For those of you who haven’t seen Coraline on the big screen yet, what are you waiting for? From the creator of the Nightmare Before Christmas, Coraline is a stop animation film of a young girl who walks through a secret door in her bedroom and enters another world. This wonderful movie is now slated to be brought to the musical stage by New York’s MCC Theater. The show will start previews on May 20th and the show will run through June 20th.
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In the string of odd things to bring to the musical stage, the latest is Ponzi’s Scheme, The Musical.  Charles Ponzi is a well known shyster from the 1920’s that bilked more than $50 Billion, yes Billion folks, of money from investors.   The Musical is still in the planning stages, but when we hear more about it we will pass the information along.
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Rentheads’ (a.k.a. diehard Rent fans)  voices have been heard: the hit Broadway musical has been granted an extension, and will close September 7, 2008. This is an extension of approximately 3 months. (Previously a closing date of June 1 had been reported.) No doubt ticket demand had some influence in this case.
If you’ve already bought tickets for up to the June 1 date, you now have the option of attending a later performance. The final performance is now 6:30 PM on September 7, and, according to Ticketmaster.com, tickets are on …

Cheyenne Jackson, star of Broadway’s surprise hit musical Xanadu, will be starring in the new film “Shifting the Canvas,” directed by Chuck Griffith. Don’t worry, Xanadu fans — the filming will not interfere with his Xanadu performances.
Press notes describe the movie, saying it “tells the story about a group of artists living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn who struggle to maintain a rather dysfunctional family of friends in a post-9/11 world challenged by gentrification, deception and sterilization.”
Cheyenne will play a “straight Ivy League type who works on Wall Street with Denton, a …

The Los Angeles non-touring production of Wicked, now playing at the Pantages Theatre, will play its final performance on Jan. 11, 2009.
Producer Marc Platt said,
“Wicked has been one of the biggest hits in Los Angeles theatre history and we are thrilled that theatergoers here have embraced the musical and welcomed us so heartily. Our run at the Pantages has been a joy for the entire company and will place Wicked alongside only two other shows in recent memory that have successfully called Los Angeles home for an extended stay – …

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical South Pacific opened on April 3 at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont theatre. (Previews began March 1.) It garnered nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize when it debuted more than 50 years ago. This is the musical’s first Broadway revival since its 1949 stage debut.
Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara (last seen in The Light in the Piazza) and baritone Paulo Szot play the two lovers (Nellie Forbush and Emile de Becque) who meet “some enchanted evening.” Matthew Morrison, who was O’Hara’s love interest in Piazza, …