Word: moulins
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...woman who didn't make her college musical just may play a pivotal role in reviving the whole movie-musical genre. Zellweger stars in Chicago, a big-screen version of the Broadway hit that opens Dec. 27 and is already generating big-time buzz. With last year's hit Moulin Rouge still on Hollywood's mind and Chicago about to break, the studios are gearing up for a new era of movie musicals. Being talked about is a new screen version of Guys and Dolls, Grease 3, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John and a big-screen version...
...Moulin Rouge had a big impact," says Chicago's co--executive producer Craig Zadan, who with his partner Neil Meron scored huge ratings with TV versions of shows like Gypsy and Annie. "If Chicago is also a hit," predicts Zadan, "then stuff in development will go into production much faster...
Hollywood is realizing that audiences didn't tire of musicals. They tired of bad musicals. When good ones came along--Cabaret in 1972 and Grease in 1978--audiences proved more than willing. While Chicago doesn't have the stylistic daring of Moulin Rouge, it is a crowd-pleasing reimagining of a show that is kept current by its up-to-the-minute cynicism, its skewering of the media and its heroines' obsession with stardom...
...While Moulin Rouge seemed to pave the way for this film, Chicago has actually been in the works for decades. Soon after the original production opened on Broadway in 1975, director Bob Fosse began planning a movie version. When Fosse died in 1987, says producer Marty Richards, "I took the script, threw it in a drawer and said, 'That's the end of that.'" Then eight years ago, Miramax's Harvey Weinstein wondered what had happened. "He had seen it as a young person and was passionate about it," says Richards. When a revival of Chicago opened on Broadway...
...Friday and Saturday, November 15 to 16. The theme of the show, entitled “Mainly Movies I,” is loosely based on songs from cinema. The eight featured pieces range from the Men in Black theme to “Lady Marmalade” from Moulin Rouge. More abstract interpretations of this idea include AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long” (as featured in the end credits to the timeless masterpiece A Knight’s Tale) and “The Fox and the Hound...