Yet Baseman is plotting a film experience like no other, combining his father's narrative with animation, theater and other fantastical storytelling devices to create a creative space somewhere between life, art and a beautiful dream.
Yula recently told me, "Before we knew it, The Extended Family had grown fast by expanding beyond music to other forms of art, which included literature, animation, theater, dance, film, urban agriculture and sustainable technology and fine art".
But by the end he had emerged with the crucial idea to mix his interests in animation and theater in a production of one of the few great Sondheim shows that hadn't been given a Broadway revival.
The 3-D film How to Train Your Dragon, from DreamWorks Animation, hits theaters March 26, which will mean fewer 3-D screens for Alice.
(Rooney) 'Monkey: Journey to the West' (previews start on Saturday; opens on Tuesday) Based on a popular Chinese folk tale that dates to 1592, this fusion of theater, music, animation, acrobatics and martial arts chronicles the fantastical trek of a monk in search of sacred Buddhist scriptures.
First produced in 1994 by Lloyd Rigler, who made a fortune selling meat tenderizer, the Classic Arts Showcase brings five-minute clips of jazz, musical theater, ballet, animation and 10 other forms combining sight and sound to all of North and South America 24 hours a day, free by satellite.
Her performances are inspired by puppet theater and animation— she studied the latter at the Korean Academy of Film Arts in Seoul.
The DreamWorks Animation picture, which hit theaters Wednesday, is expected to take in a lackluster $35 million by Sunday evening.
I use that Disneyland comparison because Mr. Moran, the composer, designer and director, does: he calls his hourlong music-theater-animation piece an "attraction," a journey through time and the themes of death, life and life after death.
The Animation Show brought animated shorts into more North American theaters than any previous commercial festival.
The artist's works, which are heavily influenced by his deep knowledge of animation, cartoons and Javanese puppet theater, mix fantastical and incongruous images with sociopolitical commentary.
