Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick

Nacimiento : 1938-04-19,

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Jonathan Tunick

Películas

Simply Sondheim
Orchestrator
Created specifically for Signature Theatre with special permission from Sondheim himself, this jam-packed revue features over 30 songs from the composer’s canon. The quintessential “Finishing the Hat,” “Another Hundred People,” “Losing My Mind” and “The Worst Pies in London” meet lesser known gems including “Country House,” “Saturday Night” and “Goodbye for Now” and are fused with new orchestrations by longtime Sondheim collaborator Jonathan Tunick. With a lush 16-piece orchestra leading the way for 12 phenomenal singers, including Broadway’s Norm Lewis (Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert, Sondheim on Sondheim), Solea Pfeiffer (Hamilton, Signature’s Gun & Powder), Conrad Ricamora (How to Get Away with Murder, The King and I) and Emily Skinner (The Cher Show, Prince of Broadway) along with Signature favorites Bobby Smith, Awa Sal Secka, Tracy Lynn Olivera and more, this exclusive event satisfies every Sondheim craving.
Bombshell in Concert
Orchestrator
The stars of the NBC musical drama series Smash reunite virtually for a special one-night-only streaming event featuring the never-seen sold-out live performance of Bombshell in Concert. The concert, with songs from the NBC series Smash, and reunion will benefit The Actors Fund, which has been helping artists in need amid the coronavirus crisis. The performance will be introduced by two-time Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger.
National Theatre Live: Follies
Orchestrator
Un grupo de actores y cantantes vuelven a reunirse en el teatro en el que trabajaban y que ahora está a punto de ser demolido. De entre los congregados destacan dos parejas: Buddy y Sally Durant Plummer y Benjamin y Phyllis Rogers Stone. Sally y Phyllis eran bailarinas en la época del Follies. Con el devenir de los años, ambas parejas se han vuelto profundamente infelices en sus respectivos matrimonios. Buddy, viajero empedernido, ha comenzado una relación con una chica que conoció en un viaje de negocios. Sally, por su parte, sigue enamorada de Ben, como tantos años atrás. Pero Ben está demasiado preocupado por la depresión de Phyllips para pensar en nada más. Las bailarinas recorren la vieja historia del teatro, con números de la época, y el espíritu presente de los que en en su día habitaron el lugar.
Into the Woods
Orchestrator
Versión moderna de varios cuentos de los hermanos Grimm que entrelaza las tramas de algunas historias seleccionadas y explora las consecuencias de los deseos y las inquietudes de los personajes. Un musical que sigue los cuentos clásicos de Cenicienta, Caperucita Roja, Jack y las judías mágicas y Rapunzel. Todos ellos se combinan en una historia original que protagonizan un panadero y su esposa, su deseo de formar una familia y su interacción con la bruja que les ha echado una maldición.
Merrily We Roll Along
Orchestrator
Triple Olivier Award-winner Maria Friedman makes an extraordinary directorial debut with a flawless cast. With music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth, Merrily We Roll Along starts in 1980 and travels backwards in time. This powerful and moving story features some of Sondheim’s most beautiful songs including "Good Thing Going", "Not a Day Goes by" and "Old Friends".
Company
Orchestrator
Sigue la historia de cinco parejas a través de una persona común a todas: Robert, interpretado por Neil Patrick Harris. (FILMAFFINITY)
Declaradme culpable
Original Music Composer
Tras años de investigación federal, 20 miembros de la familia Lucchese, conocida por sus conexiones con la mafia, se enfrentaron a los juzgados acusados de 76 cargos. Sidney Lumet ("Antes que el diablo sepa que has muerto") llevaba siete años sin ponerse tras las cámaras. Reprendió su actividad llevando al cine la historia real de Giacomo DiNorscio, un miembro de la célebre familia Lucchese de la mafia de Nueva Jersey. Se trata de un drama protagonizado por un Vin Diesel que varió, con esta cinta, el registro habitual de héroe de acción que le había hecho popular. El resto del reparto está compuesto por Peter Dinklage ("Vías cruzadas"), Linus Roache ("RFK"), Annabella Sciorra ("True Love") y Ron Silver ("Jack"), entre otros.
