The path from screen to stage hasn't always been a smooth one, and celluloid success is no guarantee of musical triumph (just ask the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark team). But London is currently awash with popular medium-jumpers, from Aladdin and The Bodyguard to new musical Groundhog Day, which opened last night at the Old Vic. Here are 10 of the best screen to stage adaptations.
The GRAMMY Award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus has announced that Silent Voices, a multimedia, multi-composer stage work conceived, co-commissioned, produced and performed by the Chorus, will be the centerpiece of the Chorus' 25th anniversary season.
2016-17 Programming Expands the Chorus' Pioneering Role as a Powerful Lead Performer, a Bold Commissioner of New Music and a Producer of Innovative Stage Works.
Oscar winning singer song-writer Glen Hansard, The Frames, of Once and The Swell Season, comes to the Concert Hall, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) with his band for one night only on Tuesday 18 October 2016 as part of his Didn't He Ramble Australian Tour.
Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has secured worldwide licensing rights to Broadway's Tony award-winning musical, ONCE, it was announced today.
Once is definitely not your typical Broadway musical. It does not implement nor does it require the razzle dazzle that is usually typical of musical theatre. Instead there is a subtle intimacy and ease to the storytelling. From the moment you enter the theatre, you are transported to another place, a Dublin bar to be exact. The show uses creative staging as the audience is able to traverse the stage to buy a drink at the bar and are then surrounded by the actors/musicians as they jam out to some Irish folk music.
Broadway at the National announces its 2016-17 season, with a total of 17 Tony® Awards - including three Best Musicals - among the productions being presented. The season features the Washington premiere of the five-time Tony®-winning Best Musical Fun Home, based on Alison Bechdel's best-selling graphic memoir; the 20th anniversary return of RENT, the Tony® Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning re-imagining of Puccini's La Boheme; the eight-time Tony®-winning Once; and the Washington premiere of the holiday classic Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical.
Hayes Carll's official music video for his track “The Magic Kid” premieres today on The Wall Street Journal. The song appears on Carll's new album Lovers and Leavers, out now via Thirty Tigers (iTunes). Watch the video here: http://on.wsj.com/1VjCQTC.
Maestro Luke Frazier and The American Pops Orchestra - Washington, DC's innovative hometown orchestra - are proud to present the closing concert of their successful inaugural season. MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY: A 60s Cocktail Party will debut at the George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium today, May 6th at 8:00 PM.
Erikka Walsh (violin, vocals), an original cast member of Once: A New Musical, actor/musicians Ryan McCurdy (guitar, piano, vocals) and Stephen Lyons (vocals, guitar) of Bonfire Falls, a folk rock band, release their first EP, Lifetime, today Friday, April 22, at 7pm at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 2 (185 Orchard St).
Maestro Luke Frazier and The American Pops Orchestra - Washington, DC's innovative hometown orchestra - are proud to present the closing concert of their successful inaugural season. MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY: A 60s Cocktail Party will debut at the George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium on Friday, May 6th at 8:00 PM.
ONCE, winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the State Theatre on Tuesday, April 12. Tickets for ONCE are available now and can be purchased by visiting the State Theatre Box Office, 453 Northampton Street, Easton, by calling 1-800-999-STATE, 610-252-3132 or online at www.statetheatre.org.
ONCE, winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and winner of the 2013 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, will play the Marcus Center for a limited engagement from April 5-10 as part of the Associated Bank Broadway at the Marcus Center series.
Von Miller, the Denver Broncos linebacker named Most Valuable Player of SUPER BOWL 50, will make his first in-studio late night television appearance when he visits THE LATE LATE SHOW
Guy meets girl. They make some music. And they either end up together or apart, delighting or devastating their respective audiences. It's just as typical a story as the romance of the Broadway musical (and usually has a similar effect). Well, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova's Once is hailed for dashing the typical boy meets girl tale, and its North American tour installment does not seem to do typical either. Magic was made at New Haven's Shubert Theatre last night as the cast of Once took their first bow of the weekend (and received the first of what are likely to become many standing ovations).
Broadway in Indianapolis, Sun King Brewing Company, and WFYI 90.1 FM announce From Bar to Star - a singer/songwriter contest to celebrate the upcoming Indianapolis engagement of ONCE, playing Clowes Memorial Hall February 9-14.