Broadway vs movie vs live
in 1971 grease became a phenomenon when the musical became reality with a lot more additional songs a long with the music that made grease popular for years to come
in 1978 grease finally became history with its first ever motion picture film Olivia and john were cast as the main love interests sandy and Danny john was cast as Danny at the last minute when Elvis Presley at the peek of success had suffered a heart attack at his estate in Graceland in the year of 1977 around the time he died during the filming of look at me i'm Sandra Dee referenced the king in the song.
when grease then finally became popular decided to make its first musical in their live tv line up with a worldwide talented cast including pro dancer and 2 time mirror ball champion Julianne hough high school musical's Vanessa hudgens Carlos pena jr of the Nickelodeon show and band big time rush and turned solo to DNCE front man Joe Jonas.
nothing is known about the musical but Patricia Quinn one of cast member's of the film played the original usherette
in the original film of Patricia who played the usherette in the musical and was cast as magenta in the film and the music that made the movie history during the peek of its popularity fox show glee which premiered in 2009 the rocky horror glee show in honor of Halloween rocky horror quickly became a cult favorite
rocky horror then became so popular finally went live on tv with an all star cast Laverne cox worldwide singer american idol runner up and queen front man Adam Lambert talented beauty queen Victoria justice and the gorgeous Ryan mc carton make the live rocky horror definitely worth while
hairspray also became a phenomenon of its history. Nick Jonas became part of the cast at the famed Hollywood bowl playing Link Larkin Matthew Morrison was cast in the same role and was the originator of the character of Link. Matthew became popular with the premiere of glee a comedy musical tv series. even the Musical's songs made it a household name and also included a soon to be deleted music number the big dollhouse
in the original film the music that made the musical so popular but from many deleted scenes and many 90's music hits that made its own spin on the worldwide musical.
when hairspray became a phenomenon many of the musical numbers were not filmed but made the end credits with a fresh new cast. at the time when he was supposed to be doing an arena tour with his high school musical cast mates brought in drew seeley as his character of troy for zac Efron took those years to film Hairspray when he was cast as link Larkin and made his return for the upcoming high school musical 2. other cast members included Allison Janney who now plays Bonnie alongside Anna Faris in the tv series Mom, Brittney Snow is now known as Chloe the gorgeous Barden Bella in the pitch Perfect movie series, James Marsden who played Prince Edward with Amy Adams in a mixed fairy tale movie Enchanted, Christopher walken a friend to the late actress Natalie wood, the inspiring Queen Latifah, Michele Pieifer who played alongside Zac efron in the movie new years eve. and lastly the famed actor of grease John travolta.
hairspray was always such a powerful influence in history made it's first debut live with an amazingly talented and beautiful cast members including teen beach movie's Garrett Clayton superstar ariana grande dove Cameron Broadway's Kristen chenoweth diva Jennifer Hudson martin short musical legend Harvey firstein and Sean Hayes of will and grace make up all the talent and colorful version of hairspray live the gorgeous pro dancer and 5 time mirror ball champion of Dancing with the stars Derek hough captures the image that hairspray is well known for with your host Darren criss
nothing much is known about the musical but it later became a worldwide hit after it's release on Broadway
dirty dancing became such a hit and became history's ultimate phenomenon with the casting of Jennifer grey and Patrick swyaze the film made them so popular that during that time Patrick was a household name even with the debut of the his film the outsiders made him so popular until his untimely demise of his life will always be remembered for his films and incredible abs
recently this year of 2017 dirty dancing finally went live with the most talented bunch of actors and pussycat doll singer Nicole even though it received mixed reviews and the cast's amazing singing talent this live musical to me it's defintley worth a watch even with colt's abs. cast members included many talents from Abigail Breslin from Scream Queens, Nicole Scherzinger of the pussycat dolls, Sara hyland from modern Family star treks Bruce Greenwood and Debra messing of will and grace.
