Jake Ostroff

Filmes

Crazy For You
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Crazy For You is a romantic comedy musical with a book by Ken Ludwig, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin. Billed as "The New Gershwin Musical Comedy", it is largely based on the songwriting team's 1930 musical Girl Crazy, but incorporates songs from several other productions as well. Crazy For You won the 1992 Tony Award (Broadway), 1993 Olivier Award (London), and 1994 Dora Award (Toronto) for Best Musical. Originally aired on the PBS series "Great Performances" (season 28, episode 2).
Victor Victoria
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Baseado no filme de 1982, também protagonizado por Julie Andrews. Na Paris de 1934, Victoria Grant é uma cantora lírica desempregada que conhece Carroll Todd, um cantor homossexual que tinha sido recentemente demitido. Juntos eles articulam um plano, no qual ela se faz passar por um homem, o Conde Victor Grezhinski, e que é um transformista. Mas a farsa corre o perigo de ser desmascarada quando ela se apaixona por King Marchand, um gângster.
The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
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The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. It focuses on the life and career of famed humorist and performer Will Rogers, using as a backdrop the Ziegfeld Follies, which he often headlined, and describes every episode in his life in the form of a big production number. The Rogers character also performs rope tricks in between scenes. The revue contains snippets of Rogers' famous homespun style of wisdom and common sense and tries to convey the personality of this quintessentially American figure whose most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like."
Into the Woods
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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).
Simon & Garfunkel: O Concerto no Central Park
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Em 19/09/1981 a dupla de folk-rock se reuniu para um concerto gratuito no Great Lawn do Central Park ao qual compareceram mais de 500 mil pessoas. Também lançado em CD, o DVD contém duas músicas omitidas do álbum: "The Late Great Johnny Ace" e a reprise de "Late in the Evening (Reprise)". "Johnny Ace" foi interrompida pela invasão do palco por um fã.
Morning's at Seven
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In a small Midwestern town in the 1920s, four sisters' lives are turned upside down when one sister's son brings his fiancée home to meet his eccentric family for the first time.
Purlie
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Based on Davis' 1961 play Purlie Victorious (which was later translated into the 1963 film Gone Are the Days! and which included all of the original Broadway cast, including Ruby Dee, Alan Alda, Beah Richards, and Godfrey Cambridge), Purlie is a musical with a book by Ossie Davis, Philip Rose, and Peter Udell, lyrics by Udell, and music by Gary Geld. It won two Tony Awards and was also nominated for Best Musical. This 1981 television adaptation is directed by Rudi Goldman and stars Broadway cast members Guillaume, Moore, Hemsley, and Hopkins, with Brandon Maggart as Cotchipee, Clarice Taylor as Idilla, and Don Scardino as Charlie. The production won a CableACE Award.
If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band
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Life in a black ghetto isn't easy for 14-year-old Billie Jean Sims, who has a father in jail, a blind grandmother, and a brother with a drug habit. Growing up among drug pushers, prostitutes, and pimps, Billie Jean still has some things going for her: fierce pride, a loyal friend named Fish, and, at last, enough savings to visit her father 1200 miles away in prison.