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).
Not exact matches
Keep reading to see how filmmakers
turned a desert into Mars, or to see how one movie shut down the busiest train station in the world to
stage a
musical number.
As Andrew finds himself pitted against the core drummer and a Fletcher - enlisted challenger for the drum stool, his
musical ambition
turns into something that plays like the early
stages of psychosis.
Since then, Disney
turned it into an epic
stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again turningRead More →
Since then, Disney
turned it into an epic
stage musical for Broadway and now has reimagined it again
turning it into a live action spectacle hoping to make audiences fall in love again with a tale as old as time.
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.
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 liberty.
After its
stage premiere in 1987, the hit Broadway
musical Into The Woods will finally receive the Hollywood treatment after it has been announced that the James Lapine - written show will be
turned into a movie...
Putting some of those words to music was the work of writers Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork, who
turned them into a
stage musical that opened in London in 2011.
led to a Broadway
musical adaptation 16 years later; that
stage hit was in
turn followed by this
musical screen version a couple of years after that.
Originally
staged on Broadway in 1987, this
musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine is a gleeful mash - up of fairy tales that continues on past the «happily ever after», eventually
turning rather dark and emotional.
As TCM's Oscar - celebratory month winds down, they've still got a few new ones to throw at us — the first
musical to win a Best Picture Oscar, The Broadway Melody, shows on Monday; an actual good Merchant - Ivory film in A Room With a View
turns up on Thursday; and fantastic underrated film noir The Killers plays on Thursday; finally, one of my personal all - time favorite films,
Stage Door, hits the screen late Saturday / early Sunday (trust me, picture quality is higher than the still above; couldn't find a decent cap).
New York — For British director Tom Hooper, the key to
turning «Les Miserables» from the wildly popular
stage musical to a cinematic experience both sweeping and intimate, was all in the close - up.
As a producer on Broadway he helped bring «Spider - man:
Turn Off the Dark» to the
stage and, along with co-producers Barry and Fran Weissler, took home the Tony Award for Best Revival of a
Musical this past June for «Pippin.»
Polanski nevertheless
turned it into a successful German - language
stage musical in Europe in the late nineties with music by composer Jim Steinman (best known for his «Bat Out of Hell» collaborations with U.S. rocker, Meat Loaf).
For Art Night 2017 on 1 July, Drew
turns his installation into a
musical score, collaborating with experimental musicians on a live, durational and climactic improvisation on the
stage which forms part of the installation.
Standouts include Carrie Mae Weems» holographic narrative about race, sex, and politics portrayed by ghostly characters on a burlesque
stage; The Propeller Group's video that draws parallels between funeral practices in Vietnam and New Orleans, along with the collective's sculptures of tricked - out
musical instruments, which were also photographed with members of Louisiana marching bands; Glenn Kaino's installation of water tanks that
turn military machines into coral reefs; Jean - Michel Basquiat's paintings and works on paper that reference the cultural legacy of the Mississippi Delta and the South; Camille Henrot's video exploration of the universe by way of the storage rooms of the Smithsonian Institution; Tavares Strachan's 100 - foot long neon sign declaring «You belong here» from a barge on the Mississippi River; and Andrea Fraser's monologue, in which she recreated a heated debate by New Orleans city council members during a 1991 vote to racially integrate the Mardi Gras krewes — changing her voice and expression as she dynamically alternated between speakers, both black and white.