Tag: musical

Ryan Coogler Is Making a Prince Jukebox Musical Movie

[ad_1] Who’s going to play Mr. McGee? Photo: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Ryan Coogler is set to produce a jukebox musical film featuring the music of Prince for Universal Pictures, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project has been in development since 2018 and has a script from Bryan Edward Hill, but the details — including… Continue reading Ryan Coogler Is Making a Prince Jukebox Musical Movie

The Escher Quartet and Igor Levit Test Musical Limits

[ad_1] On March 28, 1949, at Times Hall, in midtown Manhattan, an unexpectedly large crowd materialized to hear the Juilliard Quartet play the second part of a two-concert survey of the six string quartets of Béla Bartók. According to the Times, so many seats were crammed onstage that the quartet “had just enough elbow room,… Continue reading The Escher Quartet and Igor Levit Test Musical Limits

A Musical for—and About—Grammar Sticklers

[ad_1] “I can’t believe the people are pouring in!” Ann Goldstein, the former head of the copy department for this publication, said as she and her sister Martha Slaughter, who lives in Philadelphia, and I took our seats at Theatre Exile, in South Philly, for a Sunday matinée of “The Angry Grammarian,” a musical comedy… Continue reading A Musical for—and About—Grammar Sticklers

India’s first Broadway-style musical ending U.S. tour in Long Beach

[ad_1] Soon after Feroz Abbas Khan mounted his theatrical production “Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical’’ in Mumbai in 2016, he said he began fielding calls from producers who wanted to bring India’s first Broadway-style musical to the U.S. “I tried to dissuade them by telling them the logistics,” says Khan, who directed the production. “We would have… Continue reading India’s first Broadway-style musical ending U.S. tour in Long Beach

Inside the unsavory, unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson musical with Broadway in its sights

[ad_1] This Tuesday, San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse begins performances of “The Untitled, Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical.” Yes, you read that right. The esteemed, eccentric, irreverent, intoxicated, gun-wielding godfather of gonzo journalism is the subject of an intriguing new stage show. This world-premiere production, starring Tony-winning actor Gabriel Ebert as Thompson, is running through… Continue reading Inside the unsavory, unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson musical with Broadway in its sights

Britney Spears ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Musical Closing

[ad_1] In an egregious violation of Britney Spears’s 2011 royal decree that her subjects keep on dancing ’til the world ends, Once Upon a One More Time will close on Broadway this September. The all-Brit-no-skips jukebox musical only began previews in May and opened at the Marquis Theatre on June 22. The show stars Great… Continue reading Britney Spears ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ Musical Closing

‘The Outsiders’ Musical to Premiere on Broadway

[ad_1] NOT the Newsies. Photo: Rich Soublet II, Courtesy La Jolla Playhouse They’re swapping out the Brat Pack for the BFA Pack. The Outsiders, a musicalized adaptation of both S.E. Hinton’s 1967 novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film of the same name, is coming to Broadway. The musical features a book by Adam Rapp with Justin… Continue reading ‘The Outsiders’ Musical to Premiere on Broadway

“The Adults” Deconstructs the Musical to Probe the Nature of Performance

[ad_1] Genre is a cursed thing. Dustin Guy Defa’s new movie, “The Adults,” isn’t really a musical, but the performances of music and dance that figure in it are both more dramatically essential and more distinctively realized than those in many films commonly thought of as musicals. For that matter, much else that Defa does… Continue reading “The Adults” Deconstructs the Musical to Probe the Nature of Performance