Arts & Entertainment
Meryl Streep cast in Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Prom’
James Corden, Nicole Kidman also will star
Meryl Streep has been tapped to star in Ryan Murphy’s adaptation of the Tony-nominated musical “The Prom” for Netflix.
Deadline reports that Streep will be joined by other big names such as Nicole Kidman, James Corden, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key and Andrew Rannells.
The story follows Emma, a lesbian teen who is banned from bringing her girlfriend to prom at a high school in a small Indiana town. Streep will portray Dee Dee Allen and Corden will play Barry Glickman, a Broadway playwriting duo whose latest play about Eleanor Roosevelt was a failure. Kidman has been cast as chorus member Angie Dickinson and Rannells will play actor Trent Oliver. Awkwafina will play publicist Ms. Sheldon.
The Broadway group hears about Emma’s plight and travel to the Indiana small town to help with the goal of receiving good press along the way.
Key is Principal Hawkins, the principal of the school who is on Emma’s side and a love interest of Streep’s character.
A nationwide search is underway for an unknown actress to play the lead role of Emma.
Filming is scheduled to begin in December with plans for a fall 2020 release on Netflix.
Celebrity News
More than 1 million people attend Madonna concert in Rio
Free event took place on Copacabana Beach on Saturday
An estimated 1.6 million people on Saturday attended Madonna’s free concert on Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach.
The concert, which was the last one as part of Madonna’s Celebration Tour, included a tribute to people lost to AIDS.
Bob the Drag Queen introduced Madonna before the concert began. Pabllo Vittar, a Brazilian drag queen and singer, and Anitta, a bisexual pop star who was born in Rio’s Honório Gurgel neighborhood, also joined Madonna on stage.
Congresswoman Erika Hilton, a Black travesti and former sex worker, and Rio Municipal Councilwoman Mônica Benício, the widow of Marielle Franco, a bisexual Rio Municipal Councilwoman who was assassinated in 2018, are among those who attended the concert.
“Madonna showed that we fight important fights for the human rights of Black (people), young (people), women and LGBTQIA+ people, and against all injustice, discrimination, and violence,” said Associaçao Nacional de Travestis e Transexuais (National Association of Travestis and Transsexuals), a Brazilian trans rights group known by the acronym ANTRA, on its X account. “What they call identitarianism’ is our subversion to the retrograde and conservative tackiness that plagues the country.”
The Associated Press reported the concert was Madonna’s biggest ever.
The DC Center for the LGBTQ Community, SMYAL and Rainbow Families sponsored Gay Day at the Zoo on Sunday at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The Smithsonian observed International Family Equality Day with special exhibits and an event space.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
Covering Gay Day at the Zoo for @WashBlade . Here at @NationalZooDC pic.twitter.com/LqgGNOOAiM
— Michael Patrick Key (@MichaelKeyWB) May 5, 2024
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PHOTOS: Taste of Point
Annual fundraiser held for LGBTQ youth scholarship, mentorship organization
The Point Foundation held its annual Taste of Point fundraiser at Room & Board on May 2.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
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