Sentences with phrase «stage musical cast»

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.

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Years ago, when my wife and I saw Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd - Webber's rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar on a London stage, the cast came down...

Years ago, when my wife and I saw Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd - Webber's rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar on a London stage, the cast came down and talked with the audience during the intermission.

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I once asked my high school drama teacher if I could buy some of the ultra-thick stage makeup from her... she looked at me a little strange, since I wasn't even on the cast of the current musical and was working backstage / tech.

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.

But by the grace of God, or maybe a great cast and lots and lots of expert staging, a great musical became a great TV production.

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.

Backstage Disney offers a look at the adaptation of the movie into a Broadway Musical (Mary Poppins: From Page to Stage), a peek at the Broadway cast performing a song and dance routine (Step In Time) and a MP3 version of Step In Time (featuring Ashley Brown and Gavin Lee, stars of the Broadway production).

Cast: John Travolta, Olivia Newton - John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Didi Conn, Dinah Manoff, Jamie Donnelly, Barry Pearl, Michael Tucci, Kelly Ward, Eve Arden, Lorenzo Lamas, Sid Caesar, Annette Charles, Susan Buckner, Alice Ghostley, Dody Goodman, Sha - Na - Na, Fannie Flagg, Eddie Deezen, Ellen Travolta Director: Randal Kleiser Screenplay: Allan Carr (from the screenplay by Bronte Woodard, which was adapted from the stage musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey) Review published March 26, 2005

In Bran Nue Dae, Perkins went west to Perth and north to the remote Kimberleys to work closely with a large ensemble cast on the much - anticipated film of a much - loved stage musical — seen by 200,000 people when it toured the country in 1990 and 1993.

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

Featuring a fantastic score of 17 all - new songs, Shrek The Musical was filmed on stage to capture the magic of a Broadway performance and stars an amazing celebrated cast including Brian d'Arcy James (Shrek), Sutton Foster (Fiona), Daniel Breaker (Donkey), Christopher Sieber (Lord Farquaad), and John Tartaglia (Pinocchio).

But like much of the rest of the «Annie» cast, she had little previous experience as a singer and dancer and said she had not seen the stage musical or any of its many TV or film remakes.

The all - star cast will be taking the stage to sing songs from the musical with a live orchestra as the film plays on screen.

Beyond those Disney benchmarks, though, there is some irony in the casting of Menzel, who won a Tony award for originating the role of Elphaba in the stage musical Wicked.

Cast and crew filmographies finish off the set, although some details regarding the novel's popularity and evolution through stage, film and musical versions would have improved an otherwise well - produced release.

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

A classic Neil Simon musical showcases a large cast of North Central College students.The North Central Theatre Department is staging «Sweet Charity» Nov. 9 - 12.

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.

While a few of the songs are tuneful enough and the supporting cast features a raft of musical theater veterans including Alexander, James (The Book of Mormon) and Cheyenne Jackson (Damn Yankees, Finian's Rainbow), the musical numbers are staged with an awkwardness not seen on the big screen since the likes of the 1974 film fiasco Mame.

Daniel Huttlestone and Lilla Crawford, the two stage musical performers in the cast, are fantastic additions; Huttlestone's new, younger interpretation of Jack is a smart change to the character, making him naive rather than «simple.»

Tilda Swinton, Bill Hader, and Brie Larson will join the cast of Judd Apatow's Trainwreck, a vehicle for breakout stand - up comic Amy Schumer, who wrote the script... Roman Polanski is planning a stage musical version of The Fearless Vampire Killers... No pointless remake this week, but stay tuned...

Cameron Mackintosh, producer of the stage musical and this feature explained, «I could never have imagined that we would end up with the dream director Tom Hooper, and the dream cast of Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe as the two great protagonists Jean Valjean and Javert.

INTO THE WOODS: An ultra-talented cast of Hollywood actors who can REALLY SING bring Stephen Sondheim's haunting masterpiece of a stage musical to life on the big screen.

Singer / actress Kristin Chenoweth is clinging to a dream she'll be invited to join the cast of the stage musical adaptation of her cancelled Tv series...

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.

«Pretty Woman» The Musical has cast its leads, but no other names have been attached to the stage production coming to Broadway in fall of 2018.

Using theory, philosophers, current affairs and pop cultural figures as alibis to help her write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive theatre plays, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the movement and behaviour of speech.

Rather than striving to stage this opera, Burdis creates works that are born from this factory for producing the opera — which include an unusual cast of characters; dancers; singers; countryside and urban landscapes; architecture; musical instruments; a car mechanics; and a car engine — and depict various themes reflecting on contemporary Britain.

Using theory, philosophers, pop music, current affairs and corporate rhetoric as alibis to write, and casts of arguing characters to help her perform, Spooner produces plotless novellas, disjunctive scripts, looping monologues and musical arrangements to stage the automation of speech, outsourced subjectivity, mutated human resources and the short - circuiting of language as it transforms into labour.