Reviews for Green Day’s American Idiot musical have been overwhelmingly positive thusfar, and while I’ll freely admit that judging the show based on clips instead of seeing the whole thing is premature, I will also freely admit that if I were to judge the show based on the clip below of the cast singing “Holiday” on Letterman , I would judge it with a verdict of “guilty of not being very good”. I hate to be the... 

A South Park musical is coming to Broadway in 2011! South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are said to be developing a musical about the Mormon church. South Park’s Parker and Stone will write and direct the musical, called “The Book of Mormon” – look for it to premiere on Broadway in March 2011. Parker and Stone call the musical “a dream come true for us,” saying in a statement: “Growing up... 

It’s just that, rapping is an activity most commonly associated with persons of the African-American persuasion, and to be of Caucasian descent and to attempt it, and for captured moving images of this occurrence to be placed on the world wide web, it’s just… this would be unexpected and awkward, would it not? – James J. Internet , March 1993 (via Videogum )  Read More →

When Liza Minnelli guests on Ugly Betty will the cast be channeling their inner Glee ? You know, do a song or dance or two? That’s my wish! Miss Liza is reportedly slated to appear in a coming episode as a drama teacher who has a profound effect on Justin, Betty’s nephew. Justin, as anyone who follows the show knows, is already a theater fiend. In fact, Ugly Betty as a show has been very musical-friendly (kind of like Pushing Daisies...