Also credited on1 work
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In the literature8 passages
- In the case of Movin' Out, Twyla Tharp's musical based on the songs of Billy Joel, the music was performed live by an appealing young singer who gave the songs a lyrical quality they didn't have when the composer sang them, though he lost the composer's gritty quality. Movin' Out had a plot, about some young friends who go to Vietnam in t…ebooks/Engel, Lehman/Words with Music_ Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto - Lehman Engel.txt
- 2 Ebb’s speculation turned out to be prophetic, as this conversation took place more than nine months before the Billy Joel-Twyla Tharp show, Movin’ Out, opened at the Richard Rodgers Theater on October 24, 2002.ebooks/Lawrence, Greg/Colored Lights_ Forty Years of Words and Music, Show Biz, Collaboration, and All That Jazz - Greg Lawrence & John Kander & Fred Ebb.txt
- Jukebox musicals featuring pop songs (and non-biographical plots) include the international sensation Mamma Mia! (1999) and the Billy Joel/Twyla Tharp dansical, Movin’ Out (2002). Like the biographical or rock concert jukebox musical, musicals in this niche enjoy the fact that many potential theatre patrons already know the music very wel…ebooks/Music, The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To/Cambridge Companion to the Musical (Cambridge Companions to Music), The - The Cambridge Companion To The Musical Cambridge Companions To Music.txt
- Christine Pedi (as Ethel Merman), Jason Mills (as Hugh Jackman), Jennifer Simard (as Kristin Chenoweth), and Ron Bohmer (as Billy Joel).ebooks/Portantiere, Gerard Alessandrini;Michael/B0030EGEYY EBOK - Gerard Alessandrini;Michael Portantiere.txt
- “I’ve always loved La Bohème and Puccini’s other work, and I’ve also always loved Billy Joel and Elton John and the Who, and I’ve also always loved Stephen Sondheim and the medium of musical theatre. And I wanted to write something that could incorporate all of those influences.ebooks/Rapp, Anthony/Without You_ A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent - Anthony Rapp.txt
- Unlike, many of his peers, Brown had not always been persuaded that theater music was his future. "I was going to be Billy Joel," he said, "I was going to be Elton John, I was going to play the piano and scream. The stuff I was writing just eventually ended up evolving into more theatrical things, which was only half intentional. I always…ebooks/Singer, Barry/Ever After_ The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond - Barry Singer.txt
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