I'm very excited for Hairspray the Musical the Second Movie or whatever (is there anybody out there that's surprised?). Amanda Bynes is actually the casting I'm most excited about, because I adore her and think she will be hilarious in that role. Yes, she's very pretty, but she can do awkward well, which is what Penny is all about.
I don't know how I feel about Zac Efron. He's awful in High School Musical. But then, I'm not sure if he could possibly be good in that, so I don't actually know. We'll see.
Stardust! HP! Yay!
Now. Who's seen Xanadu? Because I haven't, but I'm going to see the mocking Broadway version soon!
I've not only seen it, I own the soundtrack.
I think that was one of the first albums I ever owned. That and
Synchronicity.
What, I can't have layers?
I think that was one of the first albums I ever owned. That and Synchronicity.
What, I can't have layers?
I figure if I can like songs by ELO AND the Dead Kennedys that judging other people's taste is not something I should be trying to do, within reason.
Whitney Houston and her fans, though? They get the HOSTEL treatment, stat! (I figured that for Celine Dion fans that was too easy a sentence - they get the Italian cannibal movie treatment).
I got into a discussion with Jasmine (a friend at work) over how pretty the actress who first played Penny really was. Jasmine insists that she was a quite pretty girl who played awkward well and since we could not find any good pics of the original Penny on line I had to concede (since Jasmine saw the original Hairspray much more recently than I did). So now I'm back to being slightly annoyed at Edna's casting while still glad that a scientologist is wearing drag.
This is even worse: Tony Scott's LA-set revamp of that quintessential New York movie, The Warriors.
The Brits remade it a few years ago as The Purifiers, starring a certain former hobbit-turned-island-refugee. It's been shown on Encore Action channel a lot lately.
Oh, I saw that. It reminded me of
The Warriors
but I didn't know it was a remake.
Well, right now Penny is being played by Alexa Vega, who is very pretty but needs to eat a sandwich or seven, STAT. I was astonished that she could get up there and sing/dance like that 8 times a week since her caloric intake is clearly about half what it needs to be. I was impressed by her performance, though.
The original Broadway Cast Penny was Kerry Butler, who, coincidentally, is playing Kira in the Xanadu musical I mentioned earlier. Apparently, she's awesome. And definitely a very pretty girl.
oh she is skinny. She's not even 18 yet and she looks so drawn.
