ON FEBRUARY 2, 2010, former Monkee Micky Dolenz will take on the role of joke shop owner Wilbur Turnblad in the award-winning musical Hairspray which is currently booking at the Shaftesbury Theatre until October 24, 2010.
MONKEES star MICKY DOLENZ is heading to London's West End to appear in hit musical HAIRSPRAY.The 64-year-old singer/drummer will take on the role of Wilbur Turnblad in...
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Micky Dolenz, best known as the mop-haired drummer in 60s boy band The Monkees, is joining the West End cast of Hairspray next year (from 2 February 2010), playing Wilbur Turnblad opposite Brian Conley, who will reprise his role as Edna. Since top...
by Toni L.P. Kelner My "Where are they now?" series includes a lot of fans. In Curse of the Kissing Cousins, freelance entertainment reporter Tilda Harper encounters fans of an obscure seventies sitcom. In the forthcoming Who Killed the Pinup...
Davy "The Cute One" Jones has abandoned all pretense of being nice to his former Monkees-mates, exploding in a recent interview: Micky Dolenz won't stay behind the drums where he belongs! Michael Nesmith has his head up his ass, and also is not an "entertainer"! And finally, Peter Tork "joined a one-man band and gave it up over musical differences!” (OK, that last line...
MONKEES star DAVY JONES has ruled out ever reuniting with his bandmates after launching a scathing attack on his former pals, insisting he has "no time" for them.
Davy Jones BB King's Rocktober 2nd While former Monkee/forever a Monkee Davy Jones may not have been a leading candidate on our muss see before they die/we die list (Brian Wilson's up next), it certainly wasn't a losing proposition taking a ride with him before he pulls into Clarksville, on the last train! After we made the daring decision to see the pint-sized '#1 Teen Idol of All Time', we soon realized...
Well, we made it through "A Month of Monkees". Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the Monkees and also the last post of this mega-special month here at The World of Wonder. And we end it, fittingly, with the last original Monkees release. This time it's the live album, "MonkeeMania 2002 Live In Toronto." Fittingly, just as the last studio album of the original Colgems catalogue...
Just a reminder that today is the last day to bid on the Monkees items I put up for auction on E-Bay! As stated before, all of these items are being auctioned off to raise funds for "The Richard S Dart Memorial Arts Scholarship" To help me on this "pledge drive", my good friend, Micky Dolenz, has donated some autographed items to put up for auction. All of the signed items came...
In November 2000, it was announced that Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, & Peter Tork would reunite as The Monkees for a short tour in March & April 2001. While not as popular as the 1986 concerts, this tour played to sold out crowds in theatres, casinos, & selected fairly large venues. The tour hit the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV the last week of March, 2001. It was towards the end of that week...