bad behaviour, the only solution is to take a job in London, where she plans to live a life of solitude like a Bronte sister. But when she meets Felix (Will Sharpe) — a walking series of red flags — she finds that their...

Sony Pictures Classics has dated Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon about Rogers & Harts tunesmith Lorenz Hart for Oct. 17 with an expansion on Oct. 24.

The news comes in a week when Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is making its world premiere at Cannes.

The movie stars Ethan Hawke as Hart, as well as Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott in the final days of the legendary musical scribe. The movie is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.

The movie, which made its world premiere at Berlin, reps Academy Award nominee Hawke’s ninth collaboration with Linklater. The Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at Berlin went to Scott.

Linklater produced Blue Moon alongside Mike Blizzard (Hit Man) and John Sloss. The film is a Detour/Renovo production in association with Wild Atlantic Pictures,...

The coveted Best Picture category at The Oscars has defined countless cultural moments throughout cinema history. As the category has evolved from including five films to 10 in 2009, more films have had their chance to be crowned the most influential film of the year by the Academy. The Best Picture Selections have significantly ranged over the years, encompassing a variety of genres and stories that reflect the media and culture of their time.

In the almost 100 years that have passed since the first Oscars ceremony in 1929, the Best Picture award has remained just as powerful in cementing a lasting legacy for a film. As the 2025 Oscars approach, it's fascinating to examine this year's lineup in association with other Best Picture winners.

The Sound of Music Is an Uplifting and Poignant Musical Winner of Best Picture in 1966 at the 38th Academy Awards

One of the most famous musicals in theater history, The Sound of Music...

There was Dewey Finn, Ned Schneebly, Willoughby, Mason Evans Sr.––now there’s Lorenz (or Larry) Hart. Richard Linklater likes a certain type of guy, and maybe these features come across too infrequently in his female characters: charismatic, voluble, verbose, enthusiastic as a puppy, and if prone to morose stretches, never in a way that destabilizes an essential upbeat humanism.

Blue Moon, which world-premiered at the Berlinale, is another beautifully personal work from Linklater, full of authorial idiosyncrasies and tics, but distinguishing the film from his corpus is it being the kind you can only make at a mature career stage. It’s not so much that Linklater has nothing to prove––screenplays like Robert Kaplow’s and its rarified, remote milieu of mid-wwii New York theaterland can typically send financiers balking. With a “legacy” career, little favors and gives come your way; for Linklater, maybe his next will be a legitimate awards contender,...

They say the old tunes are the best and this one’s a romantic serenade to the bygone era of Forties NYC theatreland cut through with a melancholic counter-melody to lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), whose alcoholism led to his collapse in the street after a night in a bar, in November 1943 and his subsequent death, at 48, from pneumonia days later.

Richard Linklater’s chamber piece character study opens with that night and the gutter before spinning back to a different night looking at the stars six months before when Hart’s former composing partner Richard Rodgers opened his first venture with Oscar Hammerstein II, Oklahoma!, on Broadway. Hart’s opinion of it is easy to see as he leaves his mother in the theatre early and retreats to the bar, even though he has theoretically sworn off booze.

The barman Eddie knows Hart - and his soon...

The long and rewarding collaboration between Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater stretches back 30 years to Before Sunrise, continuing with the other two parts of that superlative romantic trilogy, filmed at nine-year intervals, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. While that project spanned 27 years, the actor and the director also spent more than a decade shooting Boyhood for a few days at a time, once or twice a year. Their intimate knowledge of artistic symbiosis adds a poignant underlay to Hawke and Linklater’s reunion on Blue Moon, a transfixing character study that X-rays the shaky skeleton of a creative partnership of comparable duration.

Written with wry humor and perspicacity by Robert Kaplow, whose novel was the basis of Linklater’s 2008 feature, Me and Orson Welles, the new film again is set in the world of Broadway and expands on theater lore in illuminating personal ways.

It unfolds in real time on...

When does an artist die? Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon opens with a direct answer as it pertains to its subject, famed American lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), as he stumbles drunkenly to the ground of a Hell’s Kitchen alleyway in November 1943. Then a radio announcer’s voiceover narration dutifully provides the key bullet points of Hart’s accomplishments as if to clear the decks before audiences get the actual answer.

