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Of all movie genres, the literary biopic is among the likeliest to come across as phony, mushy, or just plain dumb. It conjures images of the anguished author wringing words from the typewriter think of Jane Fonda as Lillian Hellman in Fred Zinnemann’s admirable but cliched Julia or a kind of glib romanticism about the writer’s life, evinced in the perpetual popularity of movies about the Beats (including Heart Beat, starring Nick Nolte as Neal Cassady, or Kill Your Darlings, with Daniel Radcliffe, of all people, as Allen Ginsberg).
Comedian Bill Engvall, on his "Here's Your Sign, It's Finally Time" farewell tour, performs at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday at the Oaklawn Event Center, 2705 Central Ave, Hot Springs.
Theatrical licensor Music Theatre International (MTI) has just announced updates to All Together Now!: A Global Event Celebrating Local Theatre, in which schools and theatres around the world are empowered to locally produce and perform an exclusive musical revue featuring songs from MTI s beloved shows over the weekend of November 12, 2021.
MTI s All Together Now! will be entirely free-of-charge to license with no royalty or rental fees. Participating organizations may license MTI s All Together Now! as a fundraiser for their theatre - and perform it live, streamed, or a combination of both over a four-day period from November 12 - 15, 2021.
Many renowned MTI authors, their estates and rightsholders are contributing songs from their iconic musicals to the revue including Stephen Schwartz; Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty; Cameron Mackintosh; Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg & Herbert Kretzmer; Disney Theatrical Group; Frank Loesser; Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe; Tim Min