The movie musical: a staple genre in the movie industry. In the late 1920s, the “talkies” era ended and movies finally had the capability to capture actual sound for the screen. That meant that there were limitless possibilities for new directions the industry could go. Starting with the golden age classics such as State Fair or Singin’ […]
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When I was growing up, my favorite Christmas movie was Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. I loved all the songs, all the dances and the story. It made me want to watch movie musicals all the time and to live in such a wonderful world where singing and dancing could be continually spontaneous and natural. As […]
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Music is everywhere. On your radio, on your iPod, on screen or on stage. Music permeates our life. It’s universal. But does it matter if this music is presented in a concert, a screen or a theater stage? Let’s use movies as an example. One of the most memorable scenes in cinema history is Gene Kelly […]
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Let’s start with an exercise: I want you to think of the last time you saw a show and spent the last few minutes of the act planning how to beat the bathroom line. C’mon, no one’s going to judge you (they can’t actually read minds, you know). I bet you can still feel that throbbing […]
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Repeat after me: A medium rating is the best you can do. In the wake of the release of the highly anticipated Into the Woods film adaptation, the Musical Theatre community is again preparing to watch one of its sacred entities brought to life on the silver screen. On February 13th, 2015, the intimate and […]
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So, I never really had a great relationship to the most recent film adaptations of popular broadway musicals. The two exceptions were the Chicago film (2002) starring the fabulous Renée Zellweger and Catherine Zeta-Jones as the murderous duo, and The Producers (2005) starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and directed by Susan Stroman, all from the original […]
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I don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but in the past however-many years or so, there’s been a trend toward movies being turned into musicals. Oh, you have noticed that? Yeah, me too. But I’m not going to go on a rant about how this trend spells the end of musical theatre as we know it. It […]
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