Sentences with phrase «like musical theatre»
I believe that if you didn't like this show then you probably don't like musical theatre.
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Some of the theatrical devices of Cocks and Winkler work like gangbusters, since theatre was Porter's primary milieu: lighting transitions, live production audio for the musical numbers, and a freedom from film's typical realistic restraints.
The 1960 stage musical probably appealed to Warner for what seemed like built - in marketing triangulation: Here was a successful theatre romance with the kind of pagan mysticism that had seized the minds of America's young.
Dassin and Wilder are involved in a perverse sort of mythmaking — fed by the artifice of classic theatre for Dassin, and for Wilder, more, the hysterical artifice of musical theatre, reclaiming the state of whore to the state of Madonna in what feels like a mania for order in a world without it.
The picture's framework sees old Cole Porter (Kevin Kline)-- looking a lot like Carl Reiner — sitting in an empty theatre with some sort of angel of death (Jonathan Pryce) as the events of Porter's life unfold like a Broadway musical before them.