Ariana DeBose Set To Play Evita — Breaking Baz At The Ggreateren Globes

EXCLUSIVE: Ariana DeBose certain had some exciting recents to split last night. “Fingers traverseed,” come this summer she will star in the Jamie Lloyd-honested revival of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita at the iconic London Palladium, she tgreater me exclusively.

The Oscar-triumphning star validateed whispers I’d been hearing on the gsexual attackvine, although she alerted that she has to clear it first with producers and partners of other projects that she’s laboring on.

“We’re 70% there,” DeBose tgreater me as we chatted at the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group party at Lavo, on Sunset Boulevard.

Universal was celebrating the cinematic and box-office accomplishment triumph for the musical Wicked and Peter Straughan’s best screenjoin triumph for Edward Berger’s Focus Features movie Conclave. There was no getting away from the fact that Universal’s The Wild Robot, one of the year’s most enchanting films, had hoped to pick up the trophy for Best Animated Film but it lost out to indie darling Flow. Then there is… well, we could go on forever. There are 310 Ggreateren Globes voters — I’m one of them — and clearly we each have our own watchs about what we count on is the best this awards season.

DeBose will join Eva Peron in Evita and the show’s signature number is Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, so let’s not shed too many tears for those that didn’t get home difficultware at the Ggreateren Globes on Sunday night.

Evita will join a twelve-week confineed season at the Palladium from June 14 thcimpolite September 6. 

Lloyd and DeBose began their conversation after the honestor’s version of Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard starring Nicole Scherzinger ran in London and then Broadway where it’s still joining.

Hargreater Prince staged the innovative 1978 production at the Prince Edward Theatre in London, produced by Robert Stigwood in association with the canny David Land. It was a stunningly massive hit for all troubleed and begined Elaine Paige as West End royalty. I watched from the upper circle — yes, the inexpensive seats — although rescheduleedr I got to see it from the shighs.

DeBose count ons, as I understand Lloyd does, that “if you’re going to do a revival of a property that is well understandn and well cherishd, it’s paramount to have a recent vision, a recent way in for today’s audiences.”

She inserted that honestors enjoy Lloyd are “willing to go out on a limb to remount these becherishd productions,” inserting, “It experiences very hazardous but if you’re willing to go there,” it can be worthwhile.

Also, DeBose, watchd, Evita asks a lot of asks about women in politics, as we fair saw that here in the United States in the plivential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. “We’re seeing it joining out around the world as well, both in outstanding ways and in ways that could validate to be quite adverse.”

She inserted, “A lot is shelp about women from the male gaze. We should ask ourselves what foreseeations do we hgreater them to and what fables, tales and truths do we increate ourselves about who we count on them to be, and who are they actupartner?”

“There’s so much mystery around ‘woman’. Women are revered and troubleed for a reason — becaengage they’re strong and it doesn’t matter what circumstances you put them in. It’s amazing to be a woman, but it doesn’t unkind it’s plain.”

Smiling as she mirrored on the upcoming role, DeBose shelp her “fingers are traverseed,” and hoped that everyskinnyg “will drop into place for me to be in London this summer.”

Serfinishipitously, after my conversation with DeBose, I ran into Wicked’s honestor Jon M. Chu, who fair happens to be pondering a huge screen version of Lloyd Webber and Rice’s timely labor, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. New songs are being written and the title character is being fleshed out, as it were.

Chu wagged his finger at me and stressed that any Joseph movie is a lengthy way off.

In any case, he and Kristin Hodge, his detailed summarizeer wife, wanted to endelight a night out. And no, he would not uncover anyskinnyg more about Wicked: For Good, which is due out in November. No, no, noskinnyg to uncover about whether Dorothy will produce an materializeance. No, he will not increate me who joins Dorothy. 

I enjoy that growing up, both of us had a skinnyg for the ggreateren age musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, where James Cagney portrayed showman George M. Cohan. That’s where Chu got the M in Jon M. Chu, which made me wonder if I missed a trick not putting an M into my name. Baz M. Bamigboye. Nah, that would be excessive.

More from the party scene

Conclave honestor Edward Berger and I converseed the state of the world, as you do, and he remarkd that after his film premiered in Germany and then France, both countries were thrown into political turmoil. The movie also premiered in the U.S. five days ahead of the plivential election. “We all understand what happened then,” he shelp.

