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Posted Wednesday 2/13/19 at 11:37PM EST
Can the live TV musical survive?
Rent: Live's terrible ratings on Fox prompted NBC to scrap its Hair Live! musical, opting instead to seek a more...
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Posted Wednesday 2/06/19 at 2:39PM EST
Fox Entertainment boss regrets telling the Rent: Live cast to "break a leg"
Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier says he penned handwritten notes to the actors before the show.
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NBC scraps Hair Live! TV musical
The Peacock has canceled plans to air a live TV musical on Sunday, May 19, based on the 1960s countercultural...
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to follow its series finale with a concert special
After Rachel Bloom and her cast say goodbye after four seasons at 8 p.
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Posted Wednesday 1/30/19 at 2:49AM EST
Rent: Live betrayed the ethos of theater and its “the show must go on" motto
The decision to mostly air a pretaped rehearsal in response to Brennin Hunt's injury made Rent: Live much worse, says...
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Rent: Live wasted the chance to make TV history after a cast member broke his foot
After Brennin Hunt broke his ankle toward the end of Saturday's dress rehearsal, Fox decided to show pre-taped rehearsal footage.
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Can Fox's Rent: Live succeed when the original musical feels so outdated?
The Fox TV musical airing live Sunday will try to capture what was once a groundbreaking musical that has turned...
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Riverdale to tackle Heathers: The Musical
The CW series announced it is doing another musical based on an iconic high school film.
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Posted Monday 10/29/18 at 12:43PM EDT
Fox's live production of Rent casts Vanessa Hudgens, Tinashe, Brandon Victor Dixon and Kiersey Clemons
Also joining the TV adaptation of Jonathan Larson's Tony-winning HIV/AIDS-themed musical are Jordan Fisher, Brennin Hunt, Mario and Keala Settle,...
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Posted Monday 10/15/18 at 9:45AM EDT
Transparent's final season to end with a musical episode
"This idea of music rescuing our family was all there," creator Jill Soloway said of the Season 5 ending in...
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Posted Wednesday 10/03/18 at 9:05PM EDT
Read an oral history of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's "The Nightman Cometh" musical episode
Considered the best episode, "The Night Cometh" aired 10 years ago next month and has since become a live show...
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Posted Monday 9/10/18 at 2:00PM EDT
John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice join the EGOT club thanks to NBC's Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert
The trio join 12 other winners who've won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony following their Creative...
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Posted Thursday 9/06/18 at 3:23PM EDT
High School Musical: The Musical will be shot as a docuseries about students putting on a production of High School Musical
Disney has released details of its previously-announced new High School Musical TV project that will be made available on Disney's...
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Craig Zadan dies: Former Oscars producer helped bring live TV musicals to NBC
Zadan died Tuesday at age 69 of complications following shoulder replacement surgery.
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Posted Tuesday 7/24/18 at 2:04PM EDT
Hair Live! gets May premiere date
NBC's next musical production, based on the Broadway hit Hair!, will be broadcast on May 19, 2019, the final Sunday...