From Dua Lipa to Broadway, Houdini never disappears
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Jesse Eisenberg says community theater saved his life. Without it, we might not know him as Mark Zuckerberg and the social network. We might not have the zombie land as we know it now. But even Jesse Eisenberg knows that a lot of people just don't get musical theater. Musical theater is inherently very silly.
There's something so ridiculously earnest about it. On Cue with Tom Power, Jesse talks about his new film The Debut, starring Julianne Moore as a shy housewife-turned actor, and Paul Giamatti as a theater director who pushes her to her limits and beyond. Hear that conversation now on Cue with me, Tom Power. This is a CBC podcast. He died a hundred years ago, but Harry Houdini has still not entirely left the stage.
If you poll the public today the name a magician, the odds are Houdini would be still number one. A few years back, Dualipa made a hit song out of him. They say I come in a go. Tell me all the ways you name me, I'm not here for long.
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