Blue Moon captures the death of an artist as only Linklater could by fixating on a moment perpendicular to Hart’s passing. Seven months before his collapse at just 48 years old, a single night at the famed Broadway haunt Sardi’s led to the devastating realization that both the culture and his collaborators had left him behind. Surrounded by portraits of the industry’s brightest talents, the space becomes like a mausoleum to Hart as he frets about...

In Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise,” Julie Delpy’s Céline suggests that “If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something.” Thirty years after Céline and Ethan Hawke’s Jesse fell in love, Linklater reunites with Hawke for “Blue Moon,” the long-time collaborators’ latest attempt to find that magic. The film in question seeks to understand Lorenz Hart, the great American lyricist who — alongside composer Richard Rodgers — is responsible for countless classics to be found in the great American songbook. But from the outset, Linklater understands the inherent difficulty that comes with capturing such a singular voice all these decades later.

“Blue Moon” opens with two wildly contrasting quotes. One is from Oscar Hammerstein II, who claimed that Hart was “alert and dynamic and fun to be around.” The other is from cabaret legend Mabel Mercer, who describes...

“They gave up on me a long time ago,” filmmaker Richard Linklater joked this afternoon during a press conference in Berlin for his latest flick, Blue Moon.

The veteran Golden Bear winner was referring to the Hollywood film industry, and what he believes they have given up on is his ability to make traditional, commercially-minded movies.

“I don’t think I’ve compromise at all over the years. We have no pressure. We do whatever we want,” Linklater added in reference to Blue Moon. “This was a small-budget movie. There’s no test screenings or anything like that.”

Blue Moon is Linklater’s 25th film and his ninth collaboration with his longtime muse, Ethan Hawke. The pair were characteristically cool this afternoon at the press conference. They were joined by Margaret Qualley (The Substance) and Andrew Scott (Ripley), who also star in the movie.

Unlike most press conferences this year in Berlin,...

Andrew Scott goes searching for flickers of the past at the bottom of a bottle and the end of a cigarette in the music video for “People Watching,” the title track on Sam Fender’s forthcoming third studio album.

In the Stuart A. McIntyre-directed clip, the Irish actor wakes up in the middle of the sidewalk and begins a lonely journey towards nowhere. He hitches a ride in the back of a pickup truck, drinks bad coffee at desolate diners, and smokes at the bar in between crying sessions.

There have been many stories about Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean bonding during the production of George Stevens’ epic “Giant” in Marfa, Texas, in 1955. Though not exactly a “Harold & Maude” scenario, the 24-year-old Dean also developed a strong friendship with Edna Ferber, the diminutive Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such classic novels as “So Big,” “Showboat,” “Cimarron,” and “Giant,” who turned 70 that summer in Marfa. Ferber, who never married, was seen sitting on the back of Dean’s motorcycle as they would take rides during breaks. And she even tried her hand at twirling the lasso.

Author Julie Gilbert, Ferber’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated grand nice and biographer (“Ferber: The Biography of Edna Ferber and Her Circle”), doesn’t think the two were in love. “He was very young,” said Gilbert, who writes about her great aunt and the making of the Oscar-winning film in her latest book “Giant Love” set for a Dec.

In a way, you can thank Orson Welles for "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music." Over 20 years before he directed either of those pictures, Robert Wise got his start as a film music and sound editor at Rko Pictures. He gradually moved on to editing films themselves, which led to his collaborations with Welles on "Citizen Kane" and "The Magnificent Ambersons." You can see a lot of Welles' influence in Wise's later output as a director, particularly his inclination to shoot with long depth of field and precise use of sound. Both of these were essential to Wise's musicals, which snagged Oscars for both Best Director and Best Picture upon their release in 1961 and 1965, respectively.

Beyond that, though, "West Side Story" and "The Sound of Music" couldn't be less alike. "West Side Story" is an impassioned tale of warring New York street gangs and star-crossed lovers fueled...

La película comenzará su rodaje este verano.

De acuerdo con Deadline, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale y Andrew Scott protagonizarán la nueva película del aclamado director Richard Linklater (“Hit Man”), “Blue Moon”, que comenzará su rodaje este verano en Dublín, Irlanda.

Escrita por Robert Kaplow, autor de la novela “Me and Orson Welles”, “Blue Moon” narra los últimos días de Lorenz Hart, miembro del dúo de compositores Rodgers & Hart. La película se desarrollará principalmente en el restaurante Sardi’s el día 31 de marzo de 1943, que fue la noche del estreno de ¡Oklahoma!, que supuso la primera colaboración de Rodgers con Oscar Hammerstein II como sustituto de Hart.

