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'Titanic' disaster inspires Broadway musical Waiting in the wings is Curtains, his attempt to create the first successful musical mystery. OK, he'll give us a clue: Curtains is about a musical in tryout in Boston and in trouble. He was collaborating with composer-lyricist Maury Yeston on Grand Hotel when they discovered they were both intrigued by the idea of creating a musical about the Titanic. www.enquirer.com /editions/1999/11/07/loc_titanic_disaster.html   (928 words)

Curtains for Rosie's "Taboo" - Jan 14, 2004 - E! Online News The musical, which told the tale of the sex- and drug-fueled rise of the former Culture Clubber and flamboyant performance artist Leigh Bowery during the '80s London club scene, contained new tunes and some old hits from George (real name George Dowd), who played Bowery in the production. The entertainer has hired the show's associate producer, Dan MacDonald, to help turn her autobiography, Find Me, into a Broadway musical. She even envisioned Taboo snagging the Tony Award for best musical. www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,13272,00.html?newsrellink   (635 words)

magic Although this musical centered on ancient Rome was written in the 1970s, it certainly retains its retro influences, as is evident in the costumes and themes of the musical. "Pippin," a musical written by Roger O. Hirston with lyrics and music composed by Stephen Schwartz, is based on the life of Pippin, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. Having been in every musical throughout her high school career, Jessie tried out for "Pippin" because she "loves the music and being a part of it all." Jessie also liked the fact that the cast was smaller this year. www.sci.edu /sleepyweasel/Weasel03/magic.html   (1625 words)

CD Baby: MIIKA GRADY: Curtains Curtains, the full-length solo debut by Miika Grady, is a blend of delicately intricate songwriting supported by electronically-styled rhythms and samples to create an album that speaks subtly of love and loss. Curtains is all about intimacy; from the warm vocals and melodies of tracks like "Noticed" to the electronic styled beats of "Lullaby" the album absorbs the listener from start to finish. Demos for the album were completed in January 2001 and produced by musical partner, and trusted confidant, Mike Skinner. www.cdbaby.com /miikagrady   (1625 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Curtains: Music Curtains, the last (currently)album of the Chili's guitar maverick, oozes creativity and musical flare. Curtains is, appropriately enough, the sixth and final album in a series of solo efforts released by Chili Pepper John Frusciante in 2004. Curtains is completely acoustic, and follows critically acclaimed series, The Will to Death, Ataxia's Automatic Writing, DC EP, Inside of Emptiness, and A Sphere in the Heart of Silence. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00069YE0W   (845 words)

Tindersticks Curtains If radio programmers had any sense of musical adventure, there are a wealth of gems on Curtains that would be perfect fodder for an edgy AOR playlist. On Curtains, Tindersticks continues to mine a cynical, world-weary vein and in doing so, has really struck paydirt. If you enjoy an intense, mature sound and lyrics that go far beyond the usual without being irrelevant or nonsensical, then Curtains just may be for you. www.iq451.com /music/album/tindersticks-B000003TSK.htm   (845 words)

The Phantom of the Opera Purchase Sheet Music from all your favorite musicals! - Official site for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals. The original London cast recording--which was the first cast album in British musical history to enter the charts at number one--has since gone both gold and platinum in Britain and the United States, selling over two million copies. www.theatrehistory.com /british/musical005.html   (845 words)

Indiainfo.com -> News -> India Overseas -> Curtains up on a South Asian American theatre company Manji, a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy who performed in 'The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem' and in 'Too Tired to Die,' among other productions, announced that Disha, which means "direction," would have more projects such as innovative film and theater performances. Bedi is a graduate of Williams College and the British American Drama Academy who appeared in 'East is East,' a co-production of Manhattan Theater Club and the New Group and recently performed in 'The Five Hysterical Girls Theorem' at the Connelly Theater. New York: This should be music to the ears of budding South Asian American theatrical talent. newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2000/10/17/17purva.html   (712 words)

Bamboo Curtain - AskTheBrain.com Bamboo is a highly revered plant in the East, providing food, mat floor covering, curtains, beautiful plants and musical instruments. Curtains (cloth and bamboo) can also be treated with insecticide and hung at windows or doorways to repel or kill mosquitoes. These porches are most useful when large enough to accommodate a table and chairs, and they may be protected from publicity by means of bamboo strip curtains or by a screen of vines. www.askthebrain.com /bamboo_curtain-.html   (712 words)

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Theatre Mirror Reviews - "The Sound of Music" The perennial favorite musical about Maria Von Trapp, from postulant in a Salzburg Abbey, to governess for a widowed naval officer, to "climbing every mountain" to find her true love, Capt. Von Trapp, and his seven children is recreated in Theatre Works production of "The Sound Of Music". I was impressed with the musical quality of this show more than anything else. And his musical numbers with the children were very good. www.theatermirror.com /tsm.htm   (655 words)

