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Ageless ‘Pitch Perfect' Star Stuns Fans on Birthday: ‘How Are You 40?'
Ageless 'Pitch Perfect' Star Stuns Fans on Birthday: 'How Are You 40?' originally appeared on Parade. Actress Anna Kendrick is celebrating a major milestone with a social media post that has fans scratching their heads. The Pitch Perfect star turned 40 on August 9. In honor of her big birthday, the stunning brunette shared a series of photos simply captioned '40.' But fans can't quite process that the agelessUp in the Air star is actually 40. I's hard to believe Pitch Perfect is 12 years old, but it's even harder to believe Anna Kendrick is her birthday post, Kendrick shared a series of snapshots from her birthday trip. In photo after photo, Kendrick—known for her quick wit and pitch-perfect singing voice—dazzled. Even better, the Tony Award-nominated actress looks genuinely happy. 'Hope I look as good as you at 40,' wrote one earnest fan, while another added, 'How the hell are you 40… you look not a day over 25?' We're asking the same question.'I still have no idea how you look like that at 40?! Damn girl, give us your skincare routine at least,' shared another incredulous fan, echoing the sentiment of many. And while the idea of turning 40 can feel daunting to some, Kendrick has plenty to celebrate. She's rumored to be dating stand-up comedian Alex Edelman, 38. 🎬SIGN UP for Parade's Daily newsletter to get the latest pop culture news & celebrity interviews delivered right to your inbox🎬 Ageless 'Pitch Perfect' Star Stuns Fans on Birthday: 'How Are You 40?' first appeared on Parade on Aug 12, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Aug 12, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
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30-06-2025
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Karl E. Held Dies: A Producer Of Broadway-Bound ‘Kowalski' Was 63
Karl E. Held, a longtime arts advocate who was a producer on the Tony Award-nominated 2009 Broadway production of Ragtime and most recently on the Off Broadway hit Kowalski, died of a heart attack June 23 in New York City shortly after attending a performance at Carnegie Hall. He was 63. His death was announced by a spokesperson for Kowalski. Gregg Ostrin's comedy, about the first meeting between Tennessee Williams and Marlon Brando, ran in January and February at Off Broadway's Duke on 42nd Street. Producers recently announced their intentions to move Kowalski to Broadway. More from Deadline 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries Mark Brokaw Dies: 'This Is Our Youth', 'How I Learned To Drive' Director Was 66 'Phantom' Spin-Off 'Masquerade' Sells Out Six Weeks Of Previews In Three Hours; Additional Dates To Be Announced Karl Edward Held was born on June 7, 1962, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (as an adult he split his time between New York City, Hollywood and his hometown). In 1990 he joined Emmy Award-winning producer Roger Englander and Freddie Gershon of Music Theatre International to create an acclaimed video series capturing the conception and creation of Broadway shows with their original creators. The series featured conversations about musicals including George Gershwin's works, Stephen Sondheim's Assassins and Into the Woods, Kander and Ebb's And the World Goes Round, She Loves Me, Starting Here, Starting Now, Forever Plaid, Claude-Michel Schönberg's Les Misérables, and George Abbott's The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees. Throughout his career Held collaborated on various projects with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, the Spoleto Festivals (Charleston, SC, and Spoleto, Italy), Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Seiji Ozawa, John Williams, Frank Wildhorn, Yo-Yo Ma, Harry Belafonte, Betty Buckley, Elaine Stritch, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He also produced projects with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Princeton University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Gettysburg College, Westminster Choir College, and the American Boychoir School. In 2009 Held joined the Broadway producing team of the Terrence McNally-Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens Ragtime. Tony-nominated for Best Musical, the production took home four Tonys (Best Book, Best Score, Best Orchestrations and, for Audra McDonald, Best Featured Actress/Musical). Other New York theater credits included Into the Woods (1989) and White's Lies (2010). Beyond the theater, Held's producing work extended to major civic and cultural events, serving clients such as the governors of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, the Pennsylvania Governor's Arts and Humanities Councils, the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, Citizens for the Arts, the National Trust, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, Held led the renovation and gala reopening of the Gettysburg's historic Majestic Theater, transforming the 1925 vaudeville house into a state-of-the-art performing arts facility. He also spearheaded the creation and launch of the Gettysburg Festival, a ten-day interdisciplinary arts festival, and founded The Ambassadors Series, an international concert and lecture series at Gettysburg College. In 2007, he produced the Governor's Arts Awards at the Majestic at the invitation of then-Governor Ed Rendell. Other projects included a four-CD box set of Sondheim's works for the composer's 80th birthday, and a 15-year archival project with composer Alice Parker, supported by the NEA. He also served on national councils for The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including its 25th Anniversary Celebrations in 1996. From 2005 to 2010, he was instrumental in bringing the Leonard Bernstein Center for Artful Learning from the Grammy Foundation in Los Angeles to Gettysburg College. Held served as President and CEO of The American Boychoir School and was the founding executive director of the Princeton Center for Arts and Education. He also served as Senior Advisor to the President of Gettysburg College from 1997 to 2009, working with three administrations, and held leadership roles with the Adams County Arts Council, the National Trust for Historic Gettysburg, the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and the Nassau Club in Princeton. He is survived by brother Michael Held of Las Vegas. Memorial services will be held in both New York City and Gettysburg. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Adams County Arts Council or any organization supporting the arts. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' 2025 Deaths Photo Gallery: Hollywood & Media Obituaries 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Winnipeg Free Press
