The extravagant Broadway musical Wicked (2024) is brought to the silver screen with beautiful results. Overtaking the nation in hefty box office returns with many donning witch hats for the event, the production has enough substance to justify the craze. It is the first of a two-part film a...
A tuneful, heartwarming story, it is based on the real life story of the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II. Julie Andrews plays the role of Maria, the tomboyish postulant at an Austrian abbey who becomes...
But IndieWire’s picks for the 100 best movie musicals of all time show that the musical remains a genre that captures movies’ ability to create story worlds that move freely between reality and fantasy better than any other. The worst examples come from filmmakers who give license to music,...
“The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.” –George Washington “I must study politics and war, that my sons may study mathematics and philosophy...
Chainsaw, and Robin Hood: Men In Tights. Hands down, one of the most catchy numbers belongs to The Killer, in which he sings about his murderous penchant. Jaan’s song made me guffaw more than once. (Think an even more insane version of “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.”)...
from the 1930s up to World War II. Following the swing era, a lot of people perceive the type of ensemble to be stuck playing music from that time. I don’t think this is true and feel it is as socially relevant now, as it was then, theRevive Big Bandis a great example of this...
Nonmusical sound recordings inducted into the registry include the October 30, 1938, radio broadcast ofOrson Welles’sadaptationofThe War of the Worlds(1898), thescience fictionnovel byH.G. Wells; Gen.Dwight D. Eisenhower’s radio address to theAllied countriesonD-Day(June 6, 1944), the fir...
A Musical Life in Two Worlds: The Autobiography of Hugo Leichtentritt ed. by Mark DeVoto Berlin at the time, especially before the financial aftershocks of World War I, was being transformed into a leading cultural center that provided the ......
This auditorium scenario, directed with a gentle hand by Weyni Mengesha (Soulpepper’sThe Guide to Being Fabulous), with simple straightforward lighting by Kimberly Purtell (Crow’sRosmersholm), solid sound design by composer Richard Feren (Canadian Stage’sThe Inheritance), and exacting costumes...
Although Paderewski was primarily regarded as the greatest pianist of his time, he was also a world-stage politician. After the end of the World War I, he served as both the Prime Minister of the Polish government, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Hailed as a living legend, a '...