Confused by this litany of meta-references to musicals about high school, musicals about high school musicals, and TV shows about fake fans of real meta-musicals that reference real-life meta-fandoms?
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Arts | New Jersey Musicals come — and then most musicals go.
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Sometimes, video games work better as games, and live stage musicals work best as live stage musicals.
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There are lots of musicals which I think are kitschy, and other musicals which I utterly and completely adore.
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So by that nature, most biopic musicals — or rock musicals, if you like — they're oriented around studio or live performance.
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"I still have ideas for musicals — I don't know whether they're film musicals or stage musicals, but I'm just going to write them the way I wrote 'Hamilton' and see what they come out as," he said.
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I also love basically all the old musicals, all the old MGM musicals, and I've pretty much seen most of them.
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I'd done two musicals—musical musicals—in the intervening time, and with those, you're writing from different character's points of view.
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This don't-take-it-seriously attitude certainly isn't good for tap in Broadway musicals, but it's probably not great for Broadway musicals period.
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Yet despite glitzier musicals like Spongebob and Mean Girls leading the musicals field, it was the underdog musical The Band's Visit that swept the ceremony.
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There have been long stretches of time where musicals have not been cool (thank you, Andrew Lloyd Webber), and stage musicals flop on Broadway every year.
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Now, it's not impossible to combine the "here is why the characters sing" safety net of these musicals with the ultra-romanticism of old-school musicals.
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The Golden Globes' lumps musicals in with comedies, as if all musicals were rendered light-hearted by their inclusion of song, as if music were inherently funny.
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All three of the musicals in which they appear — each an adaptation from a different pop-culture sphere — are at least a little ambivalent about being musicals.
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They are less expensive than musicals, and slightly less risky to produce — history suggests that nearly half will at least break even, compared to just a third of musicals.
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" He added, "And that's how I learned about musicals.
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His studies — of Hitchcock, Italian Neorealism, musicals, et al.
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" Two other new musicals performed: "Bandstand" and "War Paint.
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If we have to have jukebox musicals, and it seems we must, I'd rather have a dozen Jagged Little Pills that don't quite work than a dozen blander, frothier musicals that do.
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A perfect conclusion to one of Hollywood's best movie musicals.
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"Musicals are a hard sell for today's audiences," he admitted.
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Hamilton is one of the most successful Broadway musicals, ever.
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Even without the cool factor, musicals are a safe bet.
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What you probably wouldn't think of are comedies and musicals.
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Live musicals on network television might be here to stay.
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Though I love musicals, that wouldn't be my first choice.
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But big giant movie musicals tend to be aggressively mawkish.
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Musicals at Richter, Richter Arts Center, 100 Aunt Hack Road.
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Lloyd Webber's musicals are all operetta in that simple sense.
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ROCKVILLE CENTRE Musical Pops Concert, hits from British Broadway musicals.
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There's a lot of value you can learn from musicals.
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Although there are revivals of his musicals, they are infrequent.
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Animated musicals and their offshoots have never been so profitable.
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Stage musicals have a lot more songs than animated films.
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None of the old musicals sampled in the new Encores!
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He had no problem with musicals being remade, he said.
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Choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum grew up on Broadway musicals.
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Apartments above mean that musicals have to be produced elsewhere.
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Here are five new musicals that might survive into fall.
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Jukebox musicals, monologues and hagiographies are not my favorite things.
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"But you can't say that for most musicals," he said.
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Fair enough: We want certain musicals to do serious work.
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Musicals have been for kids, for knowing winks and nostalgia.
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Welcome to 2020, where movies are remade as stage musicals!
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"You know how they're doing musicals on TV now?" she said.
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You don't know musicals and your experience with them was racist.
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Domestic violence has never been an off-limits topic for musicals.
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Did you bring in your own specific ideas from classic musicals?
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"The Best of Broadway," Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Goodspeed Musicals. Feb.
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How many musicals can you get into a 12 minute sketch?
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"Thank you for celebrating cinema and for embracing musicals," he added.
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""We stay at home, cook, do the dishes, and improvise musicals.
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He wanted to do everything—write songs, do musicals, do cabaret.
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But those weren't the only musicals Corden became a part of.
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There are five new musicals nominated but only four new plays.
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He came to the musicals I performed in and clapped loudly.
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They may not create musicals nowadays for voices like Mr. Szot's.
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Eleven new musicals and five musical revivals are eligible for nominations.
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I've been a fan of James Lapine and seen his musicals.
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It became one of the most influential musicals in Broadway history.
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Musicals are living organisms whose performances change from night to night.
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Off-Center series, which revives Off Broadway musicals for short runs.
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Across the board, producers said that musicals lend themselves to radio.
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Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals.
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Goodspeed Musicals presented a developmental production of the show last summer.
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I love doing musicals, and I'd love to do some more.
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"I started flipping through, and it's all musicals," said Mr. Eagan.
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Movie musicals are especially fond of the exclamation point — there's Oklahoma!
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Heterosexual men are typically the hardest audience for musicals to reach.
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"I plan to just keep myself busy writing musicals," he said.
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Did its arrival after a bunch of musicals help its cause?
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The finest musicals, in particular, did not fall into familiar formulas.
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Musicals have gotten psychologically complex lately, and I appreciate those, too.
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" Ms. Kim's other Broadway musicals included "Dancin'" (1978), "Tommy Tune Tonite!
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And lectures and musicals, live art exhibitions, and what have you.
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But in the '60s and '70s, many of the most important musicals of the era were considered concept musicals because of the way they privileged thematic ideas over plot, and innovative relationships between characters and story.
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"We feel so lucky to be around at a time when movie musicals are getting made and where musicals themselves are being embraced by a wider group than it has in the past," Pasek, 31, told PEOPLE.
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Mr Mackintosh has produced the three longest-running musicals, and Andrew Lloyd Webber composed one-quarter of the top 1003 longest-running musicals (plus some that didn't make the list including "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat").
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And at last check, Lion and Moonlight were not already-beloved musicals.
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Because obviously those great musicals are much more than just great steps.
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HARTFORD "The Best of Broadway," Hartford Symphony Orchestra and Goodspeed Musicals. Feb.
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This year, one of Broadway's buzziest musicals takes a decidedly different tone.
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Broadly speaking, these movies are more "musical dramas" than they are musicals.
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What films inspired the films: classic musicals or dance movies like Footloose?
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There will also be musicals from China, South Africa and South Korea.
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"This musical is out of sync with musicals now," Mr. Darnell said.
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"She was in everything — drama, musicals, mysteries, comedies," he said by telephone.
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Can you recommend three or four plays/musicals for us to see?
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But that's because they were all ideas about musicals or arena spectacles.
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The musicals that ultimately became "Falsettos" were not conceived to be groundbreaking.
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"Pops in Patchogue: Give My Regards to Broadway," musicals to Big Band.
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For musicals that opened this spring, it was an especially unforgiving season.
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It's something about old-fashioned musicals that I love to escape into.
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The best musicals are solid-state, everywhere dense with their core ideas.
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"Dear Evan Hansen" may be better suited to novelization than most musicals.
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The company is also introducing a program, SongLabs, to develop new musicals.
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These days, the "teen drama" is all musicals and musical theater kids.
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It is "Everything's Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals."
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Musicals often spend significant money developing elaborate production numbers for the broadcast.
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The crash coincided with the rise of talking pictures, and of musicals.
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" Nichols hated musicals, which is why he directed Monty Python's antimusical, "Spamalot.
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The problem with most jukebox musicals isn't the juke, it's the box.
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Opinion In the 1930s, Hollywood studios produced more than 400 movie musicals.
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Lloyd Webber's parents weren't supportive of their son's passion for musicals, however.
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In the first episode, Ms. Menzel introduces the pupils to Broadway musicals.
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GREEN Aside from "Hadestown," the nominations for new musicals were more conventional.
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Well, Fox will do two live musicals (A Christmas Story and Rent).
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You've still created some of the most iconic musicals in Broadway history.
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Musicals (duh) – in particular, The Sound of Music and its iconic star, Julie Andrews, who receives a hilarious shout out in the chorus of "I Like Musicals" with the line, "I like Julie Andrews more than Britney Spears".
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PJ: I think La La Land was probably inspired by a lot of the same stuff we were inspired by, like Busby Berkeley musicals and Singing in the Rain, and the iconic Disney musicals of the 1990s and earlier.
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That's why there is now a John Mulnaney Jokes As… Everything meme. Musicals?
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Do you feel like this is a particularly exciting time for movie musicals?
