Sentences with phrase «performance as singer»

Jackman earned a Tony Award for his performance as singer / songwriter Peter Allen, in the stage musical.

They are reflections of those who want to use their performances as singers to extend their feelings to those who can't always express themselves.

Not exact matches

My background is performance, singing in bands as a lead singer.

When Paul Robeson, the black actor and singer, went to the U.S.S.R. after he was virtually hounded out of the U.S. for being a Communist sympathizer in the 1950s, Max's father served as Robeson's booking agent for several of his singing performances there.

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Levine made his Met debut in 1971 and became one of the signature artists in the company's 135 - year history, conducting 2,552 performances and ruling over its repertoire, orchestra and singers as music or artistic director from 1976 until he stepped down two years ago due to Parkinson's disease.

WRFA public affairs director Jason Sample talks with singer / songwriter Olivia Frances about her music as well as several upcoming performances in the Chautauqua Region, including a set at the Chautauqua... [Read more...]

After 10 years of working as a professional singer in Chicago choruses, Johnson's passion for vocal performance stemmed into research to understand the voice and its neuromuscular system, with a particular interest in the aging voice.

The singer ditched her typical dark and quasi-gothic duds for this Off - White Spring 2018 voluminous tulle dress in a ballet pink hue which makes an ethereal, romantic impression — especially as a performance piece.

A few of our favorites did some outfit changes, too, like Issa Rae of HBO's «Insecure,» who swapped looks when she accepted the Star Power Award, breakout singer SZA (who took the casual route for her live performance), and actress Taraji P. Henson wore not one, not two, but five looks as the special event's superstar host — and surprise guest DJ.

After an impressive stint as both host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live, the 22 - year - old singer and actress stopped by for a quick chat and a performance of her latest single, «Dangerous Woman.»

Clint Eastwood won kudos from theater fans for tapping Broadway stars for his movie adaptation of 2014's «Jersey Boys,» but John Lloyd Young was a better singer and stage performer than actor in his performance as Frankie Valli.

No, she's not actually playing Janis Joplin — but Bette Midler's powerhouse performance in «The Rose» as a fearsomely talented, self - destructive and very Joplin-esque singer was the closest we've gotten to Janis onscreen, despite numerous recent efforts.

And a cast to dream of down to the smallest roles, most of the actors giving the performance of their lifetime: J.Lo is hardly recognizable as the irrelevant pop singer of recent years, doing a great job as a female cop tempted by the attracting opposites of bank robber George Clooney, who was never better than here.

There are many good scenes, and it is helped immensely by the lead actress, Marion Cotillard, who gives an appropriately beautiful, ugly, bold and brave performance as the doomed singer.

The performances by Greer Garson and Ronald Colman are strong, and Garson's charms are on display both in her role as alluring dancer / singer, as efficient secretary, and as notable society wife.

The stand - out performances are from Blakley and Gwen Welles as an incredibly bad singer, trying to get a break in Nashville.

Certainly Hendricks, longtime backup singer and secret girlfriend to Ray Charles, led a life fascinating enough to merit a film, but it was Regina King's performance in Ray as the saucy, troubled chanteuse that compels her inclusion on this list.

While Beyoncé Knowles is perfect (and often mesmerizing) as the Diana Ross - like singer whose appeal lies just as much in her looks as it does in her singing ability, it's really newcomer Jennifer Hudson, a former contestant on «American Idol», who impresses the most, not only for her singing, but also for delivering a quality performance in the pivotal role of Effie.

A Fantastic Woman Chilean trans actress Daniela Vega delivers a stunning performance as a trans singer named Marina Vidal whose older lover (Francisco Reyes) dies suddenly.

Meryl Streep gives an amazing performance as a country singer.

Day, who began her show business career as a big band singer and musical performer, largely retired from acting after two decades of celebrated performances — including her role in the 1960 comedy Pillow Talk, which earned her an Oscar nomination.

Nikki Baughan: Transgender actress Daniela Vega puts in a phenomenal, mesmerising performance as Chilean nightclub singer Marina, whose already challenging life is turned upside down after the death of her older boyfriend.

Gugu Mbatha - Raw gives a powerhouse performance as a Rihanna-esque R&B singer on the brink of superstardom, and she has insane chemistry with Nate Parker as the member of her security detail with whom she falls in love.

As promised, the R&B singer / songwriter Frank Ocean brought John Mayer to last night's performance on Saturday Night Live.

Official Synopsis: Academy Award winner Meryl Streep delivers a «hilarious and touching» performance as a New York socialite who dreams of becoming a great opera singer.

Singer Lady Gaga, herself a victim of sexual assault, used her Oscar performance as a medium to bring attention to rape culture.

«Remember Me» appears on the soundtrack in multiple forms, including a solo performance by the actor Benjamin Bratt and as a duet between the Mexican singer Natalia LaFourcade and the R&B singer Miguel.

If AMPAS wants to show it appreciates Asian performances more than history states it does (little to none, by the way), perhaps Japanese rock singer - turned - actor Miyavi might be a «Supporting Actor» contender for his work as the abusive Sergeant Mutsuhiro «The Bird» Watanabe, who ran the interment camp Zamperini was imprisoned in.

Many scenes come - off as hokey, including several sledding rides, practically every scene involving Jonas» zombie - like parents (played by Alexander Skarsgard and Katie Holmes) and his naive girlfriend Fiona (Odeya Rush), and a hologram cameo performance by singer Taylor Swift, who plays the piano while trying to act alongside the veteran Bridges.

Oscar Issac gave a terrific performance as Llewyn, an angry and devious Greenwich Village folk singer whose fortunes fade just as a young man called Bob Dylan arrives in town.