'Forbidden Broadway' spoofs the hit shows - (United Press International) The main concern of the show is the recent transformation of the Broadway musical into a pastiche of pop musical hit songs with virtually no plot. Set designer Megan Halpern has provided some purple curtains as a backdrop for an empty stage, suggesting that this show does not have a Fort Knox budget, and Alvin Colt has designed nearly 90 costumes and accessory changes for Alessandrini's rogues' gallery. Back then the theater had more original plays and fewer retread revivals and an abundance of classy musicals rather than Disney spectaculars. washingtontimes.com /upi-breaking/20050222-071450-3245r.htm   (655 words)

Pump Boys And Dinettes Reviews He sauntered out to his usual spot downstage center, but this time the curtains were open and behind him were arranged the various pump boys and diner waitresses who comprise the cast of this raucous, high-spirited musical. On the dinette side of the stage, the Cupp sisters Prudie (Amy Miller) and Rhetta (Elizabeth Earnheart) sang, danced and played impromptu kitchen percussion instruments (pots and pans) for many of the shows 21 musical numbers. Pump Boys and Dinettes features a double set with a fully appointed garage on one side and the Double Cupp diner of Frog Level, S.C. on the other. www.barntheatre.com /review/PumpBoysReview.htm   (1509 words)

'How to Succeed' Hits the Mark The 1961 Broadway blockbuster musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" is now old enough to be played straight, without apology, as a period piece. Director Jeffrey R. Breslow stages the show as it might have been seen in 1961, even making rare use of several proscenium curtains at the Alden Theatre to provide old-fashioned scene segues. With a script by Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, the team that gave us "Guys and Dolls" (the greatest musical of all time), this show is all guys and dollars. www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/20/AR2005072000847.html   (702 words)

Salon Sharps and Flats This is true both lyrically, as Staples' word clumps are assembled collagelike over the course of an hour, and musically, as mood weighs supreme, giving "Curtains" its sense of aesthetic completion. The perfectly titled "Desperate Man," meanwhile, is lifted directly, at least it sounds to be, from Ennio Morricone's score to "Once Upon a Time in the West." The musical sum of "Curtains," enter pointillism, is greater than its parts. This booze-drenched reverie, which Staples claims is journal-scribbled autobiography, is as claustrophobic as it is mesmerizing: the airing of dirty, debauched laundry as catharsis. www.salon.com /july97/sharps/sharps970716.html   (702 words)

Playbill Features: PBOL'S THEATRE WEEK IN REVIEW, April 1-7: The Calm Before the Storm That will begin to change next week, when the curtains officially rise and reviews begin to roll in daily. On April 4, the intimate musical won a Lucille Lortel Award as Outstanding Musical. It was a week of highs and lows for James Joyce's The Dead. www.playbill.com /features/article/66180.html   (825 words)

Playbill News: Kander, Ebb and Stone's Curtains Gets NYC Workshop; Mystery Man Rupert Holmes Joins Team Curtains, the long aborning murder mystery musical comedy by composer John Kander, lyricist Fred Ebb and librettist Peter Stone, is being explored again in a New York City workshop that began July 5, Playbill.com learned. It is thought Holmes is only focusing on the book of Curtains, and not contributing to Kander and Ebb's existing score. The addition of Holmes to the project comes following the recent deaths of Stone and Ebb, major talents in the American musical theatre. www.playbill.com /news/article/93941.html   (825 words)

Theater News - Theater News: David Hyde Pierce Will Star in Curtains in L.A. - David Hyde Pierce will star in the backstage murder mystery-musical comedy Curtains at L.A.'s Ahmanson Theater this summer. Set in Boston in the 1950s, Curtains centers on detective Frank Cioffi (to be played by Pierce), who is called to investigate the murder of a musical's leading lady. Theater News - Theater News: David Hyde Pierce Will Star in Curtains in L.A. Home www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/7467   (272 words)

the of mirror eye » The Boredoms Are Coming The curtains opened and Eye was standing in the center of the stage motionless. Main dude Yamatsuka Eye first gained a reputation in Japan while performing in some of the most extreme musical acts. Thankfully, Hanatarash burned itself out and Yamatsuka Eye quickly found new musical inspiration from the rock and the roll. ofmirroreye.net /blog/2005/05/the-boredoms-are-coming   (975 words)

A Short History of Alderley & Wilmslow Operatic Society Founded with the aim of "cultivating the Art of Musical Drama and promoting entertainment of a social nature..." it was 1949 and many fund-raising events in-between before the curtains rose on the first production - Lionel Monckton's "A Country Girl". Alderley and Wilmslow Amateur Operatic Society was founded in 1947 at a meeting in the ballroom of the Rex Theatre, Wilmslow, by 12 young, keen members who had broken away from the Wilmslow Musical Comedy Society (which folded in 1955). The Souvenir program carried the message "Ladies - Kindly Remove Your Hats"!, and the North Western Electricity Board exhorted us to "use our electricity out of peak hours, or you may stop cows from being milked". www.a-waos.freeserve.co.uk /History.htm   (357 words)

