tick, tick…BOOM! – Soundtrack from the Netflix film (Sony Music Masterworks) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his feature directorial debut with tick, tick…BOOM!, an adaptation of the autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who revolutionised theatre as the creator of Rent. The film follows […]
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tick, tick… BOOM! – Netflix
tick, tick… BOOM! – Netflix. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Creators of art love to see themselves, so in every art form there is some form of light reflected back upon the creator, as if they are saying: “look how hard this is? It’s really tough, but I managed it, so […]
First look at Lin-Manuel Miranda’s film version of Jonathan Larson’s tick, tick…BOOM!
Netflix has released a teaser trailer and artwork for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s feature directorial debut, the movie version of tick, tick…BOOM!, the autobiographical rock musical that traces Jonathan Larson’s creation of his multi-award-winning Rent. Starring Tony Award-winning actor Andrew Garfield (Angels in America, West End and Broadway), the film will be launched on Netflix and in […]
ITV2 broadcasts Grease: Live! on 3 February
ITV2 will present an unedited airing of Paramount Television’s star-studded production of Grease: Live!, the first-ever live television production of the iconic story, on 3 February at 8pm. Filmed and broadcast live in the US on 31 January and featuring a young ensemble cast, Grease: Live! draws upon both the hit crossover musical and iconic 1978 feature film to create […]
Gigi – Neil Simon Theatre, New York
Gigi continues at the Neil Simon Theatre, New York. Star rating: 2 stars ★ ★ Despite his legendary Gallic charm, I always found something discomforting about Maurice Chevalier, as the old Parisian roué Honoré in the movie Gigi, singing “Thank Heaven for Little Girls”, while eyeing the young femmes playing in the park. In the new […]
Gigi heads for Broadway with April opening
Another blast has been added to the barrage of Broadway musicals opening in April. The newest entry is Gigi, a revival coming from the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Set to play in Washington until 12 February, the production has Vanessa Hudgens in the title role, a young independent-spirit Belle Époque Parisienne, who breaks […]
