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...overture from Die Fledermaus was playing, and even though I once heard the same piece performed in the Vienna Opera House, I thought it sounded great. Amid thrashing strings, chirping flutes and thundering timpanis, I could hear coughs and rustles of a live audience, who cheered the performance at its end. It was lively for sure, and I was certainly surrounded. The problem is that you can hear the music even if you don't have the special decoder on, and it still sounds fine...
...THREEPENNY OPERA...
...42nd Street proclaimed, "the most glorious words in the English language: musical comedy!" But for a couple of decades, the people who made Broadway-style musicals forgot about the comedy and went super-serious, telling song-stories about the murderous (Sweeney Todd), the morose (The Phantom of the Opera) and the miserable (Les Miz and dozens more). The Great White Way never sounded so gloomy...
...tell you that that's the end of it - that you should rejoice and go get an HD DVD player, and be done with it. A handful of movies from Universal and Warner are already for sale, including Swordfish, The Last Samurai, Million Dollar Baby, Phantom of the Opera, Apollo 13, GoodFellas, Doom and the aforementioned Serenity. More are on the way - by the end of June, once Paramount joins in, there should be about 40 titles in stores. Most titles slated for release are either full of action or artistically shot (or both), capitalizing on the high-definition format...
...stuff I brought in was not ‘Hasty Pudding,’” says Wang, flashing a characteristic grin. “It was almost perversely dissonant and difficult to sing. It probably wouldn’t have been out of place in a postmodern opera.” Although Wang came up short in his first attempt at composing for the stage, it didn’t take long for him to strike a chord with the nation’s oldest college theatrical troupe. After co-directing and producing the freshman musical...