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In this surprisingly emotional and powerful musical drama from Damien Chazzelle, Miles Teller has grand ambitions of becoming one of the world's elite jazz drummers, and J.K. Simmons» unforgettable Fletcher has every intention of breaking those dreams into teeny, tiny little pieces.

The network has ordered a pilot for «Mixtape,» a musical drama from former «Smash» showrunner Josh Safran, who's giving the genre a second go.

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Details of the plot haven't been released, but from what we can gather and from what we know about High School Musical, this newest sequel will have fun, drama and — most importantly — catchy tunes.

I once asked my high school drama teacher if I could buy some of the ultra-thick stage makeup from her... she looked at me a little strange, since I wasn't even on the cast of the current musical and was working backstage / tech.

From costume dramas to beloved sitcoms, from murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyFrom costume dramas to beloved sitcoms, from murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyfrom murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyone.

From costume dramas to beloved sitcoms, from murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyone who loves watching TV's best coupFrom costume dramas to beloved sitcoms, from murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyone who loves watching TV's best coupfrom murder mysteries to musical comedies, there's something here for everyone who loves watching TV's best couples.

Glee is an American musical comedy - drama television series that aired on the Fox network in the United States from May 19, 2009, to March 20, 2015.

While the «Footloose» remake doesn't differ much from the original musical - drama, in terms of the characters and plot - line, Brewer was able to successfully modernize the tale while staying true to its important message.

Superb comedy - drama interspersed with some truly brilliant music and featuring a warm and affable performance from Minnie Driver as the EA teacher trying to direct a musical based on The Tempest.

In a contemporary adaptation of Langston Hughes» celebrated play, the holiday musical drama BLACK NATIVITY follows Langston (Jacob Latimore), a street-wise teen from Baltimore raised by a single mother, as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives Reverend Cornell and Aretha Cobbs (Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett).

The show follows members of a high school drama troupe as they prepare to put on the controversial musical Spring Awakening, under the tutelage of an inexperienced yet passionate teacher (Josh Radnor) who's basically stolen the department out from under its longtime chair (Rosie Perez).

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Musical Chairs (PG - 13 for profanity, sexuality and a drug reference) Romance drama about a janitor from the Bronx (E.J.Bonilla) who convinces his boss (Lea Pipes) to resume ballroom dancing despite being confined to a wheelchair following a crippling accident.

Away from giant lizards, Takarada has appeared in comedies, dramas and stage musicals, but he returned to the Godzilla franchise - in different roles - three times in the 1960s (Mothra, Astro - Monster, Sea Monster), then once more in 1992 (Mothra again), and most recently in 2004 (Final Wars).

But yeah, most everyone else is focused on the Oscars, and just in time for some last minute cramming for your Oscar pools comes two more nominated films: Chico and Rita, a hand - drawn musical from Spain nominated for Best Animated Feature, opens at the Seven Gables (John Hartl reviews it for The Seattle Times), and Bullhead, the Belgian drama nominated for Best Foreign Language Feature, opens at The Uptown.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

The Drama League celebrates the EGOT - winning actor with a one - of - a-kind musical tribute from the best of Broadway, including Tyne Daly, Kelsey Grammer, and Alan Cumming.

Keala Settle will perform «This Is Me» from the Hugh Jackman - led musical The Greatest Showman; and Common will unite with Andra Day for «Stand Up for Something,» from the legal drama, Marshall.

Watch the trailer, and check out the character posters, from the musical drama below.

Film Best Motion Picture (Drama): AtonementBest Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama): Julie Christie — Away From HerBest Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Drama): Daniel Day - Lewis — There Will Be BloodBest Director: Julian Schnabel — The Diving Bell And The ButterflyBest Motion Picture (Musical Or Comedy): Sweeney ToddBest Performance by an Actress in a -LSB-...]

