Sentences with phrase «original stage musical»

Olivia Newton - John and John Travolta capture the 1950s era well, and the film's soundtrack is one of the most enjoyable movie soundtracks of any year or genre, including the title track, «Summer Nights,» «You're the One that I Want» (which wasn't in the original stage musical), and «Greased Lightnin».»

The revolution swells as do the beautiful musical numbers performed by Seyfried, Redmayne, Barks and a core group of extras from the original stage musical.

Not exact matches

Students will write an original script incorporating musical numbers, develop their own characters and improve stage presence with guidance from Village performing artists.

When adapting a beloved stage musical — especially one that had girls the world over wearing out their cassette tapes of the original cast recording — filmmakers are faced with a puzzling choice.

There are also some new songs not featured in the stage musical that have been added, which unfortunately represent some of the weaker numbers in comparison to the very strong original soundtrack pieces.

Over 5 million copies have been sold worldwide, far outperforming the original London cast recording of the stage musical.

What to make of The Greatest Showman, an original musical — written for the screen, not stage — starring Hugh Jackman (Logan) as 19th - century circus impresario P.T. Barnum?

The Hateful Eight opens with an unavoidably pretentious but nonetheless sublime musical overture that gives centre stage to Ennio Morricone's suspenseful original score — the majority of which was written for John Carpenter's The Thing back in 1982 but never used — which is more Hitchcock in tone than Leone.

Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.

The big - screen version will utilise composer Claude - Michel Schönberg's original score from the musical, and is being produced by Cameron Mackintosh, who worked on the British stage iteration.

He played Inspector Javert in the original London production of the stage musical Les Misérables.

The film's original screenwriter and director, PJ Hogan, will write the musical's book, giving the story a contemporary update for its stage debut.

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.

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).

The cast of the musical has still to be confirmed, but members of the original cast have previously suggested they'd be happy to return for a movie sequel and have also been linked to the much - discussed stage production.

- titled Musical Resident Evil - stars Reon Yuzuki - will feature a former Takarazuka Revue superstar - handled by G2, a playwright and director who is readying a new Japanese production of My Fair Lady - also being handled by Osaka's Umeda Arts Theatre - fully original musical - slated to run in Tokyo from September to October and open in Osaka in November - Capcom's Hiroyuki Kobayashi will oversee the stage adaMusical Resident Evil - stars Reon Yuzuki - will feature a former Takarazuka Revue superstar - handled by G2, a playwright and director who is readying a new Japanese production of My Fair Lady - also being handled by Osaka's Umeda Arts Theatre - fully original musical - slated to run in Tokyo from September to October and open in Osaka in November - Capcom's Hiroyuki Kobayashi will oversee the stage adamusical - slated to run in Tokyo from September to October and open in Osaka in November - Capcom's Hiroyuki Kobayashi will oversee the stage adaptation

and, like most Kirby games, a beautiful musical score that will, sadly, probably become underappreciated (the game playfully uses orchestral pieces for most stages, whether original or remixed tunes, while the aforementioned secret stages pull a classic track right out of Kirby's past).