The closing extravaganza, a special performance by the Cirque du Soleil written specially for the event, will be held on Oct. 19.
The part was written specially for me; the producers came to Paris several times to try and persuade me.
She succeeded Mary Martin in the Drury Lane production of South Pacific, proving a tougher but still vulnerable Nellie Forbush, and a role was written specially for her in the musical Bet Your Life (1952), co-starring Arthur Askey and Sally Ann Howes.
A large group on the tarmac was arranged to sing along to a pop song written specially for the Pope's visit, during which he will meet with survivors of 2013's devastating Typhoon Haiyan.
Three years later she was in Footfalls, written specially for her by Beckett, where she played a woman compulsively pacing up and down a narrow strip of stage in communion with her unseen mother.
The invitation to Creed's exhibition at the Ikon Gallery includes a detour to the Symphony Hall to hear a piece that he has written specially for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
The footage, taken from the 19th and 20th centuries, is underpinned by the gloriously lofty sounds of Sigur Rós (well, some of them) and an Icelandic choir, performing a score written specially for the film.
Rather wonderfully, makers of the earliest radio drama written specially for the medium, Richard Hughes AA Comedy of Danger (1924), were so anxious about the visual limitations of the medium that it was set in the pitch-blackness of a coal mine.
On Monday's early concert, the Grammy-winning vocal octet Roomful of Teeth – fresh from a live collaboration with Kanye West – will perform two Riley works, one of them written specially for the group.
Every adult knows an Austin the old cart horse who has 'a short poem that I have written specially', and every child knows a Sniggle the pig who doesn't want to be left out.
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