She confirmed that her husband is an avid fan of the movie on which the musical is based.
On a more highbrow note, Asia has a classical music version of American Idol, albeit untelevised--the Asian Youth Orchestra, which seeks musical talent from Hong Kong, China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia.
Dennis Kelly, who wrote the book, has turned Mr. Dahl's novel, much of which is light on dialogue, into a fully stageworthy musical in which everything is shown rather than told.
The guitarist, Milton, decides to start off with gentle chords, which makes little musical sense given the context.
Parrot engineers added a proprietary algorithmic processor to this system: the Sound Flex, which respects the musical for a pure and perfectly balanced musical image.
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Best Buy, which already added musical instruments to its regular electronics inventories in an effort to fill floor space, is also getting into health and exercise equipment to better utilize its larger stores.
Grease was the last hurrah for the musical, which critics had proclaimed dead 20 years before.
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Angela Lansbury originated the role in a 1979 Broadway production of the musical, which won eight Tony awards.
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The pair were executive producers on the 2002 hit musical, which picked up six Oscars including best picture.
The house contains musical instruments which could have been played by the band.
Leading lady Waddingham has high praise for the director's approach to the musical, which was last revived in London in 2001.
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David Sanborn was Bowie's main musical foil which means his saxophone playing dominates this excursion into what Bowie called "plastic soul".
Now, she's released a debut album called Jidka: The Line, which draws on her musical and cultural heritage as a Somali exile.
Nigel made Mark a silver birch flute that started him on a musical journey which led to the creation of the album.
One of the other designs is the Singing Ringing Tree to be built in Burnley, a musical sculpture which incorporates pipes which sound with the wind.
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Her life story from unknown Scot to multi-million-selling recording artist has itself been made into a musical, which opened in the UK last March.
Motown the Musical, which features songs by Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, was called a "mess" by Variety's reviewer when it opened in mid-April.
The "Kinky Boots" haul did not match the record number of nominations for a musical, which is 15, set by "The Producers" in 2001 and "Billy Elliot" in 2009.
It's a visual and musical language which isn't anthropomorphic.
Hollywood films such as 2008's "The Love Guru" and 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- which ends with a musical dance number -- also borrow from Bollywood, Newman said, but are comedies that parody the enchantment in Bollywood films.
Since 1991, working separately, the two have found how each protein can be sensitive to more than one smelly chemical, in different amounts, and how any given chemical activates several proteins at once, much like a unique musical chord which the brain then identifies as a smell.
The musician is currently organising a musical exhibition in San Francisco at the Museum of Modern Art, called 010101, which will attempt to create a musical environment for visitors.
Members of the Damrosch family, a musical family for which the 44-year-old park was named, say they share that view.
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Film-like musical soundtracks, which play occasional bursts of mood music (rather than the continuous techno-din that traditionally accompanies arcade games) are also becoming more common.
Ross was the force behind the High School Musical phenomenon, which has earned Disney billions of dollars between its movies, albums, lunch boxes and ice shows.
It is now home to The Museum of Musical Instruments, which despite holding more than 5, 000 rare items has faded into relative anonymity with much of the city population.
In May I went to Washington for the Kennedy Center's revival of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical, in which Danny Burstein and Jan Maxwell outdid themselves.
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Other awards went to The Bodyguard, which was named best new musical, and to the National Theatre's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time for best new play.
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The children's TV show "Sesame Street, " long a source of preschool learning, recently launched a new segment, "Elmo the Musical, " which infuses counting, calculations and shapes into singing, dancing and games.
So if you are unsure of who to root for, take a listen to all of these songs and choose based on which team has the better musical selection for its city.
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