HONORABLE MENTIONS: ANIMATION «Kubo and the Two Strings» — Laika's most daring, innovative film yet «My Life as a Zucchini» — About little kids but not for little kids; a bold, 70 - minute feature from Switzerland «Sing» — Delightful and triumphant, with terrific voice performances and song renditions «Trolls» — I can't stop the positive feelings I've had about this DreamWorks musical since I saw it 3 months ago «Zootopia» — Disney's live - action crime drama / social commentary disguised in animated form has one of the year's best screenplays

As versatile behind the camera as he was in front of it, Attenborough the director dabbled in many different genres - ranging from musicals (A Chorus Line) to horror (Magic) to drama, but his passion was in politics - past and present.

Hugh Jackman The Potential: A virtual unknown when he was plucked by Bryan Singer from the London stage to play Wolverine when original choice Dougray Scott was held up on «Mission: Impossible II,» Hugh Jackman became an instant icon in the «X-Men» movies, and it was clear he had the charisma to do almost anything — drama, rom - com, musicals.

Other winners in the film categories were Lady Bird for Best Picture (Comedy or Musical); Guillermo del Toro for Best Director for The Shape of Water; Gary Oldman for Best Actor (Drama) for Darkest Hour; Saoirse Ronan for Best Actress (Comedy or Musical) for Lady Bird; James Franco for Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) for The Disaster Artist; Allison Janney for Best Supporting Actress for I, Tonya; In the Fade for Best Foreign Feature; Coco for Best Animated Feature; Alexandre Desplat for Best Original Score for The Shape of Water; and «This Is Me» from The Greatest Showman for Best Original Song.

This week's major home video releases include the sequel to a popular animated film, the latest comedy from Melissa McCarthy and a musical drama by director Clint Eastwood.

Best Picture (Drama): «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Picture (Musical / Comedy): «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Director: Danny Boyle, «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Actor (Drama): Sean Penn, «Milk» Best Actress (Drama): Anne Hathaway, «Rachel Getting Married» Best Actor (Musical / Comedy): Dustin Hoffman, «Last Chance Harvey» Colin Farrell, «In Bruges» Best Actress (Musical / Comedy): Sally Hawkins, «Happy - Go - Lucky» Best Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, «The Dark Knight» Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz, «Vicky Cristina Barcelona» Best Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, «Slumdog Millionaire» Best Foreign Language Film: «Everlasting Moments» Best Animated Feature: «WALL - E» Best Original Music Score: Alexandre Desplat, «The Curious Case of Benjamin Button» Best Original Song: Bruce Springsteen, «The Wrestler» from «The Wrestler»

Related Reviews: High School Musical: Remix - 2 - Disc Special Edition DVD • High School Musical: Soundtrack CD High School Musical 2 (Extended Edition) • High School Musical 2 (Deluxe Dance Edition) • High School Musical 3: Senior Year High School Musical: The Concert • High School Musical DVD Game High School Musical: 2 - Disc Special Edition Soundtrack • Disney's Karaoke Series: High School Musical CD From Director Kenny Ortega: Newsies • Hocus Pocus • The Cheetah Girls 2 Starring Ashley Tisdale and Featuring Zac Efron: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: Taking Over the Tipton Disney Channel and Other TV Productions: Once Upon a Mattress • Little House on the Prairie • Halloweentown & Halloweentown II: Double Feature Cadet Kelly • Return to Halloweentown • The Muppets» Wizard of Oz • Angels in the Endzone Disney Goes to High School: Sky High • The Princess Diaries (Special Edition) • Ice Princess • Remember the Titans (Director's Cut) Boy Meets World: The Complete Third Season • Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen • Halloweentown High Sweet Valley High: The Complete First Season • Popular: The Complete Second Season Other Musicals from Disney and Its Various Branches: Pete's Dragon • The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band The Happiest Millionaire (Roadshow Edition) • Mary Poppins (45th Anniversary Edition) • Bride & PrejuFrom Director Kenny Ortega: Newsies • Hocus Pocus • The Cheetah Girls 2 Starring Ashley Tisdale and Featuring Zac Efron: The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: Taking Over the Tipton Disney Channel and Other TV Productions: Once Upon a Mattress • Little House on the Prairie • Halloweentown & Halloweentown II: Double Feature Cadet Kelly • Return to Halloweentown • The Muppets» Wizard of Oz • Angels in the Endzone Disney Goes to High School: Sky High • The Princess Diaries (Special Edition) • Ice Princess • Remember the Titans (Director's Cut) Boy Meets World: The Complete Third Season • Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen • Halloweentown High Sweet Valley High: The Complete First Season • Popular: The Complete Second Season Other Musicals from Disney and Its Various Branches: Pete's Dragon • The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band The Happiest Millionaire (Roadshow Edition) • Mary Poppins (45th Anniversary Edition) • Bride & Prejufrom Disney and Its Various Branches: Pete's Dragon • The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band The Happiest Millionaire (Roadshow Edition) • Mary Poppins (45th Anniversary Edition) • Bride & Prejudice

