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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2018 9:00:19 GMT
| 14/12 | 21:00 | The Sound of Movie Musicals - Part 1
| BBC4 | Neil Brand explores a golden age of the film musical, from 1920s Hollywood to the fantasy of Snow White, and uncovers a secret history of musical film in 1930s Soviet Union.
| | 17/12 | 15:00 | Backstage with Disney on Broadway | Sky Arts | Documentary looking at the creation of Disney's eight Broadway musicals, including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King | | 21/12 | 21:00 | The Sound of Movie Musicals - Part 2
| BBC4 | Neil Brand explores the second golden age of the film musical, from the song and dance of Gene Kelly and Bob Fosse to the emergence of musicals in India and China
| | 23/12 | 09:30 | Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker
| Sky Arts | The Royal Ballet presents The Nutcracker as its Christmas offering at the Royal Opera House in 2016. The show includes classic period designs, astounding stage effects and Tchaikovsky's iconic score.
| | 23/12 | 20:00 | Funny Girl: The Musical | Sky Arts | Take your seat for this exhilarating, smash-hit stage production After a record-breaking, critically acclaimed West End run in 2016, Funny Girl headed to the Manchester Palace Theatre in 2017 and Sky Arts was there to capture the action. | | 24/12 | 10:45 | Oklahoma!
| Ch 5 | Oklahoma! is a 1955 American musical film based on the 1943 musical of the same name by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
| | 24/12 | 20:00 | The Dead Room (Mark Gattis) | BBC4 | Mark Gatiss brings the Christmas ghost story tradition back to life with The Dead Room, a chilling new tale for BBC Four. Written and directed by Gatiss, the 30-minute film tells the tale of a long-running radio horror series of the same name. | | 25/12 | 12:45 | Guys and Dolls
| BBC2 | The 1955 American musical film starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
| | 25/12 | 15:10 | An American In Paris: The Musical | BBC2 | This breathtakingly beautiful Tony award-winning Broadway musical, inspired by the 1951 Oscar winning film, tells an impassioned story of discovering love. | | 25/12 | 19:00 | Swan Lake from the Royal Opera House | BBC2 | The Royal Ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s magnificent classical ballet in a brand-new production by young choreographer Liam Scarlett, with sumptuous and evocative designs by John Macfarlane. | | 26/12 | 13:30 | The Secret Life of Mary Poppins
| BBC2 | Victoria Coren Mitchell explores the complex life of Mary Poppins author PL Travers, looking at her battle with Walt Disney, whose film version she loathed but made her rich.
| 26/12
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| The Phantom Of The Opera At The Royal Albert Hall
| Sky Arts
| Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the original London Production, this lavish concert from The Royal Albert Hall stars Ramin Karimloo & Sierra Boggess
| | 26/12 | 21:00 | Darcey's Ballet Heroes
| BBC4 | Former ballerina Darcey Bussell celebrates male ballet, with archive footage, backstage access, visits to rehearsal studios and interviews with some of the great male dancers.
| | 28/12 | 21:00 | The Sound of Movie Musicals - Part 3 | BBC4 | Neil Brand explains how the movie musical had to continuously adapt and modernise for the modern age, looking at some of the most popular songs from films Grease and Bugsy Malone.
| | 29/12 | 19:40 | Nothing Like a Dame
| BBC2 | A chance to hang out with Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright and enjoy sparkling conversation spliced with a raft of astonishing archive.
| | 01/01 | 10:15 | New Years Day Concert from Vienna Musikverei
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| Led for the first time by the German conductor Christian Thielemann, leading the Vienna Philharmonic in an array of polkas, waltzes and gallops by the Strauss family and their contemporaries.
| | 01/01 | 11:30 | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
| Ch 4 | The 1968 British musical adventure fantasy film, directed by Ken Hughes and written by Roald Dahl and Hughes, staring Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Adrian Hall.
| | 01/01 | 21:00 | Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary | Sky Arts | This spectacular, sell-out 25th Anniversary Gala Performance of the global stage sensation also features appearances by the original cast including Jonathan Pryce and Lea Salonga.
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Post by n1david on Dec 11, 2018 10:16:53 GMT
Phantom of the Opera is on Sky Arts on Boxing Day at 17:15
Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance is on Sky Arts at 21:00 on New Years' Day
Sadly, Pappano's Arias doesn't seem to have made it in time for Christmas despite being previously announced, at least according to the Radio Times.
