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LilyHobbitJedi Title: Apples to Apples and 20 Questions hostess Registered: Aug '05	Date Posted: 3/31 5:33pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Grease" (1978)
	I love Grease. It's fun to watch and has some fun, catchy music in it. -----signature----- Proud Master to eboneya & Alassë Eärfalas! Everybody Lies- House/SW Crossover! http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b10476/28032689/r28039379/ A Light In The Darkness http://boards.theforce.net/the_saga/b1047
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RX_Sith Registered: Mar '06	Date Posted: 4/10 12:21pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "All That Jazz" (1979)
	All That Jazz (1979). (from wiki) All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse. The screenplay by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of the dancer, choreographer, and director's life and career. The film was inspired by Fosse's manic effort to edit his film Lenny while simultaneously staging his 1975 Broadway musical Chicago. It borrows its title from a Kander and Ebb tune in that production. Plot Choreographing and casting for dancers for his next Broadway show, while editing his severely over-budget and over-schedule Hollywood production about a standup comic is getting to Joe Gideon. He is a workaholic choreographer and theater director who chain-smokes and chain-sleeps with all of his dancers. Without a daily dose of Vivaldi, Visine, Alka-Seltzer, Dexedrine and sex, he wouldn't have the energy to keep up the biggest show of them all — his life. His girlfriend Katie Jagger, his ex-wife Audrey Paris and daughter Michelle try to pull him back from the brink, but it is too late for his exhausted body and stress-ravaged heart. Decades of overworking and constant tremendous stress have gotten to Gideon. In his imagination, he already flirts with an angel of death named Angelique. Gideon's condition gets worse, as after a particularly stressful script rehearsal with the penny-pinching backers, he is taken to a hospital with chest pains and admitted with severe attacks of angina. Joe tries to take it in his stride and walk straight back to the rehearsal, but is ordered to stay for three to four weeks to rest his heart and recover from his exhaustion. The show is postponed, but Gideon continues his antics from the hospital bed. Champagne flows, endless string of women frolic around and the cigarettes are always lit. Cardiogram readings don't show any improvement - Gideon is playing with death. As the paltry reviews for his feature film (which has been released without him) come in, Gideon has a massive coronary and is taken straight to coronary artery bypass surgery. The backers for the Broadway show must decide now whether it's time to pack up or replace Gideon as the director. Their matter-of-fact money-oriented negotiations with the insurers are juxtaposed with graphic scenes of open heart surgery. They realize the best way to recoup their money, even make a profit, is to bet on Gideon dying — which would bring in a profit of over USD$500,000 — not bad in the crazy unpredictable world of showbiz. Meanwhile, elements from Gideon's past life are staged into a dazzling sequence of set-ups — himself directing from the hospital bed, while on life support. Realizing his death is imminent, his mortality unconquerable, Gideon has another heart attack. In glittery musical numbers, he goes through the five phases of death — anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. As death closes in on Gideon, the fantasy episodes become more hallucinatory and extravagant and in a final epilogue that is set up as a truly monumental live variety show featuring everyone from his past, Gideon himself takes center stage. Production notes The film's structure is often compared to Federico Fellini's 8½, another thinly-veiled autobiographical film with fantastical elements. Cliff Gorman's role of a difficult and self-obsessed actor portraying a real-life notorious stand-up comic was seen by many as a personal rebuke to Dustin Hoffman, the star of Lenny. Gorman had originated the title role of Lenny Bruce on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for his performance. He had been considered a favorite to reprise the role in the film adaptation but was passed over for a "name" actor, Hoffman. However, that theory is undercut by the fact that Fosse also directed Lenny. Gideon's rough handling of chorus girl Victoria Porter closely resembles Fosse's own treatment of Jennifer Nairn-Smith during rehearsals for Pippin. Nairn-Smith herself appears in the film as Jennifer, one of the NY/LA dancers. The film is available on a "Special Music Edition" DVD released by Fox in 2007. Its Oscar-winning editor, Alan Heim, does the commentary. The previous DVD from 2003 features a scene-specific commentary by Roy Scheider, and interviews with Scheider and Fosse. Principal cast Actor Role Roy Scheider Joe Gideon Jessica Lange Angelique Leland Palmer Audrey Paris Ann Reinking Kate Jagger Cliff Gorman Davis Newman Ben Vereen O'Connor Flood Erzsebet Foldi Michelle Gideon Michael Tolan Dr. Ballinger Max Wright Joshua Penn William LeMassena Jonesy Hecht Deborah Geffner Victoria Porter John Lithgow Lucas Sergeant Soundtrack * "On Broadway" performed by George Benson * "A Perfect Day" performed by Harry Nilsson * "There's No Business Like Show Business" performed by Ethel Merman * "Everything Old Is New Again" performed by Peter Allen * "Bye Bye Love" performed by Ben Vereen * "Hospital Hop" performed by Anthony Holland * "After You've Gone" performed by Leland Palmer with Ann Reinking and Erzsebet Foldi * "You Better Change Your Ways" performed by Ann Reinking with Leland Palmer and Erzsebet Foldi * "Who's Sorry Now?" performed by Ann Reinking with Leland Palmer and Erzsebet Foldi * "Some Of These Days" performed by Erzsebet Foldi with Ann Reinking and Leland Palmer * "Sing, Sing, Sing" performed by Roy Scheider * "Take Off With Us" performed by Anthony Holland * "Take Off With Us (Reprise)" performed by Deborah Geffner, Sandahl Bergman, Eileen Casey, Bruce Anthony Davis, Gary Flannery, Jennifer Nairn-Smith, Danny Ruvolo, Leland Schwantes, John Sowinski, Candace Tovar, and Rima Vetter Critical reception It scores a 