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The opening segment of the film. Braveheart is a 1925 American silent contemporary Western film directed by Alan Hale Sr. and starring Rod La Rocque.The story focuses on members of a tribe of Indians who are being intimidated by the owners of a canning company seeking to violate a treaty protecting the tribe's fishing grounds.
This is a list of musicals, including Broadway musicals, West End musicals, and musicals that premiered in other places, as well as film musicals, whose titles fall into the M–Z alphabetic range.
A revue is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches. The revue has its roots in 19th century popular entertainment and melodrama but grew into a substantial cultural presence of its own during its golden years from 1916 to 1932. [ 1 ]
A movie musical hasn't won best picture at the Academy Awards in over 20 years, since "Chicago" in 2003. Thankfully, "Wicked" seems to be turning the tide, earning rave reviews from critics and ...
At Home Abroad is a revue with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. It introduced the songs "Love Is a Dancing Thing", "What a Wonderful World" and "Got a Bran' New Suit", among others. The revue follows a bored couple who flee America and go on a musical world tour.
A backstage musical is a genre of musical with a plot set in a theatrical context that revolves around the production of a play or musical revue.The film's narrative trajectory often comes to a halt one or more times to allow a performance.
According to Steven Suskin, "very few people are around who saw The Band Wagon, but they all seem to insist that it was the finest Broadway revue ever." [2] According to Furia and Lasser, The Band Wagon is "arguably the greatest of the 'little' revues of the 1930s". [3] Ken Bloom states that The Band Wagon "is considered the greatest of all ...
The original off-Broadway revue was a series of 25 songs performed by two men and two women. For the film version, screenwriter Blau and director Heroux reconfigured the presentation. One of the women was dropped from the cast line-up, and a chorus consisting of young hippies and eccentric-looking characters was added.