Sandie's Arts Blog
GO MAVS!! What a fantastic victory!! Details are still coming, but expect owner Mark Cuban to pick up the tab for the upcoming parade in downtown Dallas to celebrate the historic winning of the 2011 NBA crown!! Rings for all please - sorry LeBron!
And while our MAVS were making history in Miami - the Tony's were being handed out in New York City Sunday night. CBS 11 had exclusive coverage and at 5:30 p.m. we had some great local previews of the new 2011-2012 Lexus Broadway Series. Look for more details as we get closer to the season opening - you can find the segments in the CBSDFW.COM Entertainment section. I'm sure some of the big Tony winners will be coming to North Texas soon!
Movie Star sightings in Dallas! Tom Hanks and Selena Gomez (he's the Oscar winning superstar of course - she is a Disney star and Justin Bieber's current squeeze!) are both in Big D this week to promote new films. His is LARRY CROWNE which he directed and costarred in along with his BFF Julia Roberts and hers is MONTE CARLO about an American teen who becomes a princess - almost - while visiting Europe. Look for both interviews this week on CBS 11 at 4:00 p.m. and TXA 21 at 7:00 p.m. Selena will also be meeting fans at an event Tuesday at Grapevine Mills Mall.
The hit musical SPAMALOT comes to the Music hall at Fair Park as part of the Dallas Summer Musical's season. All the Mel Brooks zany characters and fun from the film bring the hysterical musical to life. It continues through June 26th.
BILLY ELLIOT-THE MUSICAL continues at AT&T Performing Arts Center for another week. Do yourself a favor and check out the 10 Tony award winning msuical with fabulous Sir Elton John music about a young boy who wants to dance despite his father's objections. It's entertaining and very moving.
Popular TV host and actor John O'Hurley comes to Fort Worth for the Bass Hall performances of the hit musical CHICAGO. It's a perrenial hit with audiences eveywhere and to see it on the Bass stage - priceless! It will be performed this Friday through Sunday.
The Picasso and Braque exhibit has just opened at the Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth. It's received great reviews for it's excellent exhibiton of the Cubist experiment from 1910-1912.
See you next week... center stage!
