R.KELLY MIGHT TAKE HIS TALENTS TO BROADWAY

Twan, Sylvester, Pimp Lucius and “the package” may be headed to Broadway. R. Kelly announced last night that he’s had an offer to bring his infamous characters from “Trapped in the Closet” to the stage, and he may even be in some performances, reports the Associated Press. “To transform it into a Broadway version, that’s what I’m working on,” he told a packed house at the Sunshine Theater, where he unveiled the latest chapters in “Trapped in the Closet,” which will debut on the IFC on Friday. Kelly gave no other details about a possible Broadway adaptation of the saga. It got its start from a stirring series of songs Kelly debuted in 2005, which ended with a cliff-hanger. The songs captured so much attention, Kelly made an over-the-top video series about it that just got crazier and crazier as he added more chapters. He thanked the enthusiastic crowd for accepting the series, and admitted that he always wanted to act: “Somehow, I landed ‘Trapped in the Closet’ from being silly.” “I’m just having a lot of fun. I don’t have a job so I sit in the studio all day and think of stuff to do and this is just something stupid I’ve done that’s been successful for me,” he said. “I’m having a lot of fun with it.”  “I want everybody to know I’ve got 85 chapters of ‘Trapped in the Closet’ waiting in the studio for y’all,” he said. “The chapters that are coming — the show, we call it — is going to exceed every chapter that you have ever seen."

HOT ARTIST IS SET TO PORTRAY MARVIN GAYE IN BIOPIC

Lenny Kravitz is set to portray music icon Marvin Gaye in director Julien Temple’s upcoming biopic about the late artist. This will be Kravitz’s first leading role after having appeared in several other features, including “The Hunger Games” and “Precious.” The Evening Standard is reporting that Lenny will relive the last few years of Gaye’s life in the film, covering his alcohol addiction and tax evasion while he lived in London in the early 1980s. Marvin battled against his drug dependency after moving to Ostend, Belgium, but was shot by his own father shortly afterwards in Los Angeles in March 1984 after they argued about misplaced business documents. Janis Gaye, the singer’s second and last wife, is said to be ”very skeptical” about how the project will turn out. Julien Temple is best known for helming the Sex Pistols mockumentary “The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle.”

CELEBRITY QUICKIES

Rihanna has heard the headline-making grumbling from the press pool traveling aboard her 777 tour, and has finally gotten up and walked to the back of the airplane to apologize in person. She told the reporters, “I want to thank everyone for making this trip the sh–. I want to see the naked Australian!” Despite the widely publicized snafus, Rihanna said: “I was glad I did this. absolutely. Tonight is the night everything we did this week goes off.” “I know you guys got barely any dirt,” she told the disappointed writers. “But I had to be good. I still sound like sh–. It’s impossible to spend time with everybody, and I’m sorry I didn’t. But this was excellent and I would definitely do it again.”

Kevin Clash it seems that the coming forward of another young man to claim he had underage sex with him, was too much. The man who has been the puppeteer and voice of the Elmo character on “Sesame Street” since 1985, has resigned from the Sesame Workshop amid on-going controversy over allegations of a sexual relationship with minors.

Nicki Minaj has donated $15,000 to a New York charity in a bid to help feed the needy for Thanksgiving. The rapper announced the news during her Monday visit to BET’s “106 & Park.” She signed a check for the Food Bank of New York City, which will serve up hot meals for the homeless and those still struggling in the aftermath of superstorm Sandy. She also returned to her Queens elementary school to hand out free turkeys to struggling families.