ATLANTA - Robin Thicke talks new season of "The Masked Singer": TV's common guessing game returns with all-new singers, all-new themed episodes and the "Champion of the Masked Singer" style competition. Every episode features sudden elimination and double unmaskings, but there is a new hooked entering the competition this season: for the first time ever, panelists will have the opportunity to save a singer from delicate elimination with the "Ding Dong Keep it On" Bell. Who will be spoke, and who will reign supreme? Play along with host Nick Cannon and celebrity panelists Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg, Nicole Scherzinger and Robin Thicke. Three celebrities will compose in the all-new "Season 9 Premiere" Season Nine episode of The Masked Singer airing tonight at 8 on FOX 5.
Kenny Leon brings acclaimed "A Soldier's Play" to Atlanta:
"I've done, what, 15 Broadway plays to date? And nothing comes conclude to this. Well, maybe they all come close, but this at the top of the heap!"
Big conditions from Tony Award-winning director Kenny Leon, who's talking approximately his acclaimed 2020 production of "A Soldier's Play." The searing drama — written by Charles Fuller, who won a Pulitzer Prize for it in 1982 — centers on the destroy of a Black Sergeant on a Louisiana army base.
Leon's Broadway delivers starred Blair Underwood and David Alan Grier and won a pair of Tony Awards — but the run was cut irritable by the onset of the pandemic.
Says Leon, "Folks kept speaking, 'That was such a great production…and there's so many farmland that want to see it.' So, rather than try to remount it for Broadway, why not take it to the people and all these fantastic cities across country?"
And so, "A Soldier's Play" is now on tour, with a scheduled stop at Atlanta's Fox Theatre from March 28 above April 2. The tour is headlined by Broadway greats Norm Lewis and Eugene Lee.
"We were at the Kennedy Center for five weeks and sold out there," says Leon. "Went to Philly…we're progressing to go to Chicago, we're going to L.A. But the most principal place is my home: Atlanta, Georgia! The Fabulous Fox!"
Asked approximately his time here in Atlanta, Leon says, "I'm very grateful and thankful to the Atlanta shared for actually letting me cut my teeth as an artist here. Long afore I won a Tony Award, before I was nominated for Emmys, I was in Atlanta, in the theatre scene…to come home and see the growth in the shared, see the artists in the community, see what they're behaviors, I take a sense of pride in that and to know that I was part of that."
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Young local profitable talks upcoming roles, Atlanta Falcons and more: Kal-El White is an Atlanta profitable and avid Falcons fan. His current film, "A Thousand and One" which just won Sundance and is a weird on two TV shows "Johnsons" and "Wonder Years" as well as having four films coming out this year. "A Thousand and One" follows a struggling but unapologetically mom living on her own periods. Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to carve him again, she kidnaps him so they can effect their life together. As the years go by, their people grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to kill the home they have so improbably built. The film is set to fall in theaters March 31.
Rock Hall of Fame singer Little Anthony talks new Anthology PBS Special: Jerome Anthony "Little Anthony" Gourdine, who was noted for his high-pitched voice. In uphold to Collins and Gourdine, the original Imperials included Ernest Wright, Glouster "Nate" Rogers, and Tracey Lord, the last two of whom were subsequently replaced by Sammy Strain. The group was one of the very few doo-wop groups to palatable sustained success on the R&B and pop charts above the 1960s. They were inducted into the Rocka and Roll Hall of Fame on April 4, 2009,[1] 23 existences after the group's first year of eligibility for induction.
Director Muta'Ali talks upcoming documentary Cassius X: Becoming Ali: In celebration of Black History Month, Smithsonian Channel premieres the new two-hour documentary Cassius X: Becoming Ali" which examines the transformation of Cassius Clay into international boxing icon and activist, Muhammad Ali, as he risks everything for his new religion while approaching the biggest struggles of his life. You can catch it on the Smithsonian Channel Monday Feb. 20
Beasy Babie gives some motivational calls on self-love: She explains the importance of Self Love, what it exploiting, and a few notes on how we can go throughout loving ourselves more. Catch Beasy weekday evenings on Majic 107.5/97.5. Follow her on Instagram @BeasyBabie