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May 2 2013 09:59 AM ET

Spice Girls musical closing in June

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“Viva Forever”? Not as it turns out.

Producers announced Thursday that the Spice Girls musical will close at London’s Piccadilly Theater June 29 after a disappointing six-month run.

Producer Judy Craymer said despite tweaks since the show opened in December, “we just can’t make it work.”

Written by Absolutely Fabulous comedian Jennifer Saunders, the show is a modern-day tale of female friendship and mother-daughter bonds set to songs by the 1990s “Girl Power” icons.

It set out to take a timely satirical axe to our information-saturated age of Twitter and TV talent shows, but the critics were overwhelmingly hostile.

The Independent newspaper’s Paul Taylor called the show “lacking in any truly original or challenging spark,” while the Daily Telegraph‘s Charles Spencer found it “tawdry, lazy and unedifying.” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 14 2013 05:34 PM ET

Public transport's latest convert? Spice Girl Geri Halliwell live-tweets London tube trip

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Spice Girls! They’re nothing like us.

Despite not being quite as in-your-face as she was in 1997, the artist formerly known as Ginger Spice has apparently not taken the London tube in 17 years….until this week, when she decided to spice up her life a bit.  Lucky for all of us, she also live-tweets the experience. Remember: Slow it down, read the signs, so you know just where you’re going.

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Dec 12 2012 05:31 PM ET

Stop!: The reviews for Spice Girls’ musical ‘Viva Forever!’ are... not great

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I’ll tell ya what I want…yada yada yada. I want a decent Spice Girls show, and apparently it’s not going to happen anytime soon.

The reviews are in for The Spice Girls’ jukebox musical Viva Forever!, which opened in London last night, and they might give fans pause to zig-a-zig-what?

The show, which is based around the songs of the Spice Girls and features a theme of girl power, tells the story of four teenage friends whose bond is tested when they enter a reality show and only one is chosen to advance. At this time, there aren’t any plans to bring the show to the United States, which is too bad because many an American fan got reacquainted with their mid-nineties teen selves when the Spice Girls reunited and performed at the Olympics over the summer. READ FULL STORY »

Sep 12 2012 11:21 AM ET

Three things we learned from Mel B's topless campaign for breast cancer awareness

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Melanie Brown, a.k.a. Spice Girl Mel B, has never been shy when it comes to cleavage. (Fun fact: there is an entire Facebook group dedicated to her cleavage. Alas, it only has nine members.) But she’s taken her love of “boobs” to a whole new level, going topless in a new campaign to promote breast cancer awareness.

The picture you see to your right is featured in the latest UK edition of Cosmopolitan. Joined by her husband Stephen Belafonte, Scary Spice replicates Janet Jackson’s legendary Rolling Stone cover for the charity CoppaFeel!, in advance of October’s Breast Cancer Awareness month. In one word… Spicy!

But it’s the accompanying interview that’s particularly interesting and full of fun tidbits about Mel B and the Spice Girls themselves. We highlight three things we learned. READ FULL STORY »

Aug 10 2012 02:37 PM ET

Leaked photos show Spice Girls rehearsing for Olympics Closing Ceremony

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If you’re feeling sad and low — possibly because of that unfortunate Baby Beluga news — look no further than this photo, which should deliver a major pick-me-up. The upcoming Spice Girls reunion at Sunday’s Olympics Closing Ceremony is London’s worst-kept secret — but we’ve finally got irrefutable photographic proof that it’s actually happening. (Check out a higher res version here.) All together now: Zig-a-zig-ah!

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Aug 9 2012 12:10 PM ET

Olympics closing ceremony could feature the Stones, Elton John... and, of course, the Spice Girls

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The music director of Sunday’s Olympics closing ceremony tells the London Telegraph that the event “should be the greatest after-party in the world” — and judging from the details that have leaked so far, we tend to agree. Between Adele crooning “Someone Like You,” members of Pink Floyd performing “Wish You Were Here,” and a “galaxy” of other British stars rumored to include the Rolling Stones, Elton John, George Michael, Queen, Ray Davies of the Kinks, the Who, Muse, and, of course, the Spice Girls, all that’s missing is a cameo from some Tupacian Beatles holograms.

The identities of the event’s performers are officially supposed to remain secret until Sunday — but there are plenty of things we do know for sure about the Ceremony. READ FULL STORY »

Jun 22 2012 04:17 PM ET

Spice Girls: 'Say You'll Be There' at the Olympics

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I’ll tell you what I want, what I really, really want: a Spice Girls reunion at the Olympics next month.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look likely. The Spice Girls aren’t on the (unconfirmed!) list of 86 tracks selected for the opening ceremony, and Mel C. is concerned they’ll be ignored entirely. This is unacceptable.

Mel C. told U.K.’s Mirror, “I don’t know exactly where this list has come from, and obviously sometimes things come out that aren’t quite right. But I’d be really upset if the Spice Girls weren’t included in the Olympics, whether it be the opening or closing ceremonies or any other playlists, because I think we absolutely represented Britain in the ’90s. We literally flew the flag — and Geri even wore it — around the globe.” READ FULL STORY »

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