In what year was the American musical drama film, produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Weber and which featured actor Antonio Banderas, released?
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Antonio Banderas José Antonio Domínguez Bandera (born 10 August 1960) is a Spanish actor, director, singer, and producer. He began his acting career with a series of films by director Pedro Almodóvar and then appeared in high-profile Hollywood movies, especially in the 1990s, including "Assassins", "Evita", "Interview with the Vampire", "Philadelphia", "Desperado", "The Mask of Zorro", "Take the Lead", "The Expendables 3" and "Spy Kids". Banderas also portrayed the voice of "Puss in Boots" in the "Shrek" sequels and "Puss in Boots" as well as the bee in the US Nasonex commercials.
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Evita (1996 film) Evita is a 1996 American musical drama film based on the 1976 concept album of the same name produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, which also inspired a 1978 musical. The film depicts the life of Eva Perón, detailing her beginnings, rise to fame, political career and death at the age of 33. Directed by Alan Parker, and written by Parker and Oliver Stone, "Evita" stars Madonna as Eva, Jonathan Pryce as Eva's husband Juan Perón, and Antonio Banderas as Ché, an everyman who acts as the film's narrator.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a 2004 comedy musical, with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Jeffrey Lane; it is based on the 1988 film of the same name. The musical premiered on Broadway in 2005 and ran for 626 performances despite mixed reviews. It has since received tours and international productions. The Australian production opened in 2013 to rave reviews, and was hailed the 'best musical to hit Sydney this century' according to The Sydney Morning Herald. A West End production opened in 2014 to generally warm reviews.
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Venice (musical) Venice is a musical collaboration between Matt Sax and Eric Rosen. The plot focuses on a dystopian near-future fictional city named Venice. The show opened at the Copaken Stage in Kansas City in 2010 as a co-production between Kansas City Rep and Center Theatre Group. Venice also ran at the Public Theater in New York from May 28 through June 30, 2013. The cast of Venice at The Public includes Uzo Aduba, Jennifer Damiano, Jonathan-David, Claybourne Elder, Leslie Odom, Jr., Victoria Platt, Angela Polk, Matt Sax, and Haaz Sleiman.
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Glad To See You Glad To See You was a 1944 American musical comedy. The musical, which involves the adventure of a USO troupe during World War II, was intended for Broadway but flopped, closing after out-of-town tryouts and never opening in New York.
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Hello Again (2017 film) Hello Again is an upcoming American musical film directed by Tom Gustafson and written by Cory Krueckeberg, based on the musical of same name by Michael John LaChiusa. The film stars Audra McDonald, Martha Plimpton, T. R. Knight, and Rumer Willis. Principal photography began on December 1, 2015 in New York City.
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Tommy (1975 film) Tommy is a 1975 British musical fantasy drama film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album "Tommy" about a seemingly disabled boy who becomes a religious pinball champion. Directed by Ken Russell, the film featured a star-studded ensemble cast, including the band members themselves (most notably, lead singer Roger Daltrey, who plays the title role), Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Elton John, Arthur Brown, and Jack Nicholson.
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Flower Drum Song Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on the 1957 novel, "The Flower Drum Song", by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour. It was adapted for a 1961 musical film.
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Musical Chairs (film) Musical Chairs is a dance film starring Leah Pipes, E. J. Bonilla, Auti Angel, Laverne Cox, and Priscilla Lopez, and directed by Susan Seidelman. It is a romance involving a couple who participates in wheelchair ballroom dancing. In development for eight years before it was finally made, the film played at several festivals starting in 2011, including the Woodstock Film Festival. It was released on March 23, 2012. It played only a week in New York City, where it was entirely filmed, but as of March 30, 2012, opened in other locations in platform release. It premiered on cable TV (HBO) in December 2013.
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Nine (musical) Nine is a musical, initially created and written by Maury Yeston as a class-project in Lehman Engel's BMI Music Theatre Workshop in 1973. It was later developed with a book by Mario Fratti, and then again with a book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston. The story is based also on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical film "8½". It focuses on film director Guido Contini, who is dreading his imminent 40th birthday and facing a midlife crisis, which is blocking his creative impulses and entangling him in a web of romantic difficulties in early-1960s Venice.
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Pal Joey (musical) Pal Joey is a musical with a book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The musical is based on a character and situations O'Hara created in a series of short stories published in "The New Yorker", which he later published in novel form. The title character, Joey Evans, is a manipulative small-time nightclub performer whose ambitions lead him into an affair with the wealthy, middle-aged and married Vera Simpson. It includes two songs that have become standards: "I Could Write a Book" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered".
