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POP STAR SIA ADAPTS INDIE FILM AMID NEA CRISIS (EXCLUSIVE)

February 20, 2025 by Philip Boroff

Sia, the Australian pop star whose songs are featured in the jukebox musicals Moulin Rouge! and Hell’s Kitchen, is developing a theater score of her own.

The singer-songwriter behind “Chandelier” is writing music and lyrics for an off-Broadway adaptation of the 2017 independent movie Saturday Church. Damon Cardasis, who wrote and directed the critically acclaimed story about a gay teenager’s difficult coming of age, is collaborating on the musical’s book with the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright James Ijames (Fat Ham).Continue Reading

BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: ‘MOULIN ROUGE’ REVIEW

July 26, 2019 by Philip Boroff

Three decades after The Phantom first dropped his chandelier in New York and Jean Valjean took up pursuit here, along comes another Paris-based musical spectacle and prospective blockbuster.Continue Reading

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