Linklater ha dicho «Robert, Ethan y yo hemos estado desarrollando esta historia durante más de una década y estamos emocionados y agradecidos de que haya llegado el momento de darle vida.»

Un portavoz de Sony Pictures Classics declaró: «Hace casi un año,...

Richard Linklater is getting ready to turn his attention from one Hit Man to another of an altogether different kind with Blue Moon, a new biopic profiling the dying days of Lorenz Hart, one half of legendary mid-century American songwriting duo Rodgers & Hart. And the Boyhood filmmaker has brought together a hell of a cast for this new project. As reported by Deadline, Linklater's movie — which has landed worldwide distribution via Sony — is set to star Ethan Hawke in his ninth collaboration with his Before trilogy director, as well as Margaret Qualley (Kinds Of Kindness), Andrew Scott (Ripley), and Bobby Cannavale (Blonde)

Due to start shooting in Dublin, Ireland this summer, Blue Moon has been a long-term passion project for Linklater. "Robert [Kaplow], Ethan [Hawke], and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life,...

Deadline reports that Ethan Hawke is set to reunite with Richard Linklater once again for Blue Moon, a drama which dives into the final days of Lorenz Hart, one half of the songwriting team Rodgers & Hart.

In addition to Hawke, Blue Moon will also feature Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra), and Andrew Scott (Ripley). Production will kick off in Dublin, Ireland this summer. Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the worldwide rights for the project, which has been scripted by Robert Kaplow. The film will be set “primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, which marked Rodgers’s first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.“

“Robert, Ethan and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life,” Linklater said in a statement. A spokesperson for...

Sony Pictures Classics has picked up all rights worldwide to Richard Linklater’s upcoming Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott.

Production is scheduled to begin in early July in Dublin on the feature, which profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, one half of the songwriting team Rodgers & Hart.

Blue Moon is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.

Sony Pictures Classics is co-financing with Renovo Media Group and will support the production. Sony will release the film worldwide.

Sony Pictures Classics has nabbed the worldwide rights to Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, which is set to star Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott.

Production is set to start in early July in Dublin on the drama about the final days of Lorenz Hart, half of the songwriting team Rodgers & Hart and set around Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, on the opening night of Oklahoma!

That production marked Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement. Sony Pictures Classics and Renovo Media Group are financing Blue Moon, which is written by Robert Kaplow and reunites Linklater with Hawke in their ninth movie together.

“Robert, Ethan and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life,” Linklater said in a statement. Sony Pictures and Linklater have also collaborated...

After making his last two movies for Netflix, Richard Linklater is heading back to movie theaters for his next project, and he’s also reuniting with one of his longtime collaborators for the first time in a decade: Ethan Hawke.

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired the rights to what will be Linklater’s next film, “Blue Moon,” the distributor announced Tuesday, June 18. Joining the project are Hawke, now working with Linklater for the ninth time, as well as Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and “Ripley” star Andrew Scott.

Principal photography on “Blue Moon” begins in Dublin, Ireland this summer with financing from Sony Pictures Classics and Renovo Media Group.

“Blue Moon” is about the final days of Lorenz Hart, who was half of the songwriting duo Rodgers and Hart. The film takes place largely in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943 on the opening night of “Oklahoma!,” the first project Rodgers would...

When, just last month, I talked to Richard Linklater about this prolific moment in his career, I had zero notion he’d been well into preparing a new-new film––following Hit Man, Hometown Prison, and the yet-to-premiere Nouvelle Vague, which says nothing of a Merrily We Roll Along movie coming in 15-17 years. Per Deadline, cameras roll this summer on Blue Moon, a feature scripted by Me and Orson Welles author Robert Kaplow that’ll reunite him with Ethan Hawke and Bobby Cannavale, while Margaret Qualley and Andrew Scott co-star.

Linklater’s next follows Lorenz Hart, a longterm collaborator of Richard Rodgers, and is “set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, which marked Rodgers’s first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.” Hardly a move to capitalize on the commercial hit of his latest: Linklater says he, Hawke, and Kaplow “have...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures Classics has acquired worldwide rights to Blue Moon, the new film from Academy Award nominee Richard Linklater (Hit Man), on which we were first to report, and which will be his next effort after all, with production commencing in Dublin, Ireland this summer.

