"My Fair Lady (film) My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical film adapted from the Lerner and Loewe eponymous stage musical based on the 1913 stage play ""Pygmalion"" by George Bernard Shaw. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears an arrogant phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak ""proper"" English, thereby making her presentable in the high society of Edwardian London. The film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as"
"I did"". It is Eliza, standing in the doorway. In suppressed joy at their reunion, Professor Higgins scoffs and asks, ""Eliza, where the devil are my slippers?"" The original cast of the Broadway stage production: Act I Act II In the mid-1930s, film producer Gabriel Pascal acquired the rights to produce film versions of several of George Bernard Shaw's plays, ""Pygmalion"" among them. However, Shaw, having had a bad experience with ""The Chocolate Soldier"", a Viennese operetta based on his play ""Arms and the Man"", refused permission for ""Pygmalion"" to be adapted into a musical. After Shaw died in 1950,"
"song, all the music in the play is heard in three extended dream sequences: the Glamour Dream, the Wedding Dream, and the Circus Dream which, to some extent, become three small operettas integrated into a straight play. The final song, ""My Ship"", functions as a leitmotif for Liza's insecurity: as each dream commences, a snippet of the tune is heard, as it is a haunting melody which Liza recognizes but cannot name, or sing with words, until her anxiety is resolved. The musical opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre (now the Neil Simon) on January 23, 1941 and closed"
"Eliza enters, ready to sell Gant's shop, until he at last announces that rather than use the money for Dixieland's expenses, he would take the money, put Gene in college, and begin traveling. Eliza rips up his check in a fit of fury and exits. Immediately following, Ben falls ill. He is then seen on his deathbed, where he dies. The third act opens with Eugene and Laura in their bedroom. Frings' stage adaptation of ""Look Homeward, Angel"" was readapted as a Broadway musical, ""Angel,"" which opened at the Minskoff Theatre in New York on May 4, 1978, and closed"
"for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her performance. The film was choreographed by Vincent Paterson. ""Evita"" came in sixth in a BBC Radio 2 listener poll of the UK's ""Number One Essential Musicals"". One episode of ""The Simpsons"", ""The President Wore Pearls"", has a plot loosely based on the musical, with Lisa Simpson in Eva's role. The episode includes parodies of songs such as ""Don't Cry for Me, Kids of Springfield"". At the end of the episode, a comical disclaimer is displayed stating, ""On the advice of our lawyers, we swear we have never heard of"
"Godmother advises her to share her feelings with the Prince. After trying the slipper on all the other maidens, the Prince and Lionel overtake Cinderella on her journey to freedom. Meeting her gaze, the Prince recognizes her and places the slipper on her foot. At their wedding, the Fairy Godmother blesses the couple. The musical was first performed on stage at the London Coliseum in 1958 in holiday pantomime adaptation that also used songs from ""Me & Juliet"". Harold Fielding produced this version, which opened on December 18, 1958 and played through the holiday season. Yana (Pamella Guard), played Cinderella,"
"was nominated for Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture at the 1948 Academy Awards, but lost to ""Mother Wore Tights"". On October 6, 2009, Turner Entertainment released ""Fiesta"" on DVD as part of the Esther Williams Spotlight Collection, Volume 2. The 6 disc set was a follow up to the company's Esther Williams Spotlight Collection, Volume 1, and contains digitally remastered versions of several of Williams's films including ""Thrill of a Romance"" (1945), ""This Time for Keeps"" (1947), ""Pagan Love Song"" (1950), ""Million Dollar Mermaid"" (1952) and ""Easy to Love"" (1953). Fiesta (1947 film) Fiesta is an American Technicolor"
"Broadway, discovering that all that glitters is not gold. It will end with Sandra who'll give up Broadway's world for the love of her husband, a violin virtuoso. Sheila will remain crushed by the mirage of Luxury Park Avenue: addicted to alcohol, she'll be dismissed even from her beau. The only one who'll make a career will be Susan, who demonstrates that, even to go down The Ziegfeld stairs, it must take talent and it's not strictly necessary to be beautiful. A musical number sung by Judy Garland, ""We Must Have Music"", was deleted from the final film. Only a"
"begins with Edward's unsuccessful search for a bride and ends with love fulfilled as Prince Edward and Cinderella marry. The plot contains many elements from the well known Cinderella story (a bride-finding ball, fitting the slipper for example), with additional twists (a betrayal). This musical production has been run many times on the British stage. Notably in 2001 by the Bilston Operatic Company, Wolverhampton, in May 2008 at the Minack Theatre in Cornwall, in April 2011 at the York Theatre Royal, and most recently in November 2013 by BOST Musicals at the Liverpool Empire Theatre. It made its US premiere"