96% "fresh" (or "good") rating on the movie review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. In his review in the New York Times, Vincent Canby called the film "an uproarious display of brilliance, nerve, dance, maudlin confessions, inside jokes and, especially, ego" and "an essentially funny movie that seeks to operate on too many levels at the same time... some of it makes you wince, but a lot of it is great fun... A key to the success of the production is the performance of Roy Scheider as Joe Gideon... With an actor of less weight and intensity, All That Jazz might have evaporated as we watched it. Mr. Scheider's is a presence to reckon with." Variety described it as "a self-important, egomaniacal, wonderfully choreographed, often compelling film" and added, "Roy Scheider gives a superb performance as Gideon, creating a character filled with nervous energy... The film's major flaw lies in its lack of real explanation of what, beyond ego, really motivates [him]." TV Guide says, "The dancing is frenzied, the dialogue piercing, the photography superb, and the acting first-rate, with non-showman Scheider an illustrious example of casting against type . . . All That Jazz is great-looking but not easy to watch; Fosse's indulgent vision at times approaches sour self-loathing." Time Out London states, "As translated onto screen, [Fosse's] story is wretched: the jokes are relentlessly crass and objectionable; the song'n'dance routines have been created in the cutting-room and have lost any sense of fun; Fellini-esque moments add little but pretension; and scenes of a real open-heart operation, alternating with footage of a symbolic Angel of Death in veil and white gloves, fail even in terms of the surreal." In 2001, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2006, the film ranked #14 on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. Awards and nominations * Academy Award for Best Picture (nominee) * Academy Award for Best Actor (Roy Scheider, nominee) * Academy Award for Best Director (nominee) * Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominee) * Academy Award for Best Cinematography (nominee) * Academy Award for Best Art Direction (winner) * Academy Award for Best Costume Design (winner) * Acadamy Award for Best Editing (winner) * Academy Award for Best Original Score (winner) * Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Roy Scheider, nominee) * BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Roy Scheider, nominee) * BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design (nominee) * BAFTA Award for Best Production Design (nominee) * BAFTA Award for Best Sound (nominee) * BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography (winner) * BAFTA Award for Best Editing (winner) * Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or (winner, tied with Kagemusha) * American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature Film (winner) * Bodil Award for Best Non-European Film (winner) Discuss. -----signature----- Chief of Staff - The SWC Rebel Scum
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Zaz Title: Manager: The Amphitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/10 1:01pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "All That Jazz"
	The original casting was Richard Dreyfus. He wasn't right, but then neither is Schneider, though he gives it ye olde college try. Schneider is an excellent actor who doesn't (IMO) have the charisma necessary here--I was quite heartily bored by his (self-induced) problems, and in order for this story to be compelling, that shouldn't happen. And...Fosse is ye past master of mistaking obviousness as irony. The smoking doctor, etc. So...this movie consists of several show-stopping musical numbers (of which the opening number is by far the best) intercut with a very, very bad autobiography. Fast Forward is your friend.
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RX_Sith Registered: Mar '06	Date Posted: 4/16 10:37am Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Hair"
	Hair (1979). (from wiki) Hair is a 1979 film based on the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center. The hippies introduce him to their environment of marijuana, acid, unorthodox relationships and wedding songs. The film was directed by Miloš Forman, who was nominated for a César Award for his work on the film. Cast members include Treat Williams, John Savage, Beverly D'Angelo, Don Dacus of the rock band Chicago, Annie Golden, Dorsey Wright, Nell Carter, Ellen Foley as well as Johnny Maestro, Jim Rosica and Fred Ferrara of the rock group The Brooklyn Bridge. Dance scenes were choreographed by Twyla Tharp and performed by the Twyla Tharp Dance Foundation. The film was nominated for a Best Picture Golden Globe Award, and Williams was nominated for a Golden Globe as New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture - Male. Plot Meeting the hippie tribe The movie begins in rural Oklahoma, where Claude Bukowski (John Savage) is boarding a bus for New York City, to be drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. Once he arrives in New York, he encounters a tribe of hippies in Central Park ("The Tribe"), including George Berger (Treat Williams), the leader; Jeannie Ryan, a young pregnant girl; Lafayette "Hud" Johnson (Dorsey Wright), a black man with a large afro; and Woof Daschund (Don Dacus), who has long blond hair. The four befriend Claude and share some hashish. The next morning, Berger suggests that the tribe crash a debutante ball to meet the beautiful and wealthy young debutante Sheila, whom they had encountered earlier in Central Park while she was riding horseback. The five hippies crash the elegant dinner, and Berger dances on the dinner table singing "I Got Life" before he is arrested. The tribe does not have bail money, so they are jailed, during which time there is rendition of the title song "Hair" during a prison riot. Later, Berger goes home to ask his father for bail money which he says he will give him if Berger cuts his hair. Berger refuses and his mother then gives him the money without his father's knowledge. Once out of jail, the tribe goes to Central Park with thousands of protesting hippies. Claude tries LSD, and experiences bizarre hallucinations of marrying Sheila, watching her