MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
#1MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 3:18pm
Scheduled to perform:
Beyonce
Jennifer Hudson
John Williams
Tony Bennett
Queen Latifah?
Saw a movie promo and couldn't make out a lot of people but it seems like they will be doing "Listen" from DREAMGIRLS and "Cell Block Tango" from CHICAGO as well as several memorable songs from movies.
I love these Variety Specials!!
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#2re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 3:27pm
I can't wait to see John Williams, Tony Bennett AND Jennifer Hudson perform the "Cell Block Tango" from CHICAGO!
Definitely Tivo material.
Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#2re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 3:38pmThanks for posting this!! sounds like it will be good=-)
mateo
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/06
#3re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 3:44pmI read Queen performs "Big Spender".
"Zac is sweet as can be. He's very much just a sweet kid from California who happens to have a face that looks like it was drawn by Michelangelo, (if Michelangelo did anime)."
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
-Adam Shankman.
"I haven't left this building since Windows 3.1!"
"Celebrating a birthday this week: Rene Descartes is 412! Do you know who he is? Then why are you watching this show? You could probably get into college and even get one of those job things. As for the rest of us; Amanda Bynes is 22! Yay!"
-E!'s "The Soup"
#4re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 8:18pmThat must have been it - "Big Spender" and not "Cell Block Tango"
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#5re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 9:24pm
This list so far...
Beyonce -- "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" (THE WIZARD OF OZ)
Mary J. Blige -- "A Kiss Is Just A Kiss" [?] (CASABLANCA)
Chris Brown -- "Jailhouse Rock" (JAILHOUSE ROCK)
Jennifer Hudson -- "Somewhere" (WEST SIDE STORY)
??? -- "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" (VARIOUS FILMS)
Carrie Underwood -- "The Sound of Music" (THE SOUND OF MUSIC)
Usher -- "Singin' in the Rain" (SINGIN' IN THE RAIN)
Marc Anthony -- "Mrs. Robinson" (???)
Fergie -- "Live and Let Live" (James Bond movie)
Elton John -- "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" (THE LION KING)
Queen Latifah -- "Big Spender" (SWEET CHARITY)
John Williams conducts a tribute to the movies.
I Am Sam, Busta Ryhmes, LL Cool J, Eve -- "Shaft" (SHAFT)
Tony Bennett and Ensemble -- "White Christmas" (HOLIDAY INN)
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
Updated On: 12/7/07 at 09:24 PM
--Aristotle
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#6re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 9:31pmDid they really just have listed "Saturday Night Fever" as being released in 1983??
#7re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 9:33pmYeah...I noticed that, too.....it was '77, right?
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 9:35pm
Yeah. Weird. "Staying Alive", the sequel, was in 1983.
I guess it's easy to get them confused...hah.
Clarinetbiter135
Leading Actor Joined: 6/16/04
#9re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 9:52pmI hadn't really been impressed before, but usher doing "singin' in the rain" was pretty nifty.
#10re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 9:57pm
It's probably unpopular to say but I don't like Jennifer Hudson's singing. She carries on with the habit most of today's pop diva's have - wailing. Instead of studying the quiet, intricate nuance's of a song, she, like her contemporaries, wail and belt through it. I would like her more if she toned it down. It's the same reason that I can't appreciate Aretha Franklin but it's kept her career going all these years so what's my opinion worth.
Updated On: 12/7/07 at 09:57 PM
Clarinetbiter135
Leading Actor Joined: 6/16/04
#11re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:01pmI completely agree with you. Jennifer Hudson always sounds like she's trying waaaaay too hard. No one denies the girl can belt. And belting has its place.... sometimes. But there is much more to a song than belting.
Leading Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#12re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:14pmYES! ELTON JOHN!! What a beautiful voice.
#13re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:22pmI'm shocked to admit that I liked Fergie...
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#14re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:29pm
Oh come on...I'm so sick of Queen Latifah.
Those girls behind her are extremely attractive though....
SugarBabyBounce
Swing Joined: 4/16/07
#15re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:31pmWhoever put her in that pantsuit should be SHOT!!! DID SHE USE A MIRROR? omg. poor Queenie.
#16re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:31pm
I thought Queen did a great job.
I was shocked "Springtime for Hitler" wasn't in the comedy moments montage.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
#17re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 10:31pmOops- I started a thread on the Off-Topic board. Didn't see this one- sorry. See comments on that too. mom
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#18re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:21pmEve was awesome.
LI Larry
Stand-by Joined: 7/25/06
#19re: MOVIES ROCK! -- 9pm CBS TONITE!! (featuring songs from movie musicals)
Posted: 12/7/07 at 11:53pmI was really impressed by the whole thing. I thought Usher was great. No one really bombed out.
