On with the show, this is it

On with the show

Overture, curtains, lights: Vatican assassin warlock and winner Charlie Sheen, following his firing from his CBS sit-com, announced he will star in a one-man show in Detroit and Chicago that he’s calling “Charlie Sheen Live: My Violent Torpedo of Truth.”

Don’t forget to stop by the lobby concession stand before taking your seat to buy a tub of popcorn and 32 ounces of cold, refreshing tiger blood.

“The Producers 2: Springtime for Spidey”: Producers will shut down the troubled Broadway musical production of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” for three weeks to overhaul it before its new scheduled opening June 14. Original director Julie Taymor has been dropped, in favor of a new creative team.

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Charlie Sheen said he was getting rid of “that lame bug” and instead would build the musical around a scientist turned into a superhero by Adonis DNA.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1781, English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered the seventh planet in the solar system, Uranus.

Today also marks 230 years of schoolchildren tittering anytime a teacher asks someone to name the seventh planet.

–Jon Bauer, Herald staff

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