{"id":996,"date":"2008-06-23T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2008-06-23T07:28:52","modified_gmt":"2008-06-23T14:28:52","slug":"lucas-on-broadway-buh-whaaa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Lucas on Broadway: BUH-WHAAA&#8211;???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s made seventeen googillion dollars as a filmmaker, and he&#8217;s on the march toward TV.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s next? Producing records? Promoting concerts? Ghostwriting novels?<\/p>\n<p>Nope&#8211;George Lucas is out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-ecentral.com\/movies\/buzz\/buzz.asp?file=archives\/buzz\/2008\/6\/23GeorgeLuca&#038;date=6\/23\/2008&#038;title=George%20Lucas%20for%20Broadway\" target=\"_blank\">to conquer Broadway!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George Lucas is planning to direct a Broadway musical, with the help of Whoopi Goldberg.<\/p>\n<p>Lucas is in negotiations with Goldberg to collaborate on the musical Bricktop: Queen of the Night, based on the life of famed Parisian nightclub owner Ada \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBricktop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Smith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re talking about playing with Cubist images and jazz from the 1920s,&#8221; a source reported, saying that Lucas &#8220;could do things Broadway has never seen before&#8221;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he can get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=979\" target=\"_blank\">his bloodsport daughter<\/a> to star in it. I think her name is Tygar. Just like on Thundercats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s made seventeen googillion dollars as a filmmaker, and he&#8217;s on the march toward TV. What&#8217;s next? Producing records? Promoting concerts? Ghostwriting novels? Nope&#8211;George Lucas is out to conquer Broadway! George Lucas is planning to direct a Broadway musical, with the help of Whoopi Goldberg. Lucas is in negotiations with Goldberg to collaborate on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}