fly around the inside of the church while pregnant, and then the wedding being consumed by fire. The Tribe finds Claude alone at night, still high from LSD, and they all go swimming naked in the reservoir. The Tribe plays a prank by taking Claude and Sheila's clothes, so Sheila has to hail a cab while she is naked. However, the tribe becomes upset at Claude when he indicates that he plans to go to the Army the next morning to begin boot camp. Army boot camp and Vietnam Claude is sent to a base in Nevada for his boot camp training, and he writes to Sheila. Berger suggests that they should all go visit him in Nevada. Meanwhile, Hud's fiancee (Cheryl Barnes) and young son find Hud and she tries to find out if Jeannie is carrying his child. She doesn't want to go home without him, grieving that he does not love her and his child ("Easy to be Hard"). After the Tribe steals a Lincoln town car, Hud takes her along with the rest of the Tribe to Nevada. Once they arrive at the army base gate, the guard won't let them in, so Sheila seduces a soldier, and The Tribe takes his uniform and his car. Berger cuts his hair, puts on the uniform and drives the soldier's car through the gate. Berger takes Claude's place in boot camp, and they exchange uniforms. Berger then goes into the barracks in Claude's place, while Claude drives off to meet the rest of The Tribe. While Claude is gone, his unit, including Berger, has been shipped out to Vietnam. Berger dies in Vietnam, as established by the final scene of the movie, when The Tribe (including Claude and Hud's fiancee) gathers around Berger's grave in Arlington Cemetery near Washington D.C. The scene changes to a large group of hippies gathered outside the White House, demonstrating and singing the final song, "Let the Sunshine In". Changes from original version A few verses from "Manchester, England" and a small portion of "Walking In Space" have been removed. The film omits the songs "The Bed", "Dead End", "Oh Great God of Power", "I Believe in Love", "Going Down", "Abie Baby," "Air," "My Conviction," "Frank Mills," and "What a Piece of Work is Man" from the musical. The latter five songs were originally recorded for the film, but were eventually cut, as they slowed the pace of the film. They can be found on the motion picture soundtrack album, although they were omitted on the 1990 reissue. While the songs "Don't Put It Down" and "Somebody To Love" are not specifically sung by characters in the movie, they are both used as background or instrumental music for scenes at the army base. There are several other differences from songs in the movie and as they appear on the soundtrack, mainly in omitted verses and different orchestrations. The plot is changed in the film. Many of the songs have been shortened, sped up, rearranged, or assigned to different characters to allow for the differences in plot. Opinions are mixed as to whether the film was an improvement over the stage show. In the original stage show, the character Claude Bukowski is a hippie who eventually joins the army and is sent to Vietnam. In the movie, the plot was changed so that Claude comes to New York City from Oklahoma after he is drafted and befriends a group of hippies before being sent to Army training camp. They introduce him to their psychedelically-inspired style of living, and eventually drive to Nevada to visit him at a training camp. In the play, Claude is from "dirty, mucky, polluted Flushing," in Queens, but wishes he was from "Manchester, England," which explained why he sang a song with that title. The song remains in the film, though with a joking introduction by Berger - "he just got off the boat" - to make it apply to Oklahoma native Claude. In the musical, Sheila Franklin is a hippie who falls in love with Berger, not Claude. Jeannie was "knocked up" by a speed freak, not by either Woof or Hud. Arguably, the most extreme change is Berger's death in the finale. In the original play it is Claude who dies in Vietnam. Musical Numbers 1. Aquarius 2. Sodomy 3. Donna 4. Hashish 5. Colored Spade 6. Manchester, England 7. I'm Black/Ain't Got No 8. Party Music 9. I Got Life 10. Hair 11. L.B.J. 12. Electric Blues/Old Fashioned Melody 13. Hare Krishna 14. Where Do I Go? 15. Black Boys 16. White Boys 17. Walking In Space (My Body) 18. Easy To Be Hard 19. Three-Five-Zero-Zero 20. Good Morning Starshine 21. Somebody To Love 22. Don't Put It Down 23. The Flesh Failures/Let The Sunshine In Songs on the soundtrack, but not in the film 1. Abie Baby/Fourscore 2. Air 3. My Conviction 4. Frank Mills 5. What A Piece Of Work Is Man Discuss. -----signature----- Chief of Staff - The SWC Rebel Scum
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Vortigern99 Title: Manager Emeritus Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/16 12:29pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Hair" (1979)
	I love the movie and the original Broadway both. I play drums to the Broadway album and I know the lyrics and music like the lines on my own face. I discovered the movie on cable in the 80s -- I wept when Berger died! -- and the Broadway record while I was in college. The movie has a Disco-ish instrumentation and mostly inferior vocals (IMO), while the Broadway is stripped-down rock-n-roll with (mostly) powerful voices and punchier, even funky percussion. Exceptions are "Easy to be Hard", which in the film Cheryl Barnes delivers with far more emotion and vocal power than the singer in the Broadway version, and "Electric Blues" which IMO is superior and funkier in the film. -----signature----- "I knew from the beginning I was not doing science fiction. I was doing a space opera, a fantasy film, a mythological piece, a fairy tale."--George Lucas My "Vader's Origins" thread: http://boards.theforce.net/Classic_Trilogy/b10002/8708417/p1
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Deneveon Registered: Jun '02	Date Posted: 4/16 12:30pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Hair" (1979)
	I'm in the chorus for this musical at my college right now. Personally I prefer the stage version to the film...I feel that changes they made (having Claude be from Oklahoma, etc) were unnecessary. But it's still very..I dunno if the word "campy" is right, but the film does a good job of capturing the quirkyness of the stage musical.