Ethan Hawke is set to star, in his ninth collaboration with Linklater. Others aboard for roles include Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra) and Andrew Scott (Ripley).

According to Linklater, who’d previously hinted at a long-time passion project with Hawke, “Robert, Ethan, and I have been developing this story for over a decade and are excited and grateful that the time has come to bring this to life.”

Written by Robert Kaplow, author of the novel Me and Orson Welles which inspired the Linklater film of the same name, Blue Moon profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart.

It’s a hit! A palpable hit! “Merrily We Roll Along” cleaned up at the 2024 Tony Awards, winning the coveted Best Revival of a Musical trophy. “Merrily” is now the fifth musical from composer Stephen Sondheim to win this revival category. That ties the record of Oscar Hammerstein II, who has also seen five of his tuners win this race, meaning that the works of these two theater legends have prevailed more than any other writers in this category.

Sondheim and Hammerstein haven’t picked up any actual Tony Awards themselves for these winning revivals. The Best Revival of a Musical Tony, like the other production categories, is awarded to a show’s producers.

Other Sondheim productions that have prevailed in Best Revival of a Musical category are “Into the Woods” (2002), “Assassins” (2004), and “Company” (for both the 2007 and 2022 productions). Additionally, the 1989 production of “Gypsy” starring Tyne Daly, won a combined...

Hit Man is heading to Netflix this week, but Richard Linklater is already planning his next film, reportedly titled Blue Moon.

Richard Linklater is already lining up his next project as his latest film, Hit Man, hits Netflix later this week.

According to Deadline, Linklater will next be adapting the lives of American songwriters Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart into a feature film. The film will reportedly be titled Blue Moon, which comes from a 1934 song by Rodgers and Hart, who are the musical masterminds behind 28 shows, including Babes In Arms and A Connecticut Yankee.

According to the report, Blue Moon “follows Hart as he attempts to save face while celebrating his former partner Rodgers’ great success on the night of his musical Oklahoma!‘s Broadway opening.”

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Robert Kaplow has reportedly penned the script...

Exclusive: As his acclaimed comedic thriller Hit Man approaches its June 7 release on Netflix, filmmaker Richard Linklater may have identified his next project, as sources tell Deadline that he’s in development on a film called Blue Moon.

Taking its name from the 1934 ballad written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, the film follows Hart as he attempts to save face while celebrating his former partner Rodgers’ great success on the night of his musical Oklahoma!‘s Broadway opening. While it’s believed that this will end up being Linklater’s next film, that’s not entirely clear at present.

We’re told that Robert Kaplow — co-writer of Linklater’s 2008 film Me and Orson Welles — penned the script for Blue Moon and that Linklater will produce the project alongside his manager John Sloss.

A legendary American songwriting duo known for their contributions to musical theater, Rodgers and Hart collaborated between 1919 and the early 1940s,...

Carol Burnett is unstoppable. The coolest 91-year-old in show biz, Burnett is a contender for her 25th Emmy nomination for her role as Norma Dellacorte, the powerful maven of Palm Beach society who knows where all the bodies are buried and is not above a little blackmail in Apple TV +’s “Palm Royale.” She won her first Emmy in 1962 for her work on CBS’ “The Garry Moore Show” and her 25th last year for NBC’s “Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love.” And her beloved CBS 1967-78 comedy variety series “The Carol Burnett Show’” won 25 Emmys.

But did you know Burnett was a Broadway baby? She made her debut as the “Shy” Princess Winnifred on the Great White Way in 1959 in the musical comedy “Once Upon a Mattress” for which she was nominated for a Tony and received a Theatre World honor. She also reprised her role in...

When the Tony Award nominations dust settled “Hell’s Kitchen” and “Stereophonic” received the most nominations with 13 each, followed by “The Outsiders” with 12, followed by the revivals of “Cabaret” with nine and “Appropriate” earning eight. Oscar-winner Ariana DeBose returns as host of the third consecutive year of the Tony Awards which CBS and Pluto will telecast June 16th from Lincoln Center.

How well to you know your Tony history? Here are some fun facts about the latest crop of nominees.

