Break out the peanut butter and Oreos: The cast of “The Parent Trap” reunited on Monday for the first time since filming the 1998 movie, for a special on Katie Couric’s Instagram that raised funds for World Central Kitchen.
Director Nancy Meyers, writer Charles Shyer, and actors Dennis Quaid, Lindsay Lohan, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter and Simon Kunz gathered to celebrate and remember the family film which put Lohan on the map. She played a pair of twins, Hallie and Annie, who meet for the first time at camp and realize that their parents had separated them and kept them a secret from each other. They devise a plan to switch parents, with one going to their father Nick Parker (Quaid) and the other to their mother Elizabeth James (Natasha Richardson). James’ butler, Martin (Kunz), and Parker’s nanny Chessy (Walter) round out the cast, with the movie’s villain,...
Director Nancy Meyers, writer Charles Shyer, and actors Dennis Quaid, Lindsay Lohan, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter and Simon Kunz gathered to celebrate and remember the family film which put Lohan on the map. She played a pair of twins, Hallie and Annie, who meet for the first time at camp and realize that their parents had separated them and kept them a secret from each other. They devise a plan to switch parents, with one going to their father Nick Parker (Quaid) and the other to their mother Elizabeth James (Natasha Richardson). James’ butler, Martin (Kunz), and Parker’s nanny Chessy (Walter) round out the cast, with the movie’s villain,...
- 7/20/2020
- by Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
Today we rewind to 2012, when Chaplin was getting ready to premiere on Broadway. The musical, which played for 135 performances at the EthelBarrymore Theatre, starred Jenn Colella, Christiane Noll, Erin Mackey, Michael McCormick and Rob McClure.From the slums of London to the heights of Hollywood, Chaplin is the showbiz Broadway musical about the silent film legend the world couldn't stop talking about -Charlie Chaplin. The brand new 24-person musical reveals the man behind the legend, the undeniable genius that forever changed the way America went to the movies.
- 5/14/2020
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
A Broadway musical about a man who became famous for being silent seems bizarrely intriguing.
Instead "Chaplin" the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is just dull.
The musical traces what should be the fascinating life of Charlie Chaplin. Just shy of a century since he made his first film, the musical tells the story of Chaplin's life over seven decades, from Dickensian England to Hollywood excess of the teens to banishment from the United States.
Rob McClure as Chaplin is brilliant.
If only the vehicle were more so.
McClure (Broadway's "Where's Charley?," "Avenue Q") is in great voice, and he moves gracefully and acrobatically, as Chaplin did, and infuses the tormented man with the perfect amount of glee, sadness and eventually, imperiousness.
The musical itself, however, is wanting.
Hit musicals deliver at least a few numbers where the audience cheers. There's at least one dance number where patrons clap. Not so here.
Instead "Chaplin" the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is just dull.
The musical traces what should be the fascinating life of Charlie Chaplin. Just shy of a century since he made his first film, the musical tells the story of Chaplin's life over seven decades, from Dickensian England to Hollywood excess of the teens to banishment from the United States.
Rob McClure as Chaplin is brilliant.
If only the vehicle were more so.
McClure (Broadway's "Where's Charley?," "Avenue Q") is in great voice, and he moves gracefully and acrobatically, as Chaplin did, and infuses the tormented man with the perfect amount of glee, sadness and eventually, imperiousness.
The musical itself, however, is wanting.
Hit musicals deliver at least a few numbers where the audience cheers. There's at least one dance number where patrons clap. Not so here.
- 9/14/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Three years ago, Erin Mackey was just another college student spending the summer following her freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University back home in Fullerton, Calif. She was working at Starbucks and doing Babes in Arms at the Saddleback Civic Light Opera in Mission Viejo when one of her castmates mentioned upcoming auditions for a touring production of the Tony-winning musical Wicked. The Stephen Schwartz musical happened to be one of Mackey's favorite shows of all time, and she was able to secure an audition. Unfortunately, she couldn't make it. (No, she didn't have to sling coffee but was deep in rehearsals for Babes and, ever the pro, couldn't miss tech week.) Instead, she went to the open call and, not being Equity, "sat around for a long time." But the wait paid off; Mackey landed a job as a swing on the national tour of the show. Seven months later,...
- 8/20/2008
- backstage.com
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