'True Blood' heading for Broadway?

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Who isn't addicted to HBO's 'True Blood' Come one raise your hands? So no one. Raise your hands if you don't want to see the show to end? Ahhh that's better. Now for the hard one. Who wants to see 'True Blood' on Broadway? Just as I thought I see those looks. In fact I have the same look on my face right now.

It seems that Nathan Barr the show's composer has pitched the idea of 'True Blood the Musical' to creator Alan Ball and wanting to get back to the show's roots.

I mean yes I would love to have more Alcide, Eric and yes even Bill, and of course Sookie, but can you imagine the show on Broadway without the faces we have all come to love and see every Sunday night?

I am all for the show must go on, but I think maybe, just maybe this is an "all good things must come to an end" kind of ending.

We want to hear from you. Would you want to see True Blood the musical? Are we ready for that as we get ready to enter the seventh and final season?




Source: THR

Matt Smith swaps Doctor Who for American Psycho

Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith will play Patrick Bateman in a musical version of Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho

Matt Smith has been cast as malevolent banker Patrick Bateman for the forthcoming stage musical of American Psycho.

Smith, who will appear as Doctor Who's titular character for the final time in this year's Christmas special, today started rehearsals for his new theatre role.

Brett Easton Ellis's dark, disturbing 1991 novel American Psycho was made into a film of the same name in 2001, with Christian Bale starring as Bateman alongside Reese Witherspoon and Willem Dafoe.

The American Psycho musical will preview at the Almeida Theatre in London from December 3. Ellis's novel has been adapted for the stage by Roberto Aguirre Sacasa (Glee), while Duncan Sheik (Spring Awakening) has written songs for the musical, which will be directed by the Almeida's Artistic Director Rupert Goold.

Matt Smith was a relatively unknown actor when he was selected in January 2009 to be the 11th Doctor Who. Since then, however, he hasbecome a household name on British television, starring in 44 episodes of the BBC programme. Before taking the role, Smith had appeared in theatre productions of The History Boys and Murder in the Cathedral.

Source: telegraph.co.ukb