28-06-2025
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- Winnipeg Free Press
Warning: campy '80s romp could induce headbanging
Rock on! Rainbow Stage took Thursday's opening night audience on a blast to the past as it launched its 71st season with the mullet-curling professional Manitoba première of Broadway hit Rock of Ages. The Tony Award-nominated jukebox musical offers a string of 1980s rock anthems immortalized by bands such as Foreigner, Whitesnake, Poison, Twisted Sister and Styx, while its broad-strokes narrative tells the tale of lead characters Drew and Sherrie, who fall in love while chasing their dreams on Hollywood's legendary Sunset Strip. It became the basis for the 2012 film starring Tom Cruise and Mary J. Blige, which took creative licence in adapting the show's original book, penned by Chris D'Arienzoi. Nathaniel Muir (centre left) and Jeff Rivet (centre right) rock out with members of the energetic ensemble. In many ways, the stage version is much funnier and often downright campy, boasting several meta-layers in which narrator Lonny breaks the fourth wall to take jabs at the fantastical nature of Broadway musicals. Director Alexandra Herzog, who also helmed last year's Mary Poppins, wisely plays up these moments with her gung-ho cast. Their iron-clad conviction includes wearing costume designer Daina Leitold's eye-popping period spandex and Laura Warren's shoulder-grazing wigs while punching out choreographer Josh Assor's angular movement vocabulary peppered with more fluid body isolations. Tiered sets by Ksenia Broad-Milian evoke the gritty Bourbon Room bar and Act II's palm tree-flanked Venus strip club. Scott Henderson's effective lighting adds further colour, highlighting key moments throughout the nearly three-hour (including intermission) production. Every theatre impresario dreams of mounting a showstopper, and in this case, the performance actually did halt for a nerve-racking six minutes during the opening medley of Cum on Feel the Noize/Just Like Paradise/Nothin' But a Good Time, owing to technical issues. A tight onstage rock band led by music director/conductor/keyboardist Paul Rodermond features bewigged players appearing as Arsenal, whose members freely flip the bird to their lead singer Stacee Jaxx (Reid McTavish) in the outro of his career. The actor's portrayal of this juicy role might have been more satisfying if any backstory were provided (one of the skeletal script's many gaping holes), but he nonetheless slithers around the stage like a panther in skin-tight leggings and wails during We Built this City/Too Much Time, after first bursting into the action from the house, mobbed by groupies. Rainbow's latest offering admittedly won't be everyone's cup of tea. There's some profanity, a lot of bump 'n' grind, and the copious pelvic thrusts risk becoming gratuitous. The show certainly warrants a 'mature content' warning for the younger audience members who eagerly lapped up Mary Poppins last year and will surely throng to Disney's Frozen next month. Having said this, kudos to a trio of ensemble members, who morph into waitresses/strippers at the Venus club, for their fearlessly athletic pole dance at the top of Act II, hanging upside down like bats out of hell and enthralling the mixed-age crowd. Tiera Lee Watts marks a terrific Rainbow debut as fresh-faced Sherrie from Oklahoma, effectively navigating her emotional trajectory from Midwest innocent dead-set on breaking into showbiz with her own acting career to disillusioned dreamer headed back home. She also boasts powerhouse vocals, first heard in Sister Christian, and weaves her compelling voice into many of the show's medleys and duets, including More than Words, High Enough, and Harden My Heart/Shadows of the Night. Jeff Rivet is a standout as Lonny. Nathaniel Muir is rock-solid as Drew, proving he has a balladeer's heart with his more soulful hits such as Heaven, accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, and belting out others for all he's worth, including the rafter-raising I Want to Rock and Waiting for a Girl like You. In fact, more of these ballads, such as Act II's gorgeous rendition of Every Rose Has its Thorn performed by the entire company, would provide welcome contrast in the playlist; one rock tune zipping to the next often feels exhausting. Two of the night's strongest performances belong to Daniel Bogart as Dennis Dupree and his loose cannon 'soundman' sidekick Lonny, a charismatic Jeff Rivet; their spot-on portrayals hew uncomfortably close to the gold-chained rockers still lurking among us. Weekday Evenings Today's must-read stories and a roundup of the day's headlines, delivered every evening. Another shout-out goes to Rochelle Kives as 'Mother' (doubling as Justice), a.k.a. Mama, who offers life advice to Sherrie while egging her on to lap dance for Stacee in the Venus's Champagne Room. A Rainbow Stage fan favourite, Kevin Klassen returns as menacing building developer, Hertz Klinemann, with his son, Jean van der Merwe's Franz, spitting out their plans to demolish the Bourbon in German accents. This sets up Act II's showdown with Victoria Exconde's feisty city planner Regina, who leads the charge — with the audience warbling along — during We're Not Gonna Take It. Rock of Ages is not exactly a heavy dramatic slog, promising Nothin' But a Good Time as it appeals to those still pining for the glory days of yesteryear. However, buried — deeply — in the cracks is the timeless message that, whether Dead or Alive, it's never too late to rock out and believe in dreams that can morph like a lava lamp into new, often jolting visions for the future.
