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Say hello to one of the greatest musicals ever made - " Hello, Dolly! Victoria Theatre Association will show the film, directed by Gene Kelly, as part of the Michelob Ultra Cool Films series, Aug.15 - " 17, at ...

WALL E and me -- we're like this. See, the robot knows what I know: You can be stuck in a wasteland, abandoned to the whims of fate, with a cockroach as your only friend . . . Yet even then, as long as you have a song in your hard drive -- uh, heart -- hope is not lost.

And not just any old song, mind you. No, the singular cosmic force that sustains WALL E, the titular hero of Pixar's latest animated blockbuster, is musical theater.

As the film begins, unveiling the garbage-choked future Earth from which humans have exiled themselves, viewers hear Michael Crawford belting out 'Put On Your Sunday Clothes.' Gleaned from a videotape of the 1969 big-screen version of 'Hello, Dolly!' that WALL E has salvaged, the uber-perky production number is his preferred accompaniment to an interminable task: He's the planet's last functioning robot, valiantly compacting trash in hopes of making Earth once again habitable by the people who are hanging out in deep space on a perma-pleasure cruise.

'Wall-E': The caption on a photo accompanying an article about the music in 'Wall-E' in Friday's Calendar section identified the man dancing with Barbra Streisand in 'Hello, Dolly!' as Michael Crawford.

WALL*E , the delightful movie from Pixar, resonates a lot with-wait for it- Hello Dolly .

Wall-E: Great animation, poor sense of irony. WALL-E Directed by Andrew Stanton.

First image: the Earth as a garbage dump, a future reduced to ruins. For the past 700 years, what's left of humanity has been cruising the skies in a spaceship.

Just out from Walt Disney Records is the soundtrack for Pixar's WALL-E, the story of a lone robot left behind to clean up an abandoned world.

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Monday, April 28, 2008 :: infoZine Staff The groom wakes up on the morning of his special day with a super-sized hangover and a complete stranger in his honeymoon suite. via Kansas City InfoZine

A new London production of the 1980 Broadway musical Barnum is in the cards. Producer Cameron Mackintosh now holds the rights to the Cy Coleman-scored show and is in discussion with musical theatre and ... via Playbill

“John wants to come back to the West End and Barnum is an ideal show for him to do, but he can't sign to do it until scheduling has been sorted out.”

John Barrowman is in talks to star in a revival of the musical Barnum . The Torchwood star is reportedly interested in taking the role of American showman PT Barnum towards the end of next year. via Digital Spy

Saturday, January 19, 2008 Story last updated at 1/19/2008 - 1:24 am Actress Jean Stapleton is 85. via Lubbock Avalanche

Today is Saturday, Jan. 19, the 19th day of 2008. There are 347 days left in the year. via Dubuque Telegraph Herald

“The Knack . . . and How To Get It”

Young American TV director in the 1950s who took a break to travel around Europe, settled in England, and established a career directing some landmarks of 1960s cinema. via Hollywood.com

“Flowers for Algernon", based on film "Charley”

This red-haired boy soprano and child actor on radio in the 1940s and early 50s became a gawky, gangly romantic lead with an eager, ingenuous charm in British film comedies of the 60s and 70s. via Hollywood.com

Most popular to theatre audiences from his title role in Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of The Phantom of the Opera, Michael Crawford was in fact a star of the British stage and screen for almost two decades ... via KOSY-FM Salt Lake City