My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert (2024)
Gênero : Música
Runtime : 2H 34M
Director : Christopher Gattelli
Sinopse
Featuring a 40-piece orchestra and international stars of the stage and screen, My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert was filmed on 12 December 2023 at London’s newly restored Theatre Royal Drury Lane – the same venue that premiered the original West End productions of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific and The King and I.
Cathy Hyatt (Anna Kendrick) e Jamie Wellerstein (Jeremy Jordan) são casados. Ela é uma atriz em busca de uma carreira, mas ainda conseguiu um grande papel. Ele é um romancista em ascenção, cuja última obra está em evidência. Eles reveem seu relacionamento. A diferença entre o sucesso de Cathy e de Jamie os faz entrar em conflito e repensar os últimos cinco anos, tempo em que estiveram juntos.
With the concert at the Royal Theater Carré, a beautiful adventure came to an end, 25 sold-out theaters and 4 open-air concerts with strings and wind instruments. The complete film that director Roderik Pattijn made of this musical trip. In the film the band members, all guest musicians but also arranger Tom Trapp talk about this special collaboration.
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After years of hopeful struggle, Al Stone (Jolson) is on his way. "I'm Sittin' on Top of the World", he sings to an appreciative speakeasy crowd. But, as Al discovers, getting there is one thing. Staying there is another. Singing waiter Stone gets his huge break on a magical night when his song wows a big-time producer and a gold-digging showgirl he fancies. Broadway success and marriage follow, but sure enough, hard times are on the way. Al's fickle wife abandons him, taking the beloved son he calls Sonny Boy with her. Heartbroken, Al becomes a devastated loner until friends from the speakeasy that launched his career rescue him from a life on the streets. Soon, Al is back in lights. But another crisis awaits: Sonny Boy is in the hospital and dying....
In this East German teen musical, a group of girls are planning to take their summer vacation together on the Baltic coast. When a loud and obnoxious group of boys intrudes on their holiday, the girls are horrified to learn that the boys have the same vacations plans as them. The two groups quarrel with each other and compete over a number of things, but gradually an attraction starts to form.
Effie White, Deena Jones e Lorrell Robinson moram em Chicago e formam um grupo musical, as Dreamettes. As três começam a fazer sucesso graças ao manipulador empresário Curtis Taylor Jr., que consegue fazer com que elas acompanhem um cantor de "soul". Os conflitos começam quando Curtis sonha em transformar as Dreamettes em Dreams. Sua ideia é trocar Effie por Deena e fazer dela a vocalista principal do grupo, o que deixa evidente seu interesse romântico pela jovem.
In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.
Short featuring musician Eubie Blake and his orchestra, singer Nina Mae McKinney, and young tap dancers Fayard and Harold Nicholas.
Christian (Ewan McGregor) é um jovem escritor que possui um dom para a poesia e que enfrenta seu pai para poder se mudar para o bairro boêmio de Montmartre, em Paris. Lá ele recebe o apoio de Henri de Toulouse-Latrec (John Leguizamo), que o ajuda a participar da vida social e cultural do local, que gira em torno do Moulin Rouge, uma boate que possui um mundo próprio de sexo, drogas, adrenalina e Can-Can. Ao visitar o local, Christian logo se apaixona por Satine (Nicole Kidman), a mais bela cortesã de Paris e estrela maior do Moulin Rouge.
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Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets mixed up with big-city gangsters.
Sara Johnson (Julia Stiles) é uma garota de 17 anos que sempre sonhou em ser uma bailarina profissional. Porém, seus planos vão por água abaixo quando sua mãe morre em um acidente de carro e ela é obrigada a viver com seu pai em Chicago. Intimidada pela sua nova vida, ela busca refúgio nos clubes locais, onde conhece um jovem (Sean Patrick Thomas) que compartilha com ela o mesmo amor pela dança. Porém, eles logo descobrem que a pressão existente entre os dois irá se tornar uma barreira maior do que a diferença de cor ou de classe para que eles possam iniciar um romance.
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
A screenwriter falls in love with a Mexican woman while searching for a story line south of the border.
Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Breen befriends famed composer Basil Rathbone. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Rathbone at last finds it when he meets Breen's gorgeous mother Marion Claire, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiance Ralph Forbes refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block. But Little-Mister-Fixit Breen manages to patch up everything just in time for Claire to debut in Rathbone's latest masterpiece. Offering much-needed comedy relief are Henry Armetta, Leon Errol and Donald Meek as a trio of parasitic would-be songwriters. Make a Wish was based on a story by Gertrude Berg, of "Molly Goldberg" fame.
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Recorded live, at Sao Jorge theatre, Lisboa, 27th March 2007.