Sentences with phrase «many stage musicals»

Two vastly inferior sequels were released in 1989 and 1990, and a stage musical version is set to debut in London's West End in 2015, according to BBC News.

Keep reading to see how filmmakers turned a desert into Mars, or to see how one movie shut down the busiest train station in the world to stage a musical number.

The film, however, is only half the story the stage musical on which it's based has been playing continually in the West End for 28 years, making it London's longest running show.

The stage musical is remarkably faithful to the beloved movie version, especially considering that it didn't debut until the year 2000, almost five decades after the movie first appeared on the silver screen.

In the boom of post-World War II America, corporations paid good money to hire professional composers and performers to stage musicals during trade shows.

A song from a stage musical or film musical written for the show but unused or dropped from the production.

Having run continuously on Broadway for the past 28 years (longer than any in history), Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg's much - loved stage musical Les Misérables brings a well - seasoned audience frothing for an equally worthy screen adaptation.

American composer / producer Richard Rodgers had his first song published at 17; one year later, he wrote his first stage musical.

She then appeared in several Broadway productions and in the Ziegfield Follies before being paired with another unknown, actor James Cagney, in the stage musical Penny Arcade; a year later this became the film Sinners Holiday, propelling her to stardom.

Not the big, stylized theatrical acting you see in most stage musicals and movie adaptations thereof, but intimate, realistic performances, grounded in real human emotion.

When it became his privilege to direct the movie version of the «Les Misérables» stage musical that has enthralled the world for more than a quarter - century, Tom Hooper made one crucial, momentous decision.

The handsome villain Prince Charming (lubriciously voiced by Rupert Everett) returns to the Kingdom of Far Far Away to wreak his revenge... and does so by staging a musical.

When adapting a beloved stage musical — especially one that had girls the world over wearing out their cassette tapes of the original cast recording — filmmakers are faced with a puzzling choice.

The revolution swells as do the beautiful musical numbers performed by Seyfried, Redmayne, Barks and a core group of extras from the original stage musical.

A never - completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance.

The film includes a visual feast of well - staged musical numbers.

But when a greedy banker hatches a plan to foreclose on the house of worship, James and his flock band together with BeBe Winans to stage a musical benefit that just might bring everyone together, and save their church in the process.

In 2012 he was seen in New Line's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical ROCK OF AGES, directed by Adam Shankman.

These fond memories doubtless came flooding back when an adult Eigenberg auditioned — and was selected for — a large part in the Dennis Rosa - directed Chicago stage musical One Shining Moment, opposite Megan Mullally and Alan Ruck.

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th - century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

(2005), a British soccer drama starring Kuno Becker and Alessandro Nivola; Flushed Away (2006), a DreamWorks CG - animated picture about a mouse named Roddy who gets flushed down the toilet and winds up in a vermin - infested city called Ratropolis; and Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, a hallucinatory musical love story, set against the turbulent backdrop of the»60s, with countless Beatles songs providing the backdrop.The same period found Clement hard at work developing several stage musicals: Victoria's Secret, with a score by Paul Williams and Dave Stewart; Helen of Troy, libretto by Brendan Healy and AC / DC frontman Brian Johnson.

Adapting hit stage musicals for film is always a risky business, with far more getting it wrong than right (witness Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Nine, etc.), so give Mackintosh (the producer here), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) and the cast full credit for commitment to the cause.

The title more obviously calls to mind Victor Hugo's 19th century novel, the highly successful and long - running 1980s stage musical, and now the major feature film adaptation that will open in theaters on Christmas Day.

There are also some new songs not featured in the stage musical that have been added, which unfortunately represent some of the weaker numbers in comparison to the very strong original soundtrack pieces.

He also had recurring roles on the television series Mad About You and Friends and starred in the drama Huff (2004 - 2006), playing the titular character, to critical acclaim, as well as appearing in the popular stage musical Spamalot.

Interestingly, rather than try to keep as much of the stage musical intact in order to please fans of the theater production, Condon has made several significant changes in his adaptation, most notably in making the characters play more like the real - life counterparts of their inspiration.

Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's stage musical contains about four big numbers that are among the year's most memorable scenes (even though the film itself is pretty spotty).

After six years working on First Australians, it is not hard to imagine why, in 2009, Perkins embarked on the adaptation to film of Jimmy Chi's 1990s stage musical hit Bran Nue Dae.

When the stage musical «Once» comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 4 - 9, it won't look or sound like any other Broadway show you've seen.

The mega-successful Whoopi Goldberg movie vehicle from 1992 (and the sequel in 1993) has a whole new get - down - tonight, 1970s vibe for the stage musical «Sister Act the Musical,» which is coming to the Broward...

Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton - John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Dinah Manoff, Jamie Donnelly, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci, Kelly Ward, Eve Arden, Lorenzo Lamas, Sid Caesar, Annette Charles, Susan Buckner, Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman, Sha - Na - Na, Fannie Flagg, Eddie Deezen, Ellen Travolta Director: Randal Kleiser Screenplay: Allan Carr (from the screenplay by Bronte Woodard, which was adapted from the stage musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey) Review published March 26, 2005

Once Victor Hugo's novel, then Cameron Mackintosh's stage musical, and now Tom Hooper's movie, the beloved tale of lives in the gutters of 19th century France hits the big screen in musical form looking, well, almost identical to...

This one is directed by Rob Marshall, the helmsman on the Oscar - winning film musical Chicago; here, he is once again bringing an acclaimed Broadway stage musical to cinematic life.

In Bran Nue Dae, Perkins went west to Perth and north to the remote Kimberleys to work closely with a large ensemble cast on the much - anticipated film of a much - loved stage musical — seen by 200,000 people when it toured the country in 1990 and 1993.

Chicago is based on the famous stage musical which originally featured choreography by the legendary Bob Fosse.

Over 5 million copies have been sold worldwide, far outperforming the original London cast recording of the stage musical.

This makes the movie at least more fun than the unaffiliated stage musical Barnum (recently revived in London).

A comedy about a group of inmates who stage a musical to cover up their escape, it was treated with eager expectation by fans of the Cattaneo's previous work.

«Musical Mayhem: Sondheim's Sweeney Todd» (12 minutes) has Sondheim describing the creation of the stage musical.

During the early 1990s, around the time of Twin Peaks, Lynch was extremely busy, working on Julee Cruise's first two albums, staging the musical play Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted, with Cruise and Badalamenti's music, developing other short lived television projects and continually creating visual artwork.

While this quirky mockumentary about the making of a stage musical didn't strike it big at the box office (earning less than $ 3 million worldwide), it soon became a cult classic for its deadpan humor and oddly lovable characters.

Adapted from the hit stage musical, Norman Jewison's film version of Fiddler on the Roof has established itself as a classic over and over again since its release in 1971.

Anyone who has seen the lavish stage musical and also loved it (and that two - part distinction is essential) will find much to be thankful for in director Tom Hooper's lavish film adaptation.

I was really looking forward to the movie version since I was such a huge fan of the stage musical.

Though I didn't really like Tom Hooper's big screen adaptation of the popular stage musical or Judd Apatow's quasi-sequel to «Knocked Up,» there are still plenty of new releases worth checking out, including one of 2012's best films and the most anticipated prequel since «The Phantom Menace.»

-- I had no intention of seeing Tom «The King's Speech» Hooper's film version of the 1980s stage musical.

Kate Abbott storms the barricades to sing the praises of Tom Hooper's adaptation of the ever - popular stage musical

If we continue the odd logic, wouldn't they also have felt the need to deride the stage musical because it wasn't Harold Gray's comic strip or, for that matter, the comic because it wasn't the James Whitcomb Riley poem that inspired the character?

But like much of the rest of the «Annie» cast, she had little previous experience as a singer and dancer and said she had not seen the stage musical or any of its many TV or film remakes.

Since then, Disney turned it into an epic stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again turningRead More →