Sutton Foster To Star As Loretta Lynn In New Coal Miner’s Daughter Stage Musical

Coal Miner’s Daughter, Michael Apted’s 1980 movie about the life of Loretta Lynn, is one of the all-time great music biopics. That’s a thriving genre right now, but it barely existed when the film came out, so the clichés weren’t all written into stone in the same way. Lynn was still an active recording artist back then, and she remained one for decades, so it wasn’t quite so drunk on nostalgia. The cast was amazing. Sissy Spacek won an Oscar for playing Lynn, and Tommy Lee Jones,...

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