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#Around broadway in 80 days professional#
“Our productions feature the creative work of professional directors and scenic, costume and lighting designers, but always keep the focus on our emerging teen artists as they shine on stage and behind the scenes. “For nearly 60 years, Teenage Drama Workshop has been presenting highly entertaining, professional-quality shows that, in many cases, introduce the art of live theater to young audiences,” said CSUN theatre professor Doug Kaback, TADW’s executive director. The acclaimed summer youth theater program is presenting “Shrek the Musical Jr.” from July 13 to 22 and “Around the World in 80 Days,” based on the Jules Verne classic, from July 8 to 23, at CSUN.
#Around broadway in 80 days movie#
If it’s a Jackie Chan movie it’s the awesome fight sequences we want to see.Whether it’s the story of a reluctant ogre and his donkey sidekick, or the original “Amazing Race” with stampeding elephants, raging typhoons and unabashed slapstick, California State University, Northridge’s Teenage Drama Workshop (TADW) has a theatrical adventure for the entire family this month. Honestly we don’t care much about how an uptight British inventor can build a plane out of a boat that will get him back to his final destination in time so he can give a monologue about how his adventure afforded him to make new friends and fall in love. Suddenly the film becomes just about the race back to London and less about fighting off evil Chinese assassins. But with a feisty martial arts expert in the mix this updated 80 Days maintains its momentum for the most part only losing steam towards the end especially after the whole Passepartout subplot in which he has to return a priceless Buddha to his Chinese village is resolved. The 1956 version of 80 Days which even with a stellar cast including David Niven and Cantinflas drags quite a bit. But there’s always an inherent problem with films of this nature–they tend to be long-winded. Supported by glorious sets and costumes director Frank Coraci ( The Wedding Singer) clearly loves the fanciful adventure of it all creating colorful transitions from one place to the next as Fogg Passepartout and Monique traverse across the globe. Minus all the silly songs 80 Days is splashy family fare reminiscent of such films as Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factoryand the original 1967 Doctor Dolittle (you know the one with a giant pink sea snail).
#Around broadway in 80 days plus#
Plus any movie in which Kathy Bates plays Queen Victoria British accent and all has got to be worth seeing. But 80 Days‘s extensive list of cameos is the most fun–from Owen and Luke Wilson as the bickering Wright brothers to Rob Schneider as a malodorous San Franciscan hobo to Arnold Schwarzenegger as a Arabian prince (please tell me he made this before he became California’s governor).
#Around broadway in 80 days full#
Broadbent is adequately sleazy as the pompous Lord Kelvin full of as much hot air as the balloon Fogg and company take a ride in. As another perfect straight man to Chan‘s Chinese sensibilities and kung-fu shenanigans Coogan ( 24 Hour Party People) also does a nice turn as the befuddled and veddy British Fogg while the lovely de France as Monique breathes some fresh air into her ingénue role (and is much more substantial to the plot than the original’s Shirley MacLaine who played an Indian princess). This means you get to marvel once again at his masterful martial arts skills as well as chuckle at his innate sense of physical comedy.
Differing slightly from the 1956 adaptation this 80 Days is all about Passepartout as the story tapers itself to fit Chan‘s specialties. Jackie Chan knows precisely what works for him. But of course the trip doesn’t go exactly as scheduled and Fogg as well as Passepartout learn more than a few valuable life lessons along the way.
With the ever-faithful Passepartout by his side–who has his own secret reasons for joining in on the fun–Fogg heads out on his frantic heart-pounding journey picking up a third traveler a beautiful French artist named Monique ( Cécile de France) in the process.
Impossible you say? Not to Fogg whose obsession with facts and schedules makes him the perfect candidate for such an adventure. Desperate to be taken seriously Fogg makes an outlandish bet with Lord Kelvin ( Jim Broadbent) the head of the London’s Royal Academy of Science that he can circumnavigate the globe in no more than 80 days. While Fogg’s “wacky” inventions actually make a lot of sense to us modern-day folk including his insights on flight electricity (which he has rigged so that light illuminates with a whistle) and even Rollerblades to his turn-of-the-century contemporaries the scientist is a giant crackpot. Based loosely on the 19th century Jules Verne novel 80 Days revolves around two unlikely heroes–the eccentric and reclusive inventor Phileas Fogg ( Steve Coogan) and his (French?) valet Passepartout ( Jackie Chan).
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