Broadway

Well, this is just getting confusing.

Following initial reports last year that Evan Rachel Wood would be heading to the Great White Way to star in the upcoming musical, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, a casting notice went up earlier this year which seemed to indicated that Wood had not been given the role.

Lots of Hollywood actors and actresses take on the Broadway scene – Katie Holmes and David Radcliffe to name a couple, and now Ashton Kutcher.

Mr. Demi Moore has reportedly been offered the starring role in Neil LaBute’s play Fat Pig.

There's a whole lotta hotness headed to the Great White Way.

Hugh Jackman, who's never met a musical he didn't want to be a part of, and Daniel Craig will be starring on Broadway in a play, entitled A Steady Rain, about two veteran Chicago cops whose relationship is tested one night by a domestic disturbance.

Jackman won a Tony award in 2004 for his role in The Boy From Oz, and while Craig started out in the theatre, he has never performed on Broadway.

We're just hoping the play involves lots and lots of shirtlessness.

No, not a nightclub; a First Wives Club.

Broadway heavyweights Adriane Lenox, Barbara Walsh and Karen Ziemba have been cast in the lead roles of an upcoming musical version of The First Wives Club, the 1996 comedy which starred Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler as three divorced women looking to get back at their ex-husbands.

The show is set to open in San Diego in July before moving to Broadway later in the year.

—J. Bavoso

We hope all of that "sushi" was worth it.

Jeremy Piven, who dropped out of the play Speed-the-Plow at the last minute at the end of last year, citing a fishy bout of mercury poisoning, is being blacklisted on Broadway, according to Steven Pasquale, star of the play reasons to be pretty. 

Bow down!

Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin, the original cast of 9 to 5, attended the opening night of the film’s musical adaptation on Broadway last night.

While they all looked fabu, we can’t get over Dolly.

Who else could pull off tan-toned hose, inch-long acrylic nails, a white, spangley skirt suit and enough hairspray and eye shadow to make Tammy Faye Baker blush, and still manage to look fierce?

We give her two snaps and a yee-haw.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Our least favorite whore, Evan Rachel Wood, is NOT set to star as Mary Jane in Julie Taymor’s new Broadway show Spider-man: Turn Off The Dark. 

A casting notice has been released for all leading roles.

The casting announcement for the comic book adaptation reads, "Spider-Man is seeking principals and understudies for the roles of Peter Parker, Mary Jane and Female Lead Villain."

Taye Diggs, 38, and his Broadway diva wife, Idina Menzel, 37, are expecting their first baby.

The couple met during the original Broadway production of Rent in 1996 and married in January 2003.

Too bad he cheats on her constantly.

Maybe being a father will halt his despicable philandering ways.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Sigh. 

F—k me gently with a chain saw.

We can’t fight this tsunami of remakes, so we’re afraid we’re just going to have to get on the bus and ride it. (Except the Karate Kid redo; that we will fight to our dying breath.)

Heathers is being made into a musical for Broadway.

Lick it up, baby. Lick. It. Up.

The 1988 classic has been in staged readings for the past week with Kristen Bell as Veronica Sawyer, Winona Ryder’s part, and Christian Campbell as J.D., a part made iconic by Christian Slater.

Proving that there are no new ideas people are willing to take a chance on, plans have just been announced for Sleepless in Seattle: The Broadway Musical.

Why?

The 1993 romantic comedy, which starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, is being adapted by the film’s screenwriter Jeff Arch and aims for a Broadway debut in 2010.

What’s up with all the rehashing?

90210, Shrek, Melrose Place, The NeverEnding Story, Clue, The Karate Kid…

Why is everyone so afraid of a new frontier?

—Sasha Perl-Raver