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2013 Tony Awards – The Winners

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Rebecca Murray
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The Tony Awards
The Tony Awards © 2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc

Neil Patrick Harris kicked off the 2013 Tony Awards show with a musical number that even included a bit of dancing by Mike Tyson. And while the number was a great way to launch the June 9, 2013 broadcast, the evening was actually all about the battle between Kinky Boots and Matilda.

Kinky Boots came into the awards show with 13, with Matilda The Musical hot on its heels with 12, and when the awards were handed out Kinky Boots did in fact continue to lead the pack with the most wins. Kinky Boots collected six Tonys, including Best Musical, as well as a historic win for Cyndi Lauper’s music and lyrics. Lauper became the first woman ever to win a Tony for music and lyrics solo (other women have won as part of a collaborative effort).

Best Play
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Best Musical
Kinky Boots

Best Revival of a Musical
Pippin

Best Revival of a Play
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Book of a Musical
Matilda the Musical

Best Original Score Written for the Theatre
Kinky Boots, Music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical
Patina Miller, Pippin

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play
Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play
Tracy Letts, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical
Billy Porter, Kinky Boots

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play
Courtney B Vance, Lucky Guy

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play
Judith Light, The Assembled Parties

Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical
Gabriel Ebert, Matilda the Musical

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical
Andrea Martin, Pippin

Best Direction of a Play
Pam MacKinnon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best Direction of a Musical
Diane Paulus, Pippin

Best Choreography
Jerry Mitchell, Kinky Boots

Best Orchestrations
Stephen Oremus, Kinky Boots

Best Scenic Design of a Play
John Lee Beatty, The Nance

Best Scenic Design of a Musical
Rob Howell, Matilda the Musical

Best Costume Design of a Play
Ann Roth, The Nance

Best Costume Design of a Musical
William Ivey Long, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella

Best Lighting Design of a Play
Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer, Lucky Guy

Best Lighting Design of a Musical
Hugh Vanstone, Matilda the Musical

Best Sound Design of a Musical
John Shivers, Kinky Boots

Say Hello to Hello Ladies

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Rebecca Murray
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The Office co-creator Stephen Merchant teams up with The Office writers Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky to write and executive produce the new HBO series Hello Ladies. Debuting on September 29, 2013 at 10:30pm following the premiere of the last season of Eastbound & Down, Hello Ladies finds Merchant playing “a gawky, 6’ 7” Englishman searching for the woman of his dreams in Los Angeles. Half as charming – and twice as desperate – as he thinks he is, he’s obsessed with infiltrating the glamorous world of beautiful people who won’t let him in.”
 
Season one consists of eight episodes and HBO’s just released this teaser trailer to give potential viewers a sneak peek at what’s in store.
 
Watch the video:
 

 

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Russell Brand Goes on the Road Across the Globe

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Rebecca Murray
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Russell Brand Messiah Complex Tour Poster

Tickets go on sale on June 14, 2013 for Russell Brand’s upcoming world stand-up tour which kicks off in San Francisco on August 29th. The Messiah Complex tour will be, according to Live Nation, a “dissection of various social and religious figures and the reality of their lives through comparisons of each other.”

“I am going to tour The World (our one, Earth) with Messiah Complex, causing bother and excitement and offering opinions that have not been either solicited or thought through,” said Brand.

A Description of Russell Brand’s Messiah Complex Tour:

“Messiah Complex is a mental disorder where you think you might be the messiah. Did Jesus have it? What about Che Guevara, Gandhi, Malcolm X and Hitler? All these men have shaped our lives and influenced the way we think. Their images are used to represent ideas that often do not relate to them at all. Would Gandhi be into Apple? Would Che Guevara endorse Madonna? Would Jesus be into Christianity? All great people are flawed, all of us flawed people are capable of greatness and for every identifiable icon there is an anonymous mob of unrecognized bods doing all the admin and heavy lifting. This show looks at the importance of heroes in this age of atheistic disposability. Plus there’s sex. Obviously.”