Playbill News: Peter Stone, Tony Award-Winning Librettist of Titanic, 1776, Dead at 73 A private reading of the long aborning murder mystery musical comedy, Curtains, by composer Kander, Ebb and librettist Stone, was expected to happen in May. It follows a May 2001 reading of the same show. Peter Stone, the Tony Award-winning librettist who wrote the books of the Broadway musicals Titanic, My One and Only, Sugar, The Will Rogers Follies and 1776, died April 26 at a Manhattan hospital. He also wrote the libretto for the 1961 Broadway musical, Kean, which had a score by Robert Wright and George Forrest (Grand Hotel). www.playbill.com /news/article/79223.html   (1806 words)

Curtains for "Lennon" - Sep 16, 2005 - E! Online News Produced with the blessing of Yoko Ono, Lennon was a so-called "jukebox musical" recounting the rock legend's life using his music, including three never released tracks--"India, India," "I Don't Want to Lose You," and "Cookin' (in the Kitchen of Love). Damned by critics and dissed by theatergoers, the Broadway musical inspired by the life and songs of late Beatle John Lennon will end its run Sept. 24 after only 49 regular performances. Lennon was extensively retooled by adapter and director Don Scardino, forcing the production to be postponed on several occasions. www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,17381,00.html?rssmusic   (560 words)

Adrian's Album Reviews : The Tindersticks Tindersticks, Tindersticks (#2), The Bloomsbury Theatre, Curtains, Simple Pleasure, Can Our Love, Waiting For The Moon, Memories of both 'Curtains' and the second Tindersticks album are evoked with tunes such as 'Say Goodbye To The City' and '4.48 Psychosis', but this 'Waiting For The Moon' album wins out over such comparisons given appropriate time. The album is hardly a disaster however, and still does contain some really moving songs and beautiful musical settings. www.adriandenning.co.uk /tindersticks.html   (560 words)

Pacific Overtures At times the action took place before huge show curtains splashed and dripping with pastels. Martin Gottfried comments, "Pacific Overtures is the first show I've ever seen that doesn't stop being musical when involved with plot.” Only musically and vocally do they participate in the drama (Ernst 117). www.larryavisbrown.homestead.com /files/Sondheim/pacificovertures.htm   (3633 words)

CAROL CHANNING If theatergoers were to be polled about what they felt was the most memorable scene in musical comedy, most would probably cite the moment when the curtains part atop the stairs of the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant and Dolly Levi appears in her red Freddy Wittop gown, beginning her descent to "rejoin the human race." As both an impersonator and the impersonated, the name Carol Channing has been synonymous with musical comedy ever since December 8, 1949, when the curtain at the Zeigfeld Theatre rose on her performance as Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In honor of Carol’s massive resume, on May 29th, she was awarded an honorary doctorate of entertainment arts from California State University, Stanislaus — officially making her Dr. Carol Channing. www.carolchanning.net /razzledazzle.php   (411 words)

Visual Music But a second, improved model in 1754 used some 500 candles with reflecting mirrors to provide enough light for a larger audience, and must have been hot, smelly and awkward, with considerable chance of noise and malfunction between the pullies, curtains and candles.... Each instrumental group or musical "voice" is represented by a coloured line which closely follow the musical movement. Her visuals were made to music and that music was seen in terms of their mathematical formulae. www.paradise2012.com /visualMusic/musima   (6242 words)

‘Pajama Game’ delights As soon as the curtains opened at Dana Hills High School, the audience was thrown into a magical night filled with, well, pajamas. Dana Hills High School would have made the original cast proud with its rendition of “The Pajama Game.” Who knew a musical involving pajamas could be so entertaining? “The Pajama Game” is a rollicking frolic that pits management against union and men against women with some of the best know hits of the 1950s, such as “Hey There” and “Hernando’s Hideaway.” The story unfolds in a pajama factory with a union that is about to strike. www.ocregister.com /ocr/2004/11/29/sections/local/article_327404.php   (513 words)

Inside Graceland Allowing for a new round of messages.The wrought-iron gates at graceland among the most famous in the world show two guiter players and musical notes. Red curtains were also sometimes added at Christmas time. Dinner at Graceland was usually served at 9 or 10 p.m Elvis nad his friends sometimes used the dining room to play poker. www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/7149/insidegraceland.html   (928 words)

Hikki Texts It's quite unlikely that it comes from musical terms (G-string of string instruments) considering there's a record that Americans called the fundoshi that the inhabitants of the Philippines wore as G-string. It was already time that the morning sunshine shone in through the curtains, when I was asking myself hugging a pillow why it made me feel so unreasonable that Fundoshi was called as "Classic Pants." I say those who wear Fundoshi are supposed to be the ones behind the times(about 200 years)! hikki.blogspot.com   (2422 words)

Curtains for "Producer" Goodman - Apr 15, 2002 - E! Online News Goodman will be replaced by Tony-nominated cast member Brad Oscar, who currently plays the musical's Nazi playwright, Franz Liebkind. Henry has been well received nightly by audiences, but the producers have decided to pursue a different quality for the role. Despite his lack of brand-name recognition, Goodman impressed The Producers brain trust after nailing Bialystock--a greedy two-bit producer who tries to bilk elderly investors out of their life savings--during his audition. www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,9808,00.html?newsrellink   (2422 words)

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