Friday, May 16th, 2008
Cry-Baby has been a sensation since it first came to light and every time it comes to stage, the show’s popularity rises even more. Deriving its central idea from Grease, Cry-Baby has given the all time favorite musical a make-over and made it even more admirable than before.
Cry-Baby is a musical based on the 1990 John Waters movie of the same name. The music is written by David Javerbaum and Adam Schlesinger and the book is by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan. The show premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego on November 18, 2007 and ran through December 16. A Broadway production of Cry-Baby will began previews at the Marquis Theatre on March 15, 2008, with an opening on April 24.
Directed by Mark Brokaw with choreography by Rob Ashford, Cry-Baby is the second of Waters’ films to be adapted for the stage as a musical comedy, the first being Hairspray.
Synopsis
Treading the lines of Grease, Cry-Baby details the story of Wade Walker, Baltimore’s resident greaser/Drape, and his gang. Walker is the Cry-Baby and his group consists of disfigured Hatchet-Face Malnorowski, pregnant sister Pepper, Hatchet’s boyfriend Milton Hackett and sexually-active Wanda Woodward. They are feared by all Baltimore residents. One day after school, after getting an intense polio vaccine, Cry-Baby falls in love with Allison Vernon-Williams, a pretty but simple/Square girl, equally in love with him. Allison’s grandmother and boyfriend Baldwin are disgusted by this and try to keep them away.
How Wade and Allison manage to bring the Drapes and Squares together forms the plot of Cry-Baby.
Cry-Baby, the film
Cry-Baby was released in April 1990 and was essentially a parody teen musicals such as Grease, of Elvis Presley movies and of 1950s ‘juvenile delinquent’ movies. Johnny Depp played the lead, a 1950s teen rebel Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker.
Cry-Baby did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release but has subsequently become a cult movie.
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The ever popular teen movie, Cry-Baby, is now a major Broadway musical and promises to be every bit as entertaining. If you loved the film, you will love the theater version even more. So get ready to dance to the tunes of Cry-Baby because Wade and Allison are coming to a theater near you!
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
One of the highest selling artists of all times, Cher, is back on stage and will be performing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, much to the relief of her fans. 2005 marked Cher’s last live performance as she bid her fans adieu in her Farewell Tour. Since then, everyone has been hoping for her to make a comeback and now, the diva is back in action!
Cher is one of the most talented celebrities of contemporary times. Among her career accomplishments in music, television and film, she has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards. Cher rose to prominence in 1965 as one half of the pop/rock duo Sonny & Cher. She subsequently established herself as a solo recording artist, releasing 25 albums, contributing to numerous compilations and tallying 34 Billboard Top 40 entries in the United States during her career, both as a solo artist and with Sonny. She became a television star in the 1970s and a film actress in the 1980s.
In 1987, Cher won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the romantic comedy Moonstruck.
With a career lasting over 40 years, Cher is an enduring pop icon and one of the most popular female artists in music history. She has sold, as a solo artist, 200 million records worldwide and 75 million as Sonny & Cher.
Now at 61 years, Cher has announced her come back and has reached a deal to perform 200 shows over three years live at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Her new show is entitled Cher at the Colosseum and it debuted on May 6.
Some Cher trivia
- The Cher Expo, a biennial event that began in 2007, brings Cher fans together for a two-night, one-day event. All expo proceeds go to a non-profit charity.
- Cher became famous for her many tattoos, long before they were fashionable among women in Hollywood.
- Cher is one of the most influential fashion trend-setters, popularizing long straight hair, bell-bottoms and an exposed midriff.
- Cher has been involved with many humanitarian groups and charity efforts over the years.
According to a 2002 Rolling Stone magazine article, her personal net worth was estimated to be over $700 million.
- On February 10, 2008, Cher made a brief appearance at the Grammy Awards, introducing a performance by Tina Turner and Beyonce Knowles.
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
On Sunday, May 25, the Indianapolis 500 will be raced for the 92nd time. With the big day just around the corner, fans are preparing to witness one of the biggest races on the IndyCar schedule and cheer their favorite racers on.
The 2008 Indy 500 will be the thirteenth race sanctioned by the Indy Racing League and will serve as the showcase event of the 2008 IndyCar Series in DIRECTV HD season. IndyCar Series practice began May 4. Time trials will take place over the two weekends prior to the race. The final practice, as well as the Firestone Freedom 100, will be held Friday, May 23.
