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News Flash: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Klub
Cabaret is no stranger to Broadway. With the original production in 1966, the almost identical production in 1987, the gritty Sam Mendes revival in 1998 and the revival of that production in 2014 at Studio 54, Cabaret’s fifth Broadway revival is coming. Previews begin April 1st at the August Wilson theater; An opening night Gala…
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Spoiler Free Review: A Haunting in Venice
Hercule Poirot’s spookiest outing yet Besides Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot is arguably the best-known fictional detective. Many of Poirot’s cases as written by Dame Agatha Christie have been adapted, most famously in a TV show featuring David Suchet, some one-off movies, and the recent trilogy of films directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. A Haunting…
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Just a “Lovers’ Spat” in Schmigadoon.
Welcome weary travelers, back to the pastel world of Schmigadoon for another week of musical parody. See conflict and romance in this weeks episode. After encountering a singing leprechaun, Josh and Melissa have realized they can’t leave Schmigadoon, and they start arguing. They start discussing the possibility of leaving with different partners because their relationship…
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Welcome to “Schmigadoon!”
A loving parody of the golden age of musicals by Lynda Feustel Imagine all of the classic musicals of the 1950s and 1960s. Oklahoma, The Music Man, Singin in the Rain, The Sound of Music, etcetera. If all of those shows had a baby along with the premise of Brigadoon – two people wander into…
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Westerns in space: Star Trek, Star Wars and the western genre
In the present day, the western genre of film and TV is seen very rarely. However, in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, it was one of the most popular genres of film and television, and it may be one of the single most influential genres to modern science fiction and action/adventure movies. And this fascination…
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Color and light: How films use color purposely
The vast majority of films are made in full color without a second thought. In the last post we discussed modern black and white films without any color, but in this post, I wanted to discuss movies that are shot partially in black and white and partially in color such as The Wizard of Oz…
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Atmosphere and character: Modern black and white filmmaking as used in Young Frankenstein, The Elephant Man and Ed Wood
There are lots of filmmaking techniques that can be used to enhance a movie, and one of the least used strategies in the modern era is the use of black and white film. Since the 1960s, the vast majority of movies have been shot in color as the technique has become more accessible. But a…
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Stop-motion feature: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Beyond being scared of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) as a child, my first real encounter with the movie was in my senior year of high school in my friends’ basement with about half of my marching band. It was a late October night, and someone suggested that we watch it after a long day…
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Eliminate the impossible: The many interpretations of Sherlock Holmes
According to the Guinness World Records, Sherlock Holmes is the most adapted character in literary history, with at least 250 interpretations on film, television and everything in between. Every generation has their Sherlock Holmes, so today I wanted to look at some of the major Sherlock Holmes adaptations and see how they defined their generations…
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How The Muppets (2015) gets Miss Piggy and Kermit’s relationship right.
Over the last 50 years, Kermit and Miss Piggy have had a turbulent relationship to say the least. From coworkers, to friends, and unrequited crushes, many argue that Kermit and Piggy have one of the most iconic love stories of all time…
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