Friday, July 27, 2007

links for 2007-07-27

• How Disney Theatricals learned to love 'High School Musical'
  The winding road that brought High School Musical from TV to the legit stage, with stops in a few gymnasiums.
  (tags: disney musicals theatre)
• Neon Graveyard - a photoset on Flickr
  A great collection of photos from the Las Vegas museum that stows decommissioned neon signs. Where else would you find a neon graveyard but in Vegas?
  (tags: signs neon)

Saturday, July 14, 2007

links for 2007-07-14

• How to make sexy buttons with CSS
  They're buttons! And they're sexy!
  (tags: css webdesign buttons)
• Playbill News: "Hairspray" Star Efron Will Be "Footloose" in Film Remake
  Plans are afoot to remake Footloose as "a full-blown musical" (perhaps a screen adaptation of the 1998 Broadway version?). Hmm...will our children be playing Six Degrees of Zac Efron?
  (tags: musicals movies)
• Opening Night: Xanadu Video Feature
  Xanadu on Broadway, with scrumptious Cheyenne Jackson? Can. Not. Wait.
  (tags: xanadu musicals broadway)
• Jim Hill : As "Tarzan" swings off Broadway, is Beyoncé getting ready to play Aida in Disney's next big movie musical?
  Disney is reported in talks with Beyonce to star in a movie adaptation of Aida.
  (tags: movies musicals broadway)

Wednesday, June 13, 2007

A Pulitzer conspiracy?

According to comments on its MySpace site, it appears that the Newsies flashmob I mentioned a while ago didn't happen as planned. Anyone know what happened? Is Christian Bale OK?

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

links for 2007-05-30

• And the world will know!
  Pulitzer and Hearst, they think we're nothin'! It's a Newsies flashmob, seizing the day on June 2 in San Francisco's Union Square.
  (tags: newsies disney flashmob)