Dolly Parton’s no stranger to being the center of attention, a place she’s determinedly, deliberately put herself throughout the decades of her legendary career. In recent years, though, the conversation surrounding Parton has become one spoken in awed wonder about just how thoroughly she’s charmed people from all walks of life — and more impressively, how little that’s changed even now with the country so intensely divided that getting anyone to agree on basic facts has become its own infuriating game of politics. Parton is, as Lauren Michele Jackson recently wrote for “The New Yorker,” “loved for being loved, and loved transcendentally…A Dolly Parton concert is like a local census, bringing together peoples across lines of race, gender, sexuality, and, miraculously, political affiliation.”
In bringing a Christmas musical to Netflix, a streaming network that reaches nearly 200 million subscribers across the world, Parton’s cannily universal brand goes into holly jolly overdrive.
In bringing a Christmas musical to Netflix, a streaming network that reaches nearly 200 million subscribers across the world, Parton’s cannily universal brand goes into holly jolly overdrive.
- 11/20/2020
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix wants you to have a very Dolly holiday — Dolly Parton that is.
The streamer dropped a trailer for its upcoming original holiday movie musical, “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square,” on Wednesday, featuring the legendary singer-songwriter’s vocals to get everyone in the mood for a small-town winter adventure.
“Christmas is a time for sharing, knowing you’ve been blessed,” Parton sings before being revealed on-screen in a glittery, glowing white ensemble.
“Who are you?” Christine Baranski’s character asks her. “What do you want from me?”
Parton replies that she’s “Angel” and she wants “change.” This is because Baranski’s character, the rich Regina Fuller, returns to her hometown after her father’s death to evict the townspeople and sell the land to a mall developer.
“The deadline to be out of your homes is now Christmas Eve,” Regina tells the citizens — while they are in church,...
The streamer dropped a trailer for its upcoming original holiday movie musical, “Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square,” on Wednesday, featuring the legendary singer-songwriter’s vocals to get everyone in the mood for a small-town winter adventure.
“Christmas is a time for sharing, knowing you’ve been blessed,” Parton sings before being revealed on-screen in a glittery, glowing white ensemble.
“Who are you?” Christine Baranski’s character asks her. “What do you want from me?”
Parton replies that she’s “Angel” and she wants “change.” This is because Baranski’s character, the rich Regina Fuller, returns to her hometown after her father’s death to evict the townspeople and sell the land to a mall developer.
“The deadline to be out of your homes is now Christmas Eve,” Regina tells the citizens — while they are in church,...
- 10/22/2020
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
RareMedia Productions has announced the world premiere of Judgment Day, a new comedy by Maria S. Schlatter, starring Donald Corren Souvenir, Old Jews Telling Jokes whom The New York Times calls 'a chameleonic wonder' as part of this summer's New York International Fringe Festival. Performances begin tonight, August 9th playing through August 25th at The Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street. Michael Schwartz directs.
- 8/9/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
RareMedia Productions has announced the world premiere of Judgment Day, a new comedy by Maria S. Schlatter, starring Donald Corren Souvenir, Old Jews Telling Jokes whom The New York Times calls 'a chameleonic wonder' as part of this summer's New York International Fringe Festival. Performances begin August 9th playing through August 25th at The Players Theatre 115 MacDougal Street. Michael Schwartz directs.
- 7/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The seventh annual New York Musical Theatre Festival has announced its lineup, which includes 27 musicals, a developmental reading series, and special events. The festival, which runs Sept. 27–Oct. 17, will team up with South Korea's Daegu International Musical Festival for one production and will feature performances by participants in Rosie O'Donnell's arts program Rosie's Broadway Kids and by students from the Marquez Charter Elementary School in Los Angeles. Nymf has premiered more than 200 musicals since it began in 2004, and more than 60 of them have gone on to award-winning productions across the U.S. and in several countries. Festival alumnus "Next to Normal" won three Tony Awards after opening on Broadway last year, as well as the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in drama.Isaac Robert Hurwitz, the festival's executive director and producer, said in a written statement, "We are extremely excited with the unique variety of this year's festival offerings. It is essential...
- 7/28/2010
- backstage.com
The New York Musical Theater Festival announced today 11 new musicals to be presented at this year's fest. Set to take place Sept. 27-Oct. 17 around Manhattan, the shows will be performed alongside Next Link Project productions, Nymf's primary writer service program. In its seventh year, the festival will host a Developmental Reading Series and other special events. This year's new musicals include:"Bloodties" by Ned Massey "Fingers and Toes" by Logan Medland"History of War" book by Chip Zien, music by Deborah Abramson, lyrics by Amanda Yesnowitz,"Nighttime Traffic" by Alex Wyse"Pandora's Box" book by Maria S. Schlatter, music and lyrics by Glen Roven"Shine! The Horatio Alger Musical" book by Richard Seff, music by Roger Dean Anderson, lyrics by Lee Goldsmith"Show Choir! – The Musical" by Donald Garverick and Mark McDaniels"Trails" book by Christy Hall, music by Jeff Thomson, lyrics by Jordan Mann"Trav'lin" book by Allan Shapiro and Gary Holmes,...
- 6/24/2010
- backstage.com
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