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Tag Archives: musicals
Two Peter Pans That Fly Under the Radar
Back when I did a series on Peter Pan movies, in this blog’s early days, I only wrote about the three theatrically released ones and the various TV versions of the musical by Mark Charlap and Carolyn Leigh. Now I’d … Continue reading
Return to Neverland Is Better Before It Actually Returns to Neverland
That Mother’s Day post got me in the mood to blog about Peter Pan adaptations, ones I haven’t really covered here in detail before. Technically, the movie I’ll be discussing in this post is a sequel to Peter Pan (1953), … Continue reading
The Second Adaptees Awards Ceremony
Remember when I did that anniversary post that was like an awards ceremony for characterizations in all the movies/miniseries/plays the blog had covered thus far? Wasn’t that fun? Well, I thought it was fun, and since I probably won’t do … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, Charles Dickens, Cinderella, Cyrano de Bergerac, David Copperfield, fairy tales, Great Expectations, Into the Woods, musicals, Peanuts, Phineas and Ferb, Prince Caspian, remakes, Return to Oz, Robin Hood, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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Ranting About Cyrano (2021)
Cyrano (2021) is a movie adaptation of a 2018 stage musical which was itself based on Edmond Rostand’s 1897 tragic comedy-or comic tragedy-Cyrano de Bergerac. I’d better state upfront that this is going to be one of those blog posts … Continue reading
A Cinderella Musical That’s Not Rodgers and Hammerstein
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella is a 1976 cinematic musical retelling of the famous story of the siege of Orleans. Just kidding. It’s a retelling of Cinderella. There’s plenty to love about this film, starting (literally) … Continue reading
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella Three-Way Faceoff
In The Sound of Music‘s words, let’s start at the very beginning. Well, OK, not the very beginning. That would require getting into the complete oral and literary history of Cinderella. Let’s start with 1957 when CBS did a musical … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinderella, fairy tales, musicals, remakes
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Special Anniversary Lookback: The Best of the Obscure
I admit it. I write about many famous stories on this blog. But one of my favorite things about it is drawing attention to works of art or entertainment about which many people haven’t heard. It gives me joy to … Continue reading
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Tagged 101 Dalmatians, 18th century novels, 19th century novels, As You Like It, Caging Skies, Charles Dickens, Coriolanus, Disney Anim-Anthology Movies, fairy tales, Fantasia, Freaky Friday, Hand-Drawn Dreamworks, Jane Austen, Little Dorrit, Little Women, Love and Friendship, Mary Poppins, musicals, Nicholas Nickleby, Peanuts, Peter Pan, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Storyteller, William Shakespeare
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How Into the Woods (2014) is Messy but Worthwhile and Why That’s Weirdly Appropriate
Many eyebrows were raised when it was first announced that Disney would be doing a movie adaptation of the 1987 stage musical Into the Woods. Dark, cynical, adult deconstructions of fairy tales are kind of the opposite of what we … Continue reading
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Tagged Cinderella, fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, musicals, Rapunzel
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You’re On the Big Screen, Charlie Brown! Part 1
In the past, I’ve lamented on this blog that of all the Peanuts specials, only A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown are beloved when there are so many others just as great or greater to … Continue reading
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Animation Station: The Amazing Balancing Act That Is Phineas and Ferb
For a brief interval, (theater) enables us to become gods. Stripped of all nonessentials, that, I think, is the ultimate nature of the theatrical passion, and that is why in one form or another, practically everything that goes on in … Continue reading