“Florence Foster Jenkins,” wisely, makes us wait a bit for the money shot — or, rather, the money note. Stephen Frears’ gentle comedy, about a real-life legendarily terrible opera singer in 1940s New ...
“We regret that Julia Kogan’s dispute with Nick Martin over authorship of the screenplay for Florence Foster Jenkins could not be resolved out of court,” they said. “Nick believed that he was the sole ...
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For those who just don’t get it, opera will always be silly and unfathomable, the singers mad, its unrestrained diva worship craziest of all. What, one wonders, do these unbelievers make of Florence ...
Levy has worked as a vocal consultant and master class teacher at the Glimmerglass Opera and Manhattan’s Roundabout Theatre, and he’s prepared stars including Audra McDonald, Lea Michelle, Oliver ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- "Florence Foster Jenkins" is a funny and charming post-World War II true story about love, music and syphilis. The title character, played lovingly and impeccably by Meryl Streep, ...
and fortune decades ago for her blatantly awful singing voice. So intrigued was Temperley, he spent years turning Jenkins’ life into a new off-Broadway play. What makes Jenkins such a worthy subject ...
Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy socialite with a famously uncertain sense of pitch and key, has her story told in “Souvenir” with the same wit and verve for which this infamous singer came to be ...
Meryl Streep in "Florence Foster Jenkins." (BBC Films)BBC Films, HO / TNS Simon Helberg and Hugh Grant in "Florence Foster Jenkins." (BBC Films)BBC Films, HO / TNS Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant in the ...