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Zaz Title: Manager: The Amphitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/16 9:45pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Hair" (1979)
	I wouldn't have chosen Milos Forman to direct this, and they left it way too long...the songs are occasionally good, though.
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RX_Sith Registered: Mar '06	Date Posted: 4/24 7:54am Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Fame" (1980)
	Fame (1980). (from wiki) Fame is a 1980 musical film conceived and produced by David De Silva, directed by Alan Parker, and written by Christopher Gore. The film follows a group of students through their studies at the New York High School of Performing Arts (later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts). The film is split into sections corresponding to auditions, freshman, sophomore, junior and senior years. This movie ranked number 42 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Best High School Movies. Tagline - * Dreams of instant success. Constant reminders of failure. If you've got what it takes...It still takes everything you've got. * Plot Summary Auditions The film opens with students auditioning for admittance. Those admitted include: * Doris Finsecker - Drama (Maureen Teefy) * Ralph Garcy/Raul Garcia - Drama (Barry Miller) * Coco Hernandez - Drama, Music and Dance (Irene Cara) * Leroy Johnson - Dance (Gene Anthony Ray) * Bruno Martelli - Music (Lee Curreri) * Montgomery MacNeil - Drama (Paul McCrane) * Lisa Monroe - Dance (Laura Dean) Several of the teachers are also introduced: * Miss Berg - Dance (Joanna Merlin) * Mr. Farrell - Drama (Jim Moody) * Ms. Grant - Dance (Debbie Allen) * Mrs. Sherwood - English (Anne Meara) * Mr. Shorofsky - Music (Albert Hague) Freshman Year Students learn on the first day of classes that academics are weighted equally with performance. Leroy clashes with Mrs. Sherwood in English class. Doris is overwhelmed by the energy and spontaneity in the lunchroom and flees, meeting Montgomery. As the year progresses, Coco tries to convince Bruno to book performing gigs with her. Doris and Montgomery become friends, and Doris worries that she's too ordinary against the colorful personalities of the other students. Leroy and Mrs. Sherwood continue to clash over Leroy's refusal to do homework (Leroy is illiterate and ashamed to admit it). Bruno and his father argue over Bruno's reluctance to play his music publicly. Coco tells Bruno of her belief that she's "doing my last dance on this dark little planet" so it has to be spectacular. Miss Berg warns Lisa she is not working hard enough. Graduating senior Michael (Boyd Gaines) wins a prestigious scholarship and tells Doris that the William Morris Agency wants to send him out for auditions for television pilots. Sophomore Year New student Hillary van Doren (Antonia Franceschi) joins the school, and she and Coco clash over Leroy. Hillary seduces him. Bruno and Mr. Shorofsky debate the merits of traditional orchestras versus synthesized instruments. As an acting exercise, students have to divulge a painful memory. Ralph tells of learning about the death of Freddie Prinze. Doris relates her humiliation at being forced by her stage mother to sing at a child's birthday party. Montgomery discusses discovering his homosexuality, in the process coming out to the school, for which he is teased by Ralph wearing Rocky Horror Picture Show-style drag. Bruno's father plays Bruno's music (the title song Fame) outside the school, inspiring the student body to dance in the streets. Miss Berg drops Lisa from the dance program, and Lisa, after initially apparently considering suicide, instead drops her dance clothes on the subway tracks and declares **** it, if I can't dance I'll change to the drama department." Junior Year Ralph and Doris discover their mutual attraction, but their growing intimacy leaves Montgomery feeling excluded. Hillary brings Leroy home to shock her father and stepmother. Ralph's young sister is attacked by a junkie, and so he lashes out at his mother's attempts to comfort the child by taking her to the local Catholic church. Doris also begins to question her Jewish upbringing, changing her name to "Dominique DuPont." She and Ralph attend a screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the 8th Street Playhouse, and during the "Time Warp" Doris rips off her blouse and joins the stage show. She becomes giddy the next day as she realizes that as an actress she can put on any personality she wants, but is sobered upon running into Michael, struggling as an actor and waiting tables. Senior Year Ralph follows in the footsteps of his idol Freddie Prinze and performs stand-up