Elaine Stritch: At Liberty
Orchestrator
Espectáculo autobiográfico escrito por Elaine Stritch y John Lahr que está compuesto de anécdotas de la vida y las melodías de Stritch.
Putting It Together
Orchestrator
An all-star cast performs the music of one of the greatest composers of our time... Stephen Sondheim. Anxiously anticipated by the myriad fans of the legendary composer, Putting It Together marked the return of Carol Burnett to the Broadway musical stage for the first time in over 35 years. Stephen Sondheim has won a record seven Tony Awards for his songwriting, and the Pulitzer Prize for Sunday in the Park with George. His Broadway smash shows and movies include Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Dick Tracy, and West Side Story. This Cameron Mackintosh stage production was captured live in performance during its Broadway run and recorded in high definition with a widescreen format using ten cameras and over 40 microphones.
Passion
Orchestrator
Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and unattractive Fosca, who develops a passionate love for Giorgio and tries to make him love her. This rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical was recorded on the stage with it's original all-star Broadway cast. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season thirteen, episode six).
Una jaula de grillos
Music
La apacible vida de Albert y Armand, una pareja homosexual, se ve totalmente alterada ante la inminente boda de Val, el hijo de Armand, con la hija de un senador ultraconservador. El político, que desea promocionar los valores tradicionales de la vida familiar, decide visitar a la familia del novio, sin saber con lo que se va a encontrar.
Anyone Can Whistle: Live at Carnegie Hall
Music Supervisor
Anyone Can Whistle is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. Described by theater historian Ken Mandelbaum as "a satire on conformity and the insanity of the so-called sane," the show tells a story of an economically-depressed town whose corrupt Mayoress, in an attempt to draw tourists, decides to create a fake "miracle" - which draws the attention of Fay Apple, an emotionally inhibited nurse, a crowd of inmates from a local asylum called "The Cookie Jar," and a "doctor" with secrets of his own.
The Last Good Time
Music
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as he has a chance encounter with a young woman who moves in with him briefly.
Into the Woods
Orchestrator
A collection of fairy tale characters head into the woods, and soon learn that fairy tales don't end at "happily ever after." This rendition of Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning musical was recorded on the stage with its original all-star Broadway cast. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season ten, episode one).
You Ruined My Life
Music
"You Ruined My Life" was a cute TV movie (from the Wonderful World of Disney movies that they show on Saturday or Sunday nights) starring Soleil Moon Frye as Minerva, a spoiled girl who lived in a Las Vegas casino with her Uncle Howie who lets her do whatever she wants. Minerva gets into trouble a lot, and her Aunt Hermione threatens to take her away from Uncle Howie. Paul Reiser plays Dexter, a professor who figures out a way to win every time at blackjack. Dexter gets caught at cheating, and Uncle Howie works out a deal for Dexter to tutor Minerva so she can get into a private school back east. This is easier said than done, because Minerva has never been interested in school.
Alice in Wonderland
Conductor
From the elaborate Broadway revival of the 1932 Eva Le Gallienne/Florida Friebus production comes a whimsical retelling of the Lewis Carroll classic.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Orchestrator
In 1846, Anthony Hope sails into London with the mysterious Sweeney Todd, a once-naive barber whose life and marriage was uprooted by a corrupt justice system. Todd confides in Nellie Lovett, the owner of a local meat pie shop, and the two become partners, as Todd swears revenge on those that have wronged him and decides to take up his old profession.
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Music
John Cheever's wry comedy of errors comes to the screen in this filmed presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. An upper-middle-class suburb is turned upside-down by the apparent kidnapping of Toby Wooster (Garrett Hanf). Unaware that the whole thing is a setup, the town swings into action to raise funds to meet the kidnappers' ransom demands. George Grizzard, Polly Holliday, Katharine Balfour and Celeste Holm star.
Amor sin fin
Original Music Composer
Dos chicos jóvenes se enamoran entre sí. Los padres de Jade tratan de evitar que se vean. Pero la pasión por su primer amor es muy fuerte...
Distrito apache: El Bronx
Music
El barrio neoyorquino de South Bronx está considerado como el peor de todos por la policía de la ciudad. En su centro se alza una comisaría conocida como "Fort Apache" por su parecido con un puesto avanzado en pleno territorio enemigo. Uno de los agentes destinados a este lugar es Murphy, un gato viejo que no es lo que parece.