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Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band era, as well as musicals like Hello Dolly!
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That is from Les Mis, for all you people who don't know musicals.
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And that's a reference to, well, one of the great american musicals, Hamilton.
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So many moments in this film feel like specific references to other musicals.
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There are some clear visual references to other musicals in La La Land.
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I've seen everything from musicals and plays to Hugh Jackman's one man show.
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Just look at the success of Disney's Moana or network television's live musicals.
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What does this say about the production quality of my high school musicals?
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That's because before it, musicals didn't really have cohesive plots and musical scores.
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After a string of starring roles in musicals like Chicago and Mamma Mia!
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Thomas Trosch's paintings at Fredericks & Freiser Gallery recall idyllic settings from movie musicals.
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From musicals to movie parodies, the iconic story has taken on many forms.
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Steven Levenson's first foray into musicals can already be deemed a massive success.
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"Big musicals in Lagos -- it's something that's never been done before," she says.
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This news comes just as live TV musicals are really picking up steam.
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For decades, Broadway musicals used exclamation points in their titles liberally and unironically.
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BEN BRANTLEY Both musicals are works of reclamation, and yet they're so different.
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In musicals and Bollywood movies, people can break into synchronized dance without explanation.
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The camp employees choose—Westerns, musicals—and keep track of which we like.
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Even the most powerful auteur of musicals can never quite become their author.
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Good musicals deftly stitch the songs into the very weave of the drama.
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"Musicals — the great ones — are rarely about ordinary life plodding by," Viertel writes.
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Every year, the Tony Awards celebrate the best plays and musicals on Broadway.
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If you ask any kid who performs in musicals in Marin County, Calif.
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He made blockbuster comedies, mind-blowing sci-fi spectacles, musicals, you name it.
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Camp is Art Nouveau objects, Greta Garbo, Warner Brothers musicals and Mae West.
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So we made forts, put on plays, musicals, and I wrote like crazy.
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"There are some people who say, 'I don't really like musicals,'" he said.
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Do you have any wisdom for actors in more traditional plays and musicals?
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Mr. Simon wrote the book for three successful Broadway musicals in the 103s.
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Compared with other musicals, not much dialogue remained after Bernstein and Sondheim's raid.
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Now all those guys are sick of touring and want to write musicals.
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DeMille, musicals, and Fred Astaire are among Brunet's most prominent sources of inspiration.
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Rob Marshall, whose track record with screen musicals includes "Chicago" and "Nine," directed.
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However, as I developed the theme, I decided to make it all musicals.
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While touring musicals are common, it is much rarer for plays to travel.
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Jukebox musicals, surely, were for nostalgic baby boomers with tourist money to burn.
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GREEN I'm not saying that; many great musicals have been made from films.
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As time went on, musicals were able to take on more serious topics.
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" Many of his most notable musicals centered around charismatic women, like "Hello, Dolly!
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Lloyd Webber was already writing musicals when he met Tim Rice at 17.
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He often walked in the area, passing theaters where his musicals had played.
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Off-Center, City Center's annual tribute to smaller-scale and Off Broadway musicals.
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Despite positive reviews, both musicals flopped at the box office and closed early.
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Comparable Broadway musicals often cost between $15 million and $20 million to mount.
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It was unique and personal and changed the way I thought about musicals.
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I didn't love musicals at first—breaking into song annoyed me every time.
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Obedient girls who lead ordinary lives do not get rock musicals made about them.
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But did you know that she's also ever-so-slightly obsessed with Broadway musicals?
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Thanks to their campiness and subversion, musicals were back—and au courant once again.
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EAST HADDAM The 11th Annual Festival of New Musicals, staged readings, discussions and more.
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"I honestly love musicals," he said to People magazine's editor-in-chief Jess Cagle.
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Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, a painter, a lover of musicals, a talented mimic.
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Music and musicals have always brought people together, but accessibility is a glaring divider.
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For whatever reason, people need constant assurance that musicals are still a good idea!
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Refinery29: Zombies kind of feels one of the old Disney Channel musicals of yore.
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Both siblings are big fans of Disney in general — specifically, the brand's movie musicals.
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My husband isn't interested in classic musicals, but I love me some Laura Benanti.
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I would be my friends' accompanist for the choir, for musicals, for singing competitions.
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Craig Zadan, one of film and TV's most prolific producers of musicals, has died.
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Other recent musicals with successful movie adaptations include Les Misérable, Chicago, Hairspray and Rent.
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" "And I think that's probably as responsible for me writing musicals as anything else.
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Last night, Fox responded to a trilogy of successful NBC musicals with Grease: Live.
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All of those years spent toiling in various High School Musicals paid off here.
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His examples of those other methods include visual albums, Broadway musicals, and live concerts.
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SAG HARBOR "63143rd Annual New Works Festival," readings of plays and musicals in development.
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ISHERWOOD It was a tough year, and a good one for actresses in musicals.
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Conleth Hill has starred in plenty of stage musicals; he could pull that off.
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More and more opera companies are presenting classic musicals with casts of opera singers.
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Jukebox musicals can be hit or miss, but icons who pioneered autotune are forever.
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Some of the lighting is beautiful in musicals—it goes from story to fantasy.
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Musicals wax and wane, no matter how many people insist Hamilton is for everyone.
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Common sense dictates the answer, but musicals, and love, don't run on common sense.
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Other strategies also paid off, including loading up December with musicals and holiday fare.
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Do read Amanda Hess on the gender politics of Broadway musicals, in The Times.
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It gives us family-friendly Broadway musicals and endless hours of sports on television.
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Will there be enough musicals with original music to compete for the Tony Awards?
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What a surprise, vocal ability turns out to be make-or-break in musicals.
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Social media-fueled teen musicals remain a gamble on the big stage of Broadway.
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His musicals borrow, liberally and with love, from B-movies and Top-40 radio.
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Selections from the warm-weather season, including Shakespeare, new plays and musicals in development.
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A brief history in five musicals — and a rating system of disco-dancing emojis.
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And yet musicals are stage creatures, not products designed to work best between earbuds.
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It was brass, hope, determination and urbanity — all traits I associated with musicals — incarnate.
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Aside from writing thousands of songs, Parton's oeuvre spans musicals, films and TV shows.
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Mr. Donen's filmography is studded with some of Hollywood's most loved and admired musicals.
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It took a long time to get 4563th Century Fox on board — but come on board they did, perhaps seeing the broad appeal of musicals like Hamilton and movie musicals like La La Land and Les Misérables, in which Jackman also starred.
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These were all works whose popularity derived in part from their fans being in on the "joke" about how uncool it is to like musicals and singing groups — thus ironically making it okay for musicals and singing groups to become cool again.
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Given his singing training as a kid he'd probably be a dab hand as musicals.
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It's an interesting match for IMAX, which more frequently features explosive blockbusters than romantic musicals.
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Corden was then slowly joined by the casts of all the musicals nominated Sunday night.
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"I don't know why I can't get these musicals out of my head," Daniels said.
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They're like, literally the best at what they do and I know nothing about musicals!
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In my grumpy days of trying to be a cool teenager, I considered musicals stupid.
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EAST HADDAM The 11th Annual Festival of New Musicals, staged readings, discussions and more. Jan.
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It also made us wonder what previous Broadway musicals made the cut for the Grammys.
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Granted, the Golden Globes' Musical/Comedy sorting process is fuzzy overall — not just with musicals.
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History, it transpires, is not just the stuff of textbooks and sold-out Broadway musicals.
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And it's about those emotional, sweet old musicals, where everyone seems endlessly cheery and fulfilled.
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We share a love of Broadway musicals, spicy tuna rolls, and Sex and the City.
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Only one in ten musicals will turn a profit; two will lose all their money.
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Investments aren't small, either: West End musicals cost an average of £6m-7m to stage.
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The theater has built its reputation by presenting new works and reviving older, obscure musicals.
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The experiences of earlier adaptations of other musicals like "Cats" and "Mamma Mia!" were helpful.
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A: I am passionate about the arts – I have always been into singing, theater, musicals.
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That's pretty typical for jukebox musicals, of course, and sometimes it doesn't really even matter.
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PATCHOGUE Pops in Patchogue: Give My Regards to Broadway, selections from musicals to big band.
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PATCHOGUE Pops in Patchogue: Give My Regards to Broadway, selections from musicals to Big Band.
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Performances on the night included songs from musicals "The Girls", "Dreamgirls" and "School of Rock".
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But there is also time-tested architecture that makes some musicals more effective than others.