comedy at Catch a Rising Star and garners some initial success. He falls into a hard-party lifestyle and strains his relationship with Doris. Given a prime spot at a comedy club, he bombs, but Montgomery comforts him by telling him that bombing is part of the entertainment business. Hillary is offered a spot with the San Francisco ballet and, to take it, has an abortion. Coco is approached in a diner by a sleazy guy claiming to be a director. She goes to his apartment for a "screen test" and he manipulates her into undressing. Leroy is offered a spot in Alvin Ailey's dance company, but to be accepted he must graduate. He finds Mrs. Sherwood outside her husband's hospital room and lashes out at her. She lashes back and, chagrined, he comforts her. At graduation, the student body performs the finalé, I Sing the Body Electric. Fame Soundtrack Fame is the original soundtrack of the 1980 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film Fame starring Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Paul McCrane and Laura Dean. The original score was composed by Michael Gore. The score won the Academy Award for Best Music - Original Score. It was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music and a Grammy Award. The songs "Out Here On My Own" and "Fame" were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song, with the latter one winning the award. Track listing 1. "Fame" - Irene Cara (won the Academy Award for Best Original Song) 2. "Out Here On My Own" - Irene Cara (nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song) 3. "Hot Lunch Jam" - Irene Cara 4. "Dogs In The Yard" - Paul McCrane 5. "Red Light" - Linda Clifford 6. "Is It Okay If I Call You Mine?" - Paul McCrane 7. "Never Alone" - Contemporary Gospel Chorus of the High School of Music and Art 8. "Ralph And Monty (Dressing Room Piano)" - Micheal Gore 9. "I Sing The Body Electric" - Wade Lassister The score of the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Score. Awards and nominations Academy Awards * Academy Award for Best Song - Fame, Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford (winner) * Academy Award for Best Score - Michael Gore (winner) * Academy Award for Best Song - Out Here On My Own, Michael Gore and Lesley Gore (nominated) * Academy Award for Best Sound - Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Jay M. Harding, Christopher Newman (nominated) * Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay - Christopher Gore (nominated) * Academy Award for Best Film Editing - Gerry Hambling (nominated) BAFTA Awards * BAFTA Award for Best Sound - Christopher Newman, Les Wiggins, Michael J. Kohut (won) * BAFTA Award for Best Editing - Gerry Hambling (nominated) * BAFTA Award for Best Direction - Alan Parker (nominated) * Anthony Asquith Award for Best Music - Michael Gore (nominated) Golden Globes * Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song - Fame, Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford (won) * Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy - Irene Cara (nominated) * Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score - Michael Gore (nominated) Grammy Awards Best Album of Original Score Written for A Motion Picture or a Television Special - Michael Gore, Anthony Evans, Paul McCrane, Dean Pitchford, Lesley Gore, Robert F. Colesberry (nominated) Spin-offs Fame spawned a successful television show and a Musical that ran on London's West End for ten years. It also spawned a non-musical play featuring the title song from the film as its lone musical number. Review Parker's best movie. DVD review. Four years in the lives of talented students attending a performing arts school on 46th Street, New York. Amazing, energetic, funny, lively, and memorable movie dealing with a group of performing pupils. That scene where everyone literally dances in the street has to one of the best scenes from the '80s. Picture has incredible editing where most of the early scenes are only a few seconds in duration. Highlights include the Rocky Horror scene, the student playing those awesome analogue synths (one was a Prophet 5?), the girl pretending to be OJ Simpson, the ballet dancers, and the spontaneous singing and dancing in the canteen (Cara has a great voice). Some of the drama and character plots seemed a bit forced (and dated) but nevertheless this is my favourite movie from director Parker. Fame is a must-see movie from the early '80s. Discuss. -----signature----- Chief of Staff - The SWC Rebel Scum
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Zaz Title: Manager: The Amphitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/24 11:22pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Fame" (1980)
	Sigh Never saw this one.
