Odds & Ends: La La Land Wins big at Critics’ Choice Awards, Room Service Revival Eyes Broadway Bow & More

Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today and over the weekend.

La La Land Wins big at Critics’ Choice Awards
Buzz around La La Land continues to build—the movie musical garnered eight trophies at the Critics’ Choice Awards on December 11, including Best Picture, Best Director for Damien Chazelle and Best Song for “City of Stars," penned by Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Viola Davis won for reprising her Tony-winning role in the Fences film adaptation; other stage faves to take home prizes included Tony winners Jane Krakowski for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and James Corden for Best Talk Show. La La Land also led the pack with the Golden Globe nominations earlier today, receiving seven.

Room Service Revival Eyes Broadway Bow
A revival of Room Service, the 1937 screwball comedy by Allen Boretz and John Murray, is aiming for the Great White Way in the 2017-18 season. The play, perhaps best known to audiences through the Marx Brothers’ film adaptation, tells the story of a desperate and nimble-witted producer, living on credit with several actors in a Broadway hotel. Room Service has not been seen on the Main Stem since a production in 1953, which featured a young Jack Lemmon; it last ran in New York in 2006, when it played off-Broadway.

Santino Fontana's Impossible Monsters
Santino Fontana has just wrapped Nathan Catucci’s indie thriller Impossible Monsters. The Cinderella Tony nominee stars as Dr. Rich Freeman, a psychology professor who conducts a sleep study that goes wrong. Check out The Hollywood Reporter’s first look at the movie here.

Company Set for London's The Miser
Full casting has been announced for the upcoming West End revival of Molière’s The Miser. Joining the previously reported Griff Rhys Jones and Lee Mack will be Mathew Horne, Saikat Ahamed, Ryan Gage, Simon Holmes, Andi Osho, Michael Webber, Ellie White and Katy Wix. Adapted by Sean Foley and Phil Porter, the production will open at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End on March 1, 2017 and officially open on March 13.

P.S. Bros watch Hairspray Live! below, courtesy of Matt Rodin.