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Bonnie & Clyde Headed to Broadway, Stopover in Sarasota

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

bon4The new Frank Wildhorn musical Bonnie & Clyde, which premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in 2009, will be seen at Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, FL, in November, prior to Broadway.

The musical about the Depression-era American outlaws has music by Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel), lyrics by Tony Award winner Don Black (Sunset Boulevard, Song and Dance), book by RMG’s own Ivan Menchell (The Cemetery Club, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) and direction and musical staging by Jeff Calhoun (Deaf West’s Big River, Broadway’s Grease!).

For the full article recently published on Playbill.com – CLICK HERE

Bend It Like Brand

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

russell-brandRMG clients Bill and Scott Bindley just sold a pitch to Warner Bros. with Russell Brand to star.  He’ll play a David Beckham-like millionaire soccer star/playboy who gets arrested in a West Texas and sentenced to community service. His task: coach the hapless local high school soccer team in a Friday Night Lights town. Bill Bindley and Mike Karz will produce with Brand and his manager Nik Linnen.

Bill and Scott’s script Vicenza is in active development at Sony with Overbrook Entertainment, John Tomko and Bill Bindley producing.  Scott’s script Say Uncle is in active development at Warner Bros. with Zach Galifianakis attached.

Bill and Scott wrote and Bill directed the 2001 film Madison starring Jim Caviezel.

Duke Straub’s Half Pint Brawlers to Air on Spike

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

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RMG client Duke Straub (Solitary) is producing a new reality show for Spike TV, called Half Pint Brawlers.  Half Pint Brawlers is a six episode series that follows a hectic traveling troupe of little person wrestlers as they bring their show all around the United States, led by their affable leader, Puppet “the psycho Dwarf.”

HPB1The pick up of Half Pint Brawlers has garnered much attention, particularly from the Hollywood Reporter and Variety. In addition to Straub, Half Pint Brawlers is being produced by Darryl Silver (The Apprentice), Stephen David (the Apprentice, Big Medicine), Royal Malloy, Jeff Guerriero and Trip Taylor (Jackass, Nitro Circus, and Wildboyz).

You can visit the website for Half Pint Brawlers by clicking here. The show is planned to premiere this June.

Exclusive Peek into Bonnie & Clyde at La Jolla Playhouse

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The La Jolla Playhouse, one of California’s Tony Award-winning Regional Theatres concludes its 2009 Season with the World Premiere of Frank Wildhorn’s new musical “Bonnie & Clyde”.  Based on the true life story of the notorious bank robbers turned public enemies and folk heroes, courtesy of the media of the day, Wildhorn, and his lyricist Don Black, along with RMG client Ivan Menchell (Curious George, JONAS, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and director Jeff Calhoun bring to life Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker of 1934.

Check out the montage video above and these amazing photos from the first month in La Jolla!

You can buy your tickets right here.

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