With Wicked being a prequel to The Wizard of Oz, this new photo of Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater might be a “prequel” of a rumored friendship. In the picture – taken on May 31st – Ariana, 30, appears as her character Glinda, while Ethan, 31, stands dressed as his character, Boq. The scene in question is when Ariana’s character arrives at university and bids farewell to her parents, kicking off the sequence of events between Ariana’s Glinda and Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba. Read More...
After more than three months of posts chronicling his struggle with devastating COVID-19 complications, former Broadway dancer and trainer Amanda Kloots wrote on Instagram that her husband, actor Nick Cordero, had died Sunday morning. “Nick was such a bright light,” she wrote. “He was everyone’s friend, loved to listen, help and especially talk. He was an incredible actor and musician. He loved his family and loved being a father and husband. Read More...
One day in late September, before a game in San Francisco, Ha-Seong Kim considered both the near future and his distant home continent. The unveiling of another class of Gold Glove winners was a little more than a month away. It was not lost on the San Diego Padres second baseman that in all the decades of the award’s existence, no infielder born on the other side of the Pacific had gotten to hoist it. Read More...