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Rigoletto e la sua tragedia Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (i. e. "Rigoletto and His Tragedy", also known just as Rigoletto) is a 1956 Italian musical drama film written and directed by Flavio Calzavara and starring Luciano Tajoli and Jula De Palma. It is loosely based on the Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto".
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High School Musical (soundtrack) High School Musical is the soundtrack of the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name. Recorded in five days, it was released on January 10, 2006, and became the best selling album of that year, having sold more than 3.7 million copies in the US and 7 million copies worldwide. As of January 2016, the album has sold 5,000,000 copies in the US, making it the best-selling TV soundtrack since 1991 when Nielsen SoundScan started tracking music sales.
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The Woman with the Whip The Woman with the Whip is a 1952 biography of political leader Eva Perón, the late First Lady and Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina. Published in England and the United States shortly after Eva Perón's death, it was the first hostile biography of Eva Perón to be published and, despite the criticism that it is lacking in historical value, has therefore been used by her detractors ever since. This book is thought to be the basis for the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical "Evita". However, the book was never officially credited as such, and Rice incorporated many other historical materials as background.
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Mr. Imperium Mr. Imperium (UK title: You Belong to My Heart) is a 1951 romantic musical drama Technicolor film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, starring Lana Turner and singer Ezio Pinza. It was directed by Don Hartman who co-wrote the screenplay with Edwin H. Knopf, based on a play by Edwin H. Knopf. The music score is by Bronisław Kaper. Lana Turner's singing voice was dubbed by Trudy Erwin.
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Hair (film) Hair is a 1979 musical war drama film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical "Hair: An American Tribal Love-Rock Musical" 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, LSD, unorthodox relationships and draft evasion.
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The Fastest Guitar Alive The Fastest Guitar Alive is a 1967 American musical comedy film directed by Michael D. Moore and starring singer Roy Orbison in his only starring role as an actor. A musical western, the story is set near the end of the American Civil War, with Orbison portraying a Southern spy with a bullet-shooting guitar given the task of robbing gold bullion from the United States Mint in San Francisco in order to help finance the Confederacy's war effort.
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Zorro (musical) Zorro is a musical with music by the Gipsy Kings and John Cameron, a book by Stephen Clark and Helen Edmundson, and lyrics by Stephen Clark. It is inspired by the 2005 fictional biography "Zorro", the first original story of the pulp hero Zorro, written by Chilean author Isabel Allende (itself a prequel to the events of the original Zorro story, the 1919 novella "The Curse of Capistrano" by Johnston McCulley). It also contains numerous references to earlier Zorro-related works, especially the 1998 film "The Mask of Zorro". The original musical did a trial run tour which proved to be successful, and led to a transfer to the West End (which included some minor changes such as the recasting of the roles of Luisa and Ramon).
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Viva Las Vegas Viva Las Vegas is a 1964 American musical film starring Elvis Presley and actress Ann-Margret. Directed by golden age Hollywood musical director George Sidney, the film is regarded by fans and by film critics as one of Presley's best movies, and it is noted for the on-screen chemistry between Presley and Ann-Margret. It also presents a strong set of ten musical song-and-dance scenes choreographed by David Winters and featured his dancers. "Viva Las Vegas" was a hit at movie theaters, as it was #14 on the "Variety" year end box office list of the top-grossing movies of 1964.
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The Firefly (film) The Firefly is a 1937 musical film starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones. The film is an adaptation of the operetta of the same name by composer Rudolf Friml and librettist Otto A. Harbach that premiered on Broadway in 1912. The film used nearly all of the music from the operetta but jettisoned the plot in favor of a new storyline set in Spain during the time of the Emperor Napoleon I. It added a new song, "The Donkey Serenade" (a reworking by Herbert Stothart of Friml's 1918 orchestral piece 'Chanson'), which became extremely popular, as was one of the Friml songs, "Giannina Mia". The original release prints of the film were elaborately tinted with Sepia-Blue, Sepia-Orange and Sepia-Blue-Pink.
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Reefer Madness (2005 film) Reefer Madness, also known as Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, is a 2005 American made-for-television musical comedy film directed by Andy Fickman, written by Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney, and produced by the three. It is a film adaptation of the trio's musical of the same name, itself based on the 1936 exploitation film also of the same title. It premiered on Showtime on April 16, 2005.
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Michael Cerveris Michael Cerveris (born November 6, 1960) is an American actor, singer, and guitarist. He has performed in many stage musicals and plays, including several Stephen Sondheim musicals: "Assassins", "Sweeney Todd", "Road Show", and "Passion". In 2004, Cerveris won the Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for "Assassins" as John Wilkes Booth. In 2015, he won his second Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical for "Fun Home" as Bruce Bechdel.