Merry Christmas, everyone!
The multi-talented Ty Templeton wrote a Christmas song this year, and since it’s Christmas Eve, you get to hear it. Put this into your musical rotation tonight, enjoy, and have a safe and Merry Christmas!
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Tweeks Review Amelie & Rent 20th Anniversary Tour
It was a big theatre weekend for us! We saw the new musical Amelie (starting Phillipa Soo!) at the Ahmanson Theatre before she heads off to Broadway and then saw the Rent 20th Anniversary tour as it started it’s trek across the US at the Segerstrom Center in Costa Mesa. [editor’s note: check back tomorrow…
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Box Office Democracy: La La Land
I like musicals and I think it’s a shame that the film musical is mostly a relic of the past, dusted off a couple times a decade for a big revival and then set in the back of the closet for a few more years. La La Land is a generally competent film that I…
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Tweeks: Tales of Hairspray Live Teenage Extras
If you think you saw us in the background at the Corny Collins Show on NBC’s Hairspray Live! last night, you did! We were cast as extras on the best live TV musical NBC has done & we’re here to tell you all about it.
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Tweeks: Teen Beach 2 Because Disney
Full Disclosure: We are obsessed with Disney Channel musicals. And who can blame us? It looks like a lot of people (of all ages) are too. Disney knows what they are doing with the genre and according to the Disney Channel last Friday night’s Teen Beach Movie 2 was its biggest cable TV original movie…
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Game Of Thrones: The Musical!
Because Coldplay and Peter Dinklage think there’s money to be had here… …actually, it’s to help benefit Red Nose Day to help fight child poverty, which is a good thing for the ex-Minister of Coin to be doing. Enjoy.
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Wolverine: The Musical!
You knew that, sooner or later, Hugh Jackman was going to do this:
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Tweeks: Complete Alice In Wonderland Confusion
This week the Tweeks give their sometimes musical and always whimsical take on Dynamite’s Complete Alice in Wonderland hardcover graphic novel by Lewis Carroll, Leah Moore, John Reppion, and Erica Awano. <a href=” “>Tweeks Alice
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REVIEW: A Chorus Line
You may not have seen A Chorus Line but most everyone knows the song “One” thanks to its endless use in other productions (think Treehouse of Horror V, Phineas and Ferb, Scrubs) throughout the years. Since the play debuted Off-Broadway in 1975, it has gone on to become one of the best known musicals of…
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Mindy Newell: Every Time A Bell Rings
As promised last week, here’s the list of my favorite Christmas movies, starting with all my very favorite-est… It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). Directed by Frank Capra, who declared it his favorite of all his films and showed it every Christmas at his home, it stars James Stewart as “everyman” George Bailey, Donna Reed as…
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The Tweeks review “Shrek: The Musical”!
He’s big, green, loud, obnoxoius, and is like an onion. He also sings, dances, and saves the princess. And now, there’s a DVD and Blu-Ray edition of the Broadway musical based on the Dreamworks animated movie based on the book by William Steig. (Whew!) This week, the Tweeks review the musical version of Shrek. Take…
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First Look at Meryl Streep’s Into the Woods’ Witch
Meryl Streep ventures Into the Woods as the Witch who wishes to reverse a curse so that her beauty may be restored. The humorous and heartfelt musical, a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, explores the consequences of the quests of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel—all…
