If they say that an artist suffers for their art, then no one suffered more than playwright & songwriter Jonathan Larson, who died too young at 35. He only wrote only two musicals, but they were both ahead of their time and filled with tragedy and loss, much like his own life. In this semi-autobiographical…
In yet another attempt to bring a Broadway musical to the big screen, this one has the distinction of NOT being a sprawling, grandiose epic like the others (Cats, Hello Dolly, In The Heights) This is a small-scale, simple story of a teenager, a mistaken letter, lies, and lotsa singing! “Oh, what a tangled web…
If you’re like me and saw the trailer for this Broadway musical turned into a movie, you not only cringed, but thought it might have been someone’s idea of a practical joke. I mean, c’mon! Putting creepy, disturbing-looking CGI cat faces on actors? Seriously? Look, I’m all for realism, but there’s a limit, people. *…
This movie has been remade no less than FOUR times! Starting in 1932 (about the movie biz) and called What Price Hollywood?, it changed titles in 1937, to A Star is Born. It switched from a movie-biz plot to a singer plot with Judy Garland & James Mason in 1954 and then remade with Barbra Streisand…
Race-bending the main character (Blannie?) and taking the original stage musical of 1933 Depression Era NYC and updating to a 2014 NYC hip-hop musical was truly a risky move on behalf of the seven (yes, SEVEN!!) producers and director Wil Gluck, who never directed a musical before. This troubled production had its problems from the…
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