(Featuring Corbin Bleu) • Lizzie McGuire: Volume 1 Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior • Twitches • Cow Belles • Once Upon a Mattress The Muppets» Wizard of Oz • Cadet Kelly • Halloweentown & Halloweentown II: Double Feature Phil of the Future: Gadgets & Gizmos • That's So Raven: Raven's Makeover Madness From Director Kenny Ortega: Newsies • Hocus Pocus • The Cheetah Girls 2 Disney Goes to High School: Halloweentown High (Starring Lucas Grabeel) • The Princess Diaries • Sky High Boy Meets World: The Complete Third Season • Ice Princess • Angels in the Endzone • Stick It Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen • Sweet Valley High: Season 1 • Popular: Season 2 More Disney Musicals: Mary Poppins • Pete's Dragon • Bedknobs & Broomsticks

• Jonas: Rockin'the House Disney Channel Movies from Shows: The Even Stevens Movie • The Proud Family Movie • Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama Theatrical Movies from Disney Channel: Hannah Montana: The Movie • High School Musical 3: Senior Year • The Lizzie McGuire Movie Disney Channel Holiday • Lizzie McGuire: Box Set Volume 1 • Hannah Montana: The Complete First Season • Cadet Kelly • Wish Gone Amiss Written by Dan Berendsen: Halloweentown High • Twitches • Twitches Too Directed by Lev L. Spiro: Minutemen A Wrinkle in Time • Race to Witch Mountain • Journey to the Center of the Earth • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Enchanted Musical Edition) Selena Gomez Music Videos: Tinker Bell • 101 Dalmatians Guest Starring Selena Gomez: Hannah Montana: One in a Million

Language: Hindi Genre: Drama / Musical MPAA rating: PG Director: Ashutosh Gowariker Actors: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley Plot: It's late in the season and it hasn't rained yet.the people of a small Indian village in Victorian India hope to be excused from paying the crippling tax that their British rulers have imposed.

Adapted from the Broadway musical, the film brings both drama and dancing to the big screen, and boasts a musical score that will be familiar to most viewers.

If I were to pick a foreign Oscar winner this year on the basis of what the entire Academy would like best, it would be Belgian entry and European Film Awards Best Actress - winner «Broken Circle Breakdown,» a sexy and tragic musical family drama adapted from a stage musical, featuring bluegrass music.

While it's true that Wise explored a variety of genres including horror, science fiction, noir, westerns, musicals and war dramas, his best films frequently share a gloomy nihilistic worldview and he possessed the extraordinary ability to elicit career - defining performances from many of the actors he worked with.

While the films of the silent era could cover a wide range of genres from drama to comedy and even a bit of soundless dancing, a full - fledged musical, like those performed live on stage, was a domain exclusive to talkies.

Daniel Day Lewis also was the recipient of a best actor (drama) nomination for his turn in Phantom Thread, said to be his final appearance before retirement from acting, and there were best actress (musical or comedy) nods for Judi Dench (Victoria & Abdul) and Helen Mirren (The Leisure Seeker).