Blinded by the Light
Music
When teenager David Bowers renounces his home and family to run off with a quasi-religious cult, his sister, Janet, sets out to bring him back, very nearly becoming brainwashed herself.
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
Orchestrator
Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process with the musical's director, composer and actors.
Swan Song
Music
Sun Valley provides the backdrop to this story of a downhill ski racer who seeks to make a comeback after being branded a loser and the ski bunny who helps him regain his self-respect.
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Music
Granny Weatherall (Geraldine Fitzgerald) is a spunky old lady of eighty who bosses around her doctor and her children. She seems so strong and in control, and yet she has never had the upper hand in her destiny. One morning, a flood of long-forgotten memories bring her to the realization that of all her accomplishments, she cannot console herself for the shame-filled day she was left standing at the alter. Still, her indomitable will to live and act independently infuses the last day of her life. Adapted from the short story by acclaimed writer Katherine Anne Porter ("Ship of Fools"), The Jilting of Granny Weatherall reminds us of the plight of many women who wait for life to claim them, rather than seek life out for themselves.
The Five Forty-Eight
Music
The Five Forty-Eight, drawn from a Cheever story about the fictional New York suburb of Shady Hill, concerns an advertising man, John Blake (Laurence Luckinbill), who is emotionally estranged from his wife and those around him. His disturbed secretary, Miss Dent (Mary Beth Hurt), whom he has seduced and then fired and discarded, pursues him harrowingly, and in a final scene in which she holds him at gunpoint in a field beyond the Shady Hill railroad station, she forces him to confront the squalor of his life.
O Youth and Beauty!
Music
Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows increasingly unsettled in his life, yearning for the glories of his athletic youth and watching them fade further in the distance with accumulating age. Louise worries about him as his difficulties with mid-life pull him further away from happiness and comfort with his family.
The Sorrows of Gin
Original Music Composer
An affluent suburban couple's empty and gin-fueled lives are observed through the eyes of their neglected, eight-year old daughter.
America 2100
Music
Two everyday schlubs are inadvertently frozen for 120 years, awakening to a wacky future run by a robot named MAX. Pilot episode for unproduced series.
Rendezvous Hotel
Music
A madcap family caters to assorted unpredictable guests availing themselves of the title resort's advertised bliss in this pilot to a prospective series.
Flying High
Music
In this pilot film to the subsequent short-lived series, three attractive young women -- Marcy Bower, Pam Bellagio, and Lisa Benton -- succeed in qualifying for airline stewardess training at Sun West Airlines, and then start getting a taste of the rigors and fun of the real thing as rookie stewardesses.
Pequeña música nocturna
Conductor
Musical inspirado en la película de Ingmar Bergman: Sonrisas de una noche de verano. (FILMAFFINITY)
Pacific Overtures
Orchestrator
Pacific Overtures is a musical written by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman. The show is set in Japan beginning in 1853 and follows the difficult westernization of Japan, told from the point of view of the Japanese. In particular, the story focuses on the lives of two friends caught in the change. The original Broadway production of Pacific Overtures in 1976 was staged in Kabuki style, with men playing women's parts and set changes made in full view of the audience by black-clad stagehands. It opened to mixed reviews and closed after six months, despite being nominated for ten Tony Awards. Set in 1853 Japan, Pacific Overtures follows the Westernization of Japan, mainly through the story of Kayama, a samurai, and Manjiro, a fisherman. The lives of both men are radically changed by the coming of American ships to Japan.
El jovencito Frankenstein
Orchestrator
El nieto del legendario doctor Frankenstein se ha convertido en un reconocido neurocirujano que debe hacerse cargo del castillo de su abuelo. Ayudado por el jorobado Igor y una escultural asistente decide recrear el experimento de su ancestro.
Sillas de montar calientes
Orchestrator
El avaricioso gobernador Lepetomane y su malvado ayudante Hedley Lamarr quieren que los habitantes de Rock Ridge abandonen la ciudad, para vender los terrenos a una compañía de ferrocarril. Para facilitar sus maquiavélicos planes, nombran sheriff a Bart, un negro condenado a la horca, para que fomente el desorden y la anarquía en la ciudad.