musicals

Theater

Add It Up: SpeakEasy’s “Adding Machine”

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Victoria Petrosino reviews SpeakEasy’s new musical spin on the 1923 Elmer Rice play “Adding Machine.”

Theater

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Whatever you say about SpeakEasy’s [title of show], you can’t say it’s not funny. I don’t even like contemporary musicals. The knock-off plots, simplified music, un-lyrical lyrics, gratuitous flamboyance, and high ticket prices don’t appeal to me, as much as I love the Golden Age Hollywood productions. But, [title of show] is the straight-up funniest [...]

Lectures

Stanley Donen at the HFA

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I caught the Stanley Donen appearance at the HFA‘s screening of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) on Friday night. The film represents MGM’s first foray into CinemaScope, which produced a picture about twice as wide as the then current standard Academy format. Donen used every inch of it by the way, seven brides + [...]

Movies

Not The Dueling Cavalier: Stanley Donen at the Harvard Film Archive

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This month the Harvard Film Archive presents a series of films drawn from the career of Stanley Donen. Donen’s pictures can be conveniently divided into two sections: the iconic musicals of the 1950s, like On the Town (screens Oct.2), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Oct.9), and Singing in the Rain (Oct.2), and those films made [...]

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