US TOUR DATES

Thurs, Aug 29 – San Francisco, CA at Palace of Fine Arts

Fri, Aug 30 – Seattle, WA at Neptune

Sat, Aug 31 – Portland, OR at Newmark

Fri, Sept 6 – San Diego, CA at Balboa

Sat, Sept 7 – Phoenix, AZ at Orpheum

Thurs, Sept 12 – Washington, DC at Warner

Fri, Sept 13 – Atlantic City, NJ at Borgata

Sat, Sept 14 – Bethlehem, PA at Sands Event Center

Fri, Sept 20 – Tampa, FL at Ferguson Hall

Sat, Sept 21 – Orlando, FL at Hard Rock Live

Sun, Sept 22 – Coral Springs, FL at Coral Springs PAC

First Look: Theo James in ‘Divergent’

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Rebecca Murray
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Theo James as Four in Divergent
Theo James as Four in 'Divergent' - Photo Courtesy of Summit Entertainment

Summit’s just released this first photo of Theo James in character as ‘Four’ in Divergent. James as Four is the leader of the Dauntless faction in this screen adaptation of Veronica Roth’s bestselling book series. And according to an interview with EW, James is showing initiates around the Dauntless headquarters in this scene from the film.

“I’ve introduced them to this world, and they’re still in the beginning stages of training,” offered James. “At this stage, you don’t really know what Four is all about.”

Summit Entertainment will release Divergent in theaters on March 21, 2014.

The Plot: Divergent is a thrilling adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on their personalities, Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy to destroy all Divergents, she must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it’s too late.

The Cast:
“Tris” – Shailene Woodley
“Four” – Theo James
“Jeanine” – Kate Winslet
“Andrew” – Tony Goldwyn
“Marcus” – Ray Stevenson
“Tori” – Maggie Q
“Max” – Mekhi Phifer
“Eric” – Jai Courtney
“Peter” – Miles Teller
“Christina” – Zoë Kravitz
“Caleb” – Ansel Elgort
“Will” – Ben Lloyd-Hughes
“Edward” – Ben Lamb
“Al” – Christian Madsen
“Molly” – Amy Newbold




Usher to Perform on ‘The Voice’

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Rebecca Murray
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The Voice judge Usher
‘The Voice’ judge Usher (Photo by Trae Patton/NBC)

The Voice coach Usher will be taking to the stage on the June 10, 2013 episode of the singing competition, performing his latest single “Twisted” from his seventh album Looking 4 Myself. Also showing up to entertain The Voice audience this week will be Fall Out Boy as well as The Voice alumni Tony Lucca, Nicholas David, and Terry McDermott, who’ll all be performing on the June 11th episode.

Usher’s Looking 4 Myself is his fourth consecutive #1 studio album. He’s currently at work on album #8 and is also getting ready to start work on the Robert Duran biopic Hands of Stone in which he’ll play boxer Sugar Ray Leonard. The cast includes Robert De Niro and Edgar Ramirez, and is set to shoot in Panama.

Meanwhile, Fall Out Boy will be singing the single “My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark” from their album Save Rock and Roll, which debuted at #1 when it was released in April. Tony Lucca’s scheduled to perform “Never Going to Let You Go” while Nicholas David and Terry McDermott from The Voice season three will sing “Say Goodbye” and “Pictures,” respectively.

Lucca will soon be touring with Voice coach Adam Levine and Maroon 5 and is signed to Levine’s 222 Records.

Lena Headey Talks About ‘The Purge’

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Rebecca Murray
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Lena Headey, best known to legions of Game of Thrones fans as Cersei Lannister, stars as a wife and mother who’s forced into defending her home against psycho killers in The Purge. And in this interview courtesy of Universal Pictures, Headey discusses the appeal of The Purge, her reaction to the script, and her character’s arc.

The Plot:

If, on one night every year, you could commit any crime without facing consequences, what would you do?

In an America wracked with crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity – including murder – becomes legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It’s twelve hours when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this particular night in 2022, plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking.

When an intruder breaks into James Sandin’s (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear his family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide.




‘Game of Thrones’ Season 3 Finale Preview

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Rebecca Murray
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Iain Glen, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Emilia Clarke in Game of Thrones
GAME OF THRONES episode 30/season finale (season 3, episode 10): Iain Glen, Nathalie Emmanuel, and Emilia Clarke - Photo: Keith Bernstein/HBO

Even after the heartbreaking Red Wedding, I’m not ready for Game of Thrones season three to come to an end. But, unfortunately, HBO is only offering 10 season three episodes for the critically series, so despite the fact GoT fans want more, we’re going to have to adjust to the fact that after “Mhysa” airs it’ll be over until 2014.

