Not exact matches
In fact, one of the best
musical stages doesn't even have anything to do
with gaming at all.
The
musical year that began
with Ashlee Simpson getting booed off the
stage at the Orange Bowl and climaxed
with Mariah Carey's less - than - earth - shattering performance...
Perhaps their greatest contribution is admitting that religion no longer claims center
stage in university life and must «compete» for student loyalty
with sporting events,
musical ensembles and lecture series.
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.
All of those countless hours of sermons and worship services will help when Legend takes the
stage as Jesus in the televised
musical, but even when the curtain drops on Easter Sunday, that message will stay
with him, because that's still what fuels John Legend — the singer, the activist, the father — in the real role that he was always born to play.
This
musical teems
with moments of transcendence — where a powerful scene occurs on
stage, and the atmosphere in the theatre changes.
Students will write an original script incorporating
musical numbers, develop their own characters and improve
stage presence
with guidance from Village performing artists.
At this
stage, children do start to be more intrigued
with toys such as balls, puzzles, cars, animals, and
musical instruments.
The Expo will feature a full day's line - up of on -
stage entertainment
with some of the southland's up - and - coming
musical talents.
Yes, the region's favourite purveyor of kick@ss «
musical» extravaganza is coming to Tonic in Foggy Bottom on May 29th, fully prepared to Shock and Awe
with an array of tunes and
stage antics guaranteed to Blow Your Pants Clean Off and blast your soul clear of warts, blemishes, stains, rashes and any irregularities remaining from that unfortunate incident
with the... well, never mind.
De Blasio shared the New York Hilton
stage with Leslie Odom Jr., who plays Aaron Burr in the hit
musical «Hamilton,» while unleashing his inner Run - BDB.
In one episode, he interviews a biology professor who matches the
stages of cell division to memorable theme songs; converting this into a multimedia piece, Shapiro made a minute - long movie called Pink Floyd and the dancing embryos, splicing together video segments
with a
musical soundtrack.
Outside of yoga, Lisa spent her 20's and 30's as a
stage performer and continues to perform in small venues
with a mystical storytelling
musical troupe «Spiritual Travelers» she helped found in 2011.
Leah runs, manages, directs and is the front woman of the
musical group Rising Appalachia, and together
with her sister Chloe and their band, they have invested their lives into using the power of the
stage for political, social, and environmental justice.
Whether your performance is on a literal
stage (I just saw my high school's
musical and it brought back SUCH good memories of my own theatre days), in a cubicle, or all around the world, sometimes you've just got ta put on your big girl boss pants and come to terms
with your own capabilities.
If producers wanted ABBA music in a film
musical, why not just adapt «Chess,» their
stage collaboration
with Tim Rice, I wondered.
She then appeared in several Broadway productions and in the Ziegfield Follies before being paired
with another unknown, actor James Cagney, in the
stage musical Penny Arcade; a year later this became the film Sinners Holiday, propelling her to stardom.
It announces this
with the simple words, «Once upon a time...» and consistently reminds the viewer it is phony through its highly stylized dialogue, theatrical
staging, and
musical cues quoted from other distinctly flavored movies.
A veteran of the theater
stage, F. Murray Abraham has appeared in more than 90 plays, among them Chekhov's UNCLE VANYA (for which he received an Obie Award), TRUMBO, STANDUP SHAKESPEARE, the Italian tour of NOTTURNO PIRANDELLIANO (
with Michele Placido), Susan Stroman's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the musical TRIUMPH OF LOVE (alongside Betty Buckley), A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, the title role in CYRANO DE BERGERAC, THE SEAGULL, OEDIPUS REX, CREON, ANGELS IN AMERICA (both MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA) THE RIDE DOWN WITH MT. MORGAN, WAITING FOR GODOT, THE CARETAKER, THE RITZ, SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, DUCK VARIATIONS, A LIFE IN THE THEATER, PAPER DOLL, and THREE PENNY OP
with Michele Placido), Susan Stroman's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, the
musical TRIUMPH OF LOVE (alongside Betty Buckley), A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY, the title role in CYRANO DE BERGERAC, THE SEAGULL, OEDIPUS REX, CREON, ANGELS IN AMERICA (both MILLENNIUM APPROACHES and PERESTROIKA) THE RIDE DOWN
WITH MT. MORGAN, WAITING FOR GODOT, THE CARETAKER, THE RITZ, SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, DUCK VARIATIONS, A LIFE IN THE THEATER, PAPER DOLL, and THREE PENNY OP
WITH MT. MORGAN, WAITING FOR GODOT, THE CARETAKER, THE RITZ, SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, DUCK VARIATIONS, A LIFE IN THE THEATER, PAPER DOLL, and THREE PENNY OPERA.
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.
Insipid
musical with one great song, Too Marvelous for Words, which is
staged as a number
with the terrific effect of girls legs as typewriter keys.
