When you think of Disney fairytales, you probably think of happily ever afters, catchy musical numbers, charming princes and beautiful princesses. Into the Woods, the new film from Walt Disney Pictures, has all of that, and more. It’s beautifully filmed, wonderfully acted, and nearly perfect adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. Into the Woods isContinue reading “You Should Go “Into the Woods””
Category Archives: Musical Theatre
Being Alive
From one of my favorite composers, a beautiful, truthful lyric on marriage that never fails to move me every time I hear it. Someone to hold you too close. Someone to hurt you too deep. Someone to sit in you chair, To ruin your sleep. Someone to need you too much. Someone to know youContinue reading “Being Alive”
Do You Hear the People Sing?
The new film Les Misérables, based on the worldwide musical smash and Victor Hugo’s best-loved novel, is a story of the power grace has to transform and change lives–and the choice we make when faced with forgiveness. The story of Jean Valjean has been adapted many times, and it is an enduring one because ofContinue reading “Do You Hear the People Sing?”
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
He shaved the faces of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard of again. He trod a path that few have trod. Did Sweeney Todd. The demon barber of Fleet Street. Finally got around to watching Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street the other night. It’s one of my favorite Sondheim shows, and I’dContinue reading “The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”
Musical Theatre Apprecation 101: Into the Woods
I’m a huge fan of musical theatre and find one of my callings in life to be the ongoing education of everyone I know on just why musicals are so freaking awesome. So this is going to be the first in an ongoing series of posts on individual musicals in hopes that you will beContinue reading “Musical Theatre Apprecation 101: Into the Woods”
Duane S. Montague 