Patricia Birch
出生 : 1934-10-16, Englewood, New Jersey, USA
略歴
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Patricia Birch is an American choreographer and director for musical theatre and film.
Born in Englewood, New Jersey, Birch began her career as a dancer in Broadway musicals, including Brigadoon, Goldilocks, and West Side Story (playing "Anybodys"). She has directed and choreographed music videos for Cyndi Lauper, the Rolling Stones, and Carly Simon. She earned Emmy Awards for her direction of the television specials Natalie Cole: Unforgettable and Celebrating Gershwin and, in collaboration with Michael Tilson Thomas, she staged the concert version of On the Town performed by both the London Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony.
Birch spent six years staging numbers for Saturday Night Live. She has performed as a soloist with Martha Graham and Agnes de Mille.
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Marcella is the sick young daughter of a toy maker. One night, her toys come alive to take her on an adventure to meet the Doll Doctor, in hopes that he will mend her broken heart. After decades of being lost media, the cult classic musical has finally been brought back to life thanks to the efforts of R.A.R.E. (Raggedy Ann Revival Effort). The film is edited together by using footage from the New York State Archives, surviving bootlegs of the show, and demo recordings.
Herself
Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw the Hollywood parties that defined the 1970s. A producer, manager, and marketing genius, Carr built his bombastic reputation amid a series of successes including the mega-hit musical film "Grease," until it all came crashing down after he produced the 1989 Academy Awards, a notorious debacle.
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.In THE THOMASHEFSKYS, Tilson Thomas explores the lives of his grandparents, Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, through a musical performance that features five performers and the New World Symphony orchestra.
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A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the spoiled brat in her charge.
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敏腕TVプロデューサーとしてニューヨークで活躍してきたジョアンナだが、ある事件をきっかけに局を辞める事態に。そんな彼女を慰め、新天地で再出発しようとその夫ウォルターは家族の引っ越しを提案し、彼らはコネティカット州の美しい高級住宅地ステップフォードに引っ越す。早速ウォルターは町の紳士クラブから仲間に入るよう歓迎を受け、一方ジョアンナも町の女性たちと仲よくなるが、女性たちが裏の顔を持つと疑いだし……。
1975年の映画『ステップフォード・ワイフ』のリメイク。
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コールマン・シルクは、世界的に尊敬されている教授だが、無意識のうちに人種差別的な発言をしてしまい、職を失ってしまう。潔白を証明するために、シルクは友人である同僚のネイサン・ザッカーマンと共に事件についての本を書くが、その過程でザッカーマンはシルクが生涯隠し続けてきた暗い秘密を知ることになる。その間、シルクは若い女性ファウニア・ファーリーと関係を持つ。彼女の苦悩に満ちた過去は、シルクが作り上げた幾重もの欺瞞を解き明かそうとしている。
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長年連れ添った夫に捨てられた3人の女性。彼女たちが結束し、元夫たちに復讐を開始する！ ゴールディ・ホーン、ベット・ミドラー、ダイアン・キートンという、アメリカを代表する3人の女優競演でおくる痛快コメディ。
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Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a lawsuit against them. The judge rules that North should either find new parents or return to his own parents within two months. Thus North starts off on a journey around the world to find parents that really care about him.
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Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.
Self - Former Dancer
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
Choreographer
At her husband's funeral, Pearl, Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend of her husband, whose advice years previously had stopped the husband leaving home. For 23 years he, now a widower, has secretly loved Pearl...
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This is an incredible accomplishment by Natalie Cole and some of the finest musicians in the business. An enchanting and swinging tribute to the magical voice and music of her father. Waiting for the DVD release....let's go people!!
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In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
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A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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30年の昏睡から目覚めた患者と、彼を救おうとする医師の葛藤を描く人間ドラマ。30年間昏睡状態だった男レナードが、奇跡的に意識を回復した。セイヤー博士の治療が功を奏したのだ。博士はその治療を、他の患者にも適用してめざましい効果をあげるが…。
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貧しくても、明るく力強く生きてきたステラ。店を訪れた青年と恋に落ちるが、相手は輝ける将来が約束された名家の青年。そしていずれはニューヨークに帰ってしまうという期限付きの恋だった。しかし思いもかけない妊娠によってステラの運命は大きく変わってしまう。“住む世界が違う”とプロポーズも断り、金銭的な援助も一切受け付けず、ステラは女手一つで子供を育てる道を選ぶ。─月日は流れ、ステラと娘ジェニーは、一緒にはしゃぎ、一緒に泣く、まるで最高の女友達のような仲の良い親子になっていた。だがジェニーに恋人ができた時、ステラは改めて彼女の幸せを考える。“このまま自分と同じ道を歩ませてはならない…”と。そして自分自身の夢を捨て娘を幸せにしようとする、ある悲しい決断をする。
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When her great aunt dies, famed horror hostess Elvira heads for the uptight new England town of Falwell to claim her inheritance of a haunted house, a witch's cookbook and a punk rock poodle. But once the stuffy locals get an eyeful of the scream queen's ample assets, all hell busts out & breaks loose.
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カーニヴァルの夜、望みをかなえる魔王のボックスにコインを入れた主人公が、翌朝目覚めると少年からオトナに成長していた。親友の協力によって玩具メーカーに就職した主人公だったが、持ち前の自由な発想が社長に認められめきめき昇格していく……。
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The legendary Harold Prince directs Bernstein's perennial favorite Candide, which premiered at New York City Opera under his direction in 1982 and became a staple of the company's repertoire.
Self
A short documentary about the successful Moscow production of the musical "Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure", also known as "Rag Dolly".
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Now you can actually look ten years younger in ten hours. Callan Pinckney, author of the revolutionary best-selling exercise book Callanetics (a perennial New York Times Best-Seller), personally demonstrates her innovative deep muscle exercise technique that can literally shed years off your figure in hours without putting pressure on your back. Unlike other exercise programs that stress hard jerking motions, Callanetics is a series of small, gentle, precise motions consistently applied that activate the body's largest, most powerful muscles to quickly tighten hips, buttocks, inner and outer thighs; flatten the tummy; lift the bust and firm underarms and tone the entire body. It will also dramatically improve your posture. You will feel the difference after one hour and most people actually see a difference after two hours. By following the simple 60 minute Callanetics workout twice a week, the body you always dreamed about is only hours away.
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It's 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there's a new crop of seniors and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington is the new kid in school - but he's been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie?
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1959年9月。ライデル高校の不良少年グループ《T・バーズ》のリーダーであるダニーは3年生になるが、夏休みにバカンスに行った先で恋に落ちた少女、サンディと突然再会して驚く。彼女は父親の転勤で、ダニーの高校に転校してきたのだ。仲間たちの手前、はしゃぎすぎないよう心がけるが、サンディといられることを内心喜ぶダニー。2人は時に気持ちがすれ違いケンカすることもあるが、新たに恋を育んでいく。
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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.
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You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts.
