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Carrie, Sister Act, Devil Boys from Beyond and more
Billie Joe Armstrong in American Idiot (Photo: Paul Kolnik)
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Encore has been away for a few days, but now we’re back and (potentially) better than ever. Here’s some of the theater news you may have missed while we’ve been away:
-The winner of the 2009 FringeNYC Overall Excellence Award, Devil Boys from Beyond features an all-male cast and promises “flying saucers! Backstabbing bitches! Muscle hunks and men in pumps!” The play will have its Off-Broadway premiere at New World Stages on November 3 with an official opening set for November 13.
-From October 11-December 24, Twisted Sister-frontman and frequent VH1 talking head Dee Snider will make his Broadway debut as Dennis in Rock of Ages. We’ll assume that Dennis won’t be taking something and he won’t take it anymore.
-Want to make $1 million? Just cast Billie Joe Armstrong in your musical. With Green Day’s Armstrong playing St. Jimmy, American Idiot grossed slightly over $1 million for the week of September 29-October 3. Now if only Armstrong uses that money to make another album as good as Insomniac or Warning…
-Although the performance date isn’t known yet, we do know that Joseph Harrington will join the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical as the titular role, becoming the tenth child to do so. So far, they’ve all been really good (it’s like Menudo!), so there’s no reason to expect anything less from Harrington, who hails from Ohio.
-My favorite press release of the week: “Producer Whoopi Goldberg…announced today that the new Broadway musical, Sister Act, will play the Broadway Theatre this spring.” Hallelujah! Preview performances are scheduled to begin March 24, 2011, with an official opening set for April 20.
-The musical Carrie, based on the Stephen King novel, opened on Broadway in 1988 and closed after only 21 performances. It was such a bomb that it even inspired a book called Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops. Twenty-two years later, the MCC Theater is trying again, with a book from Lawrence D. Cohen and lyrics Dean Pitchford. More information TBA.