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A vast network of people — both kids and adults — participates in musicals all across America.
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I should say here that I considered myself well-versed in musicals at that time.
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Now he's betting big on musicals: His Sydney-based company is producing its first four.
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So I prowled the "Humanities" department for books about the Marx Brothers and Broadway musicals.
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The novel has been adapted countless times for film, television, radio, musicals, plays and concerts.
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Jonathan Larson finished just two full musicals before his death at age 35 in 1996.
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The Public's 2019-20 season will also include a number of new plays and musicals.
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It is organized by iTheatrics, a company that adapts Broadway musicals for the youth market.
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Historically, musicals would not be released to the educational market until the Broadway production closed.
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The fire has been the subject of documentaries, books, an art exhibit and even musicals.
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It should not be news at this late date that thick novels make thin musicals.
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Musicals, hardly a realistic genre to begin with, always require a certain suspension of disbelief.
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A lot happens, none of it memorable except perhaps to dedicated fans of inept musicals.
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The Komische Oper has a long history of presenting musicals and operettas alongside operatic staples.
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" He has written the book for the musicals "Kinky Boots" and "La Cage Aux Folles.
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Plays on the page are ghosts of themselves; the texts of musicals even more so.
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It's rounded out by parodies from Broadway musicals and, we're told, a variety of wigs.
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The whole thing is based on one of the most popular musicals of all time.
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Bizarre subjects are no deal breaker for musicals; think human meat pies and philosophical felines.
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He'll have to get used to that, as he's now developing musicals of his own.
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His wolfish charm, Irish grin and macho flamboyance were perfect for World War II musicals.
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Instead, the recommended accounts all shared an interest, like Broadway musicals, the outdoors, or pets.
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A lot of readers might say you're holding musicals to a mighty high standard, no?
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The musicals "The Wedding Singer" (2006) and "Honeymoon in Vegas" (2015) also died early deaths.
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He has three Tony awards, not to mention the many others his musicals have earned.
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The young camper taught himself to play the piano, wrote songs and staged bucolic musicals.
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Musicals about the aftermaths of a teenage suicide and a terror attack proved unlikely sensations.
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With the Tony deadline looming, a cavalcade of new musicals open on Broadway in April.
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The only Broadway musicals with higher all-time profits are "Wicked" and "The Lion King."
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"Hamilton," one of the most popular musicals on Broadway right now, opens with a question.
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She writes for hours, mostly musicals, collaborating with her daughter, a film director, and others.
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Even better, Broadway increasingly seems to host a more modern blend of the two: Think Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, and Hadestown, among many acclaimed recent hits that easily straddle what was once a perceived gap between musicals that are popular and musicals that are smart.
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"Cats," one of the most successful musicals of all time, is returning to Broadway this summer.
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For the past few years, the winners of the Best Musical award have been original musicals!
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If you love musicals, your partner doesn't have to come to a Broadway show with you.
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By the 10th grade, Miranda's love for writing plays evolved into an appreciation for penning musicals.
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And she's been replaced by a woman who absolutely loves Busby Berkeley musicals and marching bands.
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Dancers in Broadway musicals and in national tours are paid a minimum of $1,917 per week.
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Jukebox musicals, which feature the catalog of a famous artist, have long found success on stage.
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Out of 40 acting nominees in plays and musicals, 14–35 percent–were people of color.
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Her previous efforts include inventing new Star Wars characters, Star Wars planets, and bad Broadway musicals.
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Anyway, I'm facing up to my fears of musicals and re-evaluating them as an artform.
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I've also been craving stories — TV shows, musicals, novels, Instagram accounts — that are about big emotions.
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Season one saw individual episodes take the form of musicals, of sex farces, of ghost stories.
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Jukebox musicals are a much maligned genre, but every so often they can delight and surprise.
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NOW: Joey McIntyre is a stage actor with credits in popular musicals like "Wicked" and "Waitress."
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Much like New York's Broadway, the West End is London's go-to district for hit musicals.
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As the era of big, traditional movie musicals dried up, though, so did Nixon's film career.
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The theatrical buffet includes 27873 shows, an assortment of dramas, comedies, musicals, dance and stand-up.
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You know your high school musicals also included closing-night pranks featuring stealth '90s pop songs.
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"Musicals in general may be sentimental, mythologized, full of false optimism and showbiz glitz," Viertel writes.
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At Amherst College, he became involved with a choral group, which led him to stage musicals.
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Even after "Hamilton" and "Glee," musicals have to worry, like high school students, about being uncool.
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On musicals It's this medium that exists somewhere between feet-on-the-ground and lifting off.
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Does it want to create serious, coherent modern musicals instead of cartoons that hedge all bets?
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The success of musicals in this market is upending traditions in theatrical licensing, said Mr. Flahaven.
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The concept musicals of the '60s and '70s basically extended that idea to the whole show.
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But a lot of it is because of what musicals have to offer as a medium.
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I dragged my mother to Broadway musicals, and we clapped and sang the tunes out loud.
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Musicals are rarely even considered to be in the running for Pulitzers, let alone landslide winners.
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Sara Krulwich has been shooting plays and musicals for The New York Times since the 1990s.
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" Others said they weren't sure what the fuss was about: "What a terrible year for musicals.
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Global Creatures, the Sydney-based company he founded and chairs, is producing its first four musicals.
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Critics' Notebook JESSE GREEN The problem with successful musicals is how to keep them that way.
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The dogs — Glinda, Elphaba and Fiyero — have names from "Wicked," one of the couple's favorite musicals.
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I would like to make it clear that I also saw serious musicals with social consciences.
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On the one hand, musicals are a pleasure and an escape, an antidote to the antihero.
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Today's computers can compose musicals, create algorithms for poetry, and even turn data into visual art.
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In interviews, he demonstrates familiarity with and respect for the great movie musicals of the past.
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Among the new musicals this fall, three that faced skepticism in some quarters are starting strong.
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Whatever reservations she may harbor about certain recent movie musicals, Basinger has not lost her faith.
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Hooper is no stranger to having to explain his work — especially when it comes to musicals.
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Critic's Notebook We're now three years and seven shows into the stage-musicals-on-television phenomenon.
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There are roughly 20 musicals in the works at studios, according to the film database IMDBpro.
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Disney is embarking on a new era of not just streaming, but also meta and musicals.
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"I'm not a fan of musicals that try to tell about someone's whole life," he added.
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But he said he rarely attended Broadway shows anymore — except for revivals of his own musicals.
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He is culturally omnivorous, and often turns to musicals or films to explain his own feelings.
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Jesus Christ Superstar Live has officially raised the bar for the live TV musicals to come.
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On the other hand, classic Broadway musicals have been revitalized and reconceived here in surprising ways — from Trevor Nunn's production of "Oklahoma!" at the National Theater in the 1990s to John Doyle's "The Color Purple" at the Menier Chocolate Factory (which usually does uncommon American musicals proud).
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Ms. Tesori is the first artistic director of the program, which presents rarely revived Off Broadway musicals.
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Every year, the show is packed with surprises and performances from musicals playing the Great White Way.
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Once a huge deal for Hollywood, onscreen musicals were largely relegated to Disney animations by the 1980s.
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Hooper, who directed the 2014 film adaptation of Les Misérables, has some experience adapting musicals for film.
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I think musicals are so tough to pull off that for a while, they just weren't done.
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However, some sci-fi musicals have managed to break through the snobbery and make a lasting impact.
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Hyland sounds great, which isn't surprising given that she's performed in musicals, including the 1999 Annie movie.
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We saw the Chicago movie and the Legally Blonde MTV broadcast ultimately increase interest in those musicals.
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The 38-year-old started out on the West End, playing parts in several well-known musicals.
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I knew that musicals brought drama, but... well, Riverdale, you really have outdone yourself with this one.
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After a series of live musicals on NBC and Fox's "Grease," the flourish was understandable, but unnecessary.
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Boo's story is the stuff that Oscar-winning movies and long-running Broadway musicals are made of.
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If you're addicted to musicals like Hairspray, then Bran Nue Dae will be right down your alley.
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For audiences who like erotic fairy-tales, fantasy, musicals, and Guillermo del Toro in general, it's unbeatable.
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"She had great success, but it was all in musicals and fluffy dumb blonde roles," explained Morgan.
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It's just one of those musicals that you never get sick of because it's so much fun.
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The 37-year-old started out on the West End playing parts in several well-known musicals.
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You've just finished two musicals back in January and February of this year, what's next for you?
