Musical film

Music is a work of art and only the one understands the true importance of music can have a successful career in musical world. On March 18, 1927, a legend was born, in the city of Kansas. John Kander who is one of the many legends who realized the real value and significance of music and devoted his life composing and creating musical masterpiece such as Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Cabaret. He was interested in the world of music since his childhood but worked as a conductor and accompanying

Broadway musicals have always been a huge part of my life. They can add emotion to a story that dialogue can’t quite capture. Over the years, after listening to countless scores, I have developed a list of my favorite 10 . This is Lindsay Bullock coming to you from me casa and I will be presenting the 10 musicals you must see before you die. Number 10 is Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge. While this is not a stage musical, it is still a must-see Oscar nominated film. It stars Ewan Mcgregor and Nicole

“There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last.” Rent first a revolutionary Broadway musical turned into a movie, broke down the barriers by being one of the first musical productions to reveal the truths of the “real” American lifestyle. Visionaries like musical director Jonathan Larson and film director Chris Columbus, helped use the movie and musical platform to share the stories of hundreds of people facing adversity in the early 90’s. The movie follows six Bohemians (Mark

and move to Los Angeles in hopes of being a screenwriter. It was there that she received a Disney Fellowship and became one of the screenwriters for the 2003 remake of Freaky Friday. The success of the film led Hache to begin her next project, adapting the hit film Legally Blonde into a Broadway musical. The project took over four years to complete, but when it was tested at a San Francisco theater in 2007, it received nothing but positive reviews. Hache took the beloved characters and gave them all

casting directors. Bernadette appeared on the television at the age of just 5. Leading to her rise to fame in her younger years for some of her roles in the musicals: Mack and Mabel, Sunday in the Park with George, Song and Dance, Into the Woods, The Goodbye Girl, Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy. She went on later to bigger roles as a teen in TV and film, followed by releasing her own music. Her music has ranged from cutesy novelty little girl style, to trashy to her own range and comfort.

the American stage.’” (Jas Obrecht) Not only was In Dahomey the most successful of the duo’s biggest three productions but it is also made a major racial milestone not only in theater but in social aspects as well. “The first full length all black musical to play a legitimate Broadway theater in season, In Dahomey succeeded with

Musical Theater Musical theater has always been something I looked at in a positive light because it was somewhere I could be who I wanted to be, and I could play different people. There are many reasons as to why I have chosen to go into theater as a career and they include the freedom to create characters, the chance to meet new and exciting people, and the opportunity to get up on stage every night and give a performance. The possibilities are endless as to what can happen in theater, and sometimes

told me that she had a present from her and another mutual friend. It was the CD (remember those???) of the musical When Pigs Fly. For the next hour I remained speechless as I listened to one hysterically funny track after another. It began a TRUE love affair with the musical. The concept of the revue, by Mark Waldrop and the late Howard Crabtree (1955-1996), is that "Howard" stages a musical. As he struggles to do so, dealing with the large egos of performers or scenery gone wrong, he hears the

"Sunday Candy," a short film written by Chancellor Johnathan Bennett also known as Chance The Rapper is not only a dedication to his late grandmother, but is also a showcase of his artistic abilities beyond rhyming over an arrangement of instruments, sounds, and tempos. Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment deliver an easily relatable song and appear in this amusing short film directed by Austin Vesely, Ian Eastwood and Chance The Rapper. With an engaging video setup, the use of unconventional

For this post, the first video I had chosen was Jeanette MacDonald and Binnie Barnes sang “A Twinkle in Her Eye” in a 1942 musical film called I Married an Angel. By watching the clip only, I thought the style of this recording was like an operetta. It had spoken parts to tell the light story. The sounds that came out of the characters were very soft, even though the singing technique was more like the one that was commonly used in operas, and the lyrics were pretty approachable. Also, I had noticed