Gwyneth Paltrow's Infamous Ski Trial Is Being Satirized In A New Musical
Gwyneth Paltrow's Infamous Ski Trial Is Being Satirized In A New Musical
The goop founder's crash on the ski slopes and the trial that followed are being turned in a hilarious new musical.
Movie star Gwyneth Paltrow has gone viral many times over, for things like jade egg debacles and selling vagina-scented candles, but it’s her much-memed viral skiing lawsuit that has spawned a musical satire .
This past March, the goop founder stood trial in a civil suit that stemmed from a 2016 ski-slope collision with Terry Sanderson. Now that crash and subsequent litigation is fodder for a satirical stage adaptation called Gwyneth Goes Skiing .
The Pleasance Theater in London just announced the new musical on Instagram with an official synopsis that reads: “She’s the goop-founding, door-sliding, Shakespeare-in-loving, consciously uncoupling Hollywood superstar. He’s a retired optometrist from Utah. In 2016, they went skiing. On the slopes of Deer Valley, their worlds collided, and so did they — literally. Ouch. Seven years later in 2023, they went to court. Double ouch. This is their story. Kind of. Not really."
The new musical is set to open on December 13 for a 10-day run and stars Linus Karp as the Oscar-winning actress and Joseph Martin as the retired optometrist who claimed she ran into him. It will also feature original music from Leland, the singer-songwriter known for working with Cher, Troye Sivan , and Selena Gomez, and as the songwriter for RuPaul’s Drag Race .
"We are Gooped at the amazing reception for Gwyneth Goes Skiing, " Karp and Martin said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly . "We're having so much fun putting the show together. It's going to be beyond ridiculous and absolutely wild. See you in court."
The play draws inspiration from the $300,000 lawsuit Sanderson brought against Paltrow in which he claimed the wellness guru crashed into the 72-year-old man at a Salt Lake City, Utah, ski resort in 2016. The collision left Sanderson with four broken ribs, a concussion, and brain damage, but the jury sided with Paltrow, deciding she wasn’t at fault, according to NBC News .
