It was inevitable. It’s an impossible task trying to keep Hugh Jackman from busting out his song-and-dance-man persona. He loves musical theater so much we imagine he just walks down busy streets trying to get everyone around him to burst into song and perform meticulously choreographed group dance numbers. So it’s good news for the former Wolverine that he’ll be taking on the role of con man Harold Hill in a 2020 revival of Meredith Willson’s 1957 classic musical The Music Man. Produced by Scott Rudin, directed by Jerry Zaks, and with choreography by Tony Award winner Warren Carlyle, the revival will head back to Broadway in September of next year. Jackman himself posted an Instagram teaser picture of a suitcase, a trombone and an ID tag that read “Harold Hill,” none of which is particularly subtle, but entertaining all the same, much like crowd-pleasing musical itself.
Fan or not back in those golden TRL days, you probably always imagined there was something not quite authentic about manufactured groups like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC. And you were right, only it wasn’t the music that was fake: it was the entire system. In the new documentary, The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story, directed by Aaron Kunkel and produced by former *NSYNC-er Lance Bass for YouTube Originals, all the dirty details are laid bare. Producer and music mogul Pearlman organized those two cash-cow groups, among others, and it would have appeared from the outside that everyone was getting rich. Turns out, though, that Pearlman was a criminal running a Ponzi scheme that defrauded everyone in his orbit. Caught and sentenced to 25 years in prison, he died there in 2016. Lance is calling it a cautionary tale for young people entering the music industry, and it’d be wise to watch it before signing any of those dotted lines. The film just premiered at SXSW, and will be streaming soon on a phone near you.
Romeo San Vicente loves his boy bands.
source https://hotspotsmagazine.com/2019/04/03/hugh-jackman-is-your-new-music-man-lance-bass-presents-the-boy-band-con/
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