Sentences with phrase «into stage musicals»

Slate thinks Rolan Emmerich's Stonewall looks too much like a cheap musical Playbill reminds us that Magic Mike (2012) is being made into a stage musical.

Putting some of those words to music was the work of writers Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork, who turned them into a stage musical that opened in London in 2011.

Not exact matches

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.

Tina Fey adapted her classic comedy Mean Girls into a musical for the Broadway stage and now the reviews are in.

In one episode, he interviews a biology professor who matches the stages of cell division to memorable theme songs; converting this into a multimedia piece, Shapiro made a minute - long movie called Pink Floyd and the dancing embryos, splicing together video segments with a musical soundtrack.

Leah runs, manages, directs and is the front woman of the musical group Rising Appalachia, and together with her sister Chloe and their band, they have invested their lives into using the power of the stage for political, social, and environmental justice.

Backstage Disney offers a look at the adaptation of the movie into a Broadway Musical (Mary Poppins: From Page to Stage), a peek at the Broadway cast performing a song and dance routine (Step In Time) and a MP3 version of Step In Time (featuring Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee, stars of the Broadway production).

As Andrew finds himself pitted against the core drummer and a Fletcher - enlisted challenger for the drum stool, his musical ambition turns into something that plays like the early stages of psychosis.

Occasionally, it veers into fantasy, with hand - drawn illustrations on top of the film stock when the narrative slides toward musical numbers, often comical covers of songs like the Talking Heads» «Psycho Killer» and Iggy Pop's «The Passenger» staged on public transit.

Translating the stage play into an entirely sung - through movie musical was nothing short of audacious, to be sure, but as a filmgoing experience the result is wearying, even when the songs themselves are capably performed.

Jennifer Lawrence's «The Hunger Games» is being developed into a stage play and perhaps musical Producers are interested in making as much money from...

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

Since then, Disney turned it into an epic stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again turning it into a live action spectacle hoping to make audiences fall in love again with a tale as old as time.

The melody from «Home,» a solo song for Belle from the stage musical was woven into the soundtrack for each of those scenes.

Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) is a musical based on the stage work from Stephen Sondheim, but you wouldn't have known that from the film's first trailer.

As the film begins, Aronofsky immediately taps into kitsch, calling on a spectacularly silly font for his opening titles, followed by some ferocious editing and musical choices to set the stage for the death and destruction to come.

It's not exactly a story you'd think would lend itself to musical staging, but Minnelli, who pretty much invented the structure of narrative musical storytelling with Meet Me In St Louis, has not lost his touch even in this, his penultimate film, as the numbers seamlessly ingratiate themselves into the plot.

Speaking as someone that has never seen the musical on stage, or who went into this film with any preconceived notions of how it should or shouldn't be, my personal take on Rent is that it is an interesting, ambitious, but somewhat flawed endeavor that has enough good moments to recommend, but enough weaker elements to keep me from becoming ecstatic over it.

Rufus Norris adapts Alecky Blythe's and Adam Cork's stage musical, London Road, for the big screen, and the result is a jolt of much - needed electricity into a dreadfully deflated genre.

After its stage premiere in 1987, the hit Broadway musical Into The Woods will finally receive the Hollywood treatment after it has been announced that the James Lapine - written show will be turned into a moviInto The Woods will finally receive the Hollywood treatment after it has been announced that the James Lapine - written show will be turned into a moviinto a movie...

Half an hour into Tom Hooper's adaptation of the long - running stage musical Les Miserables, he fixes his camera on Anne Hathaway's tortured, tear - streaked face, and she delivers what ought to become one of the great moments in musical cinema history — right up there with Dorothy singing wistfully of a land far away, Gene Kelly swinging happily around damp lamp poles, and a problem like Maria singing to the grassy Austrian hillsides.

There's currently some chatter about adapting the film into a musical for the Broadway stage.

Polanski nevertheless turned it into a successful German - language stage musical in Europe in the late nineties with music by composer Jim Steinman (best known for his «Bat Out of Hell» collaborations with U.S. rocker, Meat Loaf).

The writer of Into the Woods is James Lapine who adapted the original stage play musical that he wrote with Stephen Sondheim (who you may have heard of).

INTO THE WOODS: An ultra-talented cast of Hollywood actors who can REALLY SING bring Stephen Sondheim's haunting masterpiece of a stage musical to life on the big screen.

For example, the Taste of Toledo Street Fair on Saturday 23rd May morphs streets into staging areas for lectures, chocolate - making demonstrations, cultural displays recalling Toledo's ethnic history and musical performances.

The stages are divided into musical sets that introduce various concepts and build on them.

Minneapolis - based artist Chris Larson's surreal carpentry transforms ordinary buildings into sculptures, stage sets, musical instruments and performative...

For Art Night 2017 on 1 July, Drew turns his installation into a musical score, collaborating with experimental musicians on a live, durational and climactic improvisation on the stage which forms part of the installation.

Using theory, philosophers, pop music, current affairs and corporate rhetoric as alibis to write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive scripts, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the automation of speech, outsourced subjectivity, mutated human resources and the short - circuiting of language as it transforms into labour.

In the manner of station drama the viewer is confronted with various scenes: the transformation of the underwater world of the Red Sea into an overwhelming musical performance, collages including flotsam and jetsam, staged shipwrecks in bottles, a staging of Herman Melville's Moby Dick in an artist's kitchen.

Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.

Just think, each production, at minimum, has: a script, a variety of actors (who may have copyrights in their performances, separate from the scripted words), directors whose vision lends to the flow of the work, cinematography, costume designer and creators, make - up artists (if unique enough, their designs can hold copyright - for example a certain henna tattoo design), stage / set designers and creators, musical scores that were composed and performed (rights flow to each), and myriad other creations that go into a production.