After a 10-year hiatus, Laura Bell Bundy, a Tony-nominated actress, is back on stage (despite a broken toe from rehearsals), singing and dancing in the world premiere production of The Honeymooners. The musical, based on the 1950s CBS TV show, is playing at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey, through Oct. 29. In it, Bundy plays Trixie, a former burlesque dancer married to Ed Norton (Michael Mastro), who wants to get back into show business.
“Even though she loves her husband so much, it’s not enough for her to stay in the house and be a housewife. I think [writers Dusty Kay and Bill Nuss] felt that message resonated with women of 2017,” she tells Et, explaining that the character is not stuck in a time warp of the show’s 1950s conventions.
Originally from Kentucky, Bundy, known for originating such roles on Broadway as Amber Von Tussel in Hairspray and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, first got her start...
“Even though she loves her husband so much, it’s not enough for her to stay in the house and be a housewife. I think [writers Dusty Kay and Bill Nuss] felt that message resonated with women of 2017,” she tells Et, explaining that the character is not stuck in a time warp of the show’s 1950s conventions.
Originally from Kentucky, Bundy, known for originating such roles on Broadway as Amber Von Tussel in Hairspray and Elle Woods in Legally Blonde, first got her start...
- 10/17/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
Jumanji gets reboot via Stranger than Fiction writer Zach Helm The 1995 family adventure Jumanji, based on the book by Chris van Allsburg, which originally starred Robin Williams, Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce and Bonnie Hunt, has landed a scribe in Zach Helm. Matt Tolmach and Bill Teitler produce the new film while Mike Weber and Ted Field serve as executive producers. The first pic helmed by Captain America's Joe Johnston, told of a supernatural board game titled "Jumanji" discovered by two kids. Once they start playing, they unleashing various forces from the jungle and come across Alan Parrish (Williams), a man trapped in the game for decades. Together, dodging a hunter out to land Williams as a trophy, they must finish the game, which is destined to bring in another player in Parish's friend Sarah Whittle (Hunt), who years before fled the game in horror, and now has to take her turn.
- 12/7/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jumanji gets reboot via Stranger than Fiction writer Zach Helm The 1995 family adventure Jumanji, based on the book by Chris van Allsburg, which originally starred Robin Williams, Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce and Bonnie Hunt, has landed a scribe in Zach Helm. Matt Tolmach and Bill Teitler produce the new film while Mike Weber and Ted Field serve as executive producers. The first pic helmed by Captain America's Joe Johnston, told of a supernatural board game titled "Jumanji" discovered by two kids. Once they start playing, they unleashing various forces from the jungle and come across Alan Parrish (Williams), a man trapped in the game for decades. Together, dodging a hunter out to land Williams as a trophy, they must finish the game, which is destined to bring in another player in Parish's friend Sarah Whittle (Hunt), who years before fled the game in horror, and now has to take her turn.
- 12/7/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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