All posts tagged "Broadway"

The creators of South Park say they've spent three months to work a grisly Jeffrey Epstein joke into their Broadway hit Book of Mormon.

A revised section of a recent showing of The Book of Mormon saw the show creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, poke fun at the convicted pedophile. The pair revised the Spooky Mormon Hell Dream song, which sees the main character haunted by the likes of Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler.

Stone and Parker revised the song for its recent 15th anniversary, replacing serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer with Epstein, The Daily Beast reported. After a recent performance, Stone took to the stage and said, "I want to talk about that Jeffrey Epstein joke, is what I want to talk about."...

CNN's Inside Politics panel couldn't help but point out the irony of President Donald Trump declaring his love for the Broadway show "Les Miserables" as U.S. Marines arrived in Los Angeles at his direction to keep American citizens in line.

Host Dana Bash invoked lyrics from the musical to set up the discussion.

"President Trump 'dreamed a dream' of a new Kennedy Center. He replaced its entire board and named himself chairman, and tonight returns for opening night of the Broadway classic 'Les Miz.' It's a story, of course, of uprising — a rebellion by the poor. He'll look down from the presidential balcony. He'll 'hear the people sing.' But will there be empty seats at empty tables?"...

New York (AFP) - After 35 years and almost 14,000 performances, the curtain fell for the final time Sunday on the longest-running show in Broadway history -- "The Phantom of the Opera." Since opening in January 1988, Andrew Lloyd Webber's megahit musical has wowed New Yorkers and tourists alike, becoming a symbol of the famous theater district. The melodrama about a disfigured genius who haunts the Paris Opera House and whose heart aches for the young soprano Christine has been seen by 20 million people and grossed over $1.4 billion in ticket sales. But producers decided it was time to end the......