religion finally comes alive in it's first musical the story of the life of Jesus Christ and the heartbreaking betrayal that led to the most popular and known story of the bible
when many films of many popular stories of the bible finally came into our lives finally made over 2 films of the ultimate betrayal in history
well it's finally here the ultimate betrayal was live on stage Easter Sunday of 2018. it was the ultimate sing off with many famous singers with Sara Barellies beautiful rendition of the classic song i dont know how to love him and her stunning take of ST. Mary Magdalene, john legend's epic high notes and his undeniable acting talents were brought to life as the vulnerable take of our Savior Jesus and the legendary man himself Alice cooper with his dramatic music notes and his stage presence definitely set the stage as the master king Herod. Jesus Christ superstar live in concert is one live show you definitely dont want to miss with a more upbeat and rock take of all the musicals epic songs this is one betrayal we wont miss a beat or shed a few tears and witness the story that defined the world before us humans came to be.
Rent is a rock musical which the themes were used in a book of the same name by Jonathan Larson and is loosely based on a Giacomo Puchinni Opera La Boheme it's mainly a story about the struggles of 7 young artists trying their hardest to survive the harsh world they live in under the shadow of AIDS and HIV a popular worldwide condition which did not have a cure back then. most of the original actors reprised their roles a few years after in a movie adaptation of the inspiring musical.
Rent was made into a movie a few years after its release on Broadway. the film starred Anthony Rapp the gorgeous bad boy Adam pascal singer Taye Diggs Tracie thoms Wilson Jermaine Heredia Rosario Dawson Broadway's diva idina Menzel and Dc's flash actor Jesse L martin as young artists Maureen Joanne Mark Mimi Angel and Roger with taye playing their landlord Benjamin coffin. Taye idina Anthony Jesse and Adam Originated their characters on Broadway first before the filming the movie. Idina is now still a heavy Broadway actress and known for voicing Queen Elsa in Disney's frozen and played Shelby corcaran on glee and Jesse became popular not only from being in the movie of Rent but also from the CW playing Joe west on the flash alongside his on screen daughter Candice Patton.
Rent was next in the live tv lineup taking the coveted possible spot of the live production of Hair after Rent's possible failure from it's mixed reviews to me this was one of the best live shows to date. the cast could not have been any better and were ideal people to play these respective characters especially Jordan Vanessa Mario Tinashe and Brennin. Brennin defenitley was very into his character and embodied the perfect Bad boy of our dreams, Tinashe being a gorgeous worldwide singer embodied the perfect persona of a stripper, Vanessa who is known to being the sweet good girl in high school musical took on the perfect sexual acting of Idina's performance of the beautiful Maureen Johnson and lastly Jordan Fisher season season 25 dancing with the stars mirror ball champion and Disney actor brought down the house with his genuine Bromance of Brennin's portrayal of roger Davis. Keala Settle who was the bearded lady in the greatest showman also made an apperance in the live show as the mother of Jordan's character.
part of all of the musicals of Disney on Broadway came out with the little mermaid a super colorful musical became such a hit of its time
after it became Disney's popular Broadway musical's became part of the Disney princess line up Jodie Benson who voices the main character of Ariel defintley became a phenomenon with a live action film in the works and an appearance on fairy tale series once upon a time it defintley defined such history of its time
the first Disney film ever to go live will finally come to pass but not for a really long time since the idea was scrapped in 2017 due to issues of the network's financial plan . 2019 has now officially confirmed that the live show is finally happening and will release on November 5th which will be a starting point of promotion for Disney's Brand new Streaming Service Disney + which will mark the celebration of the film's 31st Anniversary 2 weeks prior from the live show. according to Albert mills one of the creators behind the show has stated if the little mermaid is successful we could look at many other Disney musicals to get the live treatment in the ABC network and now it's finally back and get ready for an amazing underwater adventure in the wonderful world of Disney the little mermaid live. the live show will star the voice of Disney 's Moana Auli'i Cravahllio as Ariel, Queen Latifah as Ursula singer Shaggy is Sebastian the crab Riverdale's Graham Phillips will play Auli'i's love interest prince Eric and the Hot Full house star John Stamos is reprising his Hollywood bowl character of Chef Louis.