Vega's performance is a force of nature as Marina, the waitress and singer whose life is turned upside down after the death of her partner, Orlando.

In the 1960s, his feature film debut, he plays the haunted and pale Boo Radley in To Kill A Mocking Bird; in the 1970s he immortalized his love for the smell of napalm in the morning as a general who like to surf and plays Wagner when going into battle; in the 1980s he plays a quiet, down - on - his - luck country singer who does odd jobs for room and board while trying to put his life back together; and in the 1990s his turn as the bombastic Apostle E.F. might just be the best single performance of that decade.

Various actors and actresses have won Academy Award acting Oscars for their tour - de-force biopic performances, such as James Cagney as George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), George C. Scott as the cantakerous WWII General Patton in the widely - acclaimed Patton (1970), Katharine Hepburn as King Henry II's Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968), Sissy Spacek as legendary country singer Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980), Daniel Day - Lewis as Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989), and Ben Kingsley as the charismatic, pacifist, 20th century Indian spiritual leader Mahatma in Sir Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982).

Hugh Jackman falls into the former category, thanks mostly to his performance as the ever - popular Wolverine in Bryan Singer's X-Men films; a role he never would have even gotten had fellow Aussie actor Dougray Scott not injured himself on the set of «Mission: Impossible 2.»

Lady Kenworth, a former operatic singer, is overseeing the orchestra's performance before the Queen, but her husband appears to have connections with an AWOL operative who's become disgruntled with his posting as camp director for the junior spy program.

The runners - up are probably Heath Ledger, as the more repressed and fearful of the two cowboys in «Brokeback Mountain,» and Joaquin Phoenix, whose performance as Johnny Cash in «Walk the Line» was notable not least for how much he sounded like the singer.

The film is conventional, but not predictable, and Blythe gives a very textured, charismatic performance as a talented former singer (she delivers a triumphant blues tune at a karaoke bar) who's vulnerable, but nobody's fool.

Following some solid supporting work in Drive, and surviving the unfathomable catastrophe that is Zack Snyder «s Sucker Punch, in 2011, 2013 brought him into the spotlight with his emotionally wrecked, exquisitely melancholic performance as the titular folk singer in the Coen brothers» Inside Llewyn Davis, followed by an excellent turn in J.C. Chandor «s A Most Violent Year, a better - than - average Sidney Lumet riff from 2014.

The cast includes Ray Romano and J.C. Mackenzie as Richie's business partners and Olivia Wilde as Richie's wife (and Andy Warhol's muse), but the performances that really shine — outside of Cannavale's — are that of Juno Temple as an office assistant struggling to become something in a man's world and James Jagger (Mick's son) as the angry lead singer of a punk band.

For every inspired character and performance, such as Steve Buscemi's suicidal cabaret singer and Campbell Scott's creepy German steward, there are duds like a faux French con couple (Richard Jenkins and Allison Janney) and a golddigging older woman (Dana Ivey).

X-Men is setting itself up as a high - minded comic book franchise, one unusually committed to relating its empowerment panel soap - opera with solid performances, decent scripting, and direction from a filmmaker, Bryan Singer, interested in the sanctity of narrative.

Aw, I really hate to rank Bridges in 10th place, because I was so very glad to see the actor finally win the big prize, but I think I can speak for my fellow AwardsPicks colleagues in saying that Bridges» win as the down - and - out country singer in Crazy Heart was definitely more of a career award than it was his best performance.

Mr. Robot's Rami Malek was eventually cast as the legendary performer, and today we get our first look at him in the Bryan Singer - directed project which will chronicle Queen from their founding, to their iconic 1985 performance at Live Aid.

As production continues on Bohemian Rhapsody, director Bryan Singer has taken to Instagram to share a new image from the Queen biopic showing Mr. Robot's Rami Malek as the band's legendary frontman Freddie Mercury; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Queen's Live Aid performance recreated in Bohemian Rhapsody set photos and video Bohemian Rhapsody will chart the -LSB-..As production continues on Bohemian Rhapsody, director Bryan Singer has taken to Instagram to share a new image from the Queen biopic showing Mr. Robot's Rami Malek as the band's legendary frontman Freddie Mercury; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Queen's Live Aid performance recreated in Bohemian Rhapsody set photos and video Bohemian Rhapsody will chart the -LSB-..as the band's legendary frontman Freddie Mercury; check it out here... SEE ALSO: Queen's Live Aid performance recreated in Bohemian Rhapsody set photos and video Bohemian Rhapsody will chart the -LSB-...]

Don't let the long list of guest musicians fool you in to thinking that Red Dragon Cartel can't stand on their own as singer D.J. Smith and the rest of the members of the band all can certainly hold their as the guest performances act more like the icing on the cake.

Madonna fans should be pleased at her performance, both as a singer and as an actress; she captivates.

Part concert film, part documentary, part performance art and wholly self - indulgent — Dylan plays «Renaldo» while his wife Sara plays «Clara» — the film is the work of an artist whose ambition, hubris and vanity know no bounds, but as the singer - songwriter in question was already at that point a mythical figure a few years shy of his fortieth birthday, who's to say how much is too much?

Most notably there's A Fantastic Woman, directed by Sebastian Lelio and starring Daniela Vega as a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, grieving over the death of her older boyfriend; Vega is already being praised for her powerful performance, and the movie was one of the best reviewed of 2017.

Crazy Heart Where: Embarcadero Center Cinema, 1 Embarcadero Ctr., 415-352-0835 When: All Week Why: Best known as The Dude to Lebowski lovers worldwide, Jeff Bridges delivers one of his most memorable performances as Bad Blake, the hard - living country singer stumbling toward a shot at redemption in writer - director Scott Cooper's promising feature debut.