EXCLUSIVE: Some of the West End and Broadway’s biggest productions are making their debuts on Indian TV. Zee Theatre has secured agreements to bring The Sound of Music Live! , Hairspray Live! , Peter Pan Live! and Billy Elliot: The Musical to Indian pay-TV channel Tata Play Theatre. The Sound of Music Live! will kick off a month of broadcasts on May 29, with the stage adaptations following over coming weeks. To this point, none of the musicals have aired on Indian TV screens. Shailja Kejriwal, Chief Creative Officer — Special Projects, ZEEL (Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited), said the plays would resonate was “Indian audiences are no stranger to musicals. Our cinema and theatrical traditions thrive on musicality and dance. Musicals are also a huge part of Broadway and West End and we have curated some that will resonate the most with Indian audiences.” She added The Sound of Music , Hairspray Live! , Peter Pan Live! and Billy Elliot: The … [Read more...] about ‘The Sound Of Music Live!’, ‘Billy Elliot: The Musical’ Among Blockbuster Musicals Set For Indian TV Debuts Through Zee Theatre Deal
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Duchess Of York Sarah Ferguson Launches Paris Production House With Mark Gill & Cyril Cadars
The Duchess Of York Sarah Ferguson has co-founded a Paris-based production house with Oscar-nominated The Voorman Problem director Mark Gill and The Open’s Cyril Cadars. Vestapol Films also counts financier Gertjan Rooijakkers as co-founder and will focus on the independent development and production of films and TV for international audiences and markets, especially the U.S. and Japan. On the slate already is a TV mini-series expanding on Gill’s The Voorman Problem written by Gill and Cloud Atlas scribe David Mitchell, along with The Paris Quintet, led by Call My Agent! star Fanny Sidney and Ravens – The Many Deaths of Masahisa Fukas e, a surreal biopic about the iconic Japanese photographer. Ferguson, the former wife of now-disgraced Prince Andrew, is known for her charitable work and also produced 2009 Jean-Marc Vallée film Young Victoria. Gill was Oscar nominated for live action short The Voorman Problem starring Martin Freeman and Tom … [Read more...] about Duchess Of York Sarah Ferguson Launches Paris Production House With Mark Gill & Cyril Cadars
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For Quick Alerts Subscribe Now நிக்கி கல்ராணியை மணந்தார் நடிகர் ஆதி! View Sample For Quick Alerts ALLOW NOTIFICATIONS For Daily Alerts Must Watch முகப்பு ஹாலிவுட் Hollywood | Published: Thursday, May 19, 2022, 15:33 [IST] சென்னை: பிரான்சில் நடைபெற்று வரும் 75-வது சர்வதேச கான்ஸ் திரைப்பட விழாவில் ஹாலிவுட் சூப்பர் ஸ்டார் நடிகர் டாம் குரூசுக்கு உயரிய விருது வழங்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறது. பார்வையாளர்களின் ஏகோபித்த கரகோஷங்களுக்கு மத்தியில் பால்ம் டி'ஆர் என்ற உயரிய விருதை டாம் குரூஸ் பெற்றார். டாப் கன்: மேவெரிக் என்ற திரைப்படத்தில் நடித்ததற்காக இவ்விருது அவருக்கு வழங்கப்பட்டது. ஐஸ்வர்யா ராய், தீபிகா படுகோன், பூஜா ஹெக்டே.. களைகட்டும் கான்ஸ் திரைப்பட விழா.. ரசிகர்கள் மகிழ்ச்சி! எழுந்து நின்று கைதட்டினர் டாம் குரூசுக்கு இவ்விருது வழங்கி கௌரவிக்கப்பட்ட போது அரங்கில் இருந்த பார்வையாளர்கள் அனைவரும் எழுந்து நின்று சுமார் 5 நிமிடங்கள் கைதட்டி அவரை … [Read more...] about கான்ஸ் பட விழா…திடீரென கிடைத்த மரியாதை…நெகிழ்ந்துப்போன டாம் குரூஸ்!!
