Multicultural Entertainment News

An Indigenous Australian didgeridoo player and a maracas shaking ensemble dancer sharing a Broadway stage with the gold lame wearing song and danceman movie star: it's "Hugh Jackman Back on Broadway." Travel through the life and loves of Hugh Jackman over a thoroughly entertaining and engrossing 2 hours and 20 minutes as he shares with the audience his favorite musical numbers in song (and tap dance) from movies he loved as a child (or starred in), pays tribute to his wife and his father through childhood and family stories, and honors the Aboriginal heritage of his beloved Australia. "Luck Be a Lady," "Singing in the Rain," "I Go to Rio," "Mack the Knife," and "I Got Rhythm," are just a few of the numbers that had us snapping our fingers (at his request) and clapping along. He told tales from his work in movies as Wolverine in the X-Men series, Kate & Leopold, and Happy Feet musicals The Boy from Oz  and Carousel. As he described his experiences living in the Outback during the filming of Baz Luhrmann's  Australia, down the aisle and onto the stage come Clifton Bieundurry a vocalist and foundation artist for Nomad Two Worlds who performs in his traditional Walmajarri language;  two didgeridoo payers, Paul Boon,  from Western Australia who also owns and curates a gallery specializing in sales of Indigenous Australian art, and Nathan Mundraby a descendant of the Yidinji rainforest people and Lama Lama tribe of Thaypan Country in Queensland;  and Olive Knight, a  vocalist who Hugh Jackman introduced as an Aboriginal Treasure. It was she, he said, who was invited by the Prime Minister of Australia to attend the "Apology" in 2008 for 200 years of mistreatment of the Aboriginal peoples by the Australian government. Tickets (performances now through Jan 1, 2012) and info at http://www.hughjackmanonbroadway.com. by Lisa Skriloff    Read more >>

 The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and ArteEast present the second annual installment of Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part II, running October 5-23, 2011, in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters. The three-year film series aims to map a largely unknown heritage of personal, artistic, and sometimes experimental cinema from the Arab world. The works selected for the second edition of Mapping Subjectivity hail from Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar, and the UAE, and they reflect a diversity and richness of voices and of imaginative visual languages. Mapping Subjectivity is co-organized by The Museum of Modern Art and ArteEast, and is curated by Jytte Jensen, Curator, Department of Film, MoMA, and Rash Salti, Senior Director, ArteEast and presented in association with the Abu Dhabi Film Festival. For more information, visit http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1206.    Read more >>

Fontainebleau Miami Beach, having hosted celebrated performers from Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley to Jackie Gleason and in more recent years Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, announced the launch of BleauLive, performance series that bring today’s top recording artists and acts to the resort for one of a kind vacation experiences. Pop sensation Ricky Martin will be the resort’s next headliner, performing one last time over Thanksgiving Weekend before he heads to New York City to star as Che in the Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s “Evita.” BleauLive officially launched this past Labor Day weekend with a performance and meet and greet by hip hop artist Pitbull. The November 26 weekend packages start from $329 per night; VIP Packages are available as well with inclusive of Meet & Greet with Ricky Martin on November 25.  BleauLive crafts a fully immersive weekend where, in addition to attending a performance, guests will be offered a number of “surprise and delight moments” including special events in the resort’s entertainment venues including LIV and Arkadia along with special opportunities for exclusive interaction with the featured artist. “The launch of our new BleauLive performance series is an organic extension of the rich history the resort has had hosting top artists,” noted Jeffrey Soffer, Executive Chairman, Fontainebleau Miami Beach. “The continued success of this new program will help to solidify Fontainebleau Miami Beach in entertainment history while also propelling the resort to the top of the ‘must stay’ list in the country.” Room packages can be obtained by booking online at www.BLEAULIVE.com or by calling 800-584-8886.   Read more >>