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Able Edwards, the first movie with all-CGI backgrounds and live actors. [126] The Polar Express by Robert Zemeckis, the first film to entirely use the performance capture technique, whereby the physical movements of the actors are digitally recorded and then translated into a computer animation. [121] [127]
Company (Broadway revival with Raúl Esparza; PBS Great Performances broadcast 2008; DVD and Blu-Ray 2009 release) [5] Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds (Universal Pictures) [6] Kiss Me, Kate (London) The Light in the Piazza (Broadway run; PBS Live from Lincoln Center) [5] Manchester Passion (UK) South Pacific in Concert ...
The Black Crook, which ran from 1866 to 1868, was the first Broadway show to run for over one year. [127] This is a list of shows that have held the record for being the longest-running show (including straight plays and musicals) on Broadway since 1853. A few probable longest-running plays prior to 1853 are also listed.
The collection includes many Tony Award-winning productions. Each production is normally recorded only once, although exceptions are sometimes made for significant cast changes. An attempt is made to collect artistically significant theater. The first play recorded by TOFT was Golden Bat, a 1970 Off-Broadway Japanese rock musical.
Blossoms on Broadway; Broadway Melody of 1938; A Damsel in Distress; A Day at the Races; Double or Nothing; The Firefly; The Girl Said No; Heidi; High Flyers; High, Wide, and Handsome; Hollywood Hotel; I'll Take Romance; In Old Chicago; Life Begins in College; The Life of the Party; Love and Hisses; Make a Wish; Manhattan Merry-Go-Round ...
Oklahoma!, 1943 Broadway, 1947 London, m Richard Rodgers, lb Oscar Hammerstein II, (2,212, the longest-running Broadway show in history, until My Fair Lady) Salad Days, 1954, mlb Julian Slade, l Dorothy Reynolds (2,283 in London, finally breaking the long-held record of Chu Chin Chow for longest-running musical. It held the record until My Fair ...
In 1968, Decca issued a 2-LP set of the London cast of Man of La Mancha, an album which featured almost the complete show (the Broadway cast album had been recorded by Kapp Records). In 1949, Decca began to re-release the best-selling of these albums on LP and in the late 1950s began offer electronically enhanced for stereo editions.
1895 – In Paris on December 28, 1895, the Lumière brothers screen ten films at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris making the first commercial public screening ever made, marked traditionally as the birth date of the film. Gaumont Film Company, the oldest ever film studio, was founded by inventor Léon Gaumont.