UMI’s Peaceful Soul: ‘I Can Be Whatever I Want to Be’
Like so many people of mixed heritages, Tierra Umi Wilson exists between worlds. The 23-year-old artist — who performs under her middle name, UMI, which means “ocean” in Japanese — was born in Seattle to a Black father and a Japanese mother, and has spent her life negotiating the cultural exchange she embodies. Her 2020 EP Introspection put that interrogation into music as she worked her way through questions of heritage and sexual identity. But while that record was explicitly inward-looking, UMI’s debut album — Forest in the City , out May 27 on RCA — seeks to turn her search outward. The themes are more universal and the sounds more expansive, bouncing from sun-soaked electro R&B on “whatever u like” to moody slow jams like “moonlit room.” It’s as if being at a fulcrum between communities has given UMI the confidence to be something completely different: herself. “Growing up, I didn’t feel Japanese enough, I didn’t feel Black enough, and I didn’t feel me enough, … [Read more...] about UMI’s Peaceful Soul: ‘I Can Be Whatever I Want to Be’
Blood Brothers: Inside the Music of ‘The Knick’
W hen Steven Soderbergh began work on The Knick – his gritty, historical medical series for Cinemax, set in New York City in 1900 – he enjoyed replicating the era’s look, fashion and stomach-churning surgical practices. But one of the few things that was far too ghastly to replicate was the music. “Oh, it was horrible,” he says with a laugh. “Aesthetically, it’s a really cool period, but the music was absolutely boring and not interesting. Ragtime had just started – and there’s a tiny bit of that in the background of some scenes – but other than that, there was nothing good.” So the director turned to the only person he thought could give The Knick a unique sound: his frequent collaborator, Cliff Martinez. As the director filmed the show, he had been using shimmery EDM flourishes that Martinez had written for the 2012 teensploitation flick Spring Breakers and some of the composer’s wiry synth lines from his own 2011 pandemic disaster film, Contagion , as temporary … [Read more...] about Blood Brothers: Inside the Music of ‘The Knick’
Dr. Dre to Release New Album as ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Soundtrack
Dr. Dre will finally end fans’ 16-year wait for a new album when the rapper releases his Straight Outta Compton soundtrack, which will consist of new music entirely produced by The Chronic mastermind, a source tells Rolling Stone . Dre is expected to confirm the album, the companion piece to the N.W.A biopic, on his Beats 1 radio show The Pharmacy this Saturday. Ice Cube appeared on Philadelphia’s Power 99 Wednesday morning and let slip the news about Dre’s Straight Outta Compton soundtrack. Despite Cube giving an August 1st release date for the album, multiple sources have told Rolling Stone that the album will be released at a later date than Saturday. “It’s mega. It’s Dr. Dre , it’s what everybody’s been waiting for,” Ice Cube told the Rise & Grind Morning Show . “It’s definitely a dope record, and he’s dropping it all on the same day.” It’s unclear whether any of the music destined for Dre’s Straight Outta Compton soundtrack was originally … [Read more...] about Dr. Dre to Release New Album as ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Soundtrack
D’Angelo Is Holding Your Hand
‘D ear heavenly Father,” someone is saying to the silent room, “please give us the ability to touch this crowd.” All thirty-six members of D’Angelo ‘s touring band and crew are stuffed into his dressing room, hands linked, heads bowed in a large prayer circle. “And when our ability fails, Lord. Please. Take over.” The room answers with a loud “ mm-hmm. “ Prayer ends, and the entire group collapses into a giant moving hug, all yelling at once in a joyous din – “ Soultronic force! My re-deeeeem-er !” It seems they’re gearing up for some high-energy smash-mouth football. Or a musical mission. As the scrum disperses, D’Angelo turns to you and slaps you five. And nearly breaks your hand. D, as they call him, gives pounds with injurious intent – stiff-handed smacks that make a firecracker pop and then meld into a tight clamp, a finger snap, two fist bumps and another clamp, or some such combination. The more he likes you, the more he uses the strength in his bulky shoulders and … [Read more...] about D’Angelo Is Holding Your Hand
Brown Sugar
D’Angelo is cut from a heavier cloth than the majority of his New Jack brethren: He’s a singer/songwriter with a mellifluous, sturdy voice that can coo and growl with equal conviction. He’s no trailblazer — Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Prince have all walked down the same musical paths where D’Angelo meanders. Yet he manages to build on the examples of the masters. No matter how delicate or dusty sounding a track may be, D’Angelo flips the script with B-boy savoir-faire: He makes the nasty rhythms bubbling underneath his multilayered love songs seem old and new at the same time. Call him an ndegéocello (Swahili for “free as a bird”), a rebel soul. The title track, “Brown Sugar,” oozes into the ears with dark, gooey, molasses-like texture. Bolstered by the smoky sounds of a tricky old stage organ, D’Angelo sets the mood here for the rest of his album; his highly agile falsetto vocals merge with the gutbucket rhythm mélange. Like lotion applied to dry skin, this sonic … [Read more...] about Brown Sugar
The Second Coming of D’Angelo
D ‘Angelo is a morning person, of sorts. When he’s working in the studio, as was often the case in the 14-year interregnum between 2000’s Voodoo and 2014’s Black Messiah, he quits his all-night recording sessions just in time to greet each day’s sunrise. “I’m definitely on the night shift,” he says, drawing deep on one of a series of Newport cigarettes, not long after midnight in the midtown Manhattan studio where he recorded much of Black Messiah. He’s wearing a denim shirt unbuttoned over a white undershirt, dark jeans and leather boots. Dog tags bearing the names of his three children hang from a chain around his neck. He looks weary, though he woke up not long ago. It’s his first interview since he released one of the most universally acclaimed albums in years, an album that seemed as if it might never come out at all. D’Angelo could well be the most singular, visionary star to emerge from R&B since Prince. His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic … [Read more...] about The Second Coming of D’Angelo
D’Angelo Electrifies at Triumphant Second Coming Tour Opener
When D’Angelo last visited Oakland in the spring of 2000, he was steaming from the deafening acclaim given to Voodoo , and the impact of his glistening naked torso in the “Untitled (How Does It Feel).” Backed by a troupe that featured drummer Questlove and producer James Poyser, he thrilled a sold-out crowd at the Paramount Theater, but his burgeoning sex symbol status nearly overshadowed a masterful performance. A little over 15 years later, D’Angelo returned to downtown Oakland’s Fox Theater for the first night of his U.S. tour in support of his lionized comeback album, Black Messiah . (Much of the audience arrived late after watching their hometown favorite Golden State Warriors lose a heartbreaker in Game 2 of the NBA Finals, and so they missed an opening set by promising Australian singer-songwriter Meg Mac.) This time, he didn’t strip off his shirt, instead opting for a series of modestly effective costume changes to complement his black T-shirt, pants and boots, like … [Read more...] about D’Angelo Electrifies at Triumphant Second Coming Tour Opener