"reviews and did very poorly at the box office. Travolta's performance in ""Battlefield Earth"" also earned him two Razzie Awards. Throughout the 2000s, Travolta remained busy as an actor, starring in many films including ""Swordfish"" (2001), ""Ladder 49"" (2004), ""Be Cool"" (2005), ""Wild Hogs"" (2007), the animated film ""Bolt"" (2008), in which Travolta voiced the title character, ""The Taking of Pelham 123"" and ""Old Dogs"" (both 2009). In 2007, Travolta played Edna Turnblad in the remake of ""Hairspray"", his first musical since ""Grease"". Since 2010, Travolta has starred mostly in action films and thrillers. In 2016, he returned to TV"
"sessions often months prior or subsequent to the performances used for lip sync in the film. The cover gives credit to, and prominently features, the two stars of the film—John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John—although they only appear on seven of the 24 tracks. Sha Na Na performed many of the 1950s numbers in the film, the recordings of which also appear on the soundtrack. Stockard Channing sings lead on two of the tracks; the two tracks remain her only significant contribution to recorded popular music to date. The title track was recorded by Frankie Valli, who had no other connection"
"Hairspray (2007 soundtrack) Hairspray: Soundtrack to the Motion Picture is the soundtrack album for the 2007 New Line Cinema musical film ""Hairspray"". The film is an adaptation of the 2002 Broadway musical of the same name, itself adapted from John Waters's original 1988 film. It features performances from the film's cast, which includes John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden, Queen Latifah, Brittany Snow, Zac Efron, Elijah Kelley, and Nikki Blonsky as the lead character of Tracy Turnblad. The album has sold upwards of 1,200,000 copies in the USA, and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA."
"eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, in 2003. The show closed on January 4, 2009. In 2006, New Line Cinema joined forces with Adam Shankman to adapt the Broadway show into a movie musical. The film was released July 20, 2007, starring John Travolta as Edna, Michelle Pfeiffer as Velma, Christopher Walken as Wilbur, Amanda Bynes as Penny Pingleton, Brittany Snow as Amber Von Tussle, Queen Latifah as Motormouth Maybelle, James Marsden as Corny, Zac Efron as Link, and newcomer Nikki Blonsky as Tracy. The film had a $75 million budget and earned over $200 million worldwide. NBC aired a"
"The Words (film) The Words is a 2012 mystery romantic drama film, written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal in their directorial debut. It stars Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes, Dennis Quaid, and Nora Arnezeder. Clayton Hammond (Dennis Quaid) attends a public reading of his new book, ""The Words"". Clayton begins reading from his book which focuses on a fictional character named Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), an aspiring writer who lives in New York City with his girlfriend, Dora (Zoe Saldana). Rory borrows some money from his father (J. K. Simmons), gets a"
"the film, saying that while its ""ambiguity is unlikely to be appreciated by everyone,"" it ""deserves to be structurally, emotionally, and thematically analyzed."" Stephen Holden of ""The New York Times"" also praised the film as ""a clever, entertaining yarn."" The Words (film) The Words is a 2012 mystery romantic drama film, written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal in their directorial debut. It stars Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde, Jeremy Irons, Ben Barnes, Dennis Quaid, and Nora Arnezeder. Clayton Hammond (Dennis Quaid) attends a public reading of his new book, ""The Words"". Clayton begins reading from his"
"are the 4th movement from Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68, and the 3rd Movement from Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90. Film critic Bosley Crowther called the score ""almost as elegant as the settings, which are the most respectable things in the film."" The soulful theme of the third movement of Brahms' Symphony No. 3 is heard repeatedly, including as the tune of a song (""Love Is Just a Word"") sung by the night club singer (Diahann Carroll). Lyrics to the film are by Dory Langdon (later known as Dory Previn). The soundtrack was released"
"was only available on the soundtrack album, and Patti Austin's ""It's Gonna Be Special"", which was not a major pop hit but peaked at #15 on the R&B charts and #5 on the Dance charts in 1984. Two of a Kind (1983 film) Two of a Kind is a 1983 American romantic fantasy comedy film directed by John Herzfeld and starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The original musical score was composed by Patrick Williams. Travolta plays a cash-strapped inventor while Newton-John plays the bank teller whom he attempts to rob. They must come to show compassion for one another"
