Sentences with phrase «stages musicals like»

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Stage productions like the musical extravaganza A Christmas Carol and the beautiful Nutcracker ballet at Old Town Temecula Community Theater; and holiday concerts at Pechanga will be featured.

It may sound like a Broadway musical, but New York State voters this November get to decide whether to stage a «Con Con» that could have a much greater impact.

«These data demonstrate how critical factors outside the notes themselves, like the information you have about a performer (explicitly in the form of a prime or implicitly in the form of positioning on stage at Carnegie Hall or on a subway platform) can transform what you are able to hear and how you evaluate a musical performance.»

We Are Your Friends is a process musical like Center Stage, Step Up, or Magic Mike.

... 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.»

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.

Interestingly, rather than try to keep as much of the stage musical intact in order to please fans of the theater production, Condon has made several significant changes in his adaptation, most notably in making the characters play more like the real - life counterparts of their inspiration.

When the stage musical «Once» comes to the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts Feb. 4 - 9, it won't look or sound like any other Broadway show you've seen.

December 9, 2013 • At a concert staging, Smash die - hards get a look at what the show's second - season rock musical was meant to be like.

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.

Though I didn't really like Tom Hooper's big screen adaptation of the popular stage musical or Judd Apatow's quasi-sequel to «Knocked Up,» there are still plenty of new releases worth checking out, including one of 2012's best films and the most anticipated prequel since «The Phantom Menace.»

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.

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.

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.

Slate thinks Rolan Emmerich's Stonewall looks too much like a cheap musical Playbill reminds us that Magic Mike (2012) is being made into a stage musical.

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.

I went in expecting a strong adaptation of the stage musical, but this take on Jersey Boys feels more like a cheap behind - the - scenes look at the drama amongst the guys.

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.

Like I have previously stated, it is hard to watch the movie and not compare it to the stage musical.

Coming up this month are films like «Selma,» the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic; new work from Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage; Reese Witherspoon in her most transformative role to date; a stage - to - screen adaptation of one of the theater's most beloved composers and lyricists; and a contemporary reboot to a musical classic.

During the event they talked about upcoming Macross projects like Macross the Musiculture (a Macross - themed stage musical debuting this fall in Japan) and showed the first non-teaser trailer for the new Macross movie,...

Half an hour into Tom Hooper's adaptation of the long - running stage musical Les Miserables, he fixes his camera on Anne Hathaway's tortured, tear - streaked face, and she delivers what ought to become one of the great moments in musical cinema history — right up there with Dorothy singing wistfully of a land far away, Gene Kelly swinging happily around damp lamp poles, and a problem like Maria singing to the grassy Austrian hillsides.

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.

The 1960 stage musical probably appealed to Warner for what seemed like built - in marketing triangulation: Here was a successful theatre romance with the kind of pagan mysticism that had seized the minds of America's young.

Personally, I didn't like the «live singing» in Les Misérables, because one of the benefits of adapting a stage musical to film is the advantage of being able to record music in controlled environment.

Orchestrated like a musical (and better, I might add, than any musical in some years), the film is a grand succession of glorious set pieces, from the gesture - filled courtship at Princess Betsy's (Ruth Wilson) party to the thrilling, stage - set horse race set to the beat of Anna's fan.

«Early on, in the script stage, I really felt like it should have a musical accompaniment that would be another voice in the movie,» said Baumbach, who admitted crying whenever he hears the score for «The Natural.»

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.

While the films of the silent era could cover a wide range of genres from drama to comedy and even a bit of soundless dancing, a full - fledged musical, like those performed live on stage, was a domain exclusive to talkies.

Following the screening is a jolly Q&A with the filmmakers and crew, and because some of the actors are from musicals, like «Hamilton» (Daveed Diggs), the stage is quite lively.

Pupils choose from activities like long - distance cycling, staging a musical, working in a nursing home, or learning to perform magic tricks.

Dating back to the 14th century, like the drum tower, it was rebuilt in the 17th century and musical performances are staged here daily between 09:00 am to 11:30 and 14:30 to 17:30.

Disney was tepidly stepping towards the future with movies like Oliver and Company and The Great Mouse Detective, but both of those seemed rooted in that same Disney mentality, and the studio ultimately wouldn't recognize the next stage of it's development until it looked towards Broadway and realized it should move it's movies more towards classic musicals then half - assed pop ballads.

and, like most Kirby games, a beautiful musical score that will, sadly, probably become underappreciated (the game playfully uses orchestral pieces for most stages, whether original or remixed tunes, while the aforementioned secret stages pull a classic track right out of Kirby's past).

He worked for the likes of Royal Court Theatre, Glyndebourne, La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, leaving permanent marks in all these prestigious ballet and opera locations and adjusting synesthetic colors in response to musical stimuli — this feat does not appear in his painting or photography artworks, but is a common underlying principle in his designs for stage sets.

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.

«I had been doing stage interactives, like an interactive musical where the two romantic leads are played by members of the audience, or an interactive adaptation of A Christmas Carol,» Wirth says.