Producers of 'Annie' find a Broadway home for fall

Will Gluck is in negotiations to direct a new version of the Broadway musical "Annie," Sony Pictures said Wednesday. 

Little Orphan Annie, the plucky redheaded star of Broadway musical and comic strip fame, has run out of tomorrows ---at least in print.The pop culture icon who sang and danced her way to international fame in the Broadway musical that gave us tunes such as "It's The Hard-Knock Life," and "Tomorrow," ended her decades-long run as a comic strip heroine on Sunday, June 13.

The lights are looking dim on Broadway, which suffered its worst attendance record in eight years during the 2012-2013 season, according to Bloomberg's Philip Boroff.

I'm not a big theater guy. Despite being a native New Yorker, the last Broadway show I saw might have been "Beatlemania," back in the 1970s. (Great show!) But my kids are into the performance thing. They're always staging "plays" and shooting "movies," etc.

For a year, Dr. Michal Smialowski searched high and low to find a doctor to replace him when he retires from his post in Tatla Lake, a tiny ranching community in the Chilcotin, a remote region of B.C. found 500 kilometres northwest of Kamloops. And that’s where he finally found his man: at the bottom of the earth where the prospect now works at an isolated, harsh Antarctica expedition base.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita is returning to Broadway in 2012 with Argentine actress Elena Roger starring as Eva Peron and pop star Ricky Martin in the role of "Che" Guevara, the producers said Wednesday.The theatre where the musical about the late Argentine first lady will play has not yet been lined up however, Hal Luftig and Scott Sanders said in a statement.Roger will be coming back to the role she won raves for in London's West End in 2006.