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Bernstein's complete oeuvre is massive, spawning everything from Broadway musicals to jazz singles to symphonies and ballets.
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These were the first mega-musicals; special-effect-studded extravaganzas integrating new technology, lighting and sound systems.
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Off-Center, a similar series that showcases Off Broadway musicals, will be announced at a later date.
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Zac Efron is an actor primarily known for his work in ensemble comedies, musicals, and romantic dramas.
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Even if you're not a fan of the musicals, the original film is definitely worth a watch.
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She is partial to musicals, often taking in nine performances a week, if you include cabaret acts.
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" "Horror, westerns, war films, and sports movies don't get described as formulaic, but romcoms and musicals are.
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Instead, he's translating the essence of Mr. Murray's lazy dryness into the high-voltage energy of musicals.
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You'd be hard pressed to find two people who love new musicals more than George and me.
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While her siblings favored cartoons, Brown opted for musicals and watched America's Next Top Model on repeat.
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For comparison, he spent over a year just researching and writing the first draft of previous musicals.
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For years, she's appeared in a variety of films, including family-friendly comedies, superhero flicks, and musicals.
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He is on the board of trustees for Goodspeed Musicals, a theater company in East Haddam, Conn.
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The new "Carousel" arrived at a moment of debate over the portrayal of women in classic musicals.
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His ambition: to move musicals away from Broadway and into headphones and earbuds and tinny computer speakers.
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The Story Pirates, a merry band of improv comedians, turn tales written by children into mini musicals.
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So we approached another set of dramatists, asking them to take their own stabs at Springsteen musicals.
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And Broadway plays and musicals have recently made subtle (and not so subtle) allusions to the president.
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My novels and poetry and musicals are my life story — just in a more mashed-up form.
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Since then, he's already been in three more school musicals, playing leading roles in two of them.
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Fittingly, the musical changes the setting from the world of soap operas to that of Broadway musicals.
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The personal, the political and two dozen emoji unite in this 215th annual celebration of new musicals.
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At face value, a film adaptation of one of Broadway's longest running musicals seems like guaranteed success.
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Some Broadway musicals have actors alternate in roles that are physically demanding, but performances are seldom canceled.
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At a time when Broadway musicals were exploring new boundaries, Mr. Herman was resolutely Tin Pan Alley.
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Right now that is really hard because everything is just taking movies and making them into musicals.
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Each year this highly anticipated series offers theatergoers short runs of lesser known or rarely done musicals.
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That turned into a contract with Disney Theatrical Productions, which develops stage musicals, from 2007 to 2009.
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These aren't movie musicals, at least not in the conventional sense; they're movies about bodies in motion.
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He is focusing on bringing us into pop culture and making us part of movies and musicals.
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Both his story and his storytelling eluded the archetypes of African-American life, and of Broadway musicals.
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High School Musical arguably single-handedly led to the cultural resurgence of musicals in the modern era.
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Right now that is really hard because everything is just taking movies and making them into musicals.
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The Tony voters reminded the world that while Broadway may be currently overrun with Disney productions and other showy adaptations, it's still in love with the outsiders, with musicals about ideas, and with musicals that celebrate the kind of lively, diverse spirit that makes up New York itself.
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Gloria DeHaven, famous for starring in a parade of Hollywood musicals in the 1940s and '50s, has died.
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And even more importantly, these possible nominees run the gamut from superhero movies to horror movies to musicals.
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It provides space for performers of all sorts, including the casts of Broadway musicals, to record their work.
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Small, clever musicals are fragile things, though, and I don't want to oversell this one in praising it.
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It's that New York feeling, like they talk about in musicals—that wide-open, top-volume, Technicolor joy.
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"I also loved the idea of being part of this new movement of musicals on television," he said.
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Basmati Blues is a love letter to multiple eras of Bollywood cinema, musicals, and classic Hollywood romantic comedies.
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They're the stars of classic movie musicals, and they do haunt the film, giving it form and structure.
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I started doing musicals and met a girl named Ana who is my best friend to this day.
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" The superstar promised the adaptation would "push the envelope of how great these live television musicals can be.
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Like previous live TV musicals, there aren't official understudies, a policy that seems destined to change going forward.
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"Broadway musicals and films fueled my childhood and Bye Bye Birdie was one of my favorites," Lopez said.
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"I've been leading the charge myself, living in the nexus of loving musicals and loving superheroes," Berlanti said.
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Musicals dominate the business, and are now regularly being put in what once were considered straight-play theaters.
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"Waddle like you're modeling a toddler's diaper" isn't the sort of choreographic direction you'd expect in many musicals.
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Though quickly shuttered, Merrily We Roll Along gradually assumed legendary status, becoming one of Sondheim's most beloved musicals.
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Broadway is largely dominated by mass culture crowd pleasers, old-reliable revivals, jukebox musicals and takeoffs on movies.
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She's been in a variety of movies including family-friendly animated films, teen comedies, musicals, and superhero flicks.
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Stephen Sondheim has been the composer and lyricist of 15 stage musicals and the lyricist for three others.
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Off-Center series, at City Center, has been giving us a crash course in bookless musicals this summer.
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Confessing to being a "frustrated performer" who adores singing and bawdy musicals, Ms. Brown accepted the invitation immediately.
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But if there are going to be long-running Broadway musicals, we can at least mind which ones.
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They were originally posted around Manhattan to advertise Shakespeare plays, minstrel shows, new American plays and early musicals.
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The series' implicit argument is that old musicals, even with faulty books or politics, may offer meaningful pleasures.
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Perhaps that's because "Superhero" is the first of his musicals for which he has also written the words.
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The life of Hildegarde von Bingen, medieval saint, scholar, composer and playwright, is too capacious for most musicals.
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The romantic remake is plenty dramatic, but the Globes has a whole category specifically for musicals and comedies.
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Compassion!" and "Master Class," and for the books of the musicals "Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Ragtime.
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If you want to be into musicals and painting and fuckin' horseback riding, sure, we can do that.
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HELLER What I sometimes detect in your criticism of jukebox musicals is a resistance to pop music itself.
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Calling the show "truly one of the great musicals ever written," he added: "We're going to crack it."
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He did Broadway, touring as a cast member of Rock of Ages and staging his own Christmas musicals.
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One of the most lauded new Off Broadway musicals of the just-wrapped theater season is moving uptown.
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Many such musicals use the songbooks to tell the life stories of the artists that made them famous.
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GREEN I would be happier to ban all jukebox musicals forever, and see what grows in their place.
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"Musicals are no longer nerdy," Tim Federle, the showrunner for "High School Musical: The Musical: The Series," said.
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" Musicals, however, allow for embracing heightened emotions: They give you "permission to wave your fist in the air.
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In their heyday, which coincided with the Great Depression, Hollywood musicals drew huge audiences looking for escapist entertainment.
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Among the casualties of that approach were musicals (I include only one) and shows produced on Broadway (likewise).
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Go: "An American in Paris" and "Funny Girl" are both English-language musicals playing in Paris this month.
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Turns out Corbin Bleu has been very, very busy after trading in high school musicals for Broadway ones.
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"I have just really loved performing in these classic, Golden Age musicals," Bleu told Playbill in November 2018.
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It was the music, he wrote, that put the show in "the pantheon of great midcentury American musicals."
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She forged ahead as a sparkling presence in movie musicals alongside the likes of Fisher and Bing Crosby.
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There are a lot of fingerprints on "Road Show," even beyond the ones that grub up everyday musicals.
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There are a lot of fingerprints on "Road Show," even beyond the ones that grub up everyday musicals.
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"The thing I want to do is have musicals running in theaters, hopefully close to, or on, Broadway."
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Whether the new system has helped this season's big musicals become their best selves will soon be clear.
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In our current spate of live TV musicals, that problem shows most in the airlessness of the sets.
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Composer John Williams' justifiably famous orchestral music for Star Wars masks an abiding secret: The movies are actually musicals.
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One of the raunchiest musicals you can see right now in New York is being performed in a church.
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More than learning I couldn't sing, middle school was also the era when I learned that I hate musicals.
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Nominations for the Tony awards, which cover plays, musicals and actors on Broadway, will be announced on May 2.
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Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Psych, That '70s Show, and even 7th Heaven all turned themselves into musicals for an episode.
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Since then, he's occupied his time co-producing Broadway musicals and reportedly investing in and advising startups like Snapchat.
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Arlen composed some of the most famous soundtracks of the 20th Century for Hollywood films and Broadway musicals alike.
