The Best Broadway Musicals on Film.
MGM was particularly notorious for drastically re-writing a Broadway Musical property to the point of making it unrecognizable, which makes you wonder what they liked about the show in the first place.
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Actors George Akram, Karen Olivo, Matt Cavenaugh, Josefina Scaglione and Cody Green take to the stage for the curtain call at the opening night of ‘West Side Story’ on Broadway at the Palace Theatre on March 19, 2009. Musical theater has always been a goldmine for the film industry. A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future. A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life. Copyright 1991-2020 © Playbill Inc. All Rights Reserved. Jun 14, 2016. Hopelessly Devoted to Musicals. If you’ve got a song in your heart, we’ve got a list for your eyes: The best-reviewed musicals from Wizard of Oz to .
In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter.
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The movie stars Richard Harris as Arthur, Vanessa Redgrave as Guinevere, and Franco Nero as the knight Lancelot.Barbra Streisand made the role of Fanny Brice her own on both stage and film, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.Starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, this movie adaptation created a string of hits including Directed by Richard Attenborough, Michael Douglas starred in the musical film about an audition for a New York stage show.Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1986 musical was beautifully adapted by director Joel Schumacher in this 2004 film starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum in the lead roles.This American musical drama is adapted from the Broadway rock musical which is loosely based on the opera In this musical horror film directed by Tim Burton, Johnny Depp played the murdering London barber and Helena Bonham Carter the baker who turned the victims into pies. © Paramount Pictures/Fotos International/Getty Images When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition.
The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it. To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process. and more. A selfish Prince is cursed to become a monster for the rest of his life, unless he learns to fall in love with a beautiful young woman he keeps prisoner.
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The pinnacle was “The Sound of Music,” winning Best Musical in 1960 over “Gypsy,” though the latter still received a big budget film treatment.
Indiana University South Bend. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opéra House.