After winning nine Tony Awards Sunday night, including the one for best musical, "The Book of Mormon" got more good news Wednesday: Its cast album ranked No. 3 on the U.S. sales charts last week.
It was the highest-charting Broadway cast album — and first top 10 — since 1969, when "Hair" spent 13 weeks at No. 1, Billboard reported.
The Broadway album sold 61,000 units during the week that ended Sunday — a paltry figure compared, say, with the more than 1.1. million that Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sold two weeks ago, but Billboard said it marked the largest sales week for any cast album since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking data in 1991, the previous record having been 54,000 for "Phantom of the Opera" in 1992.
The trade publication said "Book of Mormon" was helped by AmazonMP3 having priced a digital copy at $1.99 for three days last week.
Topping the Billboard chart was Adele's "21," with "Born This Way" at No.2
—Lee Margulies
Rijksmuseum redo on track
Rembrandt's "Night Watch" and other famed works by Dutch masters will return to their permanent home by 2013, as a radical decade-long renovation of the national Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam nears completion.
A sneak preview Wednesday showed the 19th century museum both modernized and closer to its original plan. Its red-brick exterior, reminiscent of a fairy-tale castle, remains intact. Inside, maze-like corridors have been scrapped in favor of large spaces and high ceilings.
The museum will house about 7,500 works of art for public viewing, around the same amount as before renovations began in 2003.
Originally scheduled for completion by 2009, the $536-million renovation has faced several setbacks, notably an "only-in-Amsterdam" fight over bicycle access.
Bike advocates won, and a window-lined public tunnel runs through the middle of the ground floor.
—Associated Press
Timberlake's more into acting
For the umpteenth time, Justin Timberlake still has no plans to return to music anytime soon.
Though the Grammy winner is toplining two summer films, "Bad Teacher" with Cameron Diaz and "Friends With Benefits" alongside Mila Kunis, he is still being quizzed about his largely dormant recording career. And the answer remains the same.
"I don't have a single song ready to go," Timberlake told Playboy in a recent interview. "People keep asking me when a new song or album is coming out, and I don't know what to say. Music is not my focus right now. It may be someday. It could happen next month or next year but right now it's not where it's at for me."
Timberlake hasn't released a disc since 2006's platinum-selling "FutureSex/LoveSounds."
—Gerrick D. Kennedy
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