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Post by profquatermass on Dec 11, 2018 15:56:14 GMT
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Post by maggiem on Dec 13, 2018 13:24:05 GMT
I will be watching that, as I like Neil Brand's programmes for BBC4 Also, what about "Nothing Like a Dame" on Sat 29th December 7:40pm on BBC2? Theatrical reminiscences galore! |
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Post by david on Dec 16, 2018 15:15:01 GMT
For anyone interested, Simon Callow’s A Christmas Carol is showing on BBC4 10pm tonight.
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 16, 2018 15:21:46 GMT
For anyone interested, Simon Callow’s A Christmas Carol is showing on BBC4 10pm tonight. Which must be really annoying for anyone who paid to see it at the cinema on Tuesday. 😕 |
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Post by david on Dec 16, 2018 15:27:35 GMT
For anyone interested, Simon Callow’s A Christmas Carol is showing on BBC4 10pm tonight. Which must be really annoying for anyone who paid to see it at the cinema on Tuesday. 😕 Definitely, considering how much you pay to watch theatre stuff at the cinema. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2018 13:14:07 GMT
Anything on TV at Christmas this year will have to go a long way to beat this
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Post by maggiem on Dec 17, 2018 14:32:03 GMT
For anyone interested, Simon Callow’s A Christmas Carol is showing on BBC4 10pm tonight. Which must be really annoying for anyone who paid to see it at the cinema on Tuesday. 😕 Which I almost did, until I checked the schedule again.  |
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Post by SamB (was badoerfan) on Dec 18, 2018 22:07:45 GMT
The King and I is on after Oklahoma at 13:30 on Channel 5 on Christmas Eve too.
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Post by showoff on Dec 19, 2018 9:11:57 GMT
Can't wait for Funny Girl. I loved the musical at the Savoy, I saw Natasha and was so blown away with her that when Sheridan returned I booked for Natasha on a Monday instead.
It'll be good to see Sheridan. I'm just no fan of her voice, so preferred to see Natasha, whose voice I really rate.
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Post by BoOverall on Dec 19, 2018 17:06:14 GMT
Some great stuff. I keep hoping that one day the more recent production of Half a Sixpence would be broadcast. At least, I think it was filmed at the time.
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Post by Phantom of London on Dec 20, 2018 18:05:18 GMT
LES MISERABLE
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Post by showoff on Dec 24, 2018 18:21:54 GMT
Tomorrow, Christmas day, The Greatest Showman is on Sky One in the evening.
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Post by alece10 on Dec 25, 2018 8:42:53 GMT
Tomorrow, Christmas day, The Greatest Showman is on Sky One in the evening. I'm glad this is on as seeing Hugh Jackman at the O2 and don't want to be probably the only person there who has not seen the film. |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 29, 2018 21:34:43 GMT
Has there been any opera on mainstream TV this festive season? Normally we get one or two somewhere - but I haven't spotted any
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Post by oxfordsimon on Dec 29, 2018 21:36:36 GMT
Has there been any opera on mainstream TV this festive season? Normally we get one or two somewhere - but I haven't spotted any
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2018 23:29:18 GMT
Watched the Bros documentary "After the Screaming Stops" this evening - it's amazing! Gets another showing late night on New Years Eve and is also on iPlayer.
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Post by Jan on Dec 31, 2018 18:05:39 GMT
Much to ponder in the BBC effort “The ABC Murders”. The writer gave us the benefit of her views on Brexit in interviews beforehand (parallels with fascism) but then they followed NT best-practice in casting an American to play a part a UK actor, or even better a Belgian actor, could have played better. Freedom of movement continuing not to mean much for EU talent hoping to work at either of those locations.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jan 1, 2019 23:09:08 GMT
Yes the pro bexit stance was very obvious in ABC, does the book have the same nationalistic tones?
But more importantly are any Belgians complaining about US actors taking work from them ?
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 1, 2019 23:12:52 GMT
I gave up on The ABC Murders.
It was over-written, over-designed, over-directed and none of it enhanced the original story one jot.
I am very glad that this particular screenwriter will not be working on any future Christie adaptations.
It was all too much and ultimately unrewarding for the screentime allowed for it.
I shall dig out the radio adaptation and listen to that again - I can paint my own pictures in my mind for that!
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Post by david on Jan 1, 2019 23:40:13 GMT
Having binged watched the ABC murders today, I didn’t get much out of it to be honest. The pace was too slow and there wasn’t much tension to the drama. I thought the previous offerings over the last few years were significantly better and ultimately more rewarding to watch. I just couldn’t take to john malkovich as Poirot. Hopefully the next Christie offering of “Death comes as the end” will be better.
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Post by n1david on Feb 11, 2019 13:35:06 GMT
Pappano's Greatest Arias finally makes it to air BBC4 on 24 Feb at 9pm.
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