Channing Tatum is busy mounting new stage productions to follow on his success with “Magic Mike” in London and Las Vegas.
This includes turning his 2006 movie “Step Up,” about a romance with a ballerina, into a Broadway musical.
The actor has been in New York rehearsing with the cast of the NYC live stage version of his show “Magic Mike.”
Tatum is directing the show and working out regularly to assume a cameo role during its opening weeks, just as he did in the West End production. How long he will appear in the show will depend on his movie commitments.
“Magic Mike” was originally scheduled to open Oct. 22 at the former Copacabana nightclub at 268 West 47th Street. But it was postponed to January because of construction delays.
The designers are replicating the theater in London where the show is still a hit after seven years.
The audience will be able to dine, drink, and interact with the cast. After the curtain goes down the theater will morph into a nightclub with the actors joining the audience on the dance floor.
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Britani Bateman, star of “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” was singing while she skied down a mountain.
“A producer heard me and said, ‘Hey, I want to do a one-woman show with you.’”
Bateman — mother of two daughters — thought she was too busy. “Then a tarot card reader asked me why I kept saying no. I went home and said yes.”
Now she is celebrating the release of her new single “What About Me” and preparing her performances at 54 Below on Aug. 30, Aug. 31 and Sept. 2.
“It’s really my chance to tell my story my way instead of through the lens of reality TV,” she said.
A Brigham Young University theater graduate, Bateman has appeared in productions of “Miss Saigon,” “The R.M.,” and “Forever Strong.”
While she is a Mormon, she did perform for a predominantly gay audience in Fire Island’s Cherry Grove.
“I’m kind of a Mormon 3.0. I don’t necessarily believe everything preached, but it is a great church that helps the community.”
Her third season on “RHSLC” finished shooting in May and will air this fall.
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Sydney Sweeney seems to have a type — older by 16 years, dark and attractive.
Hollywood is gossiping that her current paramour Scooter Braun looks like her past fiancé — Jonathan Davino. Braun seems to be attached by the hip to Sweeney.
The two were in Sydney’s home state of Washington after the devastating Spokane area wildfires, bringing food to firefighters between shifts on the front lines and helping prepare and distribute meals.
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Judy Glickman Lauder started taking photos when cameras used film.
“I’ve been doing this a long time,” laughed the widow of Leonard Lauder, son of cosmetics queen Estée Lauder.
The mother of four, and grandmother of 16, started collecting photographs before they became expensive pieces of art.
Her show of 100 photos by 50 photographers — including herself, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Imogen Cunningham, Susan Meiselas, Gordon Parks and James Van Der Zee — is at the Southampton Arts Center through Sept. 27.
Her father was friends with Ansel Adams and Edward Weston. “Weston showed me how to take photographs,” she said.
The show is “serious, funny and sexy,” a reflection of herself. “I love celebrity and rock ‘n’ roll,” she said.
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Leonardo DiCaprio tried unsuccessfully to go unrecognized in St. Tropez by wearing sunglasses and pulling his black baseball cap over his eyes.
The star partied with his model girlfriend Vittoria Ceretti and a posse of ten pals at hot spots including Casa Jondal. The clubs’ bouncers couldn’t block people from taking photos.
Meanwhile, controversial rapper Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori were told they would not be welcome at St. Tropez’s most famous beach spot Club 55 because of Censori’s penchant for exposing herself in public. Club 55 is a favorite spot of Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos, Elton John, Kate Moss, Jennifer Lopez, and Beyoncé and Jay-Z.
Instead, the scandalous duo made the scene at DC10, where their racy antics were thought to be more entertaining than offensive. Kanye pulled out his iPhone and took pictures of his “pinup” while she gave him what looked like a lap dance.
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Real estate brokers in the Hamptons are all about exposure. For Douglas Elliman’s Patrick McLaughlin that means a new effort on social media called “Hamptons Chatter.”
The short format shows shot at Flying Point Media in Southampton have guests like Wölffer Estate Vineyard’s Roman Roth, Southampton Playhouse artistic director Eric Kohn and funny movie critic Bill McCuddy.
“It’s a little bit of everything, fast paced and hopefully fun,” says McLaughlin, a former TV producer at Fox News and “Good Day New York.”
“I guess I was ready for my close up, we’ll see if everyone else is,” he said with a laugh.
The series launches this week and can be found on McLaughlin’s Instagram feed. Hey, he’ll also sell you a house.
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One Art Space in Tribeca is not letting grass grow underfoot.
Fresh from selling out the works of Shepard Fairey at the Hamptons Fine Art Fair, the gallery will be launching a solo show for Hunt Slonem “Through the Looking Glass” from Aug. 21 to Sept. 28. This will be his first New York show in five years.
The Hamptons event drew some social butterflies to its opening night with Carmen D’Alessio, Alberto Luzzi and Jean Shafiroff.
Fairey, who designed the “HOPE” posters used in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, updated the Statue of Liberty for the cover of Time Magazine’s 250th Anniversary of USA issue.
“One Art Space has always believed in showing artists whose work carries a point of view,” said curator MaryAnn Giella McCulloh.
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Out & About: “General Hospital” star Brianna Brown and Rochelle Aytes, the co-star of the comedy “White Chicks,” attended the release of Genlux magazine’s summer issue at the home of celebrity stylist Chaz Dean. The mag’s cover features musician Ksenia Buzina, whose big hit was “Never Felt This Way” … Knick’s captain Jalen Brunson’s wife Ali Marks Brunson and former Knicks City Dancer Captain Marcella Hymowitz teamed up to teach a Pilates class at Hymowitz’s fitness space, The Pearl, on the Upper East Side.
Throughout August, Marcella will lead workouts at Wave Wellness in Southampton and at Sag Harbor’s Post House.