"Cast members include Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D'Angelo, Don Dacus, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Nell Carter, Cheryl Barnes, Richard Bright, Ellen Foley and Charlotte Rae. Dance scenes were choreographed by Twyla Tharp, and were performed by the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation. The film was nominated for two Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture (for Williams). ""Hair"" is a rock musical focusing on the lives of two young men against the backdrop of the hippie counterculture of the Vietnam era. Claude Hooper Bukowski is a naive Oklahoman"
"the ""zesty coreography and very excellent new plus revived music,"" and though Travolta and Newton-John ""play together quite well."" Charles Champlin of the ""Los Angeles Times"" was negative, writing, ""I didn't see 'Grease' onstage, but on the testimony of this strident, cluttered, uninvolving and unattractive movie, it is the '50s—maybe the last innocent decade allowed to us—played back through a grotesquely distorting '70s consciousness."" Gary Arnold of ""The Washington Post"" also panned the film, writing, ""Despite the obvious attempts to recall bits from Stanley Donen musicals or Elvis Presley musicals or Frankie-and-Annette musicals, the spirit is closer to the New"
"A Love Song for Bobby Long A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel. The screenplay is based on the novel ""Off Magazine Street"" by Ronald Everett Capps. Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, the film stars John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson, who was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her performance. Following the death of her mother from a drug overdose, eighteen-year-old Purslane (Pursy) Hominy Will leaves a Florida trailer park, where she lives with an abusive boyfriend, to return to her"
"international stardom. The 2-LP soundtrack album, written by and featuring the Bee Gees, became the biggest selling soundtrack album ever released. The group reportedly wrote the songs 'to order' without having seen the film, and according to Frank Rose's 1977 ""Rolling Stone"" article about the Bee Gees, at least four of the songs — including ""Stayin' Alive"" – were written in just one week. Stigwood followed this with another hugely successful film adaptation of one of his stage productions, the rock'n'roll musical ""Grease"" (1978), which co-starred Travolta and Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, which featured additional material by expatriate Australian songwriter-producer"
"stage musical, the other being ""Hopelessly Devoted to You."" Randal Kleiser, the film's director, was not fond of this song because he felt that it did not mesh well with the rest of the Warren Casey-Jim Jacobs score. Danny Zuko (Travolta), leader of the T-Birds, has recently lettered in cross-country running in an effort to win back his estranged girlfriend Sandy (Newton-John); unbeknownst to him, Sandy, who has been conflicted about her upright and proper etiquette in a school full of brash greasers, has herself transformed into a greaser queen to win Danny back. In the song, Danny expresses pleasant"
"number to ""You're the One That I Want"" was nominated for TV Land's award for ""Movie Dance Sequence You Reenacted in Your Living Room"" in 2008. In the United Kingdom, the two Travolta/Newton-John duets, ""You're the One That I Want"" and ""Summer Nights"", were both number one hits and are still among the 20 best-selling singles of all time (at Nos. 6 and 19 respectively). The movie's title song was also a number-one hit single for Frankie Valli. The song ""Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee"" references Sal Mineo in the original stage version. Mineo was stabbed to death a"
"musical entitled """". It featured the voices of Jim Parsons as Buddy, Mark Hamill as Walter, Ed Asner reprising his film role as Santa, Garfunkel and Oates' Kate Micucci as Jovie, Rachael MacFarlane as Emily, Max Charles as Michael, Gilbert Gottfried as Mr. Greenway, and Jay Leno as the leader of the fake Santas. The screenplay was written by Andrew Horvath, Michael Jelenic with Martin and Meehan. It also contained Guardino, Sklar, and Beguelin's songs from this musical. This special also featured a new song titled ""Freezy the Snowman"". It had a limited national tour in November 2017. The tour"
"back in Brooklyn herself, and he's got all kinds of friends now, he's optimistic about finding and winning her. The film's tagline was ""Happy songs! Happy stars! Happy romance!"". Lawford dances while singing a song, a performance that was particularly well received by both critics and public, outshining future fellow Rat Pack member Sinatra. One highlight of the film is seeing and hearing Sinatra and Grayson singing ""Là ci darem la mano"" from Mozart's 1787 opera ""Don Giovanni"". The original director was supposed to be George Sidney, but he was replaced by Richard Whorf, who is probably best known for"
"Gala. It was released in theatres in Canada on October 22. The DVD was released on January 18, 2011. Score: A Hockey Musical Score: A Hockey Musical is a 2010 Canadian musical film written and directed by Michael McGowan starring Noah Reid, Allie MacDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Marc Jordan and Nelly Furtado. Seventeen-year-old Farley Gordon has led a sheltered life, home-schooled and isolated by his parents. His closest friend is Eve, their next door neighbour. When his skill at hockey is realised, Farley is signed to a major hockey league and achieves instant fame and success. But pressure from his coach"
