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...Industries that rely on sales of costly tickets for one-night entertainments, like sporting events, live music and theater, may not be so lucky. Broadway producers anticipating a rough 2009 are pulling the plug on big shows like Legally Blonde and Hairspray, and new shows are having trouble finding backers. In the concert world, "everybody's nervous," says Gary Bongiovanni, editor-in-chief of the trade magazine Pollstar. "It defies logic to think people worried about losing their houses are going to buy three-figure concert tickets." Music agents and managers are cautioning their clients to think small...
JOHN WATERS working on Hairspray sequel...
...When it came to breaking box-office records, Batman wasn't flying solo. Universal's Mamma Mia! earned $27.6 million to snare the best opening for a musical, narrowly beating out last summer's Hairspray and helping propel the record weekend sales across the industry...
...making a mint could be a struggle. The other big film musicals of this decade--Chicago, Dreamgirls and Hairspray--had casts of mostly young actors. The Mamma Mia! contingent is different, as will now be proved with a précis of the movie's plot (a knockoff of the 1968 comedy Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell) and a few actuarial stats...
...they might. Plus-size celebs like Blonsky--or, for that matter, her Hairspray co-stars John Travolta (albeit in a latex fat suit) and Queen Latifah--are increasingly spreading the message that svelte is not the last word in happy. Fit means happy too; so does staying active; so does loving your body no matter its shape. The key is to get that body healthy and keep it that way. The numbers on the scale--pediatricians, nutritionists and psychologists now argue--should start to come second to physical fitness as a gauge for health. After all, says Kelly Brownell, director...