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Big Fish is a musical with music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa and book by John August. It is based on Daniel Wallace 's 1998 novel, Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions , and the 2003 film Big Fish written by John August and directed by Tim Burton .
The book is written in a chronological (although they may not appear so at first) series of tall tales. Despite the novel's first-person narration, there is no present tense part of the book. The various stories are Will's retelling of tales that Edward has told about his life.
The musical is based on Daniel Wallace's 1998 book, "Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions," and the 2003 film "Big Fish," written by August and directed by Tim Burton.
Big Fish is a 2003 American fantasy drama film directed by Tim Burton. [a] It is based on the 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace. [6]The film stars Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter, Alison Lohman, Robert Guillaume, Marion Cotillard, Steve Buscemi, and Danny DeVito.
Since then, his books have been translated into 18 languages, while Big Fish was made into a film by Tim Burton. [5] In a 2011 article for Pure Movies , he wrote about how absurd he found it that Big Fish was the book that was adapted into a film when all his others have clearer narrative structures.
Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion.It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his 17th-century novel Don Quixote.
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 ...
Purlie is set in an era when Jim Crow laws still were in effect in the American South.Its focus is on the dynamic traveling preacher Purlie Victorious Judson, who returns to his small Georgia town hoping to save Big Bethel, the community's church, and emancipate the cotton pickers who work on oppressive Ol' Cap'n Cotchipee's plantation.