Sentence examples for play singer from inspiring English sources

Sheridan Smith is to play singer and TV presenter Cilla Black in a new three-part drama, ITV has announced.

The 25-year-old Amazing Spider-Man actress will play singer Sally Bowles in the musical, the role made famous by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 film version.

This was the last time the show referenced Jenna trying to play singer Janis Joplin in a feature film.

This was the second time 30 Rock referenced Jenna trying to play singer Janis Joplin in a feature film.

(He tends to sit on his own in the corner of generic pain au raisin, skinny latte joints where they play singer-songwriter tunes).

Despite that, her first moments in the hotseat were accompanied by a panicked "Who am I?!" A requirement to play singer-songwriter Jake Bugg could provoke a backlash from an audience previously accustomed to hearing dance acts such as Tiga.

As well as Walk the Line, in which he played singer Johnny Cash opposite an Oscar-winning Reese Witherspoon, Phoenix was nominated for Ridley Scott's Gladiator in 2001.

Callomon holds up the example of another beloved, guitar-playing singer who died young as the way not to manage a slender body of acclaimed work.

With his superlative band, the piano-playing singer and songwriter manages to give this cavernous rotunda the atmosphere of a French Quarter speakeasy.

Take for example, the latest flap over the newly crowned mixed-race Miss Japan who many consider not Japanese enough; or the controversy about the biracial star Zendaya playing singer Aaliyah in a biopic.

Musicians played; singers sang; arms waved; feet flashed.