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Broadway Melody of 1936 is a musical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935. [2] In New York, the film opened at the Capitol Theatre , the site of many prestigious MGM premieres. It was a follow-up of sorts to the successful The Broadway Melody , which had been released in 1929, although, there is no story connection with the earlier film ...
Chess is a musical with music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus of the pop group ABBA, lyrics by Ulvaeus and Tim Rice, and book by Rice.The story involves a politically driven, Cold War-era chess tournament between two grandmasters, one American and the other Soviet, and their fight over a woman who manages one and falls in love with the other.
Johnson portrays the mutant cab driver and Mars secret agent Benny in the 1990 hit science fiction film Total Recall. He also starred in the Broadway musical On the Twentieth Century and appeared in the Public Theater's "Shakespeare in the Park" 2005 revival of Two Gentlemen of Verona. [1] He was also in the musical The Rink.
Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway is a 2008 film of the final performance of the original Broadway production of the musical Rent on September 7, 2008, with some footage of the closing night celebration. The film had a limited theatrical release between September 24 and 28, 2008, in more than 500 theaters with high definition digital projection ...
Broadway: The Golden Age is a 2003 documentary film by Rick McKay, [1] telling the story of the "golden age" of Broadway by the oral history of the legendary actors of the 1940s and 1950s, incorporating rare lost footage of actual performances and never-before-seen personal home movies and photos.
Each show was broadcast live in color from New York City, was an adaptation of a famous Broadway play, and included commercials for Westinghouse featuring Betty Furness. [2] Using a "giant new studio," [ 3 ] plays were presented in front of a studio audience, which contributed a Broadway-like element.
Here was a show in which cynicism, sophistication, bogus sentimentality and high spirits were as much the content as the form of an otherwise traditional Broadway musical. The first production [1940] shocked a lot of critics and many theatergoers. There was no question about the quality of the Richard Rodgers score and Lorenz Hart lyrics.
"La Vie Bohème" (French: The Bohemian Life) is a song from the 1996 musical Rent. It is a celebration of bohemianism, especially the type present in 1980s Alphabet City, Manhattan, which begins with a mocking of the character Benny's statement that "Bohemia is dead". [1]