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[…] colloquialisms to engage and make EDI topics accessible and easy to grasp. Chloe’s motto for EDI work is simple, “we call each other in, not out” and once we are all “in'' the room, we can begin to work on building the bridges to authenticity, access and acceptance. ABOUT MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL The Tony-nominated hit musical Moulin Rouge! The Musical resumes performances on Friday, September 24, 2021, at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre (302 West 45th St, NYC). The first musical of the 2019/2020 Broadway season, Moulin Rouge! The Musical opened to critical acclaim at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on July 25, 2019. “Spectacular! Euphoric! In Moulin Rouge! The Musical, life is beautiful,” raves The New York Times. “Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a fabulous new musical. The high begins the instant you walk into the theatre,” said the New York Post. Entertainment Weekly concludes […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2019-01-16 22:29:18
Why Carol Channing Was Unforgettable
Charles McNulty: One of a kind, Channing was a like a cross between Marilyn Monroe and Gracie Allen, with a personality voice that could make a tune completely her own. When she sang, pixie dust shot into the air. She was an Al Hirschfeld cartoon sprung into swooning life. – Los Angeles Times
2017-05-31 19:30:33
[…] contains classical music for this time, but still cutting edge to the 1940s when the first movie was made. In that sense, the musical component of the film is not an ‘update’ or ‘modern’ despite the animation quality and technique being considerably advanced. This movie was the first Disney animated feature film released for IMAX. The “Rhapsody in Blue” sequence is partly influenced by Woody Allen’s film Manhattan and highly based on caricaturist Al Hirschfeld ‘s artwork. Aside from the Pixar movies, the “Steadfast Tin Soldier” sequence is the first time the lead characters in an animated story are completely CGI. (The whales in “Pines of Rome” are computer animated but they all have hand-animated eyes.) The “Carnival of the Animals” sequence was completely animated by Eric Goldberg all on his own. His last project before that was co-directing Pocahontas and he was ready to get back to the […]
2017-01-09 16:02:35
Musical theater of the absurd
It’s easy to see why Leonard Bernstein’s Candide was a flop when it premiered on Broadway. A quick look through Voltaire’s source material reveals a plot full of obscenity and atrocity: floggings, hangings, disembowelment, rape, dismemberment, impalement, bestiality, cannibalism, heresy, and sex trafficking. Such a catalogue of depravity suggests an adaptation of Pasolini rather than a Broadway musical. And indeed, when the piece premiered at the Martin Beck Theater (currently named the Al Hirschfeld) in 1956, it was a disaster, despite the vocal talents of Barbara Cook and a majestic score by Bernstein. In a new production at New York City Opera, directed by the legendary Harold Prince, many of these violent, disquieting experiences unfold in rapid succession, amped up stylistically to the point of absurdity. Much like Voltaire’s novel, the operetta uses a glib, fast-paced style to elide the darker, more obscene aspects of the plot and render palatable […]
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