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Both have enjoyed successful, genre-spanning careers playing characters in everything from comedies to musicals to action to mysteries.
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Whatever it takes, so long as we get more and better musicals, and maybe some actors who can sing.
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However, starring in one of the biggest Broadway musicals ever hasn't stopped Diggs, 34, from pursuing his other dreams.
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He would like reenact scenes from Broadway musicals and then we'd have our own dance parties and make food.
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Rob Marshall, who directed the movie musicals Into the Woods and Chicago, was also heavily involved with the choreography.
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Unlike most successful Broadway musicals, Cats has so little story that its title essentially doubles as the plot summary.
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Miranda credits his inspiration for a career in musicals to "Les Miserables," the first show he saw on Broadway.
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Disney movie musicals almost always give us a pop iteration of their hit song, and those versions rarely endure.
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The 2018 Tony nominations are in, and for once, the plays are stealing all the glory from the musicals.
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Wednesday morning, the 10-year-old was drawing horses and singing along to musicals before going to federal court.
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From swashbucklers to romantic musicals, here's how these iconic movies pass the test with flying colors (or just barely).
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Musicals based on films have grossed $145,000 more on average during their opening weeks than those that were not.
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Unlike many other musicals, it was made expressly for film and was not an adaptation of a Broadway show.
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"If I was ever stuck, I was surrounded by the greatest plays and musicals of all time," Miranda said.
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He's less interested in plot and character than in orchestrating big emotions the way the great Hollywood musicals did.
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The places to look for more probing musicals, which deal with more serious subjects, are usually the smaller theaters.
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This gorgeous metropolis is also home to West End musicals and other shows, incredible cuisine, and tons of history.
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His first feature, "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench," was a black-and-white riff on 1930s musicals.
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Unlike several other recent TV musicals, this glossy revival is not live, which adds another layer of prim detachment.
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How does your stage experience, including costuming for Broadway and directing musicals and opera, connect to your design work?
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Tyler Perry's Easter season extravaganza, "The Passion," is the latest entry in the growing genre of live TV musicals.
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Your tax dollars at work: Ensuring you can see famous musicals about long-dead politicians without putting on pants.
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"All the Andrew Lloyd Webber ones were kind of semisafe," Mr. Mac said of his teachers' attitudes toward musicals.
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He grew up to embrace acting as a passion, performing in local plays and musicals with an intense energy.
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Broadway stages have become increasingly friendly to pop music, particularly jukebox musicals featuring songs with already built-in popularity.
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Mr. McDonald adapted it for schools and it remains one of the most-produced school musicals in the country.
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Idolizing Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and hoping to be in movie musicals one day, he began tap lessons.
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The old maxim about musicals is that the music takes over when dialogue can't adequately capture the characters' emotions.
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If 2018 was a terrible year for new and revived musicals, a few that were somehow both still excelled.
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"Johnny Dangerously," her 217 follow-up, was about gangsters in the 242s — her favorite genre, equal only to musicals.
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Long since canonical onstage, his musicals are now regularly stripped for parts in solo recitals and supper-club engagements.
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"Chrysanthemum Tea," from "Pacific Overtures" It's my favorite of his musicals, probably because it's the one I encountered first.
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Like many musicals, "The Man in the Ceiling" was a long time in gestation, and it deserves more development.
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With new musicals, especially, what we see in a season is largely the result of decisions made years ago.
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Starting in the 1980s, shows from Broadway's Golden Age joined the repertoire; now most seasons feature two ambitious musicals.
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Actress Amanda Seyfried has cultivated a filmography with a wide range, playing roles in musicals, horrors, and romantic comedies.
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So musicals provide a slight boost as well, but not a large enough one to draw any firm conclusions.
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But musicals, by their nature, are mostly about communities; any character who sings is instantly characterized, poorly or well.
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With plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened to them.
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There were 12 such musicals and I was able to get six in the grid, including five that interlocked.
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What other musicals, past or present, have you ever seen live, whether on Broadway or in a local production?
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With plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened to them.
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That pattern has since become the norm; indeed, not one of this spring's musicals has followed the older path.
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Robert Stigwood, the famed music exec behind the Bee Gees, Cream and several huge movies and musicals ... has died.
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I didn't have any live theater as a kid, and I fell in love with this profession through movie musicals.
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"I really enjoy music and singing, and I enjoy musicals," She told the L.A. Times of her role as Sam.
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She doesn't randomly burst into song or use music to communicate dialogue, which is what Minghella prefers when watching musicals.
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Are they aware of the Hollywood musicals they're referencing when they dance, or in the way they dress or behave?
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It was so nice to have someone else doing the same kind of geeking out over musicals that I do.
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NBC kicked off the tradition of yearly live musicals in December 2013 with Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
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"Musicals don't just happen when you're talking to a guest," Colbert sings — but his previous guests might beg to differ.
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Are there not enough sports programming and cheesy staged musicals to make up for the lack of live viewing nowadays?
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Fox also managed to raise the bar for future live televised musicals, including its own upcoming religious production The Passion.
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Executive producing team Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who were behind NBC's other musicals, will once again be on board.
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The three-hour broadcast, which aired Sunday night, marked the network's memorable foray into the world of televised live musicals.
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Despite the strange premise and bizarre costumes, it's been one of the most enduring musicals of the last 50 years.
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His influences range from the usual classics – Joe Cocker, Roger Daltrey, Janis Joplin – to mid-century Broadway musicals like Oklahoma!
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You can easily find tickets to the ballet and theater, comedy shows, and musicals at a range of prices online.
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A study conducted in 2014 showed that more people attend London's plays and musicals than London's Premier League football matches.
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"Here's an intermission review from @daxshepard, who hates all musicals and loved this one," Bell posted halfway through the show.
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Obviously people are going to draw comparisons, because there are so few films made in Ireland, and so few musicals.
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Commercial-based aside: this thing where networks are doing live versions of classic musicals is such a cheap ratings grab.
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And, data journalists Dan Rosenheck and Wade Zhou excavate the numbers behind the numbers in the world of Broadway musicals.
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Wikipedia lists 58 juke-box musicals released since 2000: roughly 18 of them have made it to the West End.
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Enhancement money allowed the theater to expand its budget beyond the $750,000 to $1 million it typically spends on musicals.
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"I'd seen a lot of book musicals, and the cheese-o-meter goes off after a few minutes," she said.
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The 2018 season featured a lighter crop of musicals compared to 2016's Hamilton and last year's Dear Evan Hansen.
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It plans to increase the number of works presented annually to six, from four, and to put on more musicals.
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As a straightforward drama, "A Few Good Men" will represent a departure from NBC's recent string of live TV musicals.
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Even within a genre known for combining unlikely ingredients, "The Robber Bridegroom" stands out as a curiosity among American musicals.
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In all, she's been in 12 different musicals, including the original cast Wicked, If/Then most recently, and, yes, Rent.
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" Live musicals have been a ratings boon for NBC — Fox has since followed suit — since "The Sound of Music Live!
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A lot of pop culture in this grid, including two big musicals crossing at the bottom, and some newish names.
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You'd hardly expect a directing giant like Prince, then 70, to be building musicals and their creative teams from scratch.
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Around the house she mounted musicals starring the family cats and broke into song willy-nilly with her hairbrush microphone.
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It's an art form he clearly reveres, as he told me in a phone interview about his favorite movie musicals.
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He has, of course, long since been thoroughly won over by "Hamilton," if not necessarily by musicals as a genre.
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JORDAN BLACK It's a musical, so people who love musicals had certain expectations, and they wanted great dancing and singing.
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One of the most ravishing musicals you will ever be seduced by opened on Thursday night at the Barrymore Theater.
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Even as her showbiz patient list grew, she remained uninterested in attending musicals and declined patients' invitations to their shows.
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Off-Center, an annual summer program at New York City Center that presents staged concert performances of Off Broadway musicals.
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They staged Broadway revivals of the musicals "Promises, Promises" (215) and "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (232).
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LAHTI We go to musicals a lot together — like, the ones that none of our other friends will go to.
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In 2012, Mr. Slater was a sophomore at Vassar College, and had been acting in plays and musicals since childhood.
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With her megawatt grin and inexhaustible talent, she seemed the essence of the indomitable spirit of old-fashioned American musicals.
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Brown, who died in 2005, kept writing musicals and making albums and TV appearances, but never got back to Broadway.
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Frozen's Kristen Bell hosts this Disney+ reality series, reuniting former cast members from high school musicals for one stellar Encore!
