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In today’s Daily Mail, showbiz columnist Baz Bamigboye writes about:
-- Re Bullets Over Broadway: Susan Stroman explained that Marin Mazzie, who plays diva Helen Sinclair, was off with a flu bug.
-- Susan Stroman’s heading back to London in the autumn to usher the Young Vic’s landmark, Olivier-nominated Kander and Ebb musical The Scotsboro Boys into the Garrick Theatre in the West End.
-- On British actress Sophie Okonedo making her Broadway debut as Ruth Younger in the new production of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Denzel Washington. It might transfer to London.
-- Alexandra Burke, winner of The X Factor in 2008, will take over from Beverley Knight in The Bodyguard at the Adelphi Theatre on June 2.
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-- Emma Watson, who will be graduating from Brown in May, wants to act on stage.
-- Cameron Mackintosh wants to make a new musical movie of Oliver!, but obtaining the rights is difficult.
-- Applause for Disney’s new Aladdin on Broadway: “glitters and gleams and (to steal even more lines from the ‘Baubles, Bangles And Beads’ song from Kismet), sparkles, spangles — and everybody sings, sing-a-ling-a!”
-- Adam Bock’s new play The Colby Sisters Of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about five ‘It Girl’ sisters who are slightly past their time begins performances at the Tricycle Theatre in north-west London from June 19. In New York, the Tricycle’s award-winning play Red Velvet, written by Lolita Chakrabarti and starring Adrian Lester, opens officially at St Ann’s Warehouse Theatre in Brooklyn on Sunday.
-- On Ramin Karimloo in Broadway’s new Les Misérables.
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