Tag: musical

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September 10, 2022

“He’s An Artist!” Pink Floyd: The Wall at 40

Alan Parker's psychedelic edifice to the music of Pink Floyd is just as gripping and relevant as it was four decades ago.
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June 23, 2022

Elvis is a colorful, soulful & frenetic feast for the eyes

Baz Luhrmann's biopic of the King is as garish and over the top as you'd expect, but has a heart thanks to Austin Butler
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June 14, 2022

Neptune Frost is a haunting slice of sci-fi musical Afrofuturism

Saul Williams' and Anisia Uzeyman's genre/time-hopping multimedia project is occasionally perplexing but nothing short of mesmerizing.
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February 28, 2022

Cabaret at 50: Spectacle can’t hide horror forever

Bob Fosse's adaptation of the dying days of Weimar musical remains both gorgeous and haunting a half century on.
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December 28, 2021

Cyrano struggles to stay on key

Joe Wright's newest interprets the classic tale as a musical with uneven results.
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December 27, 2021

David Newman on keeping Bernstein’s music alive for Spielberg’s West Side Story

The legendary composer talks about keeping the spirit of Leonard Bernstein's score alive in Steve Spielberg's musical adaptation.
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December 2, 2021

Spielberg’s adaptation of West Side Story is a staggering showcase for Sondheim

Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner adapt the classic Stephen Sondheim musical into a vivid, gripping tale that builds on what the Robert Wise version did right.
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November 17, 2021

Andrew Garfield is a supernova in tick tick BOOM!

Lin-Manuel Miranda's adaptation of RENT creator Jonathan Larson's semi-autobiography boasts fantastic tunes, solid direction, frustrating storytelling, and one of the year's finest lead performances.
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October 15, 2021

Diana: the Musical takes a big ol’ dump on a tragic icon

At last, a Broadway show that dares to ask “What if the People’s Princess was a hopeless twit?”
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September 24, 2021

Boosting the signal of 2001’s cult space Western musical The American Astronaut

Twenty years on, Cory McAbee's singular cult film is nearly as impossible to find as it is to look away from.