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RX_Sith Registered: Mar '06	Date Posted: 5/3 2:52pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Pennies From Heaven" (1981) - Date Edited: 5/3 2:53pm (1 edits total) Edited By: RX_Sith
	Pennies From Heaven. (from wiki) Pennies from Heaven is the 1981 film adaptation of the 1978 BBC television drama of the same name. Dennis Potter, the writer of the original British series, adapted his own screenplay for American audiences. The film's setting was changed to Depression era Chicago. Potter was nominated for the 1981 Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. The film starred Steve Martin, Bernadette Peters, and Christopher Walken. The director was Herbert Ross and the choreographer was Danny Daniels. Production This was Steve Martin's first dramatic role in a film. Martin had watched the original miniseries and considered it "the greatest thing [he'd] ever seen". He trained for two months learning to tap dance. Christopher Walken trained as a dancer as a young man and he was able to use his dancing skills in the film. According to a 1990 article in The Times, MGM had Dennis Potter rewrite the script thirteen times. MGM also required Potter to buy back his copyright from the BBC. According to the same 1990 Times article, Potter paid the BBC "something over $100,000" for the rights to his own script. In addition, MGM prohibited broadcast of the BBC's original production for ten years. Around 1989, at the prompting of Alan Yentob, the controller of BBC2, producer Kenith Trodd was able to buy back the rights from MGM at "a very inconsiderable sum." In February 1990, the BBC rebroadcast the original Pennies From Heaven for the first time since its original transmission. In the same Times article, Trodd stated that Bob Hoskins and Cheryl Campbell, the stars of the original series, "were terribly upset that they weren't considered for the film. I think they still blame Dennis and me in some way, but there was no way to argue the point with MGM." Four paintings are recreated as Tableau vivants in the film: Hudson Bay Fur Company and 20 Cent Movie by Reginald Marsh, and New York Movie and Nighthawks by Edward Hopper. Three of the four were painted after 1934, when the movie takes place, and all depict scenes in New York City, not Chicago, the setting of the movie. Plot summary In 1930s Depression America, Arthur Parker, a sheet-music salesman, is having a hard time, both in his business and at home with his wife Joan. His business is failing and Joan is not amorous enough for Arthur and refuses to give him money to start his own business. His dream is to live in a world that is like the songs he tries to sell. In his travels, Arthur meets a shy, beautiful but plain school teacher, Eileen. Arthur expresses his instant attraction by lip-synching to the song "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking", as Eileen, converted to a brighter version of herself, dances. He convinces her that he loves her and they embark on a short affair, but Arthur leaves her and returns to Joan. However, Eileen becomes pregnant and is fired (she will later have an abortion). She is then taken in by a stylish pimp, Tom. When Arthur meets Eileen again --as "Lulu"--she is dressed provocatively and has adopted an aggressive manner. They resume their romance, and Eileen leaves Tom and her sordid life. A blind girl is raped and killed (by a man that Arthur gave a ride to earlier in the film) and innocent Arthur (who crossed paths with the girl prior to the murder) is captured and convicted of the crime. At the gallows, he recites the lyrics from the song "Pennies from Heaven." as if trying to tell the audience not to take life for granted like he had (Arthur's real flaw was that he was not an angel, he had his moments of selfishness). Somehow, all winds up in a dream-happy ending, with Arthur saying "we've worked too hard not to have a happy ending" and getting together with Eileen, The style of the movie balances the drab despair of the depression era and the characters' sad lives with brightly colored dream-fantasy lavish musical sequences. The characters break into song and dance to express their emotions. For example, Eileen turns into a silver-gowned torch singer in her school-room, with her students lip-synching and dancing ("Love Is Good For Anything That Ails You"). Tom seduces Eileen with a tap dance/striptease routine on top of a bar ("Let's Misbehave"). Arthur and Eileen go to a movie ("Follow the Fleet") and wind up dancing, in formal wear, first with, then in, a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical number "Let's Face the Music and Dance", that was introduced by Fred Astaire in the movie Follow the Fleet in 1936. All of the songs are lip-synched, with the except of Martin singing/speaking the title song at the end, but Arthur, Tom, and Eileen dance. Cast of Characters * Arthur Parker -- Steve Martin * Eileen, aka 'Lulu'-- Bernadette Peters * Tom -- Christopher Walken * Joan Parker -- Jessica Harper * Accordion man -- Vernal Bagneris * Mr. Warner -- John McMartin * Detective -- John Karlen Response The film grossed slightly more than $9 million at the box-office against a budget of $22 million. When asked about the film's box-office failure in Rolling Stone, Martin said: "I'm disappointed that it didn't open as a blockbuster and I don't know what to blame, other than it's me and not a comedy. I must say that the people who get the movie, in general, have been wise and intelligent; the people who don't get it are ignorant scum.". It was only Martin's second starring role in a film following 1979's comedy hit The Jerk and fans were confused to see Martin in a serious role. "You can't do a movie like The Jerk, and then do a film like Pennies From Heaven" Martin later said in a BBC interview. Fred Astaire, who was powerless to prevent the reuse of his old footage detested the film: "I have never spent two more miserable hours in my life. Every scene was cheap and vulgar. They don't realise that the thirties were a very innocent age, and that should have been set in the eighties — it was just froth; it makes you cry it's so distasteful." Awards and nominations * Academy Awards-- o Best Costume Design --Bob Mackie (nominated) o Best Sound (nominated) o Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium--Dennis Potter (nominated) * Boston Society of Film Critics Awards o Best Cinematography--Gordon Willis (WON) * Golden Globes o Best Motion Picture Actress - Comedy/Musical--Bernadette Peters (WON) o Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical (nominated) o Best Motion Picture Actor - Comedy/Musical--Steve Martin (nominated) * National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA o Best Cinematography--Gordon Willis (WON) Review (from IMDb) When Herb Ross opened "Pennies From Heaven" during Christmas of 1981 it met with harsh press and public indifference. Many concluded the musical was dead. But "Pennies," like Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz" released two years before, is a key transitional work that juxtaposed the cynicism of the '70s to the exhilaration and escapist fantasy of its buoyant Depression era score. Steve Martin ran the risk of alienating his fan base by trading in the "Wild and Crazy" guy for the brooding, unfaithful Arthur Parker. But he's a revelation. And what a dancer! It was no surprise when audiences stayed away. By all means watch it today, particularly on the new widescreen DVD release. You'll walk away with a greater appreciation of Christopher Walken, Bernadette Peters and especially Steve Martin. It makes it so much harder to watch this major talent wasting himself in such tripe as "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Bringing Down the House." Discuss. -----signature----- Chief of Staff - The SWC Rebel Scum
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Thrawn1786 Registered: Feb '04	Date Posted: 5/3 6:31pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Pennies From Heaven" (1980)
	I've never seen this, or even heard of it. Sounds intriguing, especially since Bernadette Peters is such a huge name concerning musical theatre. -----signature----- e-sibs: Rabe, padawanlissa, Elfie, CW, DG, Kahn, Trimaj, MGA, prj1, SWF444, Swan, Allegra Proud Master of Mister_Master Minister of Internal Affairs, EUC Senate Sith Apprentice to darth_nemisis, AoD
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Zaz Title: Manager: The Amphitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 5/4 3:39pm Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Pennies From Heaven" (1980)
	I have heard of it, and seen clips of it, but not seen the whole movie. Not for lack of trying, either.
