Sentences with phrase «when staging the musical»

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.

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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.

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.

When it became his privilege to direct the movie version of the «Les Misérables» stage musical that has enthralled the world for more than a quarter - century, Tom Hooper made one crucial, momentous decision.

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 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.

These fond memories doubtless came flooding back when an adult Eigenberg auditioned — and was selected for — a large part in the Dennis Rosa - directed Chicago stage musical One Shining Moment, opposite Megan Mullally and Alan Ruck.

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.

Translating the stage play into an entirely sung - through movie musical was nothing short of audacious, to be sure, but as a filmgoing experience the result is wearying, even when the songs themselves are capably performed.

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.

Hugh Jackman The Potential: A virtual unknown when he was plucked by Bryan Singer from the London stage to play Wolverine when original choice Dougray Scott was held up on «Mission: Impossible II,» Hugh Jackman became an instant icon in the «X-Men» movies, and it was clear he had the charisma to do almost anything — drama, rom - com, musicals.

MS: Ten years later you earned a Tony Award nomination when you played Belle Steinberg in the stage musical version of «My Favorite Year.»

Before she was rushed off the stage by the ticking clock, Greta Gerwig still managed to be profound and touching when accepting the award for Best Film Musical or Comedy at the Golden Globes.

When James Franco won the Golden Globe on Sunday for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), for his role in the film The Disaster Artist, the eccentric Tommy Wiseau — who Franco plays in the film — was already on his way to he stage when Franco told him to comeWhen James Franco won the Golden Globe on Sunday for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), for his role in the film The Disaster Artist, the eccentric Tommy Wiseau — who Franco plays in the film — was already on his way to he stage when Franco told him to comewhen Franco told him to come up.

When director Marc Evans is able to concentrate on some of the actual inventive musical stagings, there's often a rush of wind under the film's wings.

Some years ago, when we were doing an on - stage interview in London, Anderson told me that he sometimes felt his movies were best viewed as musicals.

The much - hyped musical orchestra was sensational, putting together some incredible performances of some of the finest music to come from gaming this year while an appearance from Phoenix was also quite impressive (something I hadn't expected I'd say when I first saw them take the stage).