Some 2008 Indy 500 notes
- The purse for this year’s Indy 500 will be increased substantially from previous records. Under a new league revenue sharing program, the winner of the 2008 Indy 500 will receive an estimated $2.5 million, while the entire race purse will total at least $13.4 million.
- Two-time Indianapolis 500 and Formula One champion Emerson Fittipaldi will drive the Chevrolet Corvette pace car.
- Peak motor oil will sponsor the $100,000 pole position award.
- The 92nd Indianapolis 500 will be televised in the United States on ABC, the 44th consecutive year on the network.
- The race will be broadcast on the radio by the IMS Radio Network for the 56th consecutive year.
- The official entry list was released April 11. The initial list features 39 cars and 32 drivers. Additional drivers will be announced during practice and qualifying.
2008 Indy 500
The traditional Indianapolis 500 will be raced on May 25. As always the venue will be the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. It will mark the 63rd consecutive year of uninterrupted occurrence of the Indy 500.
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
When it comes to fast and competitive events, the Free Kick Masters has carved a special place for itself. Tagged one of the most exciting sporting events of contemporary times, the Free Kick Masters is exactly what the name suggests – a competition to determine who is the best free kicker in the world. Although the event has been held only once, it is one of the most anticipated sporting events ever and the world is now waiting for the 2008 Free Kick Masters.
The Free Kick Masters is a skills-based international association soccer competition featuring some of the world’s top rated free kick takers competing against some of the world’s top rated goalkeepers in a direct free kick shootout to declare the world’s ‘Free Kick Master’ and ‘Golden Goalkeeper’. The competition has no affiliation with or ties to FIFA but is unique in the world of soccer as it is one of the only events that features star players involved in a direct competition against one and another.
The first Free Kick Masters was first held in Marbella, Spain over a two-day period in December 2004. Developed by a team of individuals involved in international soccer, the event challenged the skills of participants by testing their accuracy and ability to make successful free kicks from distances of 18 meters, 21 meters and 25 meters. Participants were allowed to choose their approach: from the left, right or center, and were awarded points based on the number of attempts required to score a goal.
At the end of the competition, SC Heerenveen player Ugur Yildirim emerged as a surprise standout with near perfection, having amassed 25 points en route to claiming the title.
After the success of the Event in 2004, the organizers did not conduct an event in either 2005 or 2006 due to scheduling and entertainer conflicts. Even the 2007 competition scheduled for December 22 was postponed due to player and scheduling conflicts.
2008 Free Kick Masters
After a gap of 4 years, the Free Kick Master will be held in 2008. The event is scheduled for Saturday, July 5 and the venue is Reliant Stadium in Houston. One of the highlights of the 2008 Free Kick Masters competition will be the participation of Zinedine Zidane, who will come out of retirement to compete against the impressive lineup of international sports stars.
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Tina Turner, dubbed the ‘Queen of Rock and Roll’, retired from major tours after her highly successful ‘Twenty Four Seven World Tour’ which became the 5th biggest concert tour ever in the U.S. Fans couldn’t believe their ears and have since wished for her return to stage. Their prayers have now been answered as Tina Turner prepares for a fall tour, the news of which came through at a taping of the ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show’ at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 26.
So it is official now. Tina Turner is back! She is touring the nation and all the fans who wanted to watch the diva perform again are excited beyond words.
Tina Turner is a singer-songwriter, dancer and actress. She has won eight Grammy Awards. Turner’s consistent contributions to rock music have earned her the title ‘The Queen of Rock & Roll’. Besides rock music, she has also performed R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She was listed on Rolling Stone’s ‘The Immortals — The Greatest Artists of All Time’. Turner is represented in the Grammy Hall of Fame with two of her singles inducted.
Turner has been acknowledged as one of the world’s most popular and biggest-selling music artists of all time and is the most successful female rock artist with record sales exceeding 180 million. She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. To date, Turner has 7 Billboard top 10 singles, 16 US top ten R&B singles and 33 Top 40 hits in the UK. All of her albums since ‘Private Dancer’ have been Top 10 UK hits.
Tina Turner’s upcoming tour
Tina Turner is returning to stage after a gap of 8 years. The music veteran says that the decision came after she performed together with Beyonce at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. This was Turner’s first real public appearance since her record-breaking Millennium Tour ‘Twenty Four Seven’ and had received numerous positive reviews from newspapers all around the world.
Turner will kick-off her tour at the newly built Sprint Center in Downtown Kansas City on October 1. She will tour 17 cities and deliver over 40 performances, before the North American leg of the tour closes in December. There have been speculations about this turning into a world tour. but nothing has been confirmed yet.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
On Saturday, the Darlington Raceway was more crowded than ever by fans who had come down to watch their favorite race live – the Dodge Challenger 500. Fans were promised an exciting and competitive race and the results weren’t disappointing at all. People across the world watched history being made as one of the most anticipated races on the 2008 NASCAR schedule was run.