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RX_Sith Registered: Mar '06	Date Posted: 5/14 7:40am Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Annie" (1982) - Date Edited: 5/14 7:49am (1 edits total) Edited By: RX_Sith
	Annie (1982). (from wiki) Annie is a 1982 musical film based upon the popular 1977 stage musical of the same name, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The film version, released in 1982 by Columbia Pictures, was directed by John Huston, his first and only film musical. The film's reviews ranged from positive to extremely hostile, and in spite of a $57 million US box office take (making it 10th highest grossing film of the year), the film still did not turn a profit on its theatrical release. Currently, the film has a 54% "Rotten" rating on Rotten Tomatoes.com. The film was nominated for five Razzies for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay, and Worst New Star, and John Huston as Worst Director, but won for Worst Supporting Actress for Aileen Quinn. The movie spent 6 weeks filming at Monmouth University in New Jersey, which had two mansions that were used in the film. It was planned that the staging for the song "Easy Street", with Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, and Bernadette Peters, would be the biggest number in the film. A special outdoor street set, costing $1 million, was built, and it took over one week to shoot the scene. However, the final number was thought to be "overstuffed" and "sour". Nearly two months after the film had finished shooting, a new, indoor more intimate number was shot.[1] Several singer-actresses made their debuts in this movie, as Annie's fellow orphans: * April Lerman would later portray "Lila Pembroke" on the first season of Charles In Charge. * Martika (born Marta Marrero II) graduated to the hit TV series Kids Incorporated, and moved on from there to a successful solo career. * Amanda Peterson, later of Explorers and Can't Buy Me Love fame, is a principal singer/dancer for the number "Sandy". * Shawnee Smith has since appeared in such films as Not My Kid, Summer School, the original Iron Eagle, The Blob, Who's Harry Crumb?, Desperate Hours, Becker and - most recently - the Saw series. Stage to screen differences There were major differences between the stage musical and the film. The film featured four new songs, "Dumb Dog", "Let's Go to the Movies" (which replaced "N.Y.C."), "Sign" and "We Got Annie", and cut "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover", "N.Y.C" (replaced by "Let's Go To The Movies"), "You Won't Be an Orphan for Long", "Something Was Missing", "Annie" and "New Deal for Christmas". In addition, the song "Maybe" has 2 reprises while "Little Girls" and "Easy Street" do not. In the stage musical, Hannigan, Rooster and Lily are caught at the Warbucks estate, thus not kidnapping Annie. In the movie, she is kidnapped, leading to Warbucks organizing a city-wide search and while escaping, Rooster chases her up the B&O Bridge. Eventually, Punjab rescues Annie by autocopter and returns her safely at the end. Miss Hannigan's heart softens and she also attempts to rescue Annie from being killed by Rooster, and is shown joining in the celebration at the end of the movie. The scene used for the "Maybe" song was actually the last scene filmed for the movie, because the original opening was too long. Although the "Maybe" song was still used, Annie and Molly are sitting at the window; however, this scene was still inserted into the film, only the last part with the rest of the orphans singing, after the "Little Girls" scene and the scene with Rooster and Lily's entry, during Annie's first night at the Warbucks estate. Punjab and The Asp, Warbucks' servants/bodyguards from the comic strip, are brought back for this film as supporting roles. The time was changed from Christmas to 4th of July. Trivia The scene where Oliver Warbucks is broadcasting on radio, there are three girls singing a capella as an introduction. They're imitating the Boswell Sisters who in reality were famous in the 1930's and 40's for similarly harmonizing on radio broadcasts and TV screening. Cast * Albert Finney as Daddy Oliver Warbucks * Carol Burnett as Ms Aggie Hannigan * Ann Reinking as Grace Farrell * Tim Curry as Rooster Hannigan * Bernadette Peters as Lily St. Regis * Aileen Quinn as Annie * Geoffrey Holder as Punjab * Roger Minami as Asp * Edward Hermann as FDR * Lois De Banzie as Eleanor Roosevelt * Peter Marshall as Bert Healy * Toni Ann Gisondi as Molly * Rosanne Sorrentino as Pepper * Lara Berk as Tessie * April Lerman as Kate * Robin Ignico as Duffy * Lucie Stewart as July * Sandy as Himself Songs 1. "Tomorrow" - Annie 2. "Maybe" - Annie 3. "It's the Hard-Knock Life" - Annie and Orphans 4. "Dumb Dog" - Annie 5. "Sandy" - Annie and Orphans 6. "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here" - Annie, Grace, and Servants 7. "Little Girls" - Ms Hannigan 8. "Maybe" - Pepper, July, Duffy, Tessie and Kate 9. "Let's go to the Movies" - Annie,Mr Oliver Warbucks, Grace, and chorus 10. "We Got Annie" - Grace, Mrs. Pugh, Punjab, and Asp 11. "Sign" - Ms Hannigan and Mr Oliver Warbucks 