Sentences with phrase «jukebox musical»

Aurora presents a new production of the ABBA jukebox musical.

Aurora presents a new production of the Abba jukebox musical.

In the spring or summer of 2016 published a new novel, Underground Airlines Ben has also written extensively for the theater, and was a 2009 - 2010 Fellow of the Dramatists Guild; his plays for young audiences include The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, A (Tooth) Fairy Tale and Uncle Pirate, and his plays for not - young audiences include the 2008 Off - Broadway musical Slut and the «jukebox musical» Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, which is produced frequently across the country and around the world.

, the ABBA jukebox musical that seems to have become a foundational text of the 21st century.

Clint Eastwood was the wrong choice to helm the big screen adaptation of the hit jukebox musical about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

by Angelo Muredda After delivering the first funereal jukebox musical in Jersey Boys just last summer, Clint Eastwood returns to better - fitting material with American Sniper, his most muscular and dramatically charged work in years, for whatever that's worth.

Based on the 2009 Broadway jukebox musical, and directed and choreographed by Adam Shankman (who also performed both duties for the 2007 version of Hairspray), Rock of Ages is a wildly uneven cinematic experience.

Variety Cher has dropped out of her expected return to acting with Flint, a TV movie about the water crisis in Michigan citing «serious family issues» (sending her good vibes) Coming Soon Joseph Gordon - Levitt & Channing Tatum will team - up for an R rated jukebox musical called Wingmen about two pilots who crash land in Vegas Variety Lola Albright film actress of the 1940s and 1950s and know for TV's Peter Gunn has died at 92

My goodwill for some of the songs here prevents me from giving Rock of Ages one star, but unless you're fully committed to the jukebox musical cause, stay far away from this movie.Hide

Terrence Malick dazzles with a metaphysical jukebox musical starring Rooney Mara and Ryan Gosling.

The film proceeds as a kind of Kidz Bop jukebox musical, with the celebrity voice cast belting out peppy pop hits like Junior Senior's «Move Your Feet,» Diana Ross's «I'm Coming Out,» and «Can't Stop the Feeling!

«Drive» by way of «La La Land,» «The Fast and the Furious» with brains, «Heat» meets jukebox musical - «Baby Driver» is each of those, but in a good way.

Reminiscent of True Romance, Heat, Drive, The Blues Brothers, Point Break, and La La Land, Edgar Wright's explosive jukebox musical thriller is for fans of musicals and crime films alike.

, the jukebox musical that strings together 19 ABBA hits on a narrative thread flimsier than dental floss, had me smiling and wincing, often at the same time.

In the Action / Adventure category, I was blown away by Edgar Wright's jukebox musical heist thriller, Baby Driver.

Yet tucked inside this nominally feel - good jukebox musical with its crooning and swooning critters is a piercingly sad story about the devastation being visited on the natural world.

But there's enough fun stuff in Edgar Wright's combination crime caper and jukebox musical to fuel several pretty enticing previews.

Eventually she spread her wings, leaving the comfortable nest of Dancing With the Stars in order to appear in movies like Burlesque, Footloose, and the hair - metal jukebox musical Rock of Ages.

I am generally not a fan of these jukebox musicals, for a very personal reason — I'm a professional composer and lyricist with at least a couple of produced musicals to my name and I am loathe to consider the consequences of crafting shows around already existing songs.

There, they talk about Tom Cruise's sagging breasts, jukebox musicals puked on by Glee and when Adam Sandler will stop making movies like Merman... er... That's My Boy.

, Julie Taymor's Across the Universe and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You — all of them are technically jukebox musicals.

Not exact matches

, the big - budget movie version of the jukebox hit London and Broadway (and Toronto) musical that all but defined the genre.

Repeat viewings have somewhat lessened this for me, but a sense of unevenness comes through as Mann's musical jukebox of R&B source music, cued up with successive indignant blows and arguments with Ali's second wife Belinda (Nona Gaye), starts to become repetitive.

The archive material has been painstakingly assembled and the well - chosen musical soundtrack plays like a jukebox selection of favourites from the era.

The DreamWorks Animation Jukebox features musical clips from most of the studio's CG features.

True to its maker's aversion to progress, though, its follow - up Café Society is practically a jukebox - musical treatment of Allen's old (which is to say tired) hits, from the ennui L.A. inspires in native (which is to say white) New Yorkers to the beauty of other periods that aren't the present to romances strained under the weight of vast age discrepancies.

Again billed as an extra, as it was on the season one releases, but really should not be is the «Glee music jukebox» — really a song - only menu option, which should be considered standard issue for musical film releases (as they are on DVD's of Bollywood films).

Holstad has previously worked with jukeboxes — altering their musical content and physical appearance for sublime results.