MUSIC/ FLAMING LIPS BOOK HOLLYOOD CEMETARY GIG: The Flaming Lips will peform a 2 night gig at the Hollywood Forever Cemetary in Los Angeles next month. Tickets for the June 14 and 15 show will go for $80, with $40 single-day tickets will also be available. The 1st night will see the Lips tackling their 1999 album, "The Soft Bulletin," which redefined the psychedelic rockers as a more orchestral-friendly band. The 2nd night will see the Flaming Lips cover "The Dark Side of the Moon," which the band has regularly taken on the festival circuit. The group will also perform it at a 3 day Chicago festival in May. The Flaming Lips are billing the cemetery event as "Everyone You Know Someday Will Die," a lyric from the 2002 single "Do You Realize??" Guests are welcome to bring blankets, pillows, food and drinks, but coolers, tents, chairs and pets of any sort are not allowed. Experimental guitarist-singer Marnie Stern will support.
TV/A&E ANNOUNCES NEW SERIES AND RENEWALS: A&E announced today that it will renew 11 series and launch 10 new ones. The network also approved the multi-night television event "Coma" from Ridley and Tony Scott. Capitalizing on the ratings of "Storage Wars," which averaged 2.8 million total viewers per episode, the network is ordering 8 episodes of spin-off "Storage Wars: Dallas". A&E is also picking up "InLaws," "Ship Happens" and "Boar Hunters". Returning series include "Beyond Scared Straight," "Gene Simmons Family Jewels," "Hoarders," "Intervention" and "Parking Wars". Full details can be found on the A&E website.
FILM/ "CITIES" TO LENS IN OCTOBER: Clive Owen and Anil Kapoor will star in "Cities," a financial thriller that will be directed by Roger Donaldson. "Cities" is described as a cautionary tale about greed and ambition that takes place on a global scale in 3 colliding story lines set in the exuberant months leading up to the Dow Jones all-time stock market high. The 3 involve a New York-based hedge fund manager (Owen) who has everything he wants -- money, sex and power -- but he wants more; a young couple in London that just wants to buy their 1st home, something that seems impossibly out of reach; and Mumbai cop fights against corruption between property speculators and his colleagues, one of whom will be played by Kapoor. Donaldson co-wrote the script from an original script titled "Extreme Cities," written by Glenn Wilhide. The company is setting an October start for a shoot that will take place in London, Mumbai and New York.
THEATRE/ "LOMBARDI" POSTS CLOSING NOTICE: "Lombardi," Eric Simonson's football drama about late Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, will end its Broadway run May 22, producers announced yesterday. Tony Award nominee Thomas Kail ("In the Heights") staged the play by Academy Award winner Simonson, which opened October 21, 2010, at the Circle in the Square Theatre. When it closes, "Lombardi" will have played 30 previews and 244 performances. Dan Lauria ("The Wonder Years") plays the late coach opposite Judith Light ("Who's the Boss," "Ugly Betty") as his wife, Mare. Light's performance was favored by critics and the Tony voters, who singled out her performance with a 2011 Tony nomination for Best Actress in a Play. It was the production's only Tony nomination. The Broadway play is inspired by the best-selling biography "When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi" by David Maraniss. The play is set over a week in 1965, 5 years before Lombardi's death from colon cancer at age 57. The play shifts back and forth in time. "Lombardi" is the 1st show to announce its closing, following yesterday's Tony nominations announcement. Traditionally, shows that have been suffering at the box office, begin to post closing notices if the nominations they hoped for, did not come their way.
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