Sentences with phrase «stage musical based»

A stage musical based on Will Ferrell's 2003 Christmas comedy movie Elf will debut in London's West End in winter 2015.

The 27 - year - old actor and Alexa Davies will join newcomer Lily James on the cast of the sequel — a follow up to the 2008 adaptation of the stage musical based on ABBA songs.

In 1978, when the movie opens, Madeline is starring in a stage musical based on Sweet Bird of Youth, and it's typical of the movie's demeaning approach to women that it cuts from a shot of her face on the cover of a playbill lying in a mud puddle to a closeup of her onstage in an extended production number, «Me» («I see me, I like what I see»), that includes a chorus line of hotel bellboys.

[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.

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.

Not exact matches

Of course, most of the musical stages so far are based on classic Mario tunes.

The film, however, is only half the story the stage musical on which it's based has been playing continually in the West End for 28 years, making it London's longest running show.

For the few uninitiated (the stage show has been seen by 60 million people), Les Misérables is Cameron Mackintosh's adaptation of Claude - Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's musical based on the Victor Hugo saga set in early 19th century France.

Musical based on cult the Latin American stage show.

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

Staying true to his surprising ability to upend expectations, the first of the two was the summer musical Jersey Boys, based on the hit stage show.

The screenplay is by Will Gluck and Aline Brosh McKenna, based on the musical stage play «Annie,» book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and on «Little Orphan Annie,» © and ® Tribune Media Services, Inc..

He played Clive Owen's son in The Boys Are Back in 2009 and a soldier in the 2012 World War I miniseries Birdsong with Eddie Redmayne and Clémence Poésy, and had a surprising turn in 2013's Sunshine on Leith, a film adaptation of the stage musical of the same name based on songs by the Proclaimers.

The five - year romance, marriage and divorce of an aspiring novelist (Jeremy Jordan) and a struggling actress (Anna Kendrick) is told through song in this movie based on a musical stage play.

A Broadway musical based on the history of Stax Records is in the works.Movie producer Stuart Benjamin is developing a stage show based on the music...

It's based on the Cameron Mackintosh production of Alain Boublil and Claude - Michel Schönberg's French stage musical — one of those shows, like «Cats» and «The Phantom of the Opera,» that always seems to running somewhere in the world.

Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago) is a musical based on the stage work from Stephen Sondheim, but you wouldn't have known that from the film's first trailer.

It's no wonder, considering the talent behind it: Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins directing, based on the stage musical by Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and Aurthur Laurents, based on freaking SHAKESPEARE.

Twenty - three years ago, the Broadway version of «Beauty and the Beast» (followed three years later by the Broadway version of «The Lion King») introduced a different form of re-branding: the stage - musical - based - on - an - animated - feature.

The film is loosely based on the 1960s stage musical «Black Nativity» by Langston Hughes.

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).

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

Based on a successful stage musical, which had two...

A movie musical based on a stage musical built on pre-existing music certainly has some of its work done for it right from the point of cinematic conception, but even with such a head start, Clint Eastwood still applies enough tender, heartfelt identity to his adaptation, Jersey Boys, to make the screen version a touching endeavor.

The «Rocky» musical is to close after just five months on Broadway.The stage show - which is based on the 1976 boxing movie which starred Sylvester...

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.

Based on an early 1961 stage musical by Langston Hughes, the film tells the story of a single mother in Harlem sending her teenage son to visit her parents in Baltimore for the holidays.

Surely screenwriters Justin Theroux, Chris D'Arienzo (who wrote the book for the stage musical upon which the movie is based), and Allan Loeb write the moment as a joke.

Warner Bros. is bringing Beetlejuice to the stage, as a musical based on the movie kicks off this October in Washington D.C.

Joseph, based on the same Old Testament story that inspired the long - running stage musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, lacks the emotional sweep of Prince, but it is nonetheless an inspiring tale for the whole family.

Minneapolis - based artist Chris Larson's surreal carpentry transforms ordinary buildings into sculptures, stage sets, musical instruments and performative...

The Little Mermaid: Stage adaptation of animated Disney musical based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a mermaid who yearns to become human.

No stranger to Miami, in 2011 Ronay and Nathan Carter were invited by Locust Projects to create a site - specific installation that, according to director Chana Budgazad Sheldon, «included handmade costumes, stage sets, and musical instruments based on misunderstandings of both Mummenschanz (a Swiss mime troupe started in the 1970s) and early Bauhaus performances... to a packed room of enthusiasts.»