[pandora147]

I'm going tomorrow with my mum and her friend

[**Tess**]

Oooh, tell me how it was!!!!

[pandora147]

errrr a bit delayed but, it was awesome!

[WhereverYouAre_]

Just a bit?

[pandora147]

I fail.

[WhereverYouAre_]

We all do it.

Even Kenny would of done it at some point

[**Tess**]

Originally Posted by pandora147 (View Post) errrr a bit delayed but, it was awesome!

I waited for agggges!

[pandora147]

This Is It received a nomination for Best Documentary at the Critics Choice Awards.

The 15th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards :: Official Press Release

[gigi0315]

for Kenny

and for him being at V's b-day party

[WhereverYouAre_]

That's great!

[pandora147]

Just posting this here, Jill already posted it in the Wildcats thread a couple of days ago.

BFDealmemo on Variety.com

Ortega, U Site "In the Heights" By: Mike Fleming Published: Mon, December 14, 2009, 5:12 PM | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack ( 0 ) Universal Pictures has set Kenny Ortega to direct “In the Heights,” the big screen adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Ortega plans to make the musical his follow-up to “This Is It,” the musical documentary built around rehearsals for Michael Jackson’s final concert, which Sony Pictures Entertainment turned into a sleeper hit. Universal acquired rights to "In th Heights" in fall, 2008, with creator Lin-Manuel Miranda attached to reprise his starring role. Miranda wrote the lyrics and music. The show’s book writer, Quiara Alegria Hudes, is writing the script. Meryl Poster is producing. Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman Willis, all producers of the stage musical, are exec producers. Ortega, who until recently had been expected to direct “Footloose” at Paramount, considers “In the Heights” to be his absolute dream job. “It’s a project so near to my heart that when I went in and pitched myself, I told the executives at Universal that they were not going to find a guy who has more of a life connection to that story,” Ortega said. “That they awarded me this job is one of the most exciting things that has happened to me in my life. I’ve seen the show six times on Broadway since it opened, several times when Lin played the lead role. He blew me away with my presence and charisma.” The musical covers three days in the upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights, where a bodega owner who inherited his grandfather’s lottery windfall plots his retirement to a Dominican Republic beach. As he bids farewell to his customers on the block, he becomes conflicted about leaving behind a group that has become family. Ortega said that though he grew up near San Francisco as a child of immigrants from Spain and Cuba, the mix of community and music in “In the Heights” made him nostalgic. “We struggled, and the hopes, dreams, music and love of culture sustained us, and forged who I am,” Ortega said. “I had the same aspirations as the young character in the musical.” Though Ortega directed the “High School Musical” films and choreographed “Dirty Dancing,” he knows his shot came from the success of the Jackson film. The strong reviews, the box office and now this has left him conflicted. “I’d trade it all in a second to have Michael back with us, but I owe a debt of thanks to him,” Ortega said. “He’s my angel. Whenever I said yes to him, I came out on the other end benefitting greatly.” While the new regime at Universal is certainly questioning the movies it will make, the studio remains bullish on musicals. Aside from “In the Heights,” Universal is formulating a new installment of “Mamma Mia!,” and it is beginning to move forward on a screen version of the Broadway smash “Wicked.” Studio also recently attached “Hairspray” composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman and producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron on a musical based on a soon-to-be launched Mattel toyline that aspires to add a new twist to monster lore. Ortega is repped by Paradigm.

[**Tess**]

thx for that Dani!!

[pandora147]

No worries, thanks to Jill for posting originally in the Wildcats

[**Tess**]

some for my dad!