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Cast for Broadway Musical 'Doctor Zhivago' Announced: West-End London's Tam Mutu to Play Lead
Dating Rumors Swirl Around Famous Tenor Jonas Kaufmann and Pop Singer Madonna
Rumors have been flying about a love connection between the world's most famous tenor, Jonas Kaufmann, and famous pop star Madonna. Sources claim that the musically inclined pair first met at a Christopher Makos exhibition in London and are now an item. The Queen of Pop is hoping that the two will be able to make an album together.Madonna, fresh off an extremely talked-about "Interview" magazine cover, has had a slew of lovers in the past. In the summer, she was rumored to be dating her 26-year-old dancer and choreographer Timor Steffens, but that quickly ended and has now set her sights on Kaufmann.But the recently separated Kaufmann seems to still be playing the field. Recently, he has been spotted with Christiane Lutz, an opera director who works at the Graz and Lubeck theaters. Step Toward Progress: Children's Theatre Updates 'Peter Pan's' Lost Boys to Girl Gang, NBC to Premiere Thursday
In these progressive times, concerns over old productions — like the 100-year-old classic "Peter Pan" — are subject to revision. With a live production on NBC this Thursday, Dec. 4, starring Christopher Walken, Music Theatre International is considering updating the play's undertones of post-colonialism to a more politically correct version.Playwright and choreographer Larissa FastHorse felt it fit to produce a counterpoint to the famous "Lost Boys," which some feel is a crude assimilation of early Native American anxieties. Thus, she created a new gang of powerful and diverse girls, per (Minneapolis) "Star Tribune," now known as "The Pounce."Interesting, indeed.But the new idea became so immediately accepted by Music Theatre International, a licensing company that controls the performance rights to "Peter Pan," that it has been adopted as the new standard for any future staging.
