Desperately Seeking Madonna

That's what you'll be doing if you go into the stage version of the movie Desperately Seeking Susan hoping to hear any of the songs by the Material Girl. The new musical (which had its world premiere in London this week) actually uses the tunes of another blondie, Blondie. So instead of gettin' into the groove, you'll be groovin' to such classic hits as "Heart of Glass", "One Way or Another" and "The Tide is High". (Never mind that none of these songs were actually in the movie.)

In related news, Blondie front woman Debbie Harry will be the subject of an upcoming biopic starring ... Kirsten Dunst? Reportedly, Harry was against the casting at first, but now she's OK with it. Talk about one way or another ...

And finally: can you believe that this blog has been in existence for over three months and this is the first time a picture of Madonna has been featured? Whew, almost lost my gay card for that one ...

UPDATE: David over at David's Daily Dramas caught a recent performance of Desperately Seeking Susan and had this to say about it: "If you can get a ticket free or half price, then I would go and see the show before it posts its early closing notice, but it’s not worth a £60 ticket price. If you don’t get to see it, don’t worry there’s always the DVD and the Blondie albums to play."

But my favorite part of his review was this unrelated yet laugh-out-loud bit: "We started the day by hitting the Abecrombie store where Jason spent a small fortune. I couldn’t find anything suitable to my age group and the only things that would have fitted me where the staff." Amen to that.

UPDATE 2: After only a month of official performances, Desperately Seeking Susan will close December 15.

Click here to purchase Desperately Seeking Susanon DVD from Amazon.com.
Links via Imdb.com, SeekingSusan.co.uk, Playbill.com, Web.nme.com and DavMcngh.blogspot.com.