I dont know much about the musical version of Annie but there are a few highlights that I would like to talk about the first thing are the notable replacements which include Sarah Jessica Parker, Sadie Sink and Jane Lynch from Sex and the city, Stranger things and Glee in celebration of Jane's involvement included Sue Sylvester singing Little girls in the show. another notable is Lila Crawford who played red riding hood in the movie version of Into the woods. James Whitcomb riley had a wrote a poem in 1885 called Little Orphant Annie which was made into a comic strip by Harold gray which is where the idea of the musical came from.
in 1982 Annie made it's way to the big screen Aileen Quinn plays titular character with Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters this version is basically my least favorite but it was learning of Rooster and Lily's Motives for Annie that got me really into it.
in 1995 Annie got it's first sequel called Annie A royal Adventure which follows the Titular character going to London England where Oliver Warbucks is to be knighted by the King but Annie gets caught up in a criminal conspiracy to blow up the palace. the cast stars Ashley Johnson as Annie with George Hearn, Joan Collins and Camila Belle as Molly. in the sequel Molly finally gets adopted. Camila belle was previously a girlfriend to Joe Jonas and starred in the movie Push and was featured in the music video of Lovebug the Jonas brothers supposedly wrote their song Video girl after her.
my favorite version of Annie came in 1999 with Alicia Morton playing Annie with Victor Garber, Kathy Bates, Alan Cumming, Kristen Chenoweth and Sarah Hyland. Sarah played one of my favorite Orphans named Molly at the time she was only 10 years old the movie also marked the film debut of Kristen Chenoweth as Lily. Alan Cumming I felt was a perfect choice for Rooster and had good Chemistry with Kathy I felt the same way about Victor Garber as Oliver he was an ideal choice we now know him as Martin Stein on the CW his song Something was Missing was my favorite song in the movie aside from Tomorrow Maybe and I think I'm going to like it here. Garber has the most beautiful singing voice I have ever heard and I was shocked when I first learned of this.
in 2014 Annie made it's film debut again with Quvenzhane Wallis playing Annie and is the first girl to play the character as black instead of White the cast also includes only 1 original character named William Stacks who is the Oliver Warbucks in the film and is played by Jamie Fox she also works alongside Rose Byrne and Cameron Diaz. Hannigan's first Name in this movie is Colleen instead of Aggie. The movie also includes cameos from Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis Michael J Fox Sia and Rhianna the music has a more pop take on the classic songs along with an original solo for Annie.
this December of 2021 Annie went live the Live version followed the trend of the 2014 film and casted Celina Smith as Annie again portrayed as a Black girl the cast included singer Taraji P Henson Harry Connick Jr Nicole Scherzinger and Titus Burgess there were a few major differences from it's source material with 3 original songs that I think were included in it's Broadway musical. the live version was a bit different which depicted Annie to stand up for miss Hannigan which she was only an accomplice this depicts Annie to have a heart and that she actually loved her. Franklin Roosevelt also makes an appearance and featured in one of the song's. Taraji's acting skills were off the charts and very funny Nicole added Sparkle to her role as Grace Farrell Harry being an American idol judge did a Phenomenal job as a singer and Titus portrayed Rooster as a comedic character instead of being serious in past productions.
bye bye birdie is mainly an Elvis centric inspired musical i dont know much about it but i'm pretty sure its defintley worth a watch
also apart of it's tv live lineup will star icon and world of dance judge Jennifer Lopez as main character of Rose Rosie Alvarez apparently this live show was pushed back to 2019 no one knows when Jenifer would be available for it's unveil but it goes to show that it may be worth the wait.we now know for sure if Jennifer cooperates her commitment to the live show it's possible that it may replace the live musical adaptation of Hair wanting something more family friendly.
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