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Off Center, a City Center program that every summer presents concert performances of musicals previously staged Off Broadway and beyond.
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Which is fine, since musicals tend to believe that if the legend becomes fact, it's best to sing the legend.
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Because we're in the world of musicals, where wishes are turned into song, an onstage band picks up the melody.
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"There are always people who think that certain subjects are not right for musicals," Sondheim had said at the time.
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"As somebody who's done both action and musicals, it is as big as your biggest action sequence," Safran told me.
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Unlike jukebox musicals or "Springsteen on Broadway," Madame X is a concert focusing on new songs and the present moment.
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She would sing in musicals and choirs and be endlessly creative as she wrote songs on the guitar, she said.
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I'm not a huge fan of musicals, but even I have to admit this looks like a lot of fun.
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It's not deep, but it's deeply fun, especially if you (like me) particularly enjoy Disney renaissance movies and stage musicals.
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It dazzles with elegant camera work, and revives the gestures of musicals dating back all the way to the 1930s.
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Lloyd Webber's musicals lean toward the melodramatic, rebuking a broader trend in musical theater that valued stories about regular people.
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Hit up Stubhub or TodayTix to snag passes to plays, musicals, concerts, standup shows, or some other form of entertainment.
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A lot of non-ironic nostalgia, with echoes of Frank Sinatra and Hollywood Technicolor musicals, but also something more complex.
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Lloyd Webber usually writes fully integrated musicals — meaning that most musical numbers don't stand alone outside the plot they're in.
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"There is this shared American canon that cuts across all kinds of demographics, and it is Disney musicals," she said.
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Big musicals are often Exhibit A, with their massive machinery, thin books, prerecorded segments and timed-to-the-second routines.
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That includes time auditioning for, and performing in, anything from musicals to plays to variety shows to TV to movies.
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The loving nods here and there to other New York musicals like Damn Yankees and Guys and Dolls are fine.
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They also move through scenes that parody 1950s and '60s musicals about the hurdles to intimate connection and true love.
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But the larger lesson is one that all live TV musicals can learn from: Strict photorealism is not your friend.
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This year marks the first time two musicals have won the Pulitzer within six years of each other since the one-two punch of Fiorello and How to Succeed in Business in 1960 and 1962, and that came at a time when musicals were beloved and vital forces in the world of American art.
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One brings teenagers together to create, write, produce and act in musicals with themes like sexual abuse, bullying and urban violence.
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Or, more formally, the prestigious Johnny Mercer Writers Colony, where both received grants in 2015 to work on full-length musicals.
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The first time I was on stage was in musicals, and that's something I've continued to love throughout my whole life.
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Weird as it is — there is little to no plot — Cats is one of the more alluring Broadway musicals to date.
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We can thank the couple for a number of iconic musicals, from Sweet Charity to the modern day version of Chicago.
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Turns out, starring in a number of movie musicals yourself still isn't enough to score a ticket to Broadway smash Hamilton.
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From the Atlantic: Now, of course, there is nothing wrong with loving Disney musicals—there are plenty of bangers out there.
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Linda Hopkins, who starred in musicals like Inner City and the one-woman show Me and Bessie, has died at 92.
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Leads in high-school musicals followed (Lancelot, Beanstalk Jack, Harold Hill), then theatre at the University of Rochester and at Brown.
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But a heady dose of sensory overload is what the best musicals deliver anyway; that's why people become obsessed with them.
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"In my childlike heart, musicals are the rhythm," said Ms. deBessonet, 39, who will take over officially with the 2021 season.
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Because once I knew I loved Broadway musicals, that meant I loved Broadway, which meant I wanted to be on Broadway.
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Without them, the beloved CW soap is merely a bunch of sexed-up teens running around, planning musicals and drinking milkshakes.
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He went on to direct more classic musicals, including Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, It's Always Fair Weather and Funny Face.
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But violence has been a staple of Bollywood for decades – it even used to be in those sweeping musicals about love.
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"She was always really encouraging, even in middle school," recalls Tran, who performed in school musicals with the then-budding star.
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"I was always trying to direct musicals in kindergarten; I wanted everyone to do my production of Starlight Express," she said.
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Plays tended to have very short shelf lives of a year or two at most, while musicals could run almost forever.
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"Chalking" on sidewalks has long been a colorful and low-cost way to attract attention to meetups, musicals and other events.
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I was perhaps 12 and loved musicals, I was studying dance, and I knew all the dialogue and all the numbers.
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But in a crowded moment for new musicals, including several others based on popular films, the show never truly broke out.
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Unlike some of the other live TV musicals, the studio audience was only intermittently a factor, and rarely for the better.
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"They go to summer camp every year — they do like three musicals and straight plays — and they love it," she says.
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What it's about: "Encore" reunites the now grown-up casts of high school musicals to re-stage the production years later.
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When it opened, "Runaways" seemed to bear definite familial resemblances to other unorthodox hit musicals to have emerged from the Public.
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He died in 1990, leaving a legacy that includes popular musicals like "West Side Story," television lectures and hundreds of recordings.
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Frozen, which won the Oscar for Best Animated Film, will join Disney's hit musicals Aladdin and The Lion King on Broadway.
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He had never really been interested in theater, he said, which at the time he associated mostly with big Disney musicals.
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The strongest performers among spring musicals remain "Shuffle Along," which is to open on Thursday, and "Waitress," which opened on Sunday.
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" The veteran producers Neil Meron and Craig Zadan, who have overseen the NBC musicals, will also produce "A Few Good Men.
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I think it was the Twentieth Century Fox musicals—there was one, I'm forgetting the name, where it's the longest shot.
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In addition to performing and recording prolifically, Mr. Brand wrote books, articles and the scores for Broadway musicals and documentary films.
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Not since the heyday of Disney's '23s animated musicals has a film soundtrack had such high expectations to live up to.
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Several Broadway plays and musicals had previously put a halt to cast members greeting fans and signing programs at stage doors.
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BroadwayHD categorizes its musicals and plays in a way that's easily decipherable, making "Must See" and "Family Friendly" shows readily available.
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Top-drawer Golden Age musicals like "Carousel" and "My Fair Lady" — both coming to Broadway next spring — are still eminently playable.
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"Unmasked" is full of what-ifs like this that offer a glimpse into a parallel universe of Mr. Lloyd Webber's musicals.
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Here's a behind-the-scenes look at the studio building in Midtown Manhattan where Broadway musicals like "Frozen" and "Hamilton" rehearse.
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The novel has spawned at least 24 movies, 15 TV series, 13 radio plays, two operas, four musicals, and a symphony.
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The list of top-tier golden-age musicals may be set, but which of the newer shows will join their ranks?
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See: The Times's chief theater critics, Ben Brantley and Jesse Green, talked about the best plays and musicals of the year.
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To the swelling taxonomy of jukebox musicals, we must now add a new genus: the high-tech nitwit vanity bio-revue.
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The show tunes come straight from real Broadway musicals, but the sketch comedy that sets up the songs is pure parody.
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But, smitten by applause while appearing in college musicals, he moved to Toronto and began working as an actor and singer.
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Several Broadway plays and musicals have already put a halt to cast members greeting fans and signing programs at stage doors.
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BRANTLEY My principal criterion for jukebox musicals is do they summon the pleasure we once derived from the works being hymned?
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Several Broadway plays and musicals had previously put a halt to cast members greeting fans and signing programs at stage doors.
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And while we deliberately excluded musicals, saving that furor for another time, other once-dominant genres simply failed to show up.
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The project is the most freighted of the multiple jukebox musicals headed to Broadway, because of allegations that Jackson molested children.
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But — glasses back on — I have to ask: What do we want musicals for young people and their families to be?
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GREEN And let's face it, it was — with 1.5 exceptions — not a good year for new musicals in the first place.
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Nominations for the Tony Awards, which cover plays, musicals, actors and creative teams on Broadway, will be announced on May 2.
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The programming also highlights the genre's post-1960s shift into self-consciousness with musicals like "Pennies From Heaven" (Sunday), from 1981.
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The musicals "Mean Girls" and "SpongeBob SquarePants," above, led the pack in this year's Tony Award nominations, garnering 12 nods each.
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Four of the most-praised musicals of last season are so smart onstage that no cast album could do them justice.
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My mom had me watching musicals with her when I was 2 or 3, and I fell in love with that.
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He went to theater camp and was so good in his high school musicals that it kept him from being bullied.
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Despite its title, French entry "Les Miserables" has little obvious connection with the 19th-century Victor Hugo novel and subsequent musicals.
