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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...