"Original Music and Lyrics (""Everything Comes Down to Poo"" and ""Guy Love""), Outstanding Music Direction (Jan Stevens); while it tied for the award for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (Half-Hour) and Animation (Joe Foglia, Peter J. Nusbaum, and John W. Cook II) with ""Entourage"". These were ""Scrubs"" only nominations that year. My Musical ""My Musical"" is a musical episode of the American comedy-drama television series ""Scrubs"". It is the 123rd episode of the show, and was originally aired as episode 6 of season 6 on January 18, 2007. The episode follows the story of Patti Miller,"
"My Musical ""My Musical"" is a musical episode of the American comedy-drama television series ""Scrubs"". It is the 123rd episode of the show, and was originally aired as episode 6 of season 6 on January 18, 2007. The episode follows the story of Patti Miller, (Stephanie D'Abruzzo), a patient who mysteriously starts hearing everyone's speech as singing. It was written by Debra Fordham, who also wrote most of the lyrics. The episode's music was composed by Fordham, ""Scrubs"" resident composer Jan Stevens, The Worthless Peons' Paul Perry, Tony Award-winning Broadway orchestrator Doug Besterman, and the ""Avenue Q"" writing team of"
"Lady Tremaine trips the footman as he brings the Duke the slipper, causing it to shatter on the floor. Much to her horror, Cinderella presents the Duke with the other slipper, which fits perfectly. The film ends with a now-married Prince and Cinderella at their wedding, sharing a kiss as they leave. In 1922, Walt Disney produced a Laugh-O-Gram cartoon based on ""Cinderella"", and he had been interested in producing a second version in December 1933 as a Silly Symphony short. Burt Gillett was attached as the director while Frank Churchill was assigned as the composer. A story outline included"
"the stage. At the end of the song, the entire cast sings ""No Day But Today."" In the film adaptation of the musical, only the main cast sings the song as Mark's film plays. The actual film ends with the final shot of Mark's film, which is a shot of Angel. He is out of drag, but when he holds up his hand, you can see his blue nail polish. In the DVD release of the movie ""Rent"", an alternate version of the ending was provided as a bonus supplement. This version shows the seven main characters minus Angel standing"
"only musical number from the play omitted in the film version. However, there are several measures from this piece that can be heard as we see Eliza in the rain, making her way through the cars and carriages in Covent Garden. All of the songs in the film were performed near complete; however, there were some verse omissions, as there sometimes are in film versions of Broadway musicals. For example, in the song ""With a Little Bit of Luck"", the verse ""He does not have a Tuppence in his pocket"", which was sung with a chorus, was omitted, due to"
"was then broken by ""Mamma Mia!"". ""Chicago"" along with an earlier musical ""Moulin Rouge!"" and the hip hop centred film ""8 Mile"", is widely considered to be responsible for the re-emergence of the musical film genre in the 21st century. Following the success of ""Chicago"" many musical films have been released in cinemas including ""Phantom of the Opera"", ""The Producers"", ""Rent"", ""Dreamgirls"" (also written and directed by Bill Condon), ""Hairspray"" (also starring Queen Latifah), ""Enchanted"", """" (also featuring costumes by Coleen Atwood), ""Mamma Mia!"" (also starring Christine Baranski), ""Nine"" (also directed by Rob Marshall), ""Les Misérables"", ""Rock of Ages"" (also"
"for the part, Harry gladly returns it to Mangus. During the show, Raquel and Buddy finally manage to hook up, but they accidentally stumble into the stage and Buddy is caught with Raquel with his pants down. For no apparent reason, the musical's opening number is sung by Santa. The rest of the cast is dressed mostly like hippies from ""Jesus Christ Superstar"". Near the end of musical, Mangus is attached to the cross in his wheelchair. After the play, Mangus's parents reconciled and the whole family go for ice cream. Mangus! Mangus! is a 2011 comedy film written, produced,"
"on the songs of Queen). Live-action film musicals were nearly dead in the 1980s and early 1990s, with exceptions of ""Victor/Victoria"", ""Little Shop of Horrors"" and the 1996 film of ""Evita"". In the new century, Baz Luhrmann began a revival of the film musical with ""Moulin Rouge!"" (2001). This was followed by ""Chicago"" (2002); ""Phantom of the Opera"" (2004); ""Dreamgirls"" (2006); ""Hairspray"", ""Enchanted"" and """" (all in 2007); ""Mamma Mia!"" (2008); ""Nine"" (2009); ""Les Misérables"" and ""Pitch Perfect"" (both in 2012), ""Into The Woods"" (2014) and ""La La Land"" (2016), among others. Dr. Seuss's ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"" (2000)"