The Dodge Challenger 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car race held at the Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. One of NASCAR’s newest additions, the Dodge Challenger 500 is run for 501 miles and 367 laps. The 2007 race was to be run on May 12, but was postponed one day due to rain.
Raced for the first time as the Rebel 300 in 1957 as a 300 mile (483 km) race in the Convertible Division, the Dodge Challenger 500 was an instant favorite of the fans. Fireball Roberts one of the pioneering race car drivers of NASCAR won the inaugural event.
Some Dodge Challenger trivia
- In 2005, by order of the Ferko lawsuit, the track’s other event, the popular Mountain Dew Southern 500, was removed from the NASCAR Nextel Cup schedule.
- The 2005 race was reduced to 370 laps/505.42 miles due to green-white-checker finish rule.
- Previous names of the race include Mall.com 400, Carolina Dodge Dealers 400, Dodge Charger 500 and, the most recent, Dodge Challenger 500.
- The 1979 and 2003 races have been tagged the most exciting and memorable by fans.
- The 2005 race broke two NASCAR traditions by being the only race held at Darlington that year and by running the race on Mother’s Day weekend.
The 2008 Dodge Challenger 500
Raced on Saturday, May 10 at the Darlington Raceway, the 2008 Dodge Challenger 500, the eleventh race on the NASCAR Sprint Cup season, was the first race on the newly repaved 1.366 mile track. The race also served as the last chance to qualify for 2008 Sprint All-Star Race XXIV to be held the following week at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina.
The 2008 Dodge Challenger 500 was televised in the USA on Fox starting at 7 PM US EDT with radio being handled on MRN on terrestrial radio and Sirius Satellite Radio.
Greg Biffle won the pole, breaking Ward Burton’s long standing pole speed by 5.6 mph. Kyle Busch was the winner of the race. Johnny Sauter and Jeff Green failed to qualify for the race.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Widespread Panic have been the most touring bands of all times. Living up to this image of theirs and to make fans dance to their tunes once again, Widespread Panic are touring the nation complete with their ever popular music, melodies and much more. An amazingly talented southern jam band from Athens, Georgia, Widespread Panic never fail to woo fans and sell-out their shows.
The current lineup of the band includes guitarist/ singer John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Sunny Ortiz, keyboardist JoJo Hermann and guitarist Jimmy Herring. The band has played as many as 250 shows a year and have ranked among the top 50 grossing touring acts for eight years running, doing so without substantial radio airplay, television exposure or promotion.
Widespread Panic holds sellout records at - Red Rocks Amphitheatre (23 shows), Oak Mountain Amphitheatre (17 shows), Philips Arena (17 straight sold-out shows) and UNO Lakefront Arena (18 shows).
No two shows are similar!
Known for never playing the same show twice, Widespread Panic has a show-to-show ritual of choosing the night’s set-list. At the beginning of each tour Garrie Vereen, a member of the band’s road crew, makes a master list of all the songs the band performs and laminates it. Each night before the show, he marks the last 3 nights’ set lists in different colors. The band can see what has been played recently and then decide what songs to play during the first set. They return back to the list during set-break to pick songs for the second set, and likewise, return after the second set for any additional sets if playing more than two.
Some Widespread Panic trivia
- The band’s first performance as Widespread Panic took place on February 24, 1985 at the A-Frame house on Weymanda Court in Athens.
- Their debut LP, ‘Space Wrangler’, established a small fan-base and inaugurated several years of constant touring.
- In 2002, the band received gold certification for their concert DVD ‘Live at Oak Mountain’. It also headlined two nights of the first annual Bonnaroo Music Festival which drew a crowd upwards of 70,000 people.
- Widespread Panic are known for their contributions to causes including raising $100,000 during the March 2005 tour to help finance the purchase of musical instruments for children in school.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
According to Penn and Teller’s home page, they call themselves “a couple of eccentric guys who have learned how to do a few cool things”. The dynamic duo first joined hands in 1975 and have since developed into show business’s leading acts. Their shows are one of the most demanded and watched performances in the theater industry, although Penn and Teller have also been making successful appearances on television.
