On iPlayer: Paint Your Wagon
Clint Eastwood heads westward in 1969 musical Paint Your Wagon AKA Purty Harry. In a possible attempt to rebottle the success of Oklahoma!, Lerner and Loewe’s (My Fair Lady) musical […]
Tag Archives: musical
Cats
What a technological age we live in where a film like Cats is possible. Not the eye-clawing special effects, those are horrific. I’m talking about the technology that enables a […]
Jazz Odyssey: All That Jazz
A renowned choreographer and director Joe (Roy Scheider) is working on a brand new stage play set to be his finest yet. But as he struggles to balance work, family […]
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
The choircese returns in this 1993 clerical error, this time teaching an inner-city school to sing a wimple song, essentially making it Coach Martyr. Directed by Bill “Mac from Predator” […]
Quiz Call: Victor/Victoria
This Quiz Call film is an answer to the question ‘Musicals‘ which is legitimate because it is indeed a well-known musical, even if it’s not exactly Mamma Mia!. Victoria (Julie […]
Quiz Call: Carmen Jones
You’ll kick yourself for not guessing Carmen Jones in Quiz Call‘s musicals category, alongside classics like Boney M musical Daddy Cool and not really a musical Animal Crackers. This 1954 […]
The Threepenny Opera
This 1931 adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s German play follows Mack the Knife (Rudolf Forster), a kind of celebrity crook à la the Krays or Jared Kushner. The […]
Hairspray (1988)
It’s Baltimore in 1963 and all the local teens are going crazy for the Corny Collins Show which features kids in the area busting their best moves. There’s only one […]
Fiddler on the Roof
Actor, writer, director and magician Andy Nyman adds another string to his bow as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof at London’s Playhouse Theatre. Nyman (Ghost Stories, Dead Set) steps into […]
Burlesque
Christina Aguilera is Ali, a fresh off the bus singer looking to make it big in LA. There she stumbles into a burlesque club and sets her sights on becoming […]
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