Don't Put Away Your Skates Just Yet: Xanadu Leads Sign on Through 2009

-- Brian Juergens from AfterElton.com

Yes, the Little Gay Rollerskating Musical That Could, Broadway's insanely camp Xanadu musical, has secured all of its leads through January of aught nine. Out lead Cheyenne Jackson, impossibly Newton-Johnny Kerry Butler, Tony Roberts, and bookend divas Mary Testa and Jackie Hoffman have all renewed their contracts through next year.

 

Watch Madonna's New York Hard Candy Concert Online

 

Sometimes I think ... what I need ... is a Madonna intervention...I wasn't even there, and I'm giddy from last night's 32-minute Manhattan concert!

The show, which featured mostly Hard Candy songs, crammed 2,200 Madge-freaks into NYC's Roseland ball room; the line formed 60 hours before the show. OK, I guess those gays need an intervention before I do.

 

 

Anyway, you basically have to watch the concert on MSN just for Madonna's performance. Sheeeeee's 50! 50-years-old, ladies and gentlemen!

Well, almost - but she's still hot as all hell when she grinds up on Justin, and her dancing is insane! -sigh- Oh, to have been there ... Well, watch some Madonna music videos after the jump to ease the pain and longing.

 

And check out more pictures from the concert via Faded Youth.

 

It's The NewNowNext AWARDS! Check Out the Nominees...

 

You heard it: Logo will host the first NewNowNext Awards on June 7, honoring gay amazingness in pop-culture, music, books, online, movies ... all sorts of stuff. Candis Cayne will play hostess, along with special guests and performers - including Janet Jackson, y'all!

Watch rapper Cazwell and tranny icon Amanda Lepore at this totally not-fake press conference announcing the nominees. ... But if you're not sitting through that, read the full list after the jump.

 

Feist Rocks The Colbert Report

-- Mariana from AfterEllen.com

First, a disclaimer. The official Feist idolator (I hope that's an actual word) around here was the fondly missed scribegrrrl, as you might remember. Obviously, these are very big shoes to fill, but I'll give it my best shot:  I. Love. Feist. Love, love, love. Looove.

Want proof? She's coming to my neck of the woods on June 11 and I have had the ticket for months. And I can hardly keep myself from running to the venue right now and sleeping there to get a front row seat. The only reason I don't do that? I have to blog for AfterEllen.com, obviously! Well, and I'm sane too. (Also, I'm going to a Cat Power concert on May 26, so I'm sleeping there first.)

 

Watch Scarlett Johansson "Falling Down" Video

 

I don't have beef with Scar-Jo, but what the ef was that? Since I thought it would never happen, I'm actually proud of myself for listening to a whole track from her CD of Tom Waits covers - and maybe one original song? - called Anywhere I Lay My Head.

When it comes to the video, maybe I shouldn't be asking questions, but is she playing herself? Is Scarlett getting her makeup done and checking her BlackBerry in the car supposed to move me?

... And was that just Salman Rushdie?