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News Date: 10.24.09
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This weekend it doesn't matter if you're "with
or without" a ticket to
U2's
sold out show in Los Angeles. While it can't
be "even
better than the real thing", fans
from 16 countries around the world can
watch the
entire concert on YouTube, making it the
first time a show of this size has ever been
streamed live on the Internet. U2's current
"360" tour, which kicked off in June, has
just started turning a
profit
since it costs $750,000 a day to keep going.
U2 are hoping audiences "will
follow" into their next big
budget project - a Spider-Man
musical
which is set
to make it's Broadway debut in early 2010.
Some say in order for the production to
break even financially, the show will have
to sell out for 5 consecutive years!
Speaking of "sell outs", let me tell you
what the
Spice Girls
"want,
what they really really want".
The 90's girl group are currently planning a
TV talent show designed to find versions of
themselves for a new
musical to
run in
London. The girls will judge contestants,
just like on American Idol, and tell
the hopefuls "If
you wannabe my double, you're gonna have to
win".
Hopefully hip-hop pioneers
Run-DMC
won't take the same approach in casting
their
musical.
That's right, surviving members, Reverend
Run and DMC, are in talks with a Hollywood
producer and plan to "walk
this way" on Broadway in the near
future.
You know, Run-DMC may not even need
Hollywood to land their own show. I know of
a way that they can get attention from every
network - but getting a helium
balloon in
the air may be "tricky".
That's it for Retro News I'm Jenni Waylon
for Retro Rewind.
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Jenni on Twitter
now!
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