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13. Aug. 2021 · Respect: Directed by Liesl Tommy. With Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Tituss Burgess. Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
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14. Aug. 2021 · Director Liesl Tommy talks about bringing her musical theater background to her first feature film, Respect, and working with Jennifer Hudson as the legendar...
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3. Apr. 2013 · Liesl Tommy looks back on the directing process for her acclaimed production of A RAISIN IN THE SUN at the Huntington. In this chapter, Liesl discusses her a...
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Aretha Franklin trägt den Beinamen „Queen of Soul“. Für viele gilt sie als die wichtigste Vertreterin dieser Musikrichtung, die sich in den 1960er Jahren in den USA etablierte. Doch der Weg bis zu ihrem Durchbruch in der Musikbranche war offenbar steinig, wie nun die Filmbiografie von Liesl Tommy aufzeigt. Es galt nicht nur Produzenten ...
13. Aug. 2021 · Brought on to Respect by producer Scott Bernstein, Tommy had a vision for the film that resonated with him in the way she sought to tell the story of the iconic singer. “Her own personal story of growing up in apartheid in South Africa, it was so in parallel with Aretha’s story,” says Bernstein. “It might have been Liesl growing up in ...
9. Feb. 2017 · February 9 th, 2017. In 2014, a production of Les Mis at the Dallas Theater Center was hailed as revolutionary, despite the fact that not a word of the libretto was changed. That production was conceived and directed by Liesl Tommy. Yet, for two years after that, Liesl directed a string of plays and didn’t direct another musical till Party ...
24. Nov. 2021 · Regisseurin Liesl Tommy hat mit dem Film „Respect“ eine Hommage an Soul-Legende Aretha Franklin inszeniert – stimmlich gut, doch politisch harmlos.
