The original musical involves composing 15 to 20 original songs and rehearsing for months.
A Western is identifiable by people on horseback in the West; a musical involves singing and dancing; a war movie shows war.
The musical involves looking back at a halcyon period and innocent beginnings; making light of what the passing years have wrought, but also suffering under the weight of bad choices; and facing the physical and emotional ravages of time.
The whole score to this musical involves a certain back-and-forth, given the distinctions between the familiar movie songs and the additional ones.
"Instead, Taymor, who admits that she was not a fan of the 'Spider-Man' story prior to her involvement with the musical, insisted on developing a dark, disjointed and hallucinogenic musical involving suicide, sex and death," the lawyers continued, referring to Ms. Taymor's creation of the villain character Arachne.
While parts of the musical involve Mr. Sieber's Dan addressing the audience, the creators wrote scenes — some reflecting anecdotes in the book — to dramatize the stresses on Dan and Terry.
If all goes as hoped, "Legally Blonde -- The Musical," involving the producers of the Tony Award-winning "Thoroughly Modern Millie," will reach Broadway in the 2006-7 seafteraftereadingdinext springing and a regional production in the fall or winter of 2005, Hal Luftig said.
She was surrounded by most of the company, including the Tony-award winner Jim Norton, who plays Finian, an Irish immigrant, in this revival of a 1947 musical involving a leprechaun, a pot of gold and a white senator who turns black.
More emphasis has been put on entertainments closer to Western musicals, involving contemporary dialogue, everyday dress, and less stylized music.
In terms of inhibitory control, we expected musicians to have faster response times on tasks that require suppression of interfering stimuli, as well as on tasks that require stopping an automatic response, because musical training involves ignoring irrelevant symbols and sounds as well as suddenly pausing and restarting performance when required, particularly in group musical performance.
Likewise, the playing of African musical instruments involves a whole combination of body movements.
