Musicals

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• DISNEY ANIMATION: COME ROLL IN ALL THE RICHES ALL AROUND YOU

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 500
  As hard as it is to fathom in retrospect, of the two Disney features put into development late in 1990, The Lion King was seen by most everybody at the studio as the runner-up, the less-prestigious, more kiddie-friendly picture; the one that you got stuck working on if you couldnt nab a job over at the "real" picture, ...
  11 hours ago

• Acting Showcased in New Trailer for Nine

  
  FilmCrunch — Authority: 435
  Although I have thoroughly enjoyed every single preview for Nine , the trailers up until now have been missing one thing: the acting. Considering the cast boasts six Academy Award winners (Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Marion Cotillard, Nicole Kidman, Judi Dench and Sophia Loren), expectations for the ...
  14 hours ago

• To Write A Musical (Part Two)

  
  Random Musings — Authority: 130
  So I guess the most important thing, before anything else gets started, is to conceive a good story idea first.If the story idea isn’t good, then it’s hard to make a very good musical out of it.I just realised that I’m really bad at coming up with stories, so I will probably need the help [...]
  14 hours ago

• “You don’t like me much, huh?”

  
  Thrilling Days of Yesteryear — Authority: 476
  When the Warner Archive announced that they were releasing all sixty-three Joe McDoakes one-reelers in one honkin’ big box set back in October, I put up a little blurb about this on Facebook…and while the reaction was mostly positive, there was a bit of dissension in the ranks. Author James Neibaur, who will ...
  15 hours ago

• Old Doctor Who to Play John Lennon

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 763
  It looks like The Beatles are going to get a good dose of Doctor Who in the coming year. Variety reports that in a rather nice twist, the man who kicked off the Who revitalization, Christopher Eccleston , is slated to star as John Lennon for an upcoming BBC Four biopic called Naked Lennon . The story will ...
  16 hours ago

• Nine, Up in the Air Lead Satellite Award Nominations

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 763
  There are a few good reasons to hate on the Satellite Awards. First of all, we really dont need any more end of the year movie and television honors. Second of all, the Satellites seem to be little more than a knock-off of the Golden Globes, which are already pretty unnecessary. Third, they happen way too early, ...
  18 hours ago

• Jerry Zaks to direct new Randy Newman musical at Mark Taper Forum

  
  Culture Monster — Authority: 712
  Four-time Tony winner Jerry Zaks is coming to Los Angeles where he will collaborate with Oscar-winning composer Randy Newman on a new musical production. Zaks, who has worked in stage and film productions throughout his lengthy career, is confirmed as the director of " Harps and Angels ," which is scheduled to open ...
  19 hours ago

• The month in theater

  
  Between Productions — Authority: 120
  From Live Design : Finians Rainbow and Superior Donuts on Broadway, and The Age of Iron and Wolves at the Window Off. Pictured are Finians stars Kate Baldwin and Cheyenne Jackson.
  1 day ago

• A Quick Review Of “Beauty And The Beast” By Wild Rice

  
  Random Musings — Authority: 130
  I recently caught this year’s installment of W!ld Rice’s annual year-end pantomime “Beauty and the Beast”, currently showing at the Drama Centre Theatre till 19th December.I shan’t write an overly lengthy post on this, so let me just try to be as succinct as I can.W!ld Rice has been at it for many years, and ...
  1 day ago

• New to Me: Purple Rain and Stunt Rock

  
  Cinematical — Authority: 763
  As the perpetual youngen on the staff, it only seems fitting that I start chronicling my encounters with whatever classic or otherwise noteworthy titles that Im just now dusting off and catching up with. For the first in this series, I find myself tackling a double feature of 70s/80s rock kitsch - Stunt Rock and ...
  1 day ago

• A Couple New Commercials for Nine

  
  Get The Big Picture — Authority: 589
  We finally have some commercials for Nine , which is pretty distinguishable from the other Best Picture hopefuls because of its major league cast and its the only musical anywhere near the running. If youve been following our coverage of Nine , you wont see a whole lot thats new in these ads, but if not, youll ...
  1 day ago

• Stages "Little Women": A Bridge to the 21st Century

  
  Post-Standard Critics — Authority: 112
  As one of its holiday offerings, Syracuse Stage, in conjunction with the Syracuse University Department of Drama, has opened the musical version of Louisa May Alcott’s classic American novel, “Little Women”. With music by Kim Oler, lyrics by Alison Hubbard,...
  1 day ago

• To Write A Musical (Part One)

  
  Random Musings — Authority: 130
  I guess everyone has their own list of “Things To Do Before I Die”.I was thrilled to clear one of the items off my list earlier this year…and that was to actually touch a Steinway concert grand (see here).That was great.The next thing I want to do is related to musicals.I hope to be part [...]
  2 days ago

• Carol Burnett and Julie Andrews

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 479
  A wonderful clip from one of the greatest concert specials in television history: Read this post »
  2 days ago

• Will SPIDERMAN fly to Broadway - or become a historical musical flop?

  
  THEATER TALK — Authority: 132
  (Toby Maguire as Spiderman. File photo) Hey brother, can you spare $26 million? Thats only 2.6 million dimes, after all... And when an impoverished Spidey puts it that away in begging some Wall Street stranger for some spare cash, it may not really seem too much to come up with for Broadway investors, even during ...
  2 days ago

• MARY MURPHY’S BROADWAY BOUND

  
  Hollywood Outbreak — Authority: 598
  Mary Murphy judges the competition for Season Six of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE airing Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 8:00 p.m. ET/PT) on FOX. ©2009 Fox Broadcasting Co. CR: Michael Williams/FOX No resting over the Thanksgiving weekend for Mary Murphy . The So You Think You Can Dance judge was deep in ...
  2 days ago

• Gifts for theatre lovers - 2009 edition

  
  Gratuitous Violins — Authority: 127
  Its time to pick out a gift for the theatre lover in your life. Heres my 2008 list and all of the items on it are still highly recommended. But I want to add some new choices to the mix. Ive stayed away from movie musicals and cast recordings, figuring theyd have those already. And as I noted last year, these are ...
  3 days ago

• Penelope Cruz Discovers Musical Muscles

  
  FilmCrunch — Authority: 435
  Penelope Cruz had to use muscles she hadn’t used since she was a teenager in new movie Nine . The Spanish actress put in weeks of training for one particular scene in the musical movie - about a film director struggling in his relationships with women, in which Penelope plays the central character’s mistress - ...
  3 days ago

• One More Nine Poster

  
  Get The Big Picture — Authority: 589
  Nine took it on the chin by some of our readers for lazy Photoshopping practices with its new posters . Well, I guess technically that was a criticism leveled at The Weinstein Company and The Cimarron Group, designers of the trio of posters. At issue was the repeated use of the exact same shots of ...
  3 days ago

• Yab Yum the musical

  
  24 oranges — Authority: 427
  Gossip ‘journalist’ Henk van der Meyden and sex boss Theo Heuft have teamed up to produce a musical about the latter’s former brothel, Yab Yum. Yab Yum, named after a Tantric position called ‘woman on top’ in the West, was the iconic brothel of the Netherlands until it was closed down last year by the ...
  3 days ago

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