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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Little Richard will be buried at Oakwood University, a historically black university in Huntsville, Alabama. Gerald Kibble, director of Oakwood Memorial Gardens, said the private funeral will be held Wednesday and will not be open to the public. Little Richard’s close friend Pastor Bill Minson said the singer …

Thank you, Dolly. Renowned Broadway and Film veteran Bette Midler has promised to match donations up to $100,000 for the Broadway Cares/ Equity fights AIDS’ Covid-19 fund says Deadline. Broadway Cares launched the fund in early march with an initial donation of $250,000. Since then, initiatives to raise money for the fund have included The …

A new musical based on the classic film “Some Like It Hot” will premiere on Broadway in the fall of 2021. The show, which features a book by “The Inheritance’s” Matthew Lopez and music and lyrics from the “Smash” and “Hairspray!” team of Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, was originally scheduled to debut in Chicago …

The Broadway shutdown continues with the coronavirus pandemic affecting some 87,000 jobs in the process. The Actors Fund, which launched its COVID-19 emergency relief fund in March, has come to the community’s rescue — distributing more than $10 million to displaced theater personnel in just eight weeks. The record-breaking fund, which totals $10,500,000, provides basic …

“Frozen the Musical” will close on Broadway, Disney announced Thursday, making it the biggest theatrical demise caused by the coronavirus pandemic so far. The $30 million musical becomes the third show to prematurely shutter during the crisis, following the plays “Hangmen” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” starring Laurie Metcalf and Rupert Everett. Those shows, …

Austrian Princess Maria Galitzine died this month in Houston from a cardiac aneurysm, according to the Houston Chronicle. She was 31 years old. Maria, who was also known as Maria Singh, passed away on May 4, just days before her 32nd birthday. She was laid to rest in the Orthodox section of Houston’s Forest Park …

It’s not called Netflix and “shill.” The subscription-based streaming service reportedly saved viewers from over nine days of commercials in 2019, according to Reviews.com. The entertainment site calculated that two hours of Netflix’s ad-free viewing experience equals a deficit of 36 minutes of daily commercials that audiences would’ve been subjected to watching network TV. That …

“MJ,” the Michael Jackson stage musical headed for Broadway, will begin previews next March, an eight-month postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic shutdown. The new dates were announced today by producers Lia Vollack Productions and The Michael Jackson Estate. The world premiere of “MJ,” featuring Jackson’s music, will begin previews on Monday, March 8, 2021, …

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal posted a video on Friday of him singing a song entitled “Across the Way” as part of a monologue series. The four-and-a-half minute song was written especially for Gyllenhaal by the composer of the Tony Award-winning musical “Fun Home,” Jeanine Tesori, and playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gyllenhaal singing …

Richard Kind is the latest star to join the cast of Tony-nominated composer Andrew Lippa’s “Tiger King: The Musical (A Parody!),” Page Six has learned. Lippa’s “Tiger King”-inspired tunes have recently been recorded as outrageous home videos by Kristin Chenoweth, Frankie Grande and “RuPaul’s Drag Race” star Nina West. “Now people are legitimately calling me …