On Broadway: Spektor and Johansson’s new stints

October 28, 2:06 PMDenver Entertainment ExaminerStephanie Harper

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Regina Spektor
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In a week of entertainment news, two talented ladies, songstress Regina Spektor and actress/singer Scarlett Johansson have announced respective upcoming projects set for the Broadway stage.
 

Regina Spektor will be taking her incredible storytelling talents and applying them to the new musical Beauty, set for 2011-2012. The New Yorker will collaborate with playwright Tina Landau and lyricist Michael Korie, in an adaptation of a one act play centered on the Grimm’s Fairy Tale. Miss Spektor’s U.S. tour wraps November 12, only to begin a European one, so it is yet unknown whular “A View from the Bridge,” in which a Brooklyn dock worker garners an obsession for his teenage niece (Johansson). Liev Schreiber is set to play the uncle, and previews begin at the Cort Theatre in December. The 14 week run begins January 24th. en she will begin work on the project.
 

Likewise, Scarlett Johansson has announced her Broadway Debut in Arthur Miller’s titular “A View from the Bridge,” in which a Brooklyn dock worker garners an obsession for his teenage niece (Johansson). Liev Schreiber is set to play the uncle, and previews begin at the Cort Theatre in December. The 14 week run begins January 24th.