Broadway to the Big Screen...And Back! - Film Series

Every Saturday this Summer, the Palm Springs Cultural Center presents all the great musicals that made it from Broadway to the BIG SCREEN (and sometimes back again).

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SATURDAY, JULY 1, 2023 / GREASE! / 4 PM

• Return to the singing and dancing world of "Grease," the most successful movie musical of all time! A wholesome exchange student (Olivia Newton-John) and a leather-clad Danny (John Travolta) have a Summer romance, but will it cross clique lines when Summer ends and they end up in the same high school? The answer shakes the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s.
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SATURDAY, JULY 8, 2023 / SWEENY TODD / 4 PM

• The famously mad musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street tells the sad, but fiendish tale of a barber who returns from wrongful imprisonment to 1840s London, bent on revenge for the rape and death of his wife, and resumes his trade while forming a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Meat Pies anyone?
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SATURDAY, JULY 15, 2023 / EVITA / 4 PM

• Eva Duarte Peron (Madonna) rises from poverty to become an Argentinian actress and the wife of powerful President Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce) in this movie musical based on the award-winning Broadway hit. Through a series of flashbacks, Eva transforms from an impoverished teenager into a woman of influence and power before dying at the tender age of 33. Antonio Banderas serves as the cynical narrator, Che.
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SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2023 / HAIR / 4 PM

• Although its story revolves around the Vietnam war, and the anti-war movement at the time, the musical HAIR is a timeless tale of innocence lost, young love, counter culture, flower power and the tragedy of (any) war. Oklahoma farm boy Claude Hooper Bukowski (John Savage) travels to New York with the intent of enlisting in the army. But when he meets up with a freewheeling group of Central Park hippies led by the irrepressible George Berger (Treat Williams), life suddenly looks less certain.
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SATURDAY, JULY 29, 2023 / THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE IN TEXAS / 4 PM

• The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas is really an innocent little tale about Miss Mona (Dolly Parton) and Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd (Burt Reynolds). She runs The Chicken Ranch, an illegal brothel with a long history in a small Texas town, and he – well, he’s the Sheriff. Trouble comes when pious reporter Melvin Thorpe (Dom DeLuise) exposes the brothel, causing outside interests to want it shut down, and putting the governor (Charles Durning) in a tough spot. And then there’s them Aggies!
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 2023 / LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS / 4 PM

• When a hungry space alien meets a nerdy florist, the result is a tale filled with home grown horror, side eye humor and some great B Movie music. The action happens in skid-row, where meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which attracts the attention of everyone including Audrey! The growing plant also attracts a great deal of business to the previously struggling flower shop, but it’s growing appetite for human flesh and blood threatens everyone’s idea of a happy ending!
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 2023 / MAMMA MIA! / 4 PM

• Who cares if Mamma Mia! was a made up story based on the music of ABBA! It’s filled with the music of ABBA! The tale revolves around Donna (Meryl Streep), an independent hotelier in the Greek islands, who is busy planning her daughter's wedding with the help of two old friends. Meanwhile Sophie, the spirited bride, has a plan of her own. She secretly invites three men from her mother's past to the wedding, hoping one of them may turn out to be her real father. It’s a lighthearted and joyous tale, and it’s filled with ABBA music! Did we say that already?
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 19, 2023 / MAMMA MIA! - HERE WE GO AGAIN / 4 PM

• Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again takes us back to the Greek Isles for some flashbacks from Donna’s youth and then to the present day. Donna has passed away, her pregnant daughter Sophie has returned to Kalokairi with dreams of reopening her mother’s business, and gathering all her friends and family. She also finds that she wants to know more about her mother. Hilarity, surprises, tears, and even Cher ensue (along with lots of great ABBA music!)!
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 2023 / THE PRODUCERS / 4 PM

• It's funny, it’s devious, it’s gay, and everything about it is over the top! It’s The Producers. A musical that begins and ends with an odd couple - cynical Broadway producer and old ladies lothario Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) and accountant/aspiring producer Leo Bloom (Matthew Broderick). In conjuring a surefire plan for profits: they plan to produce the worst show ever, collect lots of financing, and close it after opening night…only director Roger De Bris steps in at the last minute as director, the show is a hit, and the producers are ruined!
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2023 / WEST SIDE STORY / 4 PM

• West Side Story is a modern musical representation of the classic story "Romeo and Juliet". Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs (the Jets and the Sharks) fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. It’s a dazzling musical and an all too common tale of ethnic gangs and gang violence set to music and dance.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2023 / MOULIN ROUGE! / 4 PM

• At the heart of the musical Moulin Rouge is love, romance, the beauty of innocent love and the pathos of lost love. It translates into amazing music and a tragic tale about Christian - a young Englishman visiting Paris in 1899. He becomes infatuated with Satine, a singer at the Moulin Rouge. Sadly, she has been promised by the manager to a Duke in return for funding his next production. As the young lovers meet in secret, Satine's wedding day draws closer. The two plot to escape, but in the end, we learn that Satine has hidden a fatal secret from both Christian and the Duke. Love wins, but love is lost.
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