Tag: ragtime

Broadway Besties Lea Michele & Jonathan Groff Support Audra McDonald at Star-Studded ‘Gypsy’ Opening Night | 00, Adrienne Warren, Alec Baldwin, Amber Iman, Andre De Shields, Anna Wintour, Audra McDonald, BD Wong, Billy Eichner, Broadway, Caleb McLaughlin, Camille A Brown, Cynthia Erivo, Daniel Watts, Danny Burstein, David Hyde Pierce, Denee Benton, Donna Murphy, George C. Wolfe, Gracie Lawrence, Hilaria Baldwin, Iman, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Groff, Jordan E. Cooper, jordan roth, Joshua Henry, Joy Woods, Kelli O’Hara, Kenny Leon, LaChanze, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Laverne Cox, Lea Michele, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Longform, Lynn Nottage, Matthew Lopez, Max Von Essen, Michael Kors, Phillipa Soo, Rosie Perez, Steven Pasquale, Tituss Burgess, Tovah Feldshuh, Zach Braff | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

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Gypsy opening night

The Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring legendary performer Audra McDonald, is officially open! Broadway besties Lea Michele and Jonathan Groff were among the celebs who led the star-studded red carpet at opening night on Thursday […]

The eternal evolution of Terry Riley’s minimalist masterpiece : NPR

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American composer Terry Riley performs in London in 2018.

American composer Terry Riley performs in London in 2018. His groundbreaking work In C helped launch the musical movement called minimalism 60 years ago. Robin Little/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robin Little/Getty Images Inspiration […]

Jeremy O. Harris Takes the Girls of Katseye to See Sunset Boulevard

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Katseye

KATSEYE and Simone Ashley, photographed by Andy Henderson. FRIDAY 10:44 PM OCTOBER 25, 2024 BROADWAY Director Jamie Lloyd’s new production of Sunset Boulevard, featuring a seismic Nicole Scherzinger turn as the iconic Norma Desmond and […]

‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ Gershwin’s musical melting pot, at 100 : NPR

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'Rhapsody in Blue,' Gershwin's musical melting pot, at 100 : NPR

George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. PhotoQuest / Contributor/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption PhotoQuest / […]

‘Rhapsody in Blue,’ Gershwin’s musical melting pot, at 100 : NPR

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'Rhapsody in Blue,' Gershwin's musical melting pot, at 100 : NPR

George Gershwin, photographed in his 72nd Street apartment in New York in 1934. His Rhapsody in Blue premiered 100 years ago on Feb. 12, 1924. PhotoQuest / Contributor/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption PhotoQuest / […]

‘John McEnroe was my reference point’: how we made hit Mozart movie Amadeus | Movies

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Elizabeth Berridge, Hulce and Christine Ebersole.

Tom Hulce, played Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I’d really wanted the part of Younger Brother in Miloš Forman’s previous film Ragtime and had had a couple of disastrous meetings with him. When I met him for […]

‘Björk said it should sound like the Cantina band!’: the enduring influence of Star Wars’ bizarre jazz group | Music

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John Williams with Star Wars character C-3PO in 1980.

Of all the gin joints in all the galaxy, Luke Skywalker walked into Mos Eisley Cantina. A wretched hive of villainy where your pint of blue milk might get spilled by some unfriendly bum-faced alien, […]

Charles Mingus, the great jazz composer, remembered : NPR

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Charles Mingus, the great jazz composer, remembered : NPR

Charles Mingus is often regarded as one of the greatest jazz composers of the 20th century. Bettmann/Bettmann Archive hide caption toggle caption Bettmann/Bettmann Archive Charles Mingus is often regarded as one of the greatest jazz […]