Looking at the follow - ups of some recent Academy Award winners, so you can see a near - three - hour erotic drama (Ang Lee), a one - man show about a man cutting off his own arm (Danny Boyle), a near - three - hour drama about the search for Osama Bin Laden (Kathryn Bigelow) and a near - three - hour musical sung live on set (Tom Hooper), films that for the most part, would have had a trickier time getting a green light without the ability to put «From Academy Award Winning Director...» on the poster.

While films and their leading actors are split into «drama» or «musical or comedy» categories, the Golden Globes» supporting actors hail from all films; for that reason the two categories have a stronger correlation to the eventual Academy Award nominations than most others.

Given an astonishing musical range that can jump from twangy looniness to hilariously bombastic drama and cutting - edge synth rhythms, it's no wonder that Carter Burwell has become the eccentric, oft - used muse for some of the cinema's equally unique directorial voices, among them Bill Condon («Mr. Holmes» «Kinsey»), Spike Jonze («Inside John Malkovich,» «Where the Wild Things Are») and of course The Coen Brothers («Fargo» and the forthcoming «Hail Caesar»).

Students on the musical theatre and drama courses at Tring Park have received offers from a number of different places including the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Arts Educational Schools, London, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Penn State, Boston Conservatory and Exeter Univerdrama courses at Tring Park have received offers from a number of different places including the Central School of Speech and Drama, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Arts Educational Schools, London, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Penn State, Boston Conservatory and Exeter UniverDrama, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Arts Educational Schools, London, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Penn State, Boston Conservatory and Exeter University.

By the third evening, it included a joint musical section with pupils from Coombe Girls» School and a drama performance by an ensemble consisting of sixth - formers at King's and the Ricards Lodge High School sixth form, known as RR6.

included a joint musical section with pupils from Coombe Girls» School and a drama performance by an ensemble consisting of sixth - formers at King's and the Ricards Lodge High School sixth form, known as RR6.

This pawstigious event will feature approximately 100 internet cat videos culled from nominations by the public in the categories of Comedy, Drama, Animated, Musical, Action, Vintage, and Documentary.

Noosa Arts Theatre, located in the heart of Noosa, provides a range of live theatre entertainment options covering all genres, from contemporary dramas to musicals, comedies, one - act plays and cabaret.

The sound effects are great and the voice acting is surprisingly good, but where it shines is the utterly entrancing musical score that goes from relaxing melodies to soaring drama.

Woven throughout the piece are re-occurring vocal and musical motifs that have been developed in collaboration with Kirsten Evans and Samuel Williams, students from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

Five Lewis Center faculty members have received 2017 Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Lecturer in Creative Writing Phil Klay for Fiction; Visiting Associate Professor and Belknap Visiting Fellow Aaron Landsman for Drama and Performance Art; Lecturer in Creative Writing Fiona Maazel for Fiction; Visiting Professor of Creative Writing Claudia Rankine for Poetry; and Director of the Program in Music Theater and Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf in the category of Theatre Arts for her forthcoming book, «Beyond Broadway: Four Seasons of Amateur Musical Theatre in the U.S.»

For entertainment, Theatre Royal is the regional home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and stages world - class productions from West End musicals to quality drama.

Unsettling and disorienting, her works cross disciplines and borrow from such varied sources as vaudeville, modern dance, musical theater, and historical drama.

The world's first feature - length musical about political philosophy will showcase a script steeped in drama, humour and romance — with a musical score that covers everything from rap battles to power ballads.

As the self - proclaimed host of the largest 4K Ultra HD library of streaming content available, Ultraflix hosts several hundreds of hours of 4K nature documentaries (including multiple titles originally created for IMAX), dozens of concerts, videos from musical acts, and hundreds of hours of sci - fi, action, comedy, and drama all for rental in 48 - hour blocks.