Sentences with phrase «staged musical numbers»

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

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.

At this event, Vereen, who had recently won a Tony Award for his performance in Pippin, staged a musical number in homage to the trailblazing vaudeville performer Bert Williams, who, because of racist laws dictating who could appear on stage, always performed in blackface.

Not exact matches

Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a variety of trendy fads; and the impact of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.

Students will write an original script incorporating musical numbers, develop their own characters and improve stage presence with guidance from Village performing artists.

Extras: The Blu - ray includes quite a few extra features, including a detailed, if at times kind of lethargic commentary by director Lloyd; three interlocked featurettes detailing the stage genesis of the property, the vocal training of the actors (including a laugh out loud segment showing the largely incompetent Firth attempting «dance moves»), as well as the source ABBA music; another featurette detailing the making of «Lay Your Love on Me,» a duet between Seyfried and Dominic Cooper that becomes a bit of a production number; deleted scenes (including the cut musical number «The Name of the Game») and a music video of «Gim me!

Most of the musical numbers are exceptionally staged (Especially «Rhythm of Life» and «Hey Big Spender») and it's good that they got to keep the bitter sweet ending of the stage show.

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.

While retaining many of the Broadway show's musical numbers, the film enlisted the stage production's Tony - winning composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman to write additional material for the film, though their new songs failed to earn any Oscar nominations.

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.

There are also some new songs not featured in the stage musical that have been added, which unfortunately represent some of the weaker numbers in comparison to the very strong original soundtrack pieces.

Richard LaGravenese's adaptation of Jason Robert Brown's stage musical contains about four big numbers that are among the year's most memorable scenes (even though the film itself is pretty spotty).

There is also a deleted song sequence for «I've Got a Little List», four NBC Radio audio excerpts for musical numbers from two modernized versions of «The Mikado» staged on Broadway in 1939, and an 18 - page booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

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.

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 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»).

After watching Sister perform one of Sparkle's numbers at a nightclub (in a sensual staging that hardly requires lyrics to get her meaning across), a budding musical manager, Stix (Derek Luke), approaches them.

The musical numbers had great choreography, staging, costuming, and lighting designs.

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.

Trousdale and Wise staged and shot the production numbers with panache to match: that circular sweep around Belle when she sings «There must be more than this provincial life» in the Oscar - nominated curtain - raiser «Belle»; the indelible hilltop Sound of Music homage that is «Belle (Reprise)» (rendered all the more stunning by IMAX); the swinging camera moves in that showstopping musical monument of self - love, «Gaston»; the Busby Berkeley bustle of the also - nominated «Be Our Guest»; the eloquent simplicity of the Oscar - winning title number.

«From Song to Screen: Making the Musical Sequences» (13:26) deconstructs the staging and filming of the film's four most famous musical numbers, «Belle», «Something There», «Gaston», and «Beauty and the Beast.Musical Sequences» (13:26) deconstructs the staging and filming of the film's four most famous musical numbers, «Belle», «Something There», «Gaston», and «Beauty and the Beast.musical numbers, «Belle», «Something There», «Gaston», and «Beauty and the Beast.»

Musical numbers may be cut, characters may reduced from how they appear on stage.

It's not exactly a story you'd think would lend itself to musical staging, but Minnelli, who pretty much invented the structure of narrative musical storytelling with Meet Me In St Louis, has not lost his touch even in this, his penultimate film, as the numbers seamlessly ingratiate themselves into the plot.

If you need a palate cleanser after something so realistic, allow me to introduce you to Stage Fright, an off - the - wall slasher film with highly - stylized visuals and an opening musical number -LRB-!).

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.

From its sketchy screenplay to its uninspiring score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul to its showy but shallow performance by Jackman and its oddball staging of musical numbers (one is actually performed by Efron and Zendaya while they're twirling on ropes and spinning dizzyingly as in a Cirque du Soleil routine), the film does little to advance the cause of musical motion pictures.

The music itself is not terribly inspired, but Jonathan Demme obviously has a great knowledge about how to stage and shoot musical numbers, which makes those scenes utterly entrancing, even if they leave one wishing that the entire movie took place in the bar where Ricki and The Flash first play.

Using a range of fun props and games including bean bags, Japanese inflatable balls and musical chairs, participants will explore a selection of repertoire chosen with specific age groups in mind (one exercise per age range), leaving with a number of «ready to go» exercises pertinent to each key stage.

The company in charge of Andrew Lloyd Webber's top stage musicals such as Cats and Evita, have started preliminary discussions with a number of the world's «leading... Read more

Three stages unique to Shadow are available, each providing a decent amount of challenge and a number of musical callbacks to both his Dreamcast debut and his solo adventure in 2005, all on top of Shadow being interchangeable with Modern Sonic in the main campaign for a number of the other hedgehog's levels.

A number of Center - supported performances take the stage this summer, including seven new musical commissions by The Crossing and the world premiere of Pablo Batista's music and dance production * El Viaje (The Journey) *.

Even covers can be infringement, lawyer says, let alone staging three numbers from a smash - hit Broadway musical like a Scarborough, Ontario high school did.

who staged three numbers from the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, only to have them removed from YouTube: Be willing to wait for it.