Since their first gig together, the artists have combined Teller’s silent, occasionally creepy, magic with Penn’s clown college education and juggling expertise, the two have created an entertainment success story that went from the streets to small clubs to national theater tours, and now to a current, multi-year engagement at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Penn and Teller are Las Vegas headliners whose act is an amalgam of illusion and comedy. Penn Jillette is a raconteur and Teller generally uses mime while performing, although his voice can occasionally be heard throughout their performance. They specialize in gory tricks, exposing quacks and frauds, performing clever pranks and have become associated with Las Vegas, atheism, scientific skepticism and libertarianism.
Some Penn and Teller trivia
- Penn and Teller have written three best-selling books - ‘Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends’, ‘How to Play with Your Food’ and ‘How to Play in Traffic’.
- Although the duo performs numerous well-known tricks, the most loved is their signature ‘flag restoration’ trick. They make a U.S. flag seem to disappear by wrapping it in a copy of the United States Bill of Rights, and apparently setting the flag on fire, so that “the flag is gone but the Bill of Rights remains”. In the end, the flag comes out unscratched.
- Movie appearances by Penn and Teller include ‘Penn & Teller’s Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends’, ‘Penn & Teller’s Invisible Thread for Showtime’ and ‘Michael Moore Hates America’.
- In September, Penn and Teller will celebrate their fifth year as headliners in their own theater at the Rio All-suite Hotel & Casino.
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
College sports are not amateur playing anymore. At par with pro events, these events draw huge crowds, prize purses are heavy and their culmination events are as much anticipated as the Super Bowl. It is almost time for the 2008 College World Series and fans are all set to cheer their favorites on!
The College World Series (CWS) is a baseball tournament which determines the NCAA Division I college baseball champion. It takes place in June of each year. CWS is the culmination event of the college baseball season.
Since 1950, the CWS has been held at Rosenblatt Stadium; earlier tournaments were held at Hyames Field in Michigan and Wichita, Kansas. The name College World Series is derived from that of the Pro Baseball World Series championship.
The present format of the series was adopted in 1999, after numerous changes since the game began.
An overview of the 2007 College World Series
The 2007 College World Series was held from June 15 to June 24 in Omaha, Nebraska. 8 college baseball teams met at Rosenblatt Stadium after having played their way through a 64-team bracket. Oregon State went undefeated through the College World Series, as they won all three games in their four-team bracket and defeated North Carolina in two games in the best-of-three championship series. Oregon became the fifth team to win consecutive NCAA titles and were the first team to win four games in a CWS by six or more runs.
Oregon State freshman pitcher Jorge Reyes was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2007 College World Series.
2008 College World Series
The 2008 College World Series will be held from June 14 through June 24 or 25 (depending on the outcome of games) in Omaha, Nebraska. Eight college baseball teams will meet after having played their way through a 64-team bracket to play at historic Rosenblatt Stadium. The first day of the 2008 CWS has been moved to Saturday from the traditional Friday. Also, if all games are needed in the first double-elimination round, it will take eight days to complete rather than seven.
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
The Autism Speaks 400, one of the most popular races on NASCAR’s schedule has recently been christened the Best Buy 400, officially the Best Buy 400 benefiting Student Clubs for Autism Speaks. With a new name, the 2008 Best Buy 400 will definitely be more exciting and competitive than ever before.
The Best Buy 400 is the first of two NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car races held at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. It is usually held in early June. The race marked the first time that a NASCAR Sprint Cup event entitlement was dedicated to a nonprofit organization, by the race’s title sponsor, Visa. As a part of FOX Sports’ charitable causes, Autism Speaks is the one chosen for NASCAR.
Dover International Speedway
The track of the Best Buy 400, the Dover International Speedway is a one mile long, oval, concrete track. It opened in 1969 and currently hosts 5 major NASCAR events including the Dover 200. The speedway’s mascot is called ‘Miles the Monster’ which is a concrete monster spawned from the track’s nickname ‘The Monster Mile’. The monster is featured on the winner’s trophy, the track’s tickets, memorabilia, website and more.
An overview of the 2007 Autism Speaks 400
The 2007 Autism Speaks 400 presented by Visa was the 13th race of the 2007 NASCAR season. It was scheduled to be run on June 3 but was postponed due to rain as a result of the remnants of Tropical Storm Barry and was run on Monday, June 4. Martin Truex, Jr. won the race, his first in NEXTEL Cup Series competition. For each race ticket which was sold before June 1, race sponsor Visa donated $5 to Autism Speaks.
2008 Best Buy 400
The 2008 Best Buy 400 will be raced on Sunday, June 1 at the Dover International Speedway. This event marks the second year Autism Speaks has partnered with Dover International Speedway.
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