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If we’re talkin’ earthquakes, dream sequences and shopping trips on the Champs-Élysées, it can mean only one thing: It’s time to look at the highs and lows that unfolded on this week’s 90210, GOSSIP GIRL & ONE TREE HILL.

ONE TREE HILL “Asleep at Heaven’s Gate”
Highlight: In the season 7 finale, Haley started off on the slow path back to happiness following a deep depression. In the premiere, we saw a wife and mother who had made strides in regaining her loveable personality. Bethany Joy Galeotti was positively glowing (perhaps for more than one reason), portraying Haley in a way that exuded confidence, contentment and lightheartedness. She also tickled our funny bone more than once, and made us nostalgic for her best friendship with MIA Lucas.

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The Notebook seems to be a recurring theme for the stars and characters of One Tree Hill. Skills and Bevin (we miss them as a couple!) once spent a night crying over it, and now Bethany Joy Galeotti — who plays Haley James Scott — has been inspired by it!

MTV reports that Bethany, along with record producer Ron Aniello, has written a musical based on the 2004 Nicholas Sparks novel. On a recent One Tree Hill podcast, the actress explained that after seeing the movie based on the book, she found herself making up songs about the characters. When she started writing them down, she said, “I thought, this is either going to be terrible, or it’s going to be great. I don’t know which it’s going to be, but I’ve gotta get this out.”

Thankfully, Bethany was able to get author Sparks’ approval through a mutual friend — and she’s now tested her work for Broadway producers and investors. During the podcast, she said:

“[The producers] all said the music was amazing — ‘Don’t touch it, we love the music’ — which is just so, so encouraging for Ron and I because we worked really hard on that music … I was just super, super excited to get all this great feedback from people who really know what they’re doing, because I don’t. This is my first time venturing into this side of the theater world. It’s been an inspiring and intimidating and fun and exhausting and wonderful, wonderful journey that is not even close to over yet … It’s an amazingly emotional and moving story and I really hope we do it justice.”

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‘One Tree Hill’ star Bethany Joy Galeotti is like a jack of all trades when it comes to the entertainment industry. Since ‘One Tree Hill’ premiered back in September of 2003, we have seen Galeotti as an actress, a singer, songwriter, and even director. Now we will see her as a writer and producer who has transformed one of America’s most beloved love stories into a live musical production.

In a new interview with the official One Tree Hill podcast, Galeotti talks about how the idea first came about of turning the Nicholas Sparks best-selling novel-turned movie ‘The Notebook’ into a live stage production. “I just really wanted to express the emotions that came out through that story, through the book, and through the film”, said Galeotti. “After I saw the film I read the book and I found myself for about six weeks after that just walking around the house writing songs that were inspired by these characters and finally I said I just need to put this down on paper”.

Galeotti said as she was writing the script she was not sure about what the outcome would be but knew her thoughts behind the story could not be hidden. “I thought, ‘This is either going to be terrible, or it’s going to be great. I don’t know what it’s going to be but I’ve gotta get this out’”, she said.

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Thanks to an interview yesterday on the fan-produced “One Tree Hill” Podcast, we have a lot more deets on “OTH” star Bethany Joy Galeotti’s “The Notebook” musical. The show, which Bethany wrote with record producer Ron Aniello, is based on Nicholas Sparks’ 2004 tearjerker.

Bethany said during the podcast that after seeing Nick Cassavetes’ film and subsequently reading Sparks’ book, she found herself singing songs around her house based on the story’s characters. After six weeks, she decided to finally put it down on paper. “I thought, ‘This is either going to be terrible, or it’s going to be great. I don’t know which it’s going to be, but I’ve gotta get this out,’” she said. “It’s an amazing story, an American classic, that [I] wanted to do something original with.” Thanks to a friend who knew Sparks, she got the author’s blessing to write the musical.

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Fans snapped photos with camera phones as “One Tree Hill” actress Bethany Joy Galeotti joined Enation on stage at the grand opening of the restaurant she, her husband and their family opened in Old Town Battle Ground.

Galeotti, looking every bit the television star in a sleeveless, embellished gray top tucked into a high-waisted black pencil skirt, her makeup and hair flawless, duetted with actor and Enation frontman Jonathan Jackson on “Feel This.” That song was a top-10 hit on the iTunes Rock Charts for the Battle Ground-based rock band, which also includes Galeotti’s husband, Michael, and Jonathan’s brother, Richard Lee.

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• 07-25-2009: Galeotti’s Restaurant Grand Opening

With only three weeks of episodes of Guiding Light remaining, I’m taking some time to reflect on some of the serial’s most memorable actresses.

10. Joie Lenz as Clone Reva and Michelle Bauer.
In 1998, Guiding Light heroine Reva Shayne was presumed dead after a plane crash. So her grieving lover Josh Lewis did what anyone else would do: he had Reva cloned. Thanks to a miracle growth drug (don’t ask), Clone Reva (or Cleva, as she was called online) grew up quickly. And I mean quickly. Actress Joie Lenz (now known as Bethany Joy Galeotti) portrayed teenage clone Reva. Lenz so impressed the powers that be and viewers that Guiding Light brought her back later in 1998 to assume the role of heroine Michelle Bauer. Lenz’s Michelle was soon teamed with mob scion Danny Santos in a popular love story. Lenz departed Guiding Light in 2000 and has since gone onto fame on One Tree Hill. Here’s Lenz in a scene as the teenaged clone. Over the top story line. But a raw and riveting performance

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It seems like Bethany has already found a director!