"screenwriter/director Shainee Gabel and cinematographer Elliot Davis, deleted scenes, and ""Behind the Scenes of A Love Song for Bobby Long"" with cast and crew interviews. A Love Song for Bobby Long A Love Song for Bobby Long is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Shainee Gabel. The screenplay is based on the novel ""Off Magazine Street"" by Ronald Everett Capps. Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, the film stars John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson, who was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for her performance. Following the death of her mother"
"announced in July 1982 and began in August of the same year. It was Olivia's first tour in four years, since Totally Hot World Tour and visited only the North American countries United States and Canada. The tour had 64 shows through 40 cities, with a total attendance of 562,428 people. Newton-John friends John Travolta and Karen Carpenter attended some concerts. Jazz musician Tom Scott was the musical director and also served as opening act. The show consisted of four costume changes and three videos: for introduction, interlude and end credits. The encore consisted of the title song ""Physical"" (with"
"Post"" gave it a positive review, stating: ""There is thumbs-in-the-belt-loops line-dancing, an soul patch on a pocket-chain wearing John Travolta, and a running scene straight out of '10.' All in all, fun for the whole family."" According to ""Billboard"", the video was the thirteenth most watched music video on YouTube on week of December 22, 2012, having more than 6 million views in its first week. Credits for ""This Christmas"" adapted from Allmusic. This Christmas (John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John album) This Christmas is a Christmas album by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, released on November 9, 2012 by Universal"
"American actress Uma Thurman dancing with John Travolta in an iconic scene of the film ""Pulp Fiction"". She gave permission for Fall Out Boy to use her name. The track incorporates ""jittery piano chords"" and ""clapping drums"", along with bursts of verbiage like ""I can move mountains, I can work a miracle"". Bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz has stated: This was a fun song to write. originally, when we came up with the idea, and there was this sample in it, which is a sample from ""The Munsters"" TV show, people kept saying ""oh cool, like Quentin Tarantino, cool"" when"
"But once he was cast, it was like, ""Great. We get to see John dance. All the better."" ... My favorite musical sequences have always been in Godard, because they just come out of nowhere. It's so infectious, so friendly. And the fact that it's not a musical, but he's stopping the movie to have a musical sequence, makes it all the more sweet. Jerome Charyn argues that, beyond ""all the better"", Travolta's presence is essential to the power of the scene, and of the film: Travolta's entire career becomes ""backstory"", the myth of a movie star who has fallen"
"of domesticity. The dilemma of their conflicting careers is finally bridged when Tolliver hires Larry to produce a musical film on ice starring his wife, thus uniting their personal and professional lives. Although there was little of the Joan Crawford's actual skating in ""The Ice Follies of 1939"", MGM sent out press releases to announce that she was rigorously training to sing in the film. (Crawford had already sung on-screen in a few early musicals like ""The Hollywood Revue of 1929"" and ""Montana Moon"".) The releases even suggested that Crawford was so impressive that after performing her six songs this"
"of the three main roles, with Roberto Benigni as the third. The film opened and closed with Waits' songs. Jarmusch noted that ""Tom and I have a kindred aesthetic. An interest in unambitious people, marginal people."" The pair developed a friendship; Waits called Jarmusch ""Dr Sullen"", while Jarmusch called Waits ""The Prince of Melancholy"". Waits had devised the idea of a musical play, ""Franks Wild Years"", which would be loosely based on the eponymous song from ""Swordfishtrombones"". In late 1985, he reached an agreement that the play would be performed by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago's Briar Street Theatre"
"players since I made ""The Thomas Crown Affair""."" The film's theme song, ""How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"", was composed by Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. In the film, the song (performed by Patti Austin and James Ingram) is first heard as Richard and Paula return to Los Angeles after their honeymoon and then subsequently heard during the closing credits. ""How Do You Keep the Music Playing?"" was nominated for an Academy Award and has enjoyed a life of its own beyond the film, becoming a popular standard and recorded by such luminaries as Johnny"
"Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman were set to compose the film's musical numbers. The story would have looked at Tracy's entering the late 1960s era of music and the British Invasion, and used the Hippie movement and Vietnam War as backdrops. While no official casting was announced, New Line said that they hoped to ""snag much of the original ""Hairspray"" cast."" John Travolta, however, publicly announced that he would not return because he is ""not a big sequel guy"". The sequel was set for a mid-July 2010 release by Warner Bros., which owns New Line Cinema. However in June 2010,"
"Two of a Kind (1983 film) Two of a Kind is a 1983 American romantic fantasy comedy film directed by John Herzfeld and starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. The original musical score was composed by Patrick Williams. Travolta plays a cash-strapped inventor while Newton-John plays the bank teller whom he attempts to rob. They must come to show compassion for one another in order to delay God's judgment upon the Earth. Despite being a critical and commercial failure, ""Two of a Kind"" yielded three popular singles for Newton-John and a Platinum certification for the soundtrack. Four angels — Charlie"
"original film, Harvey Fierstein in the Broadway musical, and John Travolta in the 2007 movie musical. Felicity Huffman was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for playing Bree Osbourne (a male-to-female transsexual) in 2005's ""Transamerica"". Actors working in theatre, film, television and radio have to learn specific skills. Techniques that work well in one type of acting may not work well in another type of acting. To act on stage, actors need to learn the stage directions that appear in the script, such as ""Stage Left"" and ""Stage Right"". These directions are based on the actor's point of"
"Had Words"" (lyrics by Jonathan Hodge), sung by Hoggett near the film's conclusion, is an adaptation of the ""Maestoso"" final movement of the ""Organ Symphony"" by Camille Saint-Saëns, and was originally performed in 1977 by Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley. This tune also recurs throughout the film's score. There are also brief quotations within the score from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. Other music featured is by Leo Delibes, Richard Rodgers, Gabriel Fauré, and Georges Bizet. The film was a box office success, grossing $36.7 million at the box office in Australia and over $254 million worldwide. It also received"
"appearing in the film were Ray Bolger (Bill), Edna May Oliver (the Queen), Ilona Massey (Brenda) and Reginald Owen (Chancellor). Marjorie Lane dubbed the singing voice for Powell. In order to capitalize upon Powell's renown as a dancer, the film was retooled to allow her several showcase musical numbers. Songs included ""In the Still of the Night"". The reviewer at ""allmovie.com"" called the film an ""overproduced musical extravaganza"", and noted that ""The flimsy plot all but collapses under the weight of Gibbons' enormous sets and dance director David Gould's ditto choreography."" Rosalie (musical) Rosalie is a musical with music by"
"onslaught of often obvious ribaldry, she is tireless, fearless and performing circles around Elizabeth Berkley’s portrayal in the movie. Her vibrant physicality and knowing humor are a potent riposte to the story’s rabid misogyny."" The musical takes several characters and condenses them for stage. The characters of Marty and Gaye have been combined to one character, simply called 'Gay'. The characters of Molly and James are both portrayed by actor Marcus Deison. MacLachlan's character of Zack is simply called Kyle MacLachlan. The show features sexually explicit language and nudity throughout. The tagline is ""Singing. Dancing. Tits"". The original cast: On"
"a 1978 feature film, directed by Randal Kleiser and choreographed by Patricia Birch, who had also choreographed the show on Broadway. In addition to Birch, three performers from the stage version carried over to the cast: Jamie Donnelly reprised her role as Jan, John Travolta performed as lead Danny Zuko while Jeff Conaway played Kenickie, whose character was given a closer friendship to Danny than seen in the musical. Australian country/easy listening singer Olivia Newton-John was cast as Sandy; to accommodate the casting move, the character's nationality was rewritten, and two songs added (the big-band inspired ""You're the One that"
"career. However, after the failure of the film ""Two of a Kind"" (1983), which she starred again with John Travolta, her film career went on hiatus, and she would return to touring 16 years after the Physical Tour. The first attempts for the setlist included the songs ""Come on Over"", ""Don't Stop Believin'"", ""Pony Ride"" and the music video for ""Stranger's Touch"" (from ""Olivia Physical"") as a video interlude. The jazz musician Tom Scott was the tour musical director and also played saxophone in the band. He also served as the opening act, performing songs from his album ""Desire"" (1982)."