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Tag Archives: musicals
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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Tagged musicals, Peanuts
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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
The First Ever Adaptees Award Ceremony
Today is the two-year anniversary of The Adaptation Station.com! I wanted to do something special to commemorate it. My first idea was a post about my top ten adaptations about which I’ve blogged. My second was a post that was … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th century novels, 19th century novels, Aladdin, As You Like It, Bleak House, Charles Dickens, Cinderella, Emma, fairy tales, Freaky Friday, Hand-Drawn Dreamworks, Jane Austen, Les Misérables, Little Dorrit, Little Women, Love and Friendship, Mary Poppins, musicals, Nicholas Nickleby, Peter Pan, remakes, William Shakespeare
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Animation Station: Disney’s Anim-Anthology Movies Part 4
Among the few who have reviewed all of the Disney anim-anthology movies from the 1940s, Fun and Fancy Free and The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, each of which consists of two featurettes, seem to be regarded as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation Station, Disney Anim-Anthology Movies, fairy tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, musicals, The Wind in the Willows
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Animation Station: Disney’s Anim-Anthology Movies Part 3
OK, I’m going to cheat a little here. So far, I’ve been covering the Disney anim-anthology movies in the order they were released. But an interesting thing about the series of Disney anim-anthologies that went from 1942 to 1949 is … Continue reading
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Tagged Animation Station, Disney Anim-Anthology Movies, musicals
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Animation Station: Disney’s Anim-Anthology Movies Part 2
I admit one of my biggest hurdles when I started off on this series was the thought of reviewing Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros, which I remembered as being the most boring of the Disney anim-anthologies. It’s true that … Continue reading
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When Ebenezer Scrooge Met Frosty the Snowman
Note: I’ve been having unexpected trouble with this blog lately. For some reason, half the images in this post and in some other posts aren’t showing up, at least not on Microsoft Edge. They do seem to be visible on … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th century novels, A Christmas Carol in Prose, Charles Dickens, musicals, The Cricket on the Hearth
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