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All in all, Mr. Maxwell, a newcomer to composing musicals, was less influenced by musical theater and more by rock music.
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London (CNN Business)Musicals may be on your go-to streaming playlists, or perhaps you prefer listening to some hip hop.
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The main problem is that the comedy/musical category is somewhat anachronistic, given how rare live-action musicals are these days.
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Nothing fuels a Hollywood boom (or a boomlet, as the case may be with musicals) like a track record of success.
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As in many classic musicals, the authors of "The Prom" begin by holding a distorting mirror up to the theater itself.
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Beginning in the early 1960s, Ms. Ferreira starred in Portuguese translations of three Broadway musicals that became widely popular in Brazil.
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Blackface in America just won't go away — consistently showing up at stag parties, on frat row, in college musicals and elsewhere.
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The leading characters of the musicals "Company" and "Caroline, or Change" have been born again in two gloriously transformative revivals here.
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I like the term turf, though it is a corny word that brings to mind overwrought musicals with overly stylized characters.
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In a triumph for diversity on Broadway, all four of this year's acting awards for musicals went to people of color.
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With 21 actors, a baby, a bunny, and a goose, The Ferryman sports the kind of ensemble typically reserved for musicals.
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"I really was interested in theater from the get-go and that's very lucky ... I caught up with a few musicals but they always struck me as kind of silly - which is why, I suppose, so few of the musicals I've done have been appropriately silly," Prince said in a 2007 interview with the Academy of Achievement.
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I was auditioning for commercials, I was competing in hip-hop, singing in school productions of Broadway musicals; I was always performing.
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There are also far more of them: the 2019 Tonys have no fewer than 10 musical numbers lined up from nominated musicals.
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They all evoke classic musicals to some degree — which helps explain the rapturous response from cinephiles — but they employ very different styles.
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Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who oversaw the previous musicals, have been tapped to produce "Hairspray," which will also run in December.
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Musicals are not a risk, and Lionsgate financing La La Land doesn't make the studio generous, optimistic, or an ally to creatives.
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"Broadway musicals and films fueled my childhood and Bye Bye Birdie was one of my favorites," Lopez said in a press release.
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Her forays into poetry and performance (she was also celebrated for her set and costume design) mirror Trosch's interest in movie musicals.
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Hollywood, after decades of aiming at Baby Boomers who preferred neurotic Woody Allen and musicals over space aliens, were targeting younger demographics.
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Chicago proved in 2002 that musicals can leap to the screen with some success, although not without some deft casting and camerawork.
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Lopez also explained that the "Medicine" visual accompaniment was inspired by Busby Berkeley musicals, specifically the inclusion of the cake of dancers.
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Over all, the 31 plays and musicals running last week brought in a total of $16 million in the week ending Jan.
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Chazelle's movie features a number of song and dance sequences that are both steeped in homage for old musicals and wondrously modern.
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This spring, new productions of the Waits-Wilson collaborations are among several glitteringly dark musicals to be found in sunny southern Germany.
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So far, Walker has left reviews for movie theaters, hotels, restaurants and even musicals where she's tried to make a love connection.
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The late-night host crooned an original tune about how he used to dream of being an actor in famous Broadway musicals.
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The abiding regret is that there is not more of it: Bernstein owed us more than four musicals and three operas. ♦
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And, after a diverse season for Broadway, it looks as if black actors could sweep all four awards for performances in musicals.
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Of course, this ruffles the feathers of Sharpay and Ryan Evans, siblings who have starred in all of the school's previous musicals.
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Stand-up offers less visual stimulation than movies or musicals, and this set proved that a few images go a long way.
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Ms. Henderson began her career in stage musicals, but her role as Carol Brady made her an enduring TV presence for decades.
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And for people who are interested in the difference between operas and musicals, it ought to be an enlightening and provocative study.
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I can't stand musicals, but I love dance because it's a corporeal language that can be so rich and sometimes so unusual.
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It's expansive enough to contain cinematic multitudes: westerns, musicals, melodramas and art films of the more rarefied type find a home here.
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On musicals My first contact with Andrew Lloyd Webber was in a show choir, "Glee"-style, where we would sing show tunes.
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Showing up uninvited to events—whether elementary school musicals, animal blessings, or big ship tours—can be fraught, especially if you're alone.
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The Tony Awards, the annual ceremony recognizing musicals and plays staged on Broadway, took place last night at Radio City Music Hall.
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Individually, each one is heartfelt and worthy, and in many cases they honestly reflect the content of the nominated plays and musicals.
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That's why, despite its minor flaws, Mean Girls has the potential to be one of the truly successful screen-to-stage musicals.
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"If Oscar Hammerstein had died at age 41, we wouldn't have had any of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals," he pointed out.
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She came of age on the West Coast, starring in musicals at Hollywood High School, then went on the classical competition circuit.
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Here, in order of opening, are the seven plays and three musicals that flung those doors widest and shoved me through hardest.
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That movie and a slew of other screen musicals were in regular rotation throughout Mr. Miranda's childhood in Inwood in Upper Manhattan.
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I was imagining "Game of Thrones" musicals, featuring illogical love ballads ("I Sent You a Raven") and body-rocking breakup jams ("Dracarys").
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After decades of musicals that rode into town cruising on an adult's cultural imprimatur, aren't kids allowed some skin in the game?
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Least of all musicals, which usually want to open when local crowds are available to get them off to a good start.
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And we are still awaiting the jukebox musical that reaches the level of storytelling of some non-jukebox musicals and contemporary dramas.
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SYDNEY, Australia — Lin-Manuel Miranda's musicals are now a global phenomenon, bringing hip-hop and the American immigrant experience to theatergoers worldwide.
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It is grossing over $3 million a week on Broadway — more than three times as much as most other plays and musicals.
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He loved musicals, and dreamed of performing (early fantasy roles: Maria in "The Sound of Music" and Eliza in "My Fair Lady").
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Hal Prince, who directed and produced some of the most successful musicals in Broadway history, has died at the age of 91.
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His song-and-dance number, "A Whale of a Tale," suggests a future in musicals that he never got around to pursuing.
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There has been much hand-wringing — with good reason — about the plight of plays on Broadway, where audiences tend to favor musicals.
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I made it an annual ritual, since 2011, to watch as many musicals [as I could] every time I get the chance.
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The Hairspray and Producers movies couldn't capture the spark of the stage musicals they tried to bring back to the big screen.
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A top contender, "La La Land," a technically proficient love letter to old Hollywood musicals, is set in Los Angeles, of course.
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The book is partly about growing up with the advent of MTV and easy access to VHS tapes of old Hollywood musicals.
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One thing I've always liked about the old musicals is how uneven they are, how great and awful at the same time.
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Original choreographer Gillian Lynne died last year, but left an indelible mark with musicals such as 'Cats' and 'Phantom of the Opera.
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And some studio executives said that they were becoming more open to musicals because the animated variety had experienced such a renaissance.
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"It has more punch and pulchritude packed into its 51 minutes than most West End musicals twice as long," one newspaper commented.
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Unexpectedly, one of last season's most acclaimed new musicals, "The Band's Visit," did not feature flashy choreography or cathartic 11 o'clock belters.
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Bachman often uses field research and interviews to create musicals and performances that reflect the life experiences of people across the country.
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As live television productions of classic Broadway musicals turn to more contemporary fare, some original creators have the chance to get involved.
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According to figures released by the Broadway League on Wednesday, the 2185 plays and musicals currently running brought in $29,2500,20183 between Dec.
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Disney currently has two other musicals running on Broadway, "The Lion King," which opened in 1997, and "Aladdin," which opened in 2014.
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There's not a single musical at the festival this year, and, in my opinion, musicals shouldn't be treated as a "lesser" form.
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Additionally, musical films have seen a recent resurgence, whether they're true movie-musicals or just films with lots of music in them.
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The year was full of stunners in all categories: tear-jerking comedies, joyous musicals, moving dramas, haunting fables, and everything in between.
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Musicals are an inherently artificial medium, especially when they're live, and that makes them a tricky fit for the intimacy of television.
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Excluding Disney films, probably The Wizard of Oz. I didn't really get into old Hollywood musicals until I was 18 or 19.
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Since a rollicking tryout of "The Producers" in Chicago in 2001, more than two dozen musicals with Broadway aspirations have had premieres here.
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After several live musicals and the wildly successful The Wiz, NBC's live theater sights have shifted to Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men.