12. "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile" - Bert, Boylan Sisters,Orphans join in later 13. "Easy Street" - Rooster, Lily, and Ms Hannigan 14. "Tomorrow (White House Version)" - Annie, Oliver, Mrs. Roosevelt, and FDR 15. "Maybe (Reprise)" - Mr Oliver Warbucks 16. "Finale (I Don't Need Anything But You / We Got Annie / Tomorrow)" - Annie, Mr Oliver Warbucks, Chorus, and Orphans Television movies Annie: A Royal Adventure! (1995) A sequel, Annie: A Royal Adventure! was made for television in 1995. The sequel starred Ashley Johnson, Joan Collins, George Hearn and Ian McDiarmid. Aside from a reprise of "Tomorrow," there are no songs in the film. In the film, Warbucks (Hearn), Annie (Johnson), an eccentric scientist (McDiarmid) and one of the orphans travel to England, where Warbucks is to be knighted by the King. However, the kids get mixed up in the scheme of an evil noblewoman (Collins) to blow up Buckingham Palace while all the heirs to the throne are present for Warbucks' knighting, thus making her queen. Annie (1999) See main article: Annie (1999 film) A made-for-TV movie version was broadcast on ABC on November 7, 1999. It starred Kathy Bates as Miss Hannigan, Victor Garber as Daddy Warbucks, Alan Cumming as Rooster, Audra McDonald as Grace Farrell, Kristin Chenoweth as Lily, and newcomer Alicia Morton as Annie. Produced by The Walt Disney Company in association with Columbia TriStar Television, the movie received generally positive reviews and high ratings. It also earned 2 Emmy Awards and a 1999 George Foster Peabody Award. Although truer to the original stage musical than the 1982 movie, it condensed much of the full story in an attempt to make it more viewable for children. It featured a special appearance by Andrea McArdle, star of the original Broadway production. The film has aired on cable on Hallmark Channel, ABC Family and Starz after its premiere on ABC. Disney Channel, which had aired the original 1982 version of Annie, has not aired the 1999 version as of 2007, but will do so sometime this year. Recordings and video Main article: Annie (1982 soundtrack) The CD of the 1982 movie soundtrack was released by Sony in May 1982; the CD of the 1999 television movie was released on November 2, 1999 by Sony. The 1982 film was released on VHS on December 7, 1982 by Sony Pictures and also on DVD on December 12, 2000. A "Special Anniversary Edition" DVD was released on January 13, 2004 and contains these Special Features: Age of Annie Trivia Game; Sing Along with Annie; Act Along with Annie; My Hollywood Adventure with Aileen Quinn; "It's the Hard-Knock Life" music video by Play. The two television movies were also released on DVD by Sony Pictures and Walt Disney Video. Awards Won * Young Artist Award 1981-1982 o Best Young Motion Picture Actress - Aileen Quinn * Razzie Award o Worst Supporting Actress - Aileen Quinn Nominated * Academy Awards o Best Art Direction-Set Decoration - Dale Hennesy and Marvin March. o Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score - Ralph Burns * Young Artist Award 1981-1982 o Best Young Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture—Toni Ann Gisondi * Razzie Awards for 1982 o Worst Picture o Worst Screenplay o Worst Director - John Huston o Worst New Star - Aileen Quinn Review (from IMDb.com) How can you not love this movie? It has wonderful, catchy songs, it's a clean movie, a great storyline, and wonderful actors and actresses! What more could you ask for?! It's better than most movies today because it actually has a moral and a plot. It's a great family movie. It's one of my favorite movies, next to The Sound of Music. Anybody who doesn't watch this movie is seriously missing out. I'm sure you will like it. It's a lot better than the Disney remake. Sometimes the original, older movies are better than the remakes. And this movie is one of them! If you like musicals, or just want to watch a family movie, this is one that you really should watch. Discuss. -----signature----- Chief of Staff - The SWC Rebel Scum
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dp4m Registered: Nov '01	Date Posted: 5/14 9:54am Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Annie" (1980)
	I looooooooooooooooooooooooooooove the 80s Annie movie musical. Love, love, love. This, The Pirates of Penzance and Little Shop of Horrors are basically my three favorite movie musicals of all time in terms of movies adapted from stage musicals. Not the least because it has Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, and Bernadette Peters all SINGING TOGETHER!!! -----signature----- "Looks like you're about to get pwned" - Eric Cartman "Awarding experience points for cleverly and creatively generating an enjoyable experience. How warped is that?" - Darths & Droids
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somethingfamiliar Registered: Aug '03	Date Posted: 5/14 10:07am Subject: RE: The Movie Musicals Thread: Now Dis. "Annie" (1980)
	I always thought Telly Savalas was in that for some reason. -----signature----- I'm not a quitter, but that human pile of garbage would make Satan weep.
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