The revival of Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical “Merrily We Roll Along” earned seven nominations including best revival of a musical, best performance by an actor in a musical for Jonathan Groff, featured actor for Daniel Radcliffe, featured actress for Lindsay Mendez and best director for Maria Friedman (her sister Sonia Friedman is nominated for outstanding play for “Stereophonic”). The troubled original production of “Merrily We Roll Along’ only received a Tony nomination for original score.

Exclusive: Sky has landed UK broadcast rights to music film My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80thAnniversary Concert.

The deal was announced today by the film executive producers Sophia Dilley from Concord Originals and Imogen Lloyd Webber from Concord Theatricals. Sky will broadcast the film in the UK on Sky Arts in May.

Directed by BAFTA winner Julia Knowles (The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Celebration), the film celebrates the historic partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II and features iconic songs from The Sound of Music, South Pacific, Oklahoma! and others.

The film includes a concert captured in London in December 2023 at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane – the same venue that premiered the original West End productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, Carousel, SouthPacific and The King and I.

It was headlined by the likes of recent Rogers & Hammerstein leading lady Joanna Ampil (Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific); Olivier...

Film historians, critics and cineastes have heralded 1939 as the greatest year for Hollywood films. It was the year that saw the release of such classics as “Gone with the Wind,” “Stagecoach,” “Love Affair,” “The Wizard of Oz,” “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” “Young Mr. Lincoln” and “Wuthering Heights.” That’s just the tip of the iceberg

But what about Broadway? A case can be made for 1964, which saw the debuts of three musicals that became classics: “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Funny Girl” and “Hello, Dolly!”

Broadway was changing in the 1960s. Oscar Hammerstein II died in 1960; Irving Berlin’s last show was the disappointing 1962 “Mr. President”; and Cole Porter, who died in 1964, hadn’t had a musical on Broadway since the 1950s. Sixty years ago, a group of young talented composers and lyricists were the toast of the Great White Way.

Like Jerry Herman. He was all of 30 when “Milk...

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Star Cast: Vijay Sethupathi, Katrina Kaif, Radhika Apte, Sanjay Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Tinnnu Anand, Ranjan Raj, Aditi Govitrikar

Director: Sriram Raghavan

Merry Christmas Movie Review Is Out! (Picture Credit: IMDb)

What’s Good: The kid in Vijay Sethupathi, Katrina Kaif matching the Vs brilliance & Sriram Raghavan delivering back-to-back bangers like a boss

What’s Bad: People will compare this with Andhadhun; please don’t!

Loo Break: This won’t leave you even for a second!

Watch or Not?: This should be the first film you watch as soon as you finish this review

Language: Hindi

Available On: Theatrical release

Runtime: 2 hours 24 minutes

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It’s Christmas evening in Mumbai (when it was called Bombay), Jingle Bell is played on a flute, a guy dressed as Santa is driving a Bajaj Chetak on the not-so-busy roads & two strangers are at a restaurant as one...

Betta St. John, who portrayed the lovely island girl Liat in the original Broadway production of South Pacific and starred as a princess alongside Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in the MGM romantic comedy Dream Wife, has died. She was 93.

St. John died June 23 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Brighton, England, her son, TV producer Roger Grant, told The Hollywood Reporter.

The California native played one of the survivors of an airline crash, who is chased by a crocodile in Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) — the first Tarzan film in 15 years and the first one in color — and then returned for Tarzan the Magnificent (1960). Both films starred Gordon Scott as the King of the Jungle.

St. John also starred with Stewart Granger, Ann Blyth and Robert Taylor in All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953); with Victor Mature, Piper Laurie and Vincent Price in the 3-D adventure Dangerous...

Throughout entertainment history, names such as Elvis and Beyoncé have become so synonymous with one person respectively that no last name is required to understand to whom one refers. Even abbreviated nicknames like Sly or Arnie often refer to one specific movie star above all others. Why, then is one name - for all its famous namesakes - synonymous with a little gold statuette as opposed to a person? From Oscar Isaac to Oscar the Grouch, it's remarkable to think a forename so popular in the early 20th century is associated with the award, first and foremost. One would assume the use of such a common name would mean several Oscars have indeed won an Oscar, but amazingly only one, Oscar Hammerstein II, has taken home the eponymous award, and has in fact done so twice!

Singer, actor, producer and activist Harry Belafonte, who spawned a calypso craze in the U.S. with his music and blazed new trails for African-American performers, has died of congestive heart failure at his Manhattan home. He was 96.

