Sentences with phrase «operettas in»

French actor Andrex began performing in music halls and operettas in his native Marseilles.

The impulse to write hit Leon early in life — according to Current Biography, Leon Uris authored an operetta in 1930, at age six, inspired by the death of his pet dog.

Not exact matches

For he came back in July to execute three of the most unforgettable shots in British Open history — an impossible putt, an unforgivable chunk and an unthinkable prayer — and force a playoff with John Daly, who has no feel for operettas about sweet Italians and stomped Rocca flat.

A composer, pianist, and bandleader, he left his native Ireland for a successful career in music in London in the 1920s, during which he wrote several successful operettas, and then headed for New York.

Best known today for playing Officer Torch in Universal's Flash Gordon serials, American character actor Earl Leslie Askam had studied voice in Italy and appeared in numerous stage operettas prior to making his screen debut in 1930.

His first big break was as Corporal Billy Jester in the 1959 off - Broadway operetta spoof Little Mary Sunshine, which won him both a Theatre World award and a bride (he married Cynthia Baer, one of the show's producers).

Lubitsch's charming operetta, based on Franz Lehar's popular work, features great star turns by Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald in their last teaming together.

All this is portrayed in such elementary terms it could be the libretto of a 19th century operetta, or maybe a children's film, were it not so disturbing.

Since he was comfortable working in an operetta style that studio head Louis B. Mayer found most appealing, Pasternak (seen at right) probably seemed a logical choice to produce this light little movie, which was directed by Norman Taurog.

And don't get me started on the bit part of a police captain focused on «catching infidelity,» who appears to have wandered in from a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta.

Watching Stanley Donen's Deep in My Heart, a biographical musical about the life of famed musical and operetta composer Sigmund Romberg, I was reminded of an observation I once made about Michael Curtiz's Yankee Doodle -LSB-...]

Based on Victor Hugo's hefty classic, and given an operetta treatment that can be soaring and glorious - or, when the lyrics slip into anachronistic vernacular, wincingly lame - this big - budget movie musical summons the mighty forces of CGI to create vast tableaux of castles and monasteries, shipyards and slums, France in the tumultuous first half of the 19th century.

The movie will forever be labeled a musical but in truth, it's more an operetta.

Immerse yourself in a public bath, drop by a «ruin pub» and catch a show at the lovely Budapest Operetta Theatre.

The Dust Channel, a video by Roee Rosen projected in Gallery 3, explores ideas of purity, containment, contamination and desire through the format of an operetta set in the residence of a couple whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home - cleaning appliances.

The Program in Music Theater brings together students, faculty, and guest artists in the creation, study, and performance of music theater, including Broadway musicals, musical comedy, cabaret, music hall, operetta, singspiel, comic opera, grand opera, chamber opera and experimental music theater.

It is an operetta with a Russian libretto set in the domestic environment of a bourgeois Israeli family, whose fear of dirt, dust, or any alien presence in their home takes the shape of a perverted devotion to home - cleaning appliances.

Opening February 10th, L'école de Marinella Senatore is a free school open to all and offers the opportunity to come and share knowledge and know - how and take part in creating an operetta with other participants.