Only two sequels have ever won the Best Picture Oscar and Wicked: For Good won’t be the third after being snubbed when the nominations for Tinseltown’s Red Carpet night on 15 March were revealed this week.
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Wicked, Emilia Pérez and more – Which musical movies will come out top at the Academy Awards 2025?
Two musicals, Wicked and Emilia Pérez, made the final ten for Oscars night on 2 March after nominations for Hollywood’s big night were eventually announced last week.
Will it be slim-pickings for musical theatre lovers at the Baftas and Oscars?
The recently-announced Oscars nominations suggest it’s going to be a slim-pickings year for musicals lovers. The Color Purple, with its $100 million budget, doesn’t even make the Best Picture list and Danielle Brooks, the film’s only other contender in the main categories who reprises her Broadway role of Sofia, is a big outsider for Supporting Actress honours.
Ariana DeBose is named Best Supporting Actress for West Side Story at the Oscars
Sixty years ago West Side Story swept the board at the Academy Awards, winning ten Oscars, a record number for a musical that still stands. But Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Laurents-Robbins masterpiece, nominated for seven this year, had to settle for just one on Sunday night. As expected, hot favourite Ariana DeBose took the […]
Oscars Preview: Will West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose walk away a winner?
The red carpet rolls out for Hollywood’s big night on Sunday when all will be revealed at the 94th Oscars and the good news for lovers of musicals is that the fat lady is ready to sing for West Side Story’s Ariana DeBose. She’s the hottest of favourites in the Best Supporting Actress category for […]
Exclusive! Rita Moreno is in line for an Oscars West Side Story double
Sixty years after winning the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Anita in West Side Story, 90-year-old Rita Moreno has the chance to pull off a unique Oscars double in Steven Spielberg’s electrifying remake of the 1961 movie classic. With nominations for the Oscars due to be announced on 8 February 2022, Moreno is quoted at […]
CD Review – Andrew Lloyd Webber – Unmasked: The Platinum Collection
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER – UNMASKED: THE PLATINUM COLLECTION (UMC/POLYDOR) Star rating: two stars ★ ★ ✩ ✩ ✩ Apparently Andrew Lloyd Webber will be 70 this year and so, guess what? Yes, there is a new collection being released called Andrew Lloyd Webber Unmasked: The Platinum Collection. For some reason, don’t ask me why, the […]
Cabaret – Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Cabaret was reviewed at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London before continuing on tour. Never mind what those ‘Best Musicals of All Time’ polls say, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s hilarious, poignant and, yes, frankly shocking interpretation of Christopher Isherwood’s autobigraphical novel is one of the greatest ever written, some would say THE greatest, and now […]
