{"id":178,"date":"2008-06-18T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/06\/bricktop-queen-of-the-night.html"},"modified":"2008-06-18T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T17:31:00","slug":"bricktop-queen-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Bricktop &#8211; Queen of the Night&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\">IMDb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076759\/\">Star Wars<\/a> creator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000184\/\">George Lucas<\/a> is planning to lend his directorial talents to a Broadway musical with the help of comedienne <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000155\/\">Whoopi Goldberg<\/a>, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg, who has made a number of appearances on the New York stage, is talking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000184\/\">Lucas<\/a>&#8216; motion picture and visual effects company Industrial Light and Magic about a collaboration on musical <em>Bricktop &#8211; Queen of the Night<\/em>, reports the New York Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>The musical centres around a fabled Parisian cabaret owner Ada &#8216;Bricktop&#8217; Smith.<\/p>\n<p>A source tells the newspaper, &#8220;They&#8217;re talking about playing with Cubist images and jazz from the (1920&#8217;s),&#8221; adding that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000184\/\">Lucas<\/a> &#8220;could do things Broadway has never seen before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone remember the last time an iconic film director with little to no stage experience helmed a stage musical&#8230;? Hmm&#8230; I&#8217;m seem to recall reading about Martin Scorsese being a fish out of water for <em>The Act. <\/em>Any others&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per IMDb: Star Wars creator George Lucas is planning to lend his directorial talents to a Broadway musical with the help of comedienne Whoopi Goldberg, according to reports. Goldberg, who has made a number of appearances on the New York stage, is talking to Lucas&#8216; motion picture and visual effects company Industrial Light and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=178\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;Bricktop &#8211; Queen of the Night&quot;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1826,1825,1827],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bricktop","tag-george-lucas","tag-whoopi-goldberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}