Tag Archives: Rent

Two Sheets To The Wind: Top Five Musicals

  By Darren & Lottie | November 23, 2009 - 1:15 pm | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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In honour of Screen Cinema’s season of musicals and the December 25th release of Rob Marshall’s musical, Nine, we have decided to open up the Top Five to our favourite musicals. Now, we are talking about movie musicals only - there are plenty of strange and wonderful stage productions that have yet to grace the silver screen. For instance, my absolute favourite musical of all time, Wicked. While there is very excitable talk about a release in 2010 nothing is confirmed but rumour has it that neither Edina Menzel nor Kristin Chenoweth will be returning to their original roles. Boo and urns! We are also leaving the likes of online sensations of Dr. Horrible and TV miracles such as the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer off this list. Animated films are also out of the running as per the decree of the Culchies. Lottie’s Top Five Movie Musicals … There’s more →

Evicted

  By Maxi Cane | June 16, 2009 - 1:35 am | Theatre
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“Those who can’t do it, review it” I need you to keep that in mind. I starred in a show about 5 years ago which took 8 months to rehearse and involved numerous re-writes and choreography changes. There was a lot of tension on and off the stage between the production team and the musical society that had hired them. The society had won The John Player Tops a few years ago and thought they were the shit. The production team had various awards and successful shows under their collective belts and so thought they were the shit. There were people in the cast who shouldn’t have been singing in the chorus, never mind solo work, but they got what they wanted because they had financed the show. Music arrangements were off and scenes were adapted from other productions that took the entire show in a strange direction. As a … There’s more →

DCU Rent: A New Lease

  By Darren Byrne | June 10, 2009 - 4:00 pm | Performance Art, The Culch, Theatre
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When Rent closed on broadway last September, after a 12 year run, DCU Drama wasted no time in securing the rights to produce and amateur production of the rock musical. Their far-too-short sell out run in The Helix this March was critically lauded and has secured them a number of nominations at this weekend’s Association of Irish Musical Society Awards. So impressive was DCU Drama’s production of Jonathan Larson’s musical about art, family, friends, community, drugs, homelessness and AIDS that they are now ready to bring Rent back to the Olympia Theatre under the direction of John Donnelly, 8 years after the Broadway Tour brought it to our shores. It is nearly unprecedented to see an amateur troupe bring a major production such as this to a national venue. I spoke to Producer Roibeárd O’Mhurchú about the Helix production and the upcoming Olympia run: Rob, when DCU’s Rent hit the … There’s more →

DCU For Rent

  By Darren Byrne | March 23, 2009 - 11:02 pm | The Culch
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Johnathan Larson’s acclaimed modern musical began its long off-Broadway run in January 1996 in New York. Based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme, this rock opera tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.