New Paper
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New Paper
Broadway hit Beetlejuice The Musical debuts in Singapore in January 2026
Eight-time Tony Award-nominated Beetlejuice The Musical will arrive in Singapore in January. Based on American film-maker Tim Burton's Oscar-winning 1988 film Beetlejuice, the musical follows Lydia Deetz, a gothic teenager who summons a demon to scare away her insufferable parents. It stars Andy Karl as the demon Beetlejuice. He has been nominated at the Tony Awards three times: for Best Actor in a Musical for Rocky (2014) and Groundhog Day (2017), and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for On The Twentieth Century (2015). The production includes the original Broadway set design and costume designs, and special effects that transform the stage into a hilarious and horrifying netherworld. Beetlejuice The Musical will play at the Esplanade Theatre from Jan 15. Tickets go on sale from July 3, with pre-sale access available. Pricing details have not been announced. The production is from Michael Cassel Group and Warner Bros Theatre Venues, which also brought to Singapore the musicals Hamilton and The Lion King. Karl said in a statement: "Beetlejuice is not your typical leading man - unless your typical leading man is a hilarious, fast-talking demon with an attitude and worse fashion sense. He's wildly inappropriate, totally unhinged and, yet, somehow... weirdly lovable?" After the film became a hit, a spin-off animated television series (1989 to 1991) - also developed by Burton - introduced new characters and settings. Beetlejuice was subsequently adapted for the stage in 2018, premiering at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., before heading to Broadway in 2019. Beetlejuice The Musical Where: Esplanade Theatre, 1 Esplanade Drive When: From Jan 15 Admission: Tickets go on sale from July 3, with pre-sale access available via Ticketek Singapore ( and for Esplanade&Me members
Straits Times
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Broadway hit Beetlejuice The Musical debuts in Singapore in January 2026
Broadway's Beetlejuice The Musical will premiere in Singapore in January 2026. PHOTO: MICHELLE GRACE HUNDER Broadway hit Beetlejuice The Musical debuts in Singapore in January 2026 SINGAPORE – Eight-time Tony Award-nominated Beetlejuice The Musical will arrive in Singapore in January 2026. Based on Tim Burton's Oscar-winning 1988 film Beetlejuice, the musical follows Lydia Deetz, a goth teenager who summons a demon to scare away her insufferable parents. It stars Andy Karl as the demon Beetlejuice. He has been nominated at the Tony Awards three times: for Best Actor in a Musical for Rocky (2014) and Groundhog Day (2017), and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for On The Twentieth Century (2015). The production includes the original Broadway set design and costume designs, and special effects that transform the stage into a hilarious and horrifying netherworld. Beetlejuice The Musical will play at the Esplanade Theatre from Jan 15. Tickets go on sale from July 3, with pre-sale access available. Pricing details have not been announced. The production is from Michael Cassel Group and Warner Bros Theatre Venues, which also brought to Singapore the musicals Hamilton and The Lion King. Karl said in a statement: 'Beetlejuice is not your typical leading man – unless your typical leading man is a hilarious fast-talking demon with an attitude and worse fashion sense. He's wildly inappropriate, totally unhinged, and yet somehow... weirdly lovable?' After the film became a hit, a spin-off animated television series (1989 to 1991) – also developed by Burton – introduced new characters and settings. Beetlejuice was subsequently adapted for the stage in 2018, premiering at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., before heading for Broadway in 2019. Book it/ Beetlejuice The Musical Where: Esplanade Theatre, 1 Esplanade Drive When: From Jan 15 Admission: Tickets go on sale from July 3, with pre-sale access available via Ticketek Singapore and for Esplanade&Me members. Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