The Plot:

Debut: SUNDAY, JUNE 9 (9:00-10:10 p.m.)
Other HBO playdates: June 9 (11:10 p.m.), 10 (10:30 p.m.), 11 (11:00 p.m.), 12 (10:00 p.m.), 13 (9:30 p.m.) and 15 (1:00 a.m.)
HBO2 playdate: June 13 (11:00 p.m.)
Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) challenges Tywin (Charles Dance). Bran tells a ghost story. In Dragonstone, mercy comes from strange quarters. Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) waits to see if she is a conqueror or a liberator.
Written by David Benioff & D. B. Weiss; directed by David Nutter.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Teaser Poster Debuts

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Rebecca Murray
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The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug PosterThe new teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (a title I’ll never get used to typing no matter how many times I have to between now and its December 13, 2013 release date) will come online on Tuesday, June 11th at 10am PT/1pm ET, but until then at least you have this pretty poster to look at. Of course Peter Jackson’s back at the helm, and the cast includes Martin Freeman, Ian McKellan, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Evangeline Lilly, John Bell, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Benedict Cumberbatch, Luke Evans, Stephen Fry, Ryan Gage, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher, Sylvester McCoy, Graham McTavish, Michael Mizrahi, James Nesbitt, Dean O’Gorman, Lee Pace, Mikael Persbrandt, Ken Stott, and Aidan Turner.
 
The Plot:
 
The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) on an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor.
 

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First Look: Woody Allen’s ‘Blue Jasmine’ Trailer

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Rebecca Murray
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Blue Jasmine is prolific filmmaker Woody Allen’s latest movie and it finds the writer/director returning to the States after a few years of films set abroad. San Francisco’s the setting of Blue Jasmine starring Cate Blanchett, Sally Hawkins, and Alec Baldwin, and Sony Pictures Classics is eyeing a July 26, 2013 theatrical release.

The cast also includes Louis C.K., Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alden Ehrenreich, Max Casella, and Tammy Blanchard.

Blue Jasmine Movie Cast Photo
Cate Blanchett as Jasmine, Max Casella as Eddie, Bobby Cannavale as Chili and Sally Hawkins as Ginger in ‘Blue Jasmine’ (Photo by Merrick Morton © 2013 Gravier Productions, Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

The Plot:

After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal (Baldwin), elegant New York socialite Jasmine (Blanchett) moves into her sister Ginger’s (Hawkins) modest apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.

Jasmine arrives in San Francisco in a fragile mental state, her head reeling from the cocktail of anti-depressants she’s on. While still able to project her aristocratic bearing, Jasmine is emotionally precarious and lacks any practical ability to support herself. She disapproves of Ginger’s boyfriend Chili (Cannavale), who she considers another “loser” like Ginger’s ex-husband Augie (Clay).

Ginger, recognizing but not fully understanding her sister’s psychological instability, suggests that she pursue interior design, a career she correctly intuits that Jasmine won’t feel is beneath her. In the meantime, Jasmine begrudgingly accepts work as the receptionist in a dentist’s office, where she attracts the unwanted attentions of her boss, Dr. Flicker (Stuhlbarg).

Feeling that her sister might be right about her poor taste in men, Ginger starts seeing Al (Louis C.K.), a sound engineer whom she considers as a step up from Chili. Jasmine sees a potential lifeline when she meets Dwight (Sarsgaard), a diplomat who is quickly smitten with her beauty, sophistication and style.

Jasmine’s flaw is that she derives her worth from the way she’s perceived by others, while she herself is blind to what is going around her. Jasmine earns our compassion because she is the unwitting instrument of her own downfall.




‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Cast Expands By Two

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Rebecca Murray
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Filming is almost ready to begin on the much-anticipated, long-awaited Veronica Mars movie and writer/director/producer Rob Thomas let his Kickstarter backers (yes, I’m one) know that two more familiar faces have joined the cast. Officially back on board is Percy Daggs III as Wallace Fennel who Rob says was always a part of the Veronica Mars movie script. Also reuniting with Kristen Bell is Chris Lowell as Stosh ‘Piz’ Piznarski.

Thomas broke the casting news on a Saturday, saying, “In the old world of entertainment, you were never supposed to share important news over the weekend, when it was more difficult to get press coverage. But we’re not in the old world of entertainment: we’re in the new world, where 91,000 of you decided whether or not this movie would get made. Since it’s your movie too, there’s no reason to wait until Monday if I’ve got news, right?”

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