At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, and other artists. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez (Irene Cara), shy Doris Finsecker […]
What’s Love Got to Do With It
Tina Turner (Angle Bassett), that dynamic diva of pop/soul/R&B from the ’60s to the ’90s, sings like a woman whose life story is every bit as rough and tough as her voice. And What’s Love Got to Do With It, based on her autobiographical account (in I, Tina, written with Kurt Loder) of her years […]
Jersey Boys
Jersey Boys is a musical biography of the Four Seasons-the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation. Far from a mere tribute concert (though it does include numbers from the popular Four Seasons songbook), Jersey Boys gets to the […]
Glee: The Series
It was a choral rendition of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” that first put Glee on the map, the thrilling end to an intriguing pilot episode. After the full season began airing that fall, Glee became the most talked about show on TV, a musical-comedy-drama of colorful characters and soaring production numbers. Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) […]