Big Fish News

For his fifth novel, "The Kings and Queens of Roam," Birmingham native and "Big Fish" author Daniel Wallace has imagined yet another extraordinary fantasy world filled with odd and colorful souls -- both living and dead, tragic and comic.

Liam Hemsworth's fiance Miley Cyrus's strategy to keep people at bay who claims to be friends and have other motivations is her wit - the singer and actress believes that since her dad was a famous country singer in the 1990s that she has a built in filter to determine when someone is befriending her for bad motives.

Tony winners Billy Crudup and Shuler Hensley will join Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart for the Broadway repetoire mounting of No Man's Land and Waiting for Godot .

The actress-and-singer - who starred in Disney's 'Hannah Montana' TV show aged 13 - has had people try and befriend her because of her fame and fortune, but can weed them out because she grew up around Hollywood with her famous father, Billy Ray Cyrus.

The world premiere of the new musical Big Fish , based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August , concludes its pre-Broadway engagement May 5 in Chicago.

May 04--NORBERT LEO BUTZ -- winner of two Tony Awards, star of a new Broadway-bound show, the performer who created such modern-musical charmers as Fiyero in "Wicked" and Jamie in "The Last Five Years" -- faces a daunting challenge.

I promise it's not revealing too much to note that about two-thirds of the way through The Kings and Queens of Roam , the masterful new novel by Daniel Wallace , a goat commits suicide.

BIG FISH has its pre-Broadway world premiere at Chicago's Oriental Theatre in a limited 5-week engagement opening Friday, April 19, 2013, and playing through Sunday, May 5, 2013.

Norbert Leo Butz stars as Edward Bloom, a traveling salesman with a penchant for tall tales, in the pre-Broadway world premiere of the musical "Big Fish." For the chance to see the love of his life, Edward Bloom agrees to become a human cannonball in the musical stage adaptation of Tim Burton's 2003 film, "Big Fish" in its pre-Broadway run at ... (more)

It's challenging to capture the magic of a well-loved movie and bring it to life onstage.

The world premiere of the new musical Big Fish , based on the 1998 novel by Daniel Wallace and the 2003 Columbia Pictures film written by John August , officially opens in a pre-Broadway engagement April 19, following previews that began April 2, in Chicago.