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“Mamma Mia!” did big business at the box office. Here's hoping that means we'll go back to a time when movies such as “Xanadu” filled the multiplexes.
A funny thing happened on the way to the two musicals on view at the 2009 Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Not since the heyday of the '80s British musical invasion — which brought "Cats," "The Phantom of Opera" and "Les Miserables" — has Broadway anticipated such a big, critically lauded musical from across the Atlantic as "Billy Elliot."
Almost everything in this disco-centric freakout is wrong and weird. That anyone thought putting The Village People, Steve Guttenberg, Valerie Perrine and Bruce Jenner in a musical directed by the Bounty paper towel queen Nancy Walker is all the proof you need that nearly everyone in late 1970s Hollywood was using lots of cocaine. But one number stands out as the most bizarre in a film already boiling over barely concealed gay insanity: David Hodo — the Construction Worker — singing a blatantly false paean to heterosexuality called “I Love You to Death” to a series of random female dancers. This sort of thing is suspect in just about any movie musical, but when it’s a guy from The Village People barking and hissing and growling his adoration of hot chicks in a manner that recalibrates the universal scale of histrionic drag-queen-like behavior, it’s something to witness.
I have always preferred musicals to every other genre of films because i love to dance and anything that gets me dancing in the aisles would be money well spent.
Playbill News: Pace Production of Giering and Harrington's Crossing Brooklyn to Benefit ASTEPCrossing Brooklyn is an original musical about the trauma of 911. Students in Pace University's Acting program managed to convey the poignancy of a young married couple's life after the attacks on the World Trade Center.
Andrew Lloyd Webber eyes future for Susan BoyleShe "dreamed a dream" on the TV show Britain's Got Talent, but could Susan Boyle be living that dream as the star of a West End show?
How Did Lady Gaga Become Lady Gaga?I am defying all preconceptions we have of pop artists. That's how 23-year-old Lady Gaga sees herself.
South Park's creators to make Mormon musical for BroadwayThe Broadway musical, which has the working title Mormon Musical, will be based on the unconventional lifestyles of members of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Preface: Complaining about the news is pointless and passé. Such is not the point of this essay. These days, everyone's a reporter, everyone's a pundit. News was, however, always a business. It's show business, more precisely.
I will lose all my Rock and Roll cred for this, but I just watched Meryl Streep dancing and singing and acting in Mama Mia so I'm starting a poll. Vote for your Top 3 musicals (movie!) of all time here.
West End's newest musicals The story, very simply, is that we see three friends and their magical journey from Atlantis to a place called Interzone - a land where magick pills grow on trees and every blade of grass is a little glowstick and then there is a sequence where everyone is attacked by 23 luminous …
Theater: The God Squad The new musical, 'Saved,' won't put the fear of God into anyone
Popularity won out over talent as the results of the American Idol Top 6 sent the Irish rose Carly Smithson home after Tuesday's solid performance of "Jesus Christ Superstar."
Tonight Andrew Lloyd Webber helped the Top 6 bring Broadway to American Idol. But were the performances music to our ears or a heartbreaking tragedy?
STAGE VIEW;For Sondheim, The New Has Always Been Old - New York Timesneo-luddites attempting to reinvent the cave-wheel into a carriage-wheel-- students attempting to challenge their masters while retaining that kernel of jubilance, of soul...
Dallas Best Chinese Shows on Jan 7th 8th and 9thThe Chinese New Year Spectacular, which uses the expression of Chinese classical dance, showcases the true traditional Chinese culture without any Communist Party Culture.
NTDTV Chinese New Year Spectacular | Best Chinese ShowsNew Tang Dynasty Television (NTDTV) has been successfully hosting Chinese New Year events for the past four years. The Chinese New Year Spectacular, showcasing Chinese traditional culture and arts, is an important platform for celebrating the events
I must admit, I never heard of the play until I heard of the movie coming out, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.
Jersey Boys Celebrates One in a Million!When Robin Becker, Belleville resident since moving from Oklahoma in 1974, signed up for a tour last spring to see Jersey Boys, she had no idea that the wheels were being set in motion for her debut on a Broadway stage.
All the world could be a stage for teensTeens can learn valuable emotional lessons in the process of putting on a high school musical, a new case study of a Mid-western theatre programme demonstrates.
Hairspray - Movie - Review - New York TimesJohn Travolta as the mom, who knew? This fact makes me excited for this movie.
Unlike my last article about top jazz albums, I'm not going state any of these albums are better than others. I'm just making a list of forty that I need to buy, and maybe you need to buy too.
Spidey to shoot webs on Broadway"The musical is being produced in conjunction with Sony (SNE), the film studio that has released the first two Spidey movies and will be releasing "Spider-Man 3″ on May 4. The other producers are Hello Entertainment/David Garfinkle and Martin McCallum.
Original Scores - Back on BroadwayHere's a musical question that won't be answered anytime soon: in the big, brassy world of Broadway, where "American Idol" meets Las Vegas in jukebox hell, what is the place of the small, serious show whose songs are unlikely ever to come under the scrutiny of the Cowell- …
Most of us I am sure have had a person we might be romantically involved with ask us to watch a movie with them. I for one have a wife who is a bit of a movie freak. We watch movies whenever time and the kids allow it.
The Best Musicals are Fake Musicals Musicals. If you stop and think about it, it's bizarrely amazing that musicals continue to exist. The fact that they make up a whole genre of theater and film is stranger still.
Press views: The Sound of MusicConnie Fisher, winner of the BBC's How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?, made her West End debut in the Sound of Music on Wednesday night.
The Magic of Holiday Shows Shows in New York City come in all sizes and styles, from the ingenuity of the street performers to the awe of spectacular extravaganzas. Here are a few you might want to catch as you celebrate the Holidays in New York:
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