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Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy-drama film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, an adolescent boy whose wish to be "big" transforms him physically into an adult. The film also stars Elizabeth Perkins , David Moscow , John Heard , and Robert Loggia , and was written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg .
An early, one-octave version of the Walking Piano was installed at FAO Schwarz in New York City in 1982. A new three-octave version specifically created for the 1988 movie Big at the request of director Penny Marshall was played by Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia.
"Chopsticks" is the second song played by Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia in the famous giant piano scene at FAO Schwarz in the 1988 film Big. [11] In the stage musical adaption of The Lion King, "Chopsticks" can be heard in the song "Lioness' Hunt". [citation needed]
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Big The Musical is a 1996 musical adaptation of the 1988 film starring Tom Hanks. It was directed by Mike Ockrent and featured music by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., with choreography by Susan Stroman. It involves Josh Baskin, a 12-year-old boy who grows up overnight after being granted a wish by a Zoltar Speaks machine at a ...
Opening Title Production company Cast and crew Ref. J A N U A R Y: 8 Cop: Atlantic Releasing Corporation: James B. Harris (director/screenplay); James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning, Charles Haid, Raymond J. Barry, Randi Brooks, Steven Lambert, Christopher Wynne, Jan McGill, Vicki Wauchope, Melinda Lynch, John Petievich, Dennis Stewart, Annie McEnroe
The Walking Piano. In the 1972 short story "The Lesson", the store is cast as an instance of immense wealth disparity between classes to a group of poor children. The New York store is featured in the 1988 Tom Hanks film Big, in which Hanks and Robert Loggia dance "Heart & Soul" and "Chopsticks" on the store's large dance-on piano. [40]
Two characters perform the song in a piano museum in the 1980 Disney film Midnight Madness. In the 1988 fantasy comedy film Big, this is the tune played on the giant piano at FAO Schwarz in the scene where the characters portrayed by Robert Loggia and Tom Hanks perform a duet in front of other customers. [21]