An award-winning Broadway performer and a versatile recording and concert star of the ’50s, the lithe, handsome Belafonte became one of the first black leading men in Hollywood. He later branched into production work on theatrical films and telepics.

As his career stretched into the new millennium, his commitment to social causes never took a back seat to his professional work.

An intimate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., he was an important voice in the ’60s civil rights movement, and he later embarked on charitable activities on behalf of underdeveloped African nations. He was an outspoken opponent of South Africa’s apartheid policies.

Belafonte was set to receive the Motion Picture...

Were you as pleased as we were that the judges saved the Mantis on the April 5 episode of “The Masked Singer”? We liked this fellow from the moment he strode on stage and blew the roof off the joint with his rollicking rendition of “Old Time Rock and Roll” by Bob Seger.

We were disappointed when he lost the Battle Royale to Dandelion after they duelled on the ditty “(I’ve Got A) Golden Ticket” from “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.” But then we were delighted when Robin Thicke rang the Ding Dong Keep It On bell and kept him in the competiton.

We’ve rewatched both of the performances by the Mantis as well as his clues package. Forget those guesses by the judges that Dandelion is Kevin Bacon, Dennis Quaid,Keanu Reeves or Bruce Springsteen. We are convinced we’ve cracked the code and know the name...

Barbra Streisand’s fabled run of 1962 shows at the Greenwich Village nightclub, Bon Soir, will be released as a new live album, Live at Bon Soir, on Nov. 4 via Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings. To tease the release, Streisand shared a powerhouse rendition of the Arthur Hamilton-penned song, “Cry Me a River.”

Live at Bon Soir was recorded over three nights, Nov. 4 through Nov. 6, 1962: Streisand was just 20 years old, and she’d signed her first record deal with Columbia only a month earlier. The recordings were originally supposed to become Streisand’s debut album,...

Henry Fonda, actor (1905-82)

Grammy: Best Spoken Word Album, “Great Documents” (1977)

Oscar: Best Actor, “On Golden Pond” (1981)

Tony: Best Actor, “Mister Roberts” (1948); Best Actor, “Clarence Darrow” (1975)

Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist and producer (1895-1960)

Grammy: Best Original Cast Album, “The Sound of Music” (1960)

Oscar: Best Original Song, “The Last Time I Saw Paris” from “Lady Be Good” (1941); “It Might As Well Be Spring” from “State Fair” (1945)

Tony: Three awards for “South Pacific” (1950); Best Musical, “The King and I” (1952); Best Musical, “The Sound of Music” (1960)

Elton John

Grammy: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group, “That’s What Friends Are For” (1986); Best Instrumental Composition, “Basque” (1991); Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” (1994); Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, “Candle in the Wind” (1997); Best Show Album, “Aida” (2000)

Oscar: Best Original Son, “Can You Feel the Love Tonight” from “The Lion King” (1994)

Tony: Best Score, “Aida” (2000)

John Legend, songwriter and...

The Academy Museum’s Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 is not to be missed. Not only does the exhibition celebrate Black representation in film, it serves as an important reminder and lesson about the contributions of Black filmmakers and stars to the world of cinema.

Opening Aug. 21, seven galleries make up the exhibit exploring Oscar Micheaux’s low-budget dramas in the silent-film era to the works of Melvin Van Peebles.

The exhibition also introduces audiences to stars largely unknown to mainstream moviegoers — Ralph Cooper, Clarence Brooks and Francine Everett — alongside iconic screen legends Paul Robeson, Josephine Baker, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Lena Horne.

Poiter’s Oscar for “Lillies of the Field” is just one of the many artifacts on display in this historic exhibition. Alongside the award are tap shoes worn by the Nicholas Brothers and one of Louis Armstrong’s trumpets.

Cowboy Boots worn by Herb Jeffries in 1937’s...

A 25th anniversary celebration of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella will air with a news special cast reunion and presentation of the original film as part of Disney Princess Week.

The package, Cinderella: The Reunion, A Special Edition of 20/20, airs on ABC-tv on Tuesday, Aug. 23 stating at 8 Pm Et/Pt and will stream the next day on Hulu.

The reunion will feature Brandy, Whoopi Goldberg, Paolo Montalban, Victor Garber, Bernadette Peters, Jason Alexander, and Veanne Cox. Following the news special, The Wonderful World of Disney will aira presentation of the original film from 9-11 Pm Et/Pt. (9:00-11:00 p.m). It will also be available to stream on Disney+.