"Broadway show received mixed reviews. Jesse Green of ""The New York Times"" called the show ""rousing, often dull, alternately dopey"". He praised Levy's and Murin's performances as well as the set and lighting design but criticized the new musical numbers. Frozen (musical) Frozen is a musical with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, based on the 2013 film of the same name. The story centers on the relationship between two sisters who are princesses, Elsa and Anna. Elsa has magical powers to freeze objects and people, which she does not know how"
"Where Is Love? ""Where is Love?"" is a song from the Tony Award-winning British musical ""Oliver!"" and the 1968 film ""Oliver!"" based on the novel ""Oliver Twist"" by Charles Dickens. The musical was written by Lionel Bart and was first staged in London's West End in 1960. Oliver Twist, the leading character, sings the song after being thrown into the cellar of a funeral parlour for getting into a fight with Noah Claypole, another servant of the undertaker. Later in the show a reprise is sung by Mr Brownlow's housekeeper, Mrs Bedwin. In the 1968 Columbia Pictures musical film version"
"School Musical"" which was dubbed by Drew Seeley. Link performs a song in public, and Tracy Turnblad's dance moves impress him and Corny, who decides to put her on the Corny Collins Show. BlogCritics wrote ""Fans of the Broadway musical (which I never saw) may be disappointed by the new songs ""Ladies' Choice"" with Zac Efron and ""The New Girl in Town"" with Brittany Snow. They aren’t nearly as fun as the original Broadway songs"". Spirituality and Practice described the song as ""Elvis-like"", Cinema Review named it 'Elvis-inspired"", and Movie Exclusive called it ""cheeky"". DVD Review described it as a"
"not have any singing in it. The ""Slaughter on Tenth Avenue"" ballet does appear at the end of the film, with choreography by George Balanchine, one of eight films for which he would create the dances. Eddie Albert's character dances the lead in the ballet, opposite Zorina. According to John Reid, ""Albert is no dancer...But with the aid of a visual double for one or two shots plus post-synched taps, he actually manages rather well, and even duets with the great Zorina with reasonable facility."" On Your Toes On Your Toes (1936) is a musical with a book by Richard"
"""pillar of strength"". Mrs. Higgins returns and she and Eliza depart for the wedding. As they leave, Higgins incorrigibly gives Eliza a number of errands to run, as though their recent conversation had not taken place. Eliza disdainfully explains why they are unnecessary and wonders what Higgins is going to do without her (in another version, Eliza disdainfully tells him to do the errands himself; Mrs. Higgins says that she'll get the items, but Higgins cheerfully tells her that Eliza will do it after all). Higgins laughs to himself at the idea of Eliza marrying Freddy as the play ends."
"Bedknobs and Broomsticks (musical) Bedknobs and Broomsticks is an upcoming stage musical based on the 1971 Walt Disney film and the stories by Mary Norton. It features the original songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, new songs and additional music and lyrics by Neil Bartram and book by Brian Hill. The musical was to have been directed and choreographed by Rachel Rockwell before her death on May 26, 2018. Her replacement has yet to be announced. The musical was previously scheduled to make its world premiere at the Yard at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater from May 30"
"out of the film or given to other characters, including Marty Maraschino's number ""Freddy My Love,"" Kenickie's ""Greased Lightnin',"" and Doody's ""Those Magic Changes."") Two songs from the musical, ""Shakin' at the High School Hop"" ""and ""All Choked Up,"" were left off both the film and the soundtrack. The songs appear in the film in the following order: On August 17, 2009, a inspired by the film premiered in Venezuela. The series was produced and directed by Vladimir Perez. The show explores and expands on the characters and story from the film. On January 31, 2016, a of the musical"
"The Slipper and the Rose The Slipper and the Rose is a 1976 British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. The film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance motion picture selection for 1976. Directed by Bryan Forbes, the film stars Gemma Craven as the heroine, Richard Chamberlain as the prince, and features a supporting cast led by Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, Edith Evans and Annette Crosbie. The film's Academy Award-nominated songs were written by the Sherman Brothers – Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman – who also shared scripting duties with Forbes and, reportedly, the"