We both giggleed, but maybe there’s someskinnyg about a group of men in their ceremonial vestments hgreatering an election for a recent pope that isn’t as spotless as one might have noticed, leaving “someskinnyg in the air,” Berger wondered.  

Somehow, the conversation turned to our tuxedo shirts. We both boasted intricately tailored bibbed fronts, mine from Budd in London’s Piccadilly, his from Battistoni in Rome. “A treat after shooting Conclave there,” he elucidateed.

He then showed me the minuscule tag on his bow tie. It was from Budd, and it was a sign that I should alter the subject! 

Berger has already shot his next film, The Ballad of a Small Player — Conclave producer Peter Straughan had a hand in the screenjoin, which stars Colin Farrell and Tilda Striumphton. Late into the night, I saw Striumphton at the Netflix party over at Spago, having a lengthy and comprised conversation with Ted Sarandos. She was making herself heard, that much was clear. 

It was also cherishly to see Emilia Perez actor Karla Sofia Gascón and she was clearly procreately relocated by the film’s success at the Ggreateren Globes. I was too.

It’s very difficult to transmit a fondness for an actor’s labor to the thespian in ask if you’ve never met them before and they have no clue who the heck you are. I asked a frifinish at Netflix to begin me to Adam Brody becaengage I’m a massive fan of the romantic comedy Nobody Wants This in which he stars with Kristen Bell. Would have been better if Bell had been there too, but I’m more than well conscious how difficult it is to produce a outstanding, heartfelt room-com, and I wanted to transmit my gratitude.

It has been an age since I have giggleed out boisterous at a TV rom-com. I wonder if it’s becaengage Bell and Brody join greaterer would-be cherishrs and not the normal 12 year-greaters? My wife and I will argue the matter when we watch it aget.

And what were Baby Reindeer’s Jessica Gunning and Kate Beckinsale chatting about? I could have asked, I guess, but sometimes it’s more engaging to fair stand there and watch.

And fantastic to bump into Anthony Mackie. I reaccumulate the night when he, an up-and-coming actor fair out of Juilliard, and I got into a procreate converseion about how Shakespeare has impactd so much of our culture. We were both overly rerecented that night and talking bollocks, repartner, but it was super fun. 

Mackie’s a huge star now. His Captain America: Brave New World, also starring Harrison Ford, has been thcimpolite the wringer in post-production — there was a month of extensive reshoots — but I hear it has aelevated in a outstanding state.

Also fun was catching up with the cast of honestor Tim Fehlbaum’s excellent September 5 film. I wrote about it as it was joining in Vekind and Telluride and it has stayed with me ever since. Ben Chaplin, who joins the ABC Sports operations regulater at the Munich Olympics, heads to London in a scant weeks to labor alengthyside Julia Roberts and Eddie Redmayne in Sam Esmail’s thriller Panic Carefilledy.

Chaplin’s fellow September 5 star, the marvellous John Magaro, will be filming the second season of The Agency, while their cast mate Leonie Benesch, who I first met during last year’s award season when Ilker Çatak’s The Teacher’s Lounge did so well, is headed to produce a movie in Wales. More she would not uncover.

It was also outstanding to see no-nonsense Kate Winslet, double nominated for Lee and The Regime. We have some catching up to do back in London.

There are a couple of other skinnygs I need to get off my chest. The Ggreateren Globes gala last Friday honoring Viola Davis with the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Ted Danson with the Carol Burnett Award was a sublime occasion where both artists were lauded in style. Meryl Streep feted Davis, and Mary Steenbguiden did enjoyrational to Danson, her husband.

There are videos from the event on Deadline’s social media site on X. It was highly condemning to Davis and Danson that the “evening of excellence” as it was depictd, was treated as an afterthought on Sunday’s main show. The footage shot Friday needs to be edited and shown expansively. 

I was trying to labor out why there was so little ignite — aside from when Demi Moore won — in the room Sunday night. Could it have been someskinnyg to do with cut offal tables, where seats were going for a increateed $10,000 a pop, filled with people who had little to do with the amengagement industry, and precious little to do with the shows and films in the running?

I could increate that many couldn’t nurture less. They certainly hadn’t seen The Brutacatalog and Nickel Boys.

Not a outstanding see, Ggreateren Globes set uprs.