NBC's latest live
musical will be a concert
staging of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera at Brooklyn's Marcy Armory
with John Legend as Jesus, Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene, Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas, Alice Cooper as King Herod, Ben Daniels as Pontius Pilate, Norm Lewis as
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.
NBC's latest live
musical will be a concert
staging of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera at Brooklyn's Marcy Armory
with John Legend as Jesus, Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene, Brandon Victor Dixon as Judas, Alice Cooper as King Herod, Ben Daniels as Pontius Pilate, Norm Lewis as Caiaphas, Jin Ha as Annas, Jason Tam as Peter and Erik Gronwall as Simon Zealotes.
... Some technical flubs and one mixed - bag lead performance aside, the production was genuinely thrilling, taking chances
with the
staging of a classic but controversial Broadway show, much more daring than previous live
musical broadcasts like «The Sound of Music» or «Peter Pan.»
(2005), a British soccer drama starring Kuno Becker and Alessandro Nivola; Flushed Away (2006), a DreamWorks CG - animated picture about a mouse named Roddy who gets flushed down the toilet and winds up in a vermin - infested city called Ratropolis; and Julie Taymor's Across the Universe, a hallucinatory
musical love story, set against the turbulent backdrop of the»60s,
with countless Beatles songs providing the backdrop.The same period found Clement hard at work developing several
stage musicals: Victoria's Secret,
with a score by Paul Williams and Dave Stewart; Helen of Troy, libretto by Brendan Healy and AC / DC frontman Brian Johnson.
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.
He's a
stage -
musical veteran (The Boy from Oz),
with a good vibrato - heavy baritone.
A largely self - congratulatory promotion for the
musical, the video features interviews
with film screenwriter Herlihy, Broadway director John Rando, choreographer Rob Ashford and
stage star Stephen Lynch.
Condon, 57, is currently busy
with a
stage revival of «Side Show,» the 1997 cult Broadway
musical about Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twin sisters who were featured in the 1932 creep - out classic «Freaks.»
In a less explicable
musical interlude, The Lobster and Tale of Tales actor John C Reilly took to the
stage to sing a be-bop version of Just a Gigolo
with four - man Dixieland outfit the Flyboys, before presenting the Camera d'Or for best first film to César Augusto for Land and Shade.
John Williams was recently presented
with an honorary doctorate in music from Harvard University, and since they couldn't sneak an entire orchestra onto the
stage, one of the school's most famous a cappella groups took it upon themselves to pay
musical tribute to Hollywood's most iconic composer.
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.
Occasionally, it veers into fantasy,
with hand - drawn illustrations on top of the film stock when the narrative slides toward
musical numbers, often comical covers of songs like the Talking Heads» «Psycho Killer» and Iggy Pop's «The Passenger»
staged on public transit.
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.
During the early 1990s, around the time of Twin Peaks, Lynch was extremely busy, working on Julee Cruise's first two albums,
staging the
musical play Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Broken Hearted,
with Cruise and Badalamenti's music, developing other short lived television projects and continually creating visual artwork.
Brewer, in conjunction
with choreographer Jamal Sims,
stage some spirited
musical numbers, especially a line - dance scene in a Western club and the comic montage in which Willard learns his dance moves.
The Hateful Eight opens
with an unavoidably pretentious but nonetheless sublime
musical overture that gives centre
stage to Ennio Morricone's suspenseful original score — the majority of which was written for John Carpenter's The Thing back in 1982 but never used — which is more Hitchcock in tone than Leone.
The first disc includes the theatrical release of the film, along
with an interesting feature commentary track by director Marshall and screenwriter Bill Condon, as well as the deleted
musical number «Class,» and a 27 - minute documentary on bringing the
musical to the big screen («From
Stage to Screen: The History of Chicago»).
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.
Initially it looked like «Anchorman 2» was going to have life as a Broadway
musical (though quite how anyone thought they were going to make a glitzy
stage show about the cutthroat rough - and - tumble of television news and the sobering questions of journalistic ethics the original film raised is beyond us), but thankfully sanity prevailed and we get to revisit the Channel Four News team nearly one decade on, as they face the challenges of a new era
with hope, integrity and, probably, scotch.
With a background in
stage design, it's no wonder Julie Taymor's Beatles - inspired
musical is a visually stunning work of craftsmanship.
Starting at full - emotion and never wavering for a moment, this huge movie adaptation of the long - running
stage musical wears us out
with its relentlessly epic approach.
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.
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.
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.
Then for others, Beauty and The Beast, the
stage musical, was a surprisingly mid-key segue between the grandiose
musicals your mom went to
with her friends, like Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables, and the RENTs and Avenue Qs that became your workout soundtracks on a super-skip-y CD Walkman.
With Maltese folk band Brikkuni on
stage to contribute a touch of local
musical colour.
Though several songs have been pruned from the
stage musical, along
with some of the darker edges, Marshall keeps the metaphor of «the Woods as real life» intact without overplaying the hand.
After all,
with a big
stage musical, you come to the theater
with a Playbill that lays out the characters, history and settings for every scene.