"""Starlight Express"", ""The Sound of Music"", ""Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"", ""Monty Python's Spamalot"", ""Beauty and the Beast"", ""West Side Story"", ""Jesus Christ Superstar"", ""Thoroughly Modern Millie"", ""The Rocky Horror Show"", ""Fame - The Musical"", ""Never Forget"", ""Priscilla Queen of the Desert - the Musical"", ""Cabaret"", ""Blood Brothers"", ""Saturday Night Fever"", ""Carousel"", ""Footloose - The Musical"", ""Grease"", ""Anything Goes"", ""Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake"", ""Our House"", ""Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story"", ""Carousel"", ""Tap Dogs"", ""Taboo"", ""Flashdance - The Musical"", ""Annie"", ""Annie Get Your Gun"", """", ""Dancing in the Streets"", ""Sister Act"", ""An Inspector Calls"", ""Dirty Rotten Scoundrels"", ""Rock of Ages"", ""Chicago"","
"most of the names are changed: half-Italian Louis Mazzini becomes half-Castilian Montague ""Monty"" Navarro, the D'Ascoynes become the D'Ysquiths and Henry's wife Edith becomes Henry's sister Phoebe. The musical won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The Criterion Collection released a two DVD disc set; disc one featured the standard version of the film released in the UK. As a bonus feature disc one also included the final scene with the American ending. Disc two includes a 75-minutes BBC ""Omnibus"" documentary ""Made in Ealing"", plus a 68-minute talk-show appearance with Guinness on the BBC's ""Parkinson"" television programme. The British distributor"
"featurette. This DVD went out of print. On November 19, 2013, the film was released on Blu-ray. The Slipper and the Rose The Slipper and the Rose is a 1976 British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. The film was chosen as the Royal Command Performance motion picture selection for 1976. Directed by Bryan Forbes, the film stars Gemma Craven as the heroine, Richard Chamberlain as the prince, and features a supporting cast led by Michael Hordern, Kenneth More, Edith Evans and Annette Crosbie. The film's Academy Award-nominated songs were written by the Sherman Brothers – Richard"
"appears (""Steel Pier (reprise)""). He says he's just a guy who wanted a second chance, but he could no longer stay - he only had three weeks, but she has a lifetime. He asks her at last for the dance he won in the raffle, and once the transient moment ends, he urges to take a chance on life (""Final Dance""). Exhausted, Rita picks up her suitcase and, with a triumphant sense of hope and determination, leaves the marathon behind forever. Some critics identified “Everybody Dance,” “Lovebird,” and “Steel Pier” among the outstanding musical numbers. The Original Broadway cast recording"
"Kinky Boots (musical) Kinky Boots is a Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the 2005 British film ""Kinky Boots"", written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth and inspired by true events, the musical tells the story of Charlie Price. Having inherited a shoe factory from his father, Charlie forms an unlikely partnership with cabaret performer and drag queen Lola to produce a line of high-heeled boots and save the business. In the process, Charlie and Lola discover that they are not so different after all. Following the show's conception"
"but she happily refuses. Char once again asks Ella to marry him, and she agrees: ""Now ""that"" I'll do."" The movie ends with their wedding and a musical number: ""Don't Go Breaking My Heart"" by Elton John and Kiki Dee. During all this, it's shown that Slannen is in a relationship with a giant named Brumhilda, Ella has rekindled her friendship with Areida, and Edgar has survived (albeit cognitively impaired by the poison). The Narrator announces two final words: The End. Hathaway, who first read the book when she was 16, says that there was originally a version of the"
"Frozen (musical) Frozen is a musical with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and book by Jennifer Lee, based on the 2013 film of the same name. The story centers on the relationship between two sisters who are princesses, Elsa and Anna. Elsa has magical powers to freeze objects and people, which she does not know how to control. After inheriting the throne, Elsa flees, inadvertently causes the kingdom to become frozen in an eternal winter, and nearly kills her sister. She must sacrifice and show true love to save the day. Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions,"
"the end of the film. The origin of this song came with the controversial swap made by Disney executives of Claude Frollo from an Archdeacon to a Minister of Justice. One of the sideffects of this was that a backstory had to be fabricated to explain what Frollo was doing caring for Quasimodo in the first place. The notion that ""Frollo is encouraged by the Archdeacon of Notre Dame to raise Quasimodo as his own, to atone for killing the baby's gypsy mother"" on the stairs of the church had to be explained in the opening scene of the musical,"