While I was out, our friend Joy Galeotti – of One Tree Hill and Everly fame – met with a director at our shop to discuss her new project, The Notebook – The Musical. You can learn more about it here http://www.thenotebookmusical.com/

And MSNBC posted an article:

Duo trying to make ‘The Notebook’ a musical
‘One Tree Hill’ star part of effort that begins with workshop

LOS ANGELES – Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams brought romance and drama to 2004’s “The Notebook” — the only thing missing was possibly someone bursting into song. But soon, that will all change when another couple gets the chance to bring the drama to life – this time as a stage musical.

“One Tree Hill” star Bethany Joy Galeotti and music producer Ron Aniello are mounting a musical workshop based on the beloved Nicholas Sparks novel.

According to the producing duo’s Web site, the workshop, which will take place in Wilmington, N.C., “is a preliminary step toward an eventual opening in New York.”

There is no pay for the actors involved in the workshop but the duo noted, “this is a great opportunity to be a part of the beginning stages of an original theatre piece headed for Broadway.”

Auditions will start on Aug. 1 in Wilmington and the performances are slated for the first two weekends in October.

Actress, singer and songwriter, Bethany Joy Galeotti now can add restaurateur to her résumé. The CW Television Network star, who resides in Battle Ground when she’s not in North Carolina filming the role of Haley James Scott on “One Tree Hill,” has teamed with her husband, Enation band member Michael Galeotti, and in-laws to open Galeotti’s.
The restaurant occupies the space in downtown Battle Ground that formerly housed Irby’s Fine Dining and will celebrate its grand opening July 24 and 25.
They’d been looking for a way to get more involved with the community, and the restaurant seemed to be a good fit, said Bethany Joy Galeotti, 28.
“It’s been an amazing opportunity for us to grow and dream. It’s been really good for us as a family,” she said. “We love good food and wine, and we love people. We couldn’t think of a better way to reach out and touch the community. We want to be the living room of Battle Ground.”
The restaurant will focus on healthful, organic, locally sourced foods, and will use eco-friendly materials and supplies whenever possible, Galeotti said.
Although she spends much of the year across the country, she plans to help out at the restaurant whenever possible, so diners may spot her seating guests or waiting tables from time to time.
But most immediately she’ll fill a more familiar role: entertainer. Galeotti and Amber Sweeney, who comprise the music duo Everly, will perform at the restaurant July 25. The music lineup also will include Battle Ground-based band Enation, which features Michael Galeotti, his brother Luke Galeotti, Daniel Sweatt, and actors Jonathan and Richard Lee Jackson.
Find more information about the restaurant on the Galeottis’ blog, battlegroundrestaurant.com.

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What: Galeotti’s's grand opening.
When: 4 to 6 p.m. July 24, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 25. “One Tree Hill” actress Bethany Joy Galeotti and her Everly bandmate Amber Sweeney will perform at 3 p.m. July 25, followed by Enation.
Where: 801 E. Main St., Battle Ground.
Information: 360-666-4877, battlegroundrestaurant.com.

The CW will kick off its fall campaign on Sept. 8 with the sophomore year of “90210″ and the bow of “Melrose Place.”
Net has also decided to flop the time slots of its Monday dramas, which will send “Gossip Girl” to the 9 p.m. hour.

It’s the second year in a row that “90210″ is the centerpiece of the net’s fall launch campaign, and CW is hoping that anticipation will be high for the remodeled “Melrose.” CW is getting a jumpstart on its competish by launching the week of Sept. 8, but it won’t be quite as quick out of the gate as last year, when the net’s fall sked launched on Labor Day.

The rollout continues Sept. 9 with the two-hour preem of “America’s Next Top Model,” followed Sept. 10 by the preem of “Vampire Diaries” and return of “Supernatural.”

The Monday slate returns on Sept. 14, though the “Gossip Girl”-”One Tree Hill” slot swap will take effect July 6 with repeat segs. The regular Wednesday slate of “Top Model” and newbie drama “A Beautiful Life” arrives on Sept. 16.

CW’s Friday lineup of “Smallville” and “Top Model” repeat will not materialize until Sept. 25. On Friday Sept. 11 and Sept. 18, the net plans to run repeats of its new dramas.

CW will also rerun segs of its new series on Sundays through Sept. 27, when it formally returns five hours of program time to its affiliate stations. CW confirmed last month that it is bowing out of Sunday programming in an effort to strengthen its overall primetime perf (Daily Variety, May 5).

CW also confirmed to its affiliate stations this month that it will give back one hour of its two-hour Monday-Friday daytime block as of the 2010-11 season. At present it programs the 3-5 p.m. block with yakker “The Tyra Banks Show,” one original and one repeat seg. As of 2010-11, it will return the 4-5 p.m. hour to affiliates.

Source: Variety.com