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PARK CITY — A London comedy musical spoofing final yr’s notorious Gwyneth Paltrow Utah courtroom case is coming to the town the place the story started after the play’s run in the UK got here to an finish.
“Gwyneth Goes Snowboarding” is about to make its American debut at Park Metropolis’s Egyptian Theatre, Awkward Productions, the present’s manufacturing firm, introduced on Monday. It is not clear but when the present will premiere or if there can be a number of dates.
The play facilities across the weird authorized case between Paltrow and Terry Sanderson, a Utah resident who sued the actor in 2019 claiming that she injured him in a ski collision at Deer Valley Resort in 2019.
A jury sided with Paltrow final yr, awarding her $1 by way of a countersuit she filed in opposition to Sanderson.
The trial sparked all kinds of popular culture and social media fodder, together with the launch of the London play at a venue recognized for placing on fringe performs and offbeat comedies.
With opinions claiming the present is “gloriously ridiculous” and “signature nonsense,” the present fared properly sufficient that it was prolonged into this yr. Awkward Productions posted on social media that it ended its London run simply final week.
Selection, which broke the information about an American efficiency, reported that present creators Linus Karp and Joseph Martin will proceed to play Paltrow and Sanderson within the Utah model of the play. “Glee” alum Darren Criss and comic and actor Cat Cohen are new additions to the solid, the outlet added.
Music written by Leland, from “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” will stay part of the present. Members of the viewers may even play the jury as was the case in the UK model.
It is not a lot of a shock that Utah landed the American debut of the unusual play. Karp and Martin advised Deseret Information columnist Meg Walter in December that they needed to convey the present to the Beehive State and have been, on the time, engaged on that course of for a present in spring.
“I nonetheless know little or no about Utah as a spot,” Martin mentioned. “I’d love to go to.”
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