Also credited on2 works
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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
- When Contact won the Tony Award for Best Musical in 2000, it was clear that the dansical had arrived, although director/choreographer Susan Stroman’s work was advertised as ‘a dance play’. Here the emphasis is on dance and the narrative is told through movement since there is generally no dialogue or sung lyrics. As another sign of the ne…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
- I noticed a story in Variety about Idiot’s Delight which included the names of both Herb Ross 30 and Twyla Tharp. 31 Even James Coburn’s 32 name snuck in.ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
- 31 Twyla Tharp (1941–) has choreographed for many of the world’s great ballet companies. Her Broadway work includes When We Were Very Young (1980), Catherine Wheel (1981), Singin’ in the Rain (1985), and Movin’ Out (2001).ebooks/Unknown/Alan Jay Lerner_ A Lyricist's Letters - Unknown.txt
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