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OK, I'm trying this email mobile posting one more time. The internet filters are allowing me to still access playbill.com, so I can read the news and then hopefully be able to email in my posts. Apparently Blogger has now gotten its act together and came up with a new way to do email posts. We'll see how well this works.

First up, after much speculation that there wouldn't be a winner, it was announced yesterday that Rabbit Hole has won the Pulitzer for Drama. My feelings on this are rather mixed. It definitely sounds like an interesting play, but I can't get past Cynthia Nixon's involvement with it. I fucking HATE Sex and the City and the cult that surrounds it, which far more obnoxious than Allie McBeal's cult ever was. I hate S&C and everyone involved with it and everything they do so much that I couldn't even bring myself to go see it when the Steppenwolf recently did a Cynthia-less production. A movie version is reportedly in the works, as long as Cynthia stays out of it, maybe I'll go see that.

Speaking of hate by association, The Color Purple starts tonight at the Palace. Please, stay away.

Further proof that the 60's are back, we've got 3 major movie musicals coming out in the next year to look forward to: Hairspray, Sweeney Todd, and Mamma Mia!. Rumors are circulating that Christine Baranski may be cast as one of Donna's friends, I think the older Patsy Stone-looking one. She can sing and given her involvement in Chicago, this is gearing up to be THE movie event of the decade. Meryl & Christine singing Dancing Queen, the only thing better would be to bring Chess to the big screen.

Lastly, there was an intriguing article on playbill.com about an upcoming musical based on Spider Man. It makes sense that Julie Taymor has been tapped to direct, and I would be interested in seeing it, but apparently fucking U2 is writing the music. The only thing worse would have been if Dave Matthews wrote it. What the hell are they thinking? The bizarre story (the spider that bites Peter Parker is actually an ancient woman that was turned into a spider by the gods because of her inability to love and she keeps appearing to him in various guises while a Greek chorus recounts spider man stories) is going to turn off the fanboys that the producers are obviously counting on to show up in droves while music by U2, the most obnoxious band ever, is going to turn off the theatre goers that are needed to keep the show running. I don't understand what they're thinking. At least It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman, despite having surprisingly bad music, stayed fairly true to the Superman story and did spawn one good showtune (You've Got Possibilities), which is one more than U2 is going to be able to come up with. Let's chuck this idea and get cracking on making that Frankenstein tour happen instead.