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arts & life
c a meron m ack intosh’s
spectacul a r new production
of
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really have that sort of money). The big
prize attracts a horde of singers and
eventually five top competitors emerge:
Nate Bloom
A smooth-crooning mouse (Seth
Special to the Jewish News
MacFarlane); a timid teenage elephant
(Tori Kelly) with an enormous case of
AT THE MOVIES
stage fright; an overtaxed mother pig
Catch up for two big releases: Collateral
(Reese Witherspoon) running ragged
Beauty, a most unusual film, opened last tending a litter of 25 piglets; a young
Friday, Dec. 16. Will Smith plays Howard, gangster gorilla (Taron Egerton) looking
a successful New York ad executive who to break free of his family’s felonies, and
becomes profoundly depressed when
a punk-rock porcupine struggling to
his 6-year-old daughter
shed her arrogant boyfriend
suddenly dies. His part-
and go solo.
ner (Naomie Harris) and
The porcupine is voiced by
colleagues (Kate Winslet,
Scarlett Johansson, 32, who
Michael Pena) become
really does have a fine sing-
very worried when Howard
ing voice. Jewish actor Nick
starts writing and mailing
Kroll, 28, has a large “unko-
letters, like a child would
sher” supporting voice role as
mail to Santa Claus, asking
Gunter, a domestic pig with a
for answers — except his
German accent. (Kroll is cur-
letters are addressed to
rently starring on Broadway in
“Love,” “Death” and “Time.”
Oh, Hello on Broadway, which
Not long into the film,
he co-wrote.) Gunter is the
Love, Death and Time
dance partner of Rosita, the
(played by, respectively,
pig voiced by Witherspoon.
Johansson
Keira Knightley, Helen
Sing was just nominated for a
Mirren and Jacob Lattimore)
Golden Globe award for best
take on human form and
animated film.
talk to Howard. The film
The film’s publicity says
was directed by David
that it features “85 hit
Frankel, 57 (The Devil Wears
songs.” However, the offi-
Prada) and was written by
cial soundtrack lists only
Allan Loeb, 47. Loeb wrote
16 songs (I guess the other
screenplays for 15 years
69 songs are just short
before a studio decided
excerpts). Two of the 16 are
Kroll
to make one into a movie.
classics by tribe members
Meanwhile, he compulsively
— “Let’s Face the Music and
gambled away every penny he made. In Dance” (1936) by Irving Berlin and
2005, he got help and completely quit
“Hallelujah” (1984) by Leonard Cohen.
gambling, and he’s penned several hit
ANOTHER MUSICAL OFFERING
films since 2008, including 21 — which
The Dec. 1 issue of the JN included an
is about gambling.
article I wrote about Chanukah-related
Sing, which opened on Wednesday,
movies, TV shows and videos (“Making
Dec. 21, is an animated fantasy musical
set in a world much like our own, except A (Chanukah) List”). Here is one more
suggestion: the documentary Hava
it’s completely inhabited by animals
Nagila, which is fine viewing for any hol-
(voiced by humans, of course). Buster, a
iday. It tells the backstory of the song in
dapper koala (Matthew McConaughey),
a fun and fascinating way (four stars!!!).
runs a once-grand theater that has
fallen on hard times. He hits on the idea It’s now available on Starz and Netflix.
of reviving the theater by having a sing- $4 to stream on YouTube. Trust me, it’s
worth a view.
ing competition. A misprint in the ad
for the competition promises a $100K
prize to the winner (Buster doesn’t
Celebrity Jews
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Fisher Theatre box offices. Info: BroadwayInDetroit.com,
313-872-1000. Groups (12+): Groups@BroadwayInDetroit.com or
7:30PM Jan. 15.
313-871-1132.
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A scene
from Hava
Nagila