The Disney live-action film marked a groundbreaking moment in television history, introducing America’s first Black Cinderella (Brandy) and Fairy Godmother (Whitney Houston). The ABC News Studios reunion special explores how the made-for-television musical expanded society’s view of the term “princess,...

Grab your glass slippers — “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” is coming back to TV.

In celebration of the beloved fairytale musical’s 25th anniversary, ABC will air a special edition of the news program “20/20” that will reunite the cast of the television film, set to air on Aug. 23. The film’s entire surviving cast — including Brandy as the titular princess, Paolo Montalban as the prince, Jason Alexander as his valet Lionel, Whoopi Goldberg as the queen, Victor Garber as the king, Bernadette Peters as the wicked stepmother and Veanne Cox as one of the stepsisters — will return for the special, which will be followed by the first broadcast airing of the original film in two decades.

The third televised version of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s 1957 musical — which initially starred Julie Andrews in the title role — “Cinderella” first premiered on ABC in November 1997. The film received mixed reviews at the time,...

Apple TV +’s “Schmigadoon” is the musical equivalent to a warm, happy smile. The six-part limited series that premiered on the streaming service last July is a smart, clever and fun parody of the classic musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. It was a golden era of the Broadway musical dominated by such influential, eminent composers as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Alan Jay Lerner Lerner & Frederick Loewe, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, Leonard Bernstein & Stephen Sondheim, Meredith Willson, and Richard Adler & Jerry Ross.

Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key star as two doctors who have grown tired in their relationship and decide to get on a camping retreat. Before you can say “Brigadoon” they get lost in the woods only to cross a bridge into a Hallmark Card of a town where every day is a musical. But checking out of Schmigadoon is no easy task. They can’t leave...

Cinco Paul first had the idea for what would become the Apple TV+ series “Schmigadoon!” more than 25 years ago. But his busy schedule as a writer of several blockbuster animated movies – including the “Despicable Me” franchise – plus the general nature of the television landscape kept the musical project from becoming a reality.

“We heard after several pitch meetings, ‘This is too big of a swing for us,’” Paul recalls in an exclusive video interview. “But fortunately, Apple was there and it wasn’t too big of a swing for them.” He joined our Gold Derby “Meet the Experts” panel for showrunners.

SEETish Monaghan interview: ‘Schmigadoon!’ costume designer

The ambitious project, which debuted last summer, stars Cecily Strong and Keegan-Michael Key as, respectively, Melissa and Josh, a couple at a crossroads in their relationship who find themselves magically transported into a fantastical musical, not unlike something composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist...

When Stephen Sondheim died at age 91, the composer-lyricist left behind a tear-stricken theater community and a cultivated garden of classic musicals that have been loved, examined, adapted, and revived. The apprentice of Oscar Hammerstein II was lauded for his lyrical dexterity and empathetic embrace of human contradictions, as well as his role in reinventing the form of commercial musical theater. Sondheim left his indelible thumbprints in the theater community and in movie contributions, be it cinematic adaptations of his work or in creating music for film. 

We compiled a chronological list of his major musical theater projects (one television musical...

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Stephen Sondheim, the legendary Broadway songwriter, has died at his home in Connecticut at the age of 91, according to The New York Times. The prolific composer and lyricist was the creative force behind some 20 musicals starting in 1954 — including West Side Story (lyrics), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Follies, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, and more — as well as numerous film and TV projects, from adaptations of his Broadway hits to original songs for movies such as Dick Tracy and The Birdcage. Over his remarkable, seven-decade career,...

Stephen Sondheim, the dominant voice in American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century and the composer with the most Tony Awards, has died. He was 91. The Broadway icon died Friday, November 26th at his home in Roxbury, Conn. He was 91.

His shows, from the comedic “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” to the ground-breaking “Company” to the operatic “Sweeney Todd” to the experimental “Pacific Overtures,” transformed the Broadway musical stage, influencing and advancing the medium. Sondheim, a protege of Oscar Hammerstein II, slowly moved away from that melodic tradition to incorporate complex and dissonant themes and structures of 20th century classical music into his works.

Sondheim won seven Tony Awards plus a 2008 Special Tony Award for lifetime achievement in the theater.

Though he never achieved popular success on the order of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sondheim altered and broadened the boundaries of American...