Last night, Dancing With the Stars went full Disney. Unfortunately there was no Fox and the Hound contemporary dance, but they did make time for Ariel to shake her mermaid-shell bra around for the kiddies. So we've ranked all the Disney dances from best to worst!
Good news for fans of Spring Awakening, the 2006 Broadway hit (based on the 19th century German play) about a group of under-educated teens exploring sex, love and passion to the point of destruction. It looks like a film version of the musical is definitely happening.
Recently, Jezebel's own Kate Dries and Madeleine Davies ventured out to see Carly Rae Jepsen star in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway. This is their discussion from the following day.
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Pretty Woman, America's favorite preposterous Happy Hooker fairy tale, is headed for the Broadway stage. Get ready for a musical number called "Big Mistake. Big. Huge. (reprise)"!
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Snowy, Nordic fairy tale Frozen could have been wildly different from what we saw in theaters. Check out the whole other movie Disney almost made, in this astounding collection of concept art.
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Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell and the rest of the Frozen cast took the stage for a private concert. And that means Disney is finally accepting that sometimes it's better to let the Broadway singers take central stage — instead of hiding them in the shadows and foregrounding terrible pop-recreations of their movie hits.
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Hellllllllo, Heathers. (Sung in the key of MURDER.)
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What have we done?
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Kristen Wiig made a surprise appearance on SNL's cold open in what must have been a conscious effort on the part of NBC to stamp out all the The Sound of Music ridicule by spoofing all the spoof out of it. It seems to have worked, though I really think we're still missing an angle. Maybe a naked appearance from Eric…
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Last night, a total of 18.5 MILLION viewers tuned in to NBC's Sound of Music Live! and if Twitter and our own liveblog was any indication, at least 18 million of those 18.5 million people showed up to hate-watch.
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Bunheads might be gone, but it is not forgotten. Especially considering that there is fucking nothing else to watch MY GOD TV this season. /complain.
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On tonight's episode of Parks & Recreation — the last to air until January because NBC wants more people to watch Sean Saves The World/ oh my god NBC what are you doing? — Leslie Knope and Councilman Jamm pair up for a gender-bending rendition of the karaoke favorite "Summer Nights." Here's the entire performance.
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I know some of you are tired of the "Disney Does" that's infected the Internet like HTML mono, but this one is SO FUCKING AWESOME.
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A musical adaptation of Homeland that relevant Hollywood superstar Rosie O'Donnell thought was only so-so? Call the box office! I'd like to buy out the whole theater!
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It's no secret around these parts that I'm very into musical theater, but truth be told, I hadn't given comedians/MADtv alums Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele much thought beyond "Oh, they seem funny," until late last night when a friend sent me this clip from the recent Key and Peele season premiere, featuring the …
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Welcome back to Your Imaginary Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Jezebel's series in which we explore the wild and entirely fabricated world of dating a famous person. As is the risk with most fan fiction, things might get weird and things might get creepy, but the important thing is that we all have a good time.
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We've been waiting anxiously for Bret McKenzie (the tiny kitten-shirted costar of Flight of the Conchords) to get another music project. And now he has — and he says it's akin to the classic fantasy movie Labyrinth. EVERYBODY FREAK OUT.
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The kid playing Jesse might be the best ever, even more than Aaron Paul. And Aaron Paul is the best ever. Wait, no, lil' Gus is definitely the winner. Oh crap, pregnant Skyler rules, too.
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Over the weekend, PBS aired ANNIE: It's a Hard Knock Life, From Script to Stage, a documentary about the classic musical's current Broadway revival. Perhaps you missed it because you (wrongly) thought you had better things to do on a Friday night than stay home and watch an Annie documentary on PBS. If that's the…
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This catchy song stars your freshman year musical theater roommate — you know, the one who sang the entire first act of Evita whilst using all the hot water — and all of her triple threat friends. They got together, dropped some acid (or not, they are a naturally cheerful people!) and made this enjoyably grating…
