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  • West Side Story (2021 Video)

    aka: Episode 32

    Series
    Shakespeare Hour Live!

    Video podcast hosted by Drew Lichtenberg and Alan Paul. This episode looks at the 1957 Broadway musical West Side Story, its basis in Romeo and Juliet and the way the show and its reputation has changed over...

  • "Play on" (2017 Audio)

    aka: Something Rotten

    Series
    Shakespeare Unlimited
    Producer
    P.R. Paul

    Podcast from the Folger Shakespeare Library. In 2015, a new musical Something Rotten! opened on Broadway. The plot: Two brothers living in England in 1595 have had their playwriting careers upended by the...

  • Schmidt on Stage (2008 Television)

    Series
    Aspekte

    ZDF’s arts and culture series presented by Wolfgang Herles. This episode begins with a report on German TV entertainer Harald Schmidt’s recent project: a Hamlet musical (Der Prinz von Dänemark) that...

  • Hamlet 2 (2008 Film)

    Director
    Andrew Fleming
    Producer
    Eric D. Eisner; Eric Eisner; Aaron Ryder; Leonid Rozhetskin

    Feature film comedy. A high school drama teacher (Coogan) tries to motivate his students and save his department by writing a politically incorrect musical sequel to Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

  • Shakespeare in Words and Music (2008 Video)

    Director
    Albert Girard; Jean-Jacques Sheitoyan

    DVD presenting six half-hour programmes that contain spoken texts from Shakespeare’s play linked with musical excerpts within a given theme. The programmes are centred on vocal excerpts but also contain...

  • Tonight Tonight, It’s West Side Story Night (2007 Radio)

    aka: Something’s Coming From West Side to World Wide

    Producer
    Emma Kingsley

    Radio documentary. As part of a three-hour tribute celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bernstein’s musical, two documentary programmes look at the origins of the musical, how it made its way to Broadway,...

  • Place for Us: Fifty Years of West Side Story, A (2007 Radio)

    Director
    Jeff Lunden
    Producer
    Margaret Low Smith

    Radio documentary hosted by Scott Simon, on the show West Side Story. Members of the original creative team and cast discuss the show’s birth, members of the movie cast discuss the show’s translation...

  • Big Life, The (2006 Radio, Video)

    aka: The Ska Musical

    Series
    Play of the Week (BBC World Service)
    Director
    Clint Dyer
    Producer
    Rosalynd Ward

    Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...

  • Saturday Review [16/12/2006] (2006 Radio)

    Series
    Saturday Review

    Radio programme on the week’s cultural events. In a ten-minute review, presenter Tom Sutcliffe discusses Gregory Doran’s musical version of The Merry Wives of Windsor, staged at Stratford-upon-Avon for...

  • Big Life, The (2005 Video)

    aka: The Ska Musical

    Based loosely on the plot of Love’s Labour’s Lost, the action of this much acclaimed ska musical is set in 1950s London. The Big Life follows the fortunes of a group of Caribbean immigrants arriving in...