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The musicals up for tonight's top prizes: Ain't Too Proud—The Life and Times of the Temptations, Beetlejuice, Hadestown, The Prom and Tootsie.
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La La Slam Donovan Mitchell, a huge fan of musicals, takes to the court in a beige suit and a very big fedora.
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The film claims to pay tribute to movie musicals of yore, but the performers don't match the multi-talented figures of old Hollywood.
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Robert Lopez co-conceived and co-wrote the smash-hit musicals "Avenue Q" and "The Book of Mormon," both earning him Tony Awards.
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Disney has dominated the box office with animated and live-action films, which include the Marvel superheroes, "Star Wars," princesses, pirates and musicals.
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But director Adam Shankman of Bringing Down the House and several ineptly staged musicals doesn't have the comic chops to reimagine this material.
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Previn is known for his orchestrations on classic musicals like 228's My Fair Lady and romantic comedy The Fortunate Cookie in 22019.
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"LA LA Land", Damien Chazelle's candy-coloured tribute to the musicals of Tinseltown's golden age, arrives at a sensitive moment in Hollywood history.
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In the late 1950s, DeHaven's film career stalled and she turned to acting on television and in stage musicals and singing in nightclubs.
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While we've got musicals on the mind, let's take a look back at some other actresses who've received acclaim for their musical turns.
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I was running these "midnight musicals" when I was going to school in Santa Cruz, and I would present them with my friend.
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Grande started in musicals, after all, and meeting your childhood heroes is probably the best way to comfort yourself after a break up.
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It's a look you probably recognize from musicals like Hairspray, but it's actually makeup artist Peter Lamas' least favorite style of the decade.
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NBC's live musicals have quickly become an annual tradition after their introduction in 2013, securing good ratings and Twitter buzz for the network.
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While executing quick wardrobe changes, Corden sang famous lines from plays and musicals including Phantom of the Opera, Grease, Les Misérables and more.
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Such was my illuminating experience recently on two successive nights, with established revivals of musicals that have introduced new actresses in pivotal roles.
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Director Rob Marshall's credits include the Oscar-winning "Chicago" and "Into the Woods," so he's no stranger to bringing musicals to the screen.
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The Vineyard Theater, at 18883 East 15th Street, is an Off Broadway nonprofit company dedicated to taking risks with new plays and musicals.
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Movies & Film Series The first part of this retrospective, which played over the summer, focused on MGM musicals of the 1930s and '40s.
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"Kyle was also a huge movie buff and especially liked watching musicals, but his favorite pastime was playing on his PlayStation," it said.
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"I just started getting more songs," said Ms. Cusack, a veteran of West End and touring musicals who is making her Broadway debut.
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Statisticians at Cambridge University designed an algorithm to sort through nearly 2,000 musicals to find patterns that separated the hits from the flops.
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As for Henry, he's an aspiring writer of both musicals and children's poetry, and finds refuge in passive-aggression masked as fumbling cuteness.
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And it is never less than instructive, too, about the way musicals, bookless or not, can turn even the saddest history into beauty.
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Jerome Robbins's career on Broadway is to be celebrated in a new ballet, featuring extracts from eight musicals closely associated with the choreographer.
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McNally won two Tony Awards for writing the books for the musicals "Ragtime" in 1998 and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" in 1993.
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This extension will inevitably revive conversations about whether the show should be considered for Tony Awards, which recognize plays and musicals on Broadway.
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It was one of the first musicals to fully integrate song and dance into a narrative that was equal parts comedy and drama.
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Since Whitney Houston died in 20173, her estate has been pitched every kind of entertainment deal, from jukebox musicals to a traveling museum.
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Heaven is somewhere in Detroit, where you get paid handsomely to pump out hacky columns, treacly novels, and musicals about God abolishing hockey.
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"My own contributions to the musicals in the VHS player at home really begin with 'The Little Mermaid,' " Mr. Miranda, now 38, recalled.
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"Musicals are not something I'm too familiar with, or have been," Mr. Westman said one late-November morning at a restaurant in Westminster.
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Mr. Simon returned to musicals in 1981 with "They're Playing Our Song," featuring music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager.
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And in a highly competitive season for new musicals, "War Paint" never broke out to be a hit; during the week ending Oct.
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After two years, they began working in Hollywood, but their pitches to make musicals in the 1990s fell almost completely on deaf ears.
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I had shown an interest in acting, I liked movie musicals ("Grease 2" was my favorite) but I didn't know much about Broadway.
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Despite its name, the channel has a diverse roster, from splashy musicals to intimate black-box shows, from American productions to subtitled imports.
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A subculture of "fake casting" has popped up on Instagram, where young Broadway fans are auditioning for and casting their own imaginary musicals.
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Typically, filmed versions of live Broadway musicals and plays find a home on public cable networks like PBS or straight to home video.
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So, I wanted to approach a "Steven Universe" musical that way: These are things you recognize from other musicals, but with these characters.
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The last two Tony-winning musicals were "Fun Home" and "Hamilton," both universally admired and seen as important advances for the art form.
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"Sing Street," like many Broadway musicals, began its life as a film: a 2016 Irish romantic comedy written and directed by John Carney.
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The opportunity not just to celebrate but also to reinvestigate classic musicals without shrinking them into dollhouse replicas is Ms. Feore's calling card.
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The scene starts with music on the radio and the idea that people stuck in traffic are stars of their own personal musicals.
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The 0003 plays and musicals running last week brought in a whopping $49.7 million, making it the highest-grossing week in Broadway history.
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However, two sessions during the weekend, in which other performers were to sing show tunes and songs from jukebox musicals, will be altered.
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The music would be gorgeous and entrancing — that's where you come in, Jeanine — in the tradition of the golden age of Broadway musicals.
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Mr. Carlyle said he knew most of the Robbins musicals fairly well, but after accepting the City Ballet commission, he did more research.
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She was in the musicals "I Married an Angel" (1942), with Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, and "Step Lively" (280), with Frank Sinatra.
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But then "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen" are great musicals and great hits (and their albums were in fact released by major labels).
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There was a moment when she, Mr. Fairchild and his sister, Megan (another City Ballet principal), all took sabbaticals to appear in musicals.
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While some production companies have translated American musicals into French in recent years, Choplin has invested in English-language productions presented with subtitles.
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In fact, Cats is one of the most popular musicals to ever exist — it's amassed over $3 billion since its debut in 1981.
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" Though Mr. Berlanti guards the plot closely, he did reveal that the episode is "a love story, because those are my favorite musicals.
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Since this story was published (right before Christmas in 1843), it has been regularly adapted to movies, musicals, cartoon franchises and TV series.
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We're often influenced by jazz, musicals, film soundtracks, anime, pop, prog metal, classical, and electronic genres like future, trap, and drum 'n' bass.
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You should know that I'm a sucker for Broadway musicals, for stories about deeply broken and co-dependent relationships, and for structural gimmickry.
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There are also a pair of commercial houses in the suburbs, the Marriott and Drury Lane theaters, that are mounting musicals with Broadway aspirations.
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From musicals to comedies and dramas, click through the gallery above to see some of what will be playing in a theater near you.
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Here are a few lesser-known notables we caught in 2016, from affecting teen dramas to sweetly moving comedies to sing-along-worthy musicals.
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The musical is executive produced by Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who have handled all of NBC's recent live musicals, including The Wiz Live.
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After Lady Gaga's impressive performance in A Star is Born, it's likely that more movie musicals will start including live vocals from the actors.
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But to Chazelle, Hollywood, studio execs — whomever is listening — can we please find a way to sell musicals that isn't employing non-musical talent?
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But as of this month, I have another one I can tolerate, bringing my list of favorite movie musicals to a whole two films.
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After mowing neighbor's lawns and washing people's houses to earn money to go to the movies, Reynolds was limited to the selection of musicals.
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Musicals don't typically see sizable opening weekends, and Disney's live-action sequel looks to have a healthy life at multiplexes during the holiday stretch.
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The nonsensical but utterly magical trend of major broadcast networks producing expensive and messy live musicals continued last night with NBC's production of Hairspray.
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So the next time some metal bro tries to judge you as false for liking musicals, just remember that even Metallica are Sondheim fans.
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The classically-trained composer is known for high-concept albums built around her interpretations of everything from ancient Greek plays to 50s MGM musicals.
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He was a debate team champ and a performer in high-school musicals; he played the lead in Sweeney Todd, that hammy demon barber.
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My own personal gripes with hip-hop musicals aside (seriously, it's the reason I couldn't get into Empire), Blindspotting is still worth your time.
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