Sentences with phrase «stage musical»

I saw the original stage musical version of this in the 1990s, and hated it.

The film includes a visual feast of well - staged musical numbers.

Worse than stage musical because we are so close.

Producer Cameron Mackintosh planning to storm New York barricades with third run of stage musical after success of film

Rounding out the top 10, Pineapple Express placed fifth, with $ 10 million ($ 62.9 million overall); Brendan Fraser's third Mummy flick slotted sixth, with $ 8.6 million ($ 86.7 million overall); the ABBA - inflected stage musical adaptation Mamma Mia!

But — I will say this — about 3/4 of the way through the movie, I realized that I was actually better able to follow the story in film than in stage musical, since the proximity to the actors allowed me to understand what they were singing!

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th - century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

Adapting hit stage musicals for film is always a risky business, with far more getting it wrong than right (witness Evita, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Nine, etc.), so give Mackintosh (the producer here), director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech) and the cast full credit for commitment to the cause.

Based on the classic stage musical by Claude - Michel Schonberg and Alain Boublil.

Hugh Jackman is in talks to play the lead role in The King's Speech director Tom Hooper's forthcoming big - screen take on the hit stage musical Les Misérables, Variety reports (paywall).

Half an hour into Tom Hooper's adaptation of the long - running stage musical Les Miserables, he fixes his camera on Anne Hathaway's tortured, tear - streaked face, and she delivers what ought to become one of the great moments in musical cinema history — right up there with Dorothy singing wistfully of a land far away, Gene Kelly swinging happily around damp lamp poles, and a problem like Maria singing to the grassy Austrian hillsides.

Or maybe about awesome»80s movies being made into stage musicals?

In 2012 he was seen in New Line's adaptation of the Broadway stage musical ROCK OF AGES, directed by Adam Shankman.

[featured - video] Synopsis: An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th - century France, in which a paroled prisoner named Jean Valjean seeks redemption.

Music - lover Clint Eastwood adapts the long - running stage musical for the big screen with mixed results: it recounts a terrific true story but has an uneven pace.

A big screen version of the hit stage musical Wicked has been talked about for a number of years now.

He also had recurring roles on the television series Mad About You and Friends and starred in the drama Huff (2004 - 2006), playing the titular character, to critical acclaim, as well as appearing in the popular stage musical Spamalot.

Singer / songwriter Melissa Etheridge is working on a new stage musical with Nurse Jackie co-creator Linda Wallem.

For the coming stage musical version, producers have cast another British...

Beloved entertainer Sammy Davis, JR's life story is to be turned into a new stage musical.

The classic stage musical comes to the big screen as a major fan of the Washington Senators makes a pact with the devil in order to make sure his team wins the league pennant.

Having run continuously on Broadway for the past 28 years (longer than any in history), Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schonberg's much - loved stage musical Les Misérables brings a well - seasoned audience frothing for an equally worthy screen adaptation.

Chicago is based on the famous stage musical which originally featured choreography by the legendary Bob Fosse.

Don't Play Us Cheap (1973) also writer, from his book Harlem Party and stage musical Don't Play Us Cheap, and composer

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.

The title more obviously calls to mind Victor Hugo's 19th century novel, the highly successful and long - running 1980s stage musical, and now the major feature film adaptation that will open in theaters on Christmas Day.

She shows as strong a sense of comic timing behind the camera as she has always shown in front of it, but really impresses when staging the musical numbers.

Since then, Disney turned it into an epic stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again turningRead More →

The decision by Sam Mendes, who helmed the critically acclaimed recent James Bond film Skyfall, to switch to a West End stage musical for his next venture also reinforces this.

Woody Allen returns to Broadway next year, for his first ever stage musical.

Kander and Ebb's Roaring»20s retro - chic stage musical, adapted by Bill Condon, centres on antagonistic murderesses Roxie Hart (Zellweger) and Velma Kelly (Zeta - Jones), and shyster attorney Billy Flynn (Gere), to whom each turns hoping to regain...

Here We Go Again,» the upcoming sequel to the 2008 film adaptation of the ABBA - themed stage musical which grossed more than $ 600 million worldwide.

During the event they talked about upcoming Macross projects like Macross the Musiculture (a Macross - themed stage musical debuting this fall in Japan) and showed the first non-teaser trailer for the new Macross movie,...

Actors Victor Garber, Jane Krakowski and Josh Radnor will band together to stage a musical reading of the comedy She Loves Me.Titanic star Garber, 30...

American composer / producer Richard Rodgers had his first song published at 17; one year later, he wrote his first stage musical.

Not the big, stylized theatrical acting you see in most stage musicals and movie adaptations thereof, but intimate, realistic performances, grounded in real human emotion.

Spielberg has had Bernstein on the brain in general of late, and is even moving full speed ahead with a West Side Story remake now (based on Berstein's classic stage musical turned movie).

A comedy about a group of inmates who stage a musical to cover up their escape, it was treated with eager expectation by fans of the Cattaneo's previous work.

Winnie Holzman, who wrote the Wicked stage musical book, is currently working on the script.

Many stage musicals, from «Oklahoma!»

Tom Hooper's adaptation of the hit stage musical cast her as the tragic Fantine, who loses her job as a seamstress and comes to a bad end by the city gates.

On a Friday night in late September, Aubrey Dan, Toronto pharmaceutical heir and failed theatrical mogul, stood in the TCU Place theatre in Saskatoon, preparing for the final opening night of his five - year run as the upstart face of big - budget Canadian stage musicals.

In the boom of post-World War II America, corporations paid good money to hire professional composers and performers to stage musicals during trade shows.

Every Thursday through Sunday evening, Rocka's stages musicals like My Fair Lady and Hello, Dolly!

Despite Les Misérables» iconic status among stage musicals, its much - loved story that leaves audiences emotionally devastated by the final curtain, and a marquee - friendly high - profile cast sure to boost ticket sales, director Tom Hooper's bloated big - screen version of the Victor Hugo classic doesn't necessarily deliver on its potential.

A never - completed stage musical was the source for the MGM superproduction Born to Dance.

But when a greedy banker hatches a plan to foreclose on the house of worship, James and his flock band together with BeBe Winans to stage a musical benefit that just might bring everyone together, and save their church in the process.

These fond memories doubtless came flooding back when an adult Eigenberg auditioned — and was selected for — a large part in the Dennis Rosa - directed Chicago stage musical One Shining Moment, opposite Megan Mullally and Alan Ruck.