When Ivan Reitman passed away on Feb. 12, 2022 at the age of 75, the Canadian producer, director, and screenwriter was justifiably remembered as one of the driving forces of cinematic comedy for more than four decades. After all, he produced National Lampoon’s Animal House–one of the classic farces of its time–in 1978, before moving on to direct a string of other well-remembered entries in the genre, including Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), and Dave (1993), while producing films such as Space Jam (1996), Private Parts (1997), and Old School (2003).
Of course Reitman is best remembered for directing Ghostbusters, the seminal 1984 film that spawned a franchise and has influenced an entire subgenre, the horror comedy, ever since its release.
Ghostbusters wasn’t Reitman’s only foray into horror territory, however. His second feature film as a director was a low-budget horror comedy called Cannibal Girls (released in 1973 and starring Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin!
Of course Reitman is best remembered for directing Ghostbusters, the seminal 1984 film that spawned a franchise and has influenced an entire subgenre, the horror comedy, ever since its release.
Ghostbusters wasn’t Reitman’s only foray into horror territory, however. His second feature film as a director was a low-budget horror comedy called Cannibal Girls (released in 1973 and starring Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin!
- 2/27/2022
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
He wrote Wicked, he wrote Pippin, he wrote Godspell, he wrote Children of Eden, he wrote The Baker's Wife, he wrote Pocahontasand Enchanted and The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Prince of Egypt, he wrote Rags and The Magic Show and Working, and now he's joining Jason Robert Brown for a night of piano mashing, tandem balladeering and Jewish Christmas cheer. Oscar, Grammy and Tony Award winner Stephen Schwartz is coming to SubCulture.
- 11/15/2017
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
“Theater geek” may not be the most obvious label for J.J. Abrams, who has built a film and TV career directing, writing and producing sci-fi and action-heavy shows (Alias, Lost), rebooting film franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars) and launching his own Easter egg-filled film universe (Cloverfield). But the filmmaker has the same appreciation for Broadway as he does The Twilight Zone, the sci-fi anthology series he’s long considered to be one of the best on TV.
“I’ve been a fan of theater all my life,” Abrams tells Et. In fact, he has been attending shows in New York City, where he was born, since he was a young kid, collecting playbills from every production along the way. “I embarrassingly saved all of them.”
He recalls seeing the original runs of The Magic Show, starring Doug Henning, and Noises Off, as well as various productions of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams plays. He cites Ira Levin...
“I’ve been a fan of theater all my life,” Abrams tells Et. In fact, he has been attending shows in New York City, where he was born, since he was a young kid, collecting playbills from every production along the way. “I embarrassingly saved all of them.”
He recalls seeing the original runs of The Magic Show, starring Doug Henning, and Noises Off, as well as various productions of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams plays. He cites Ira Levin...
- 3/14/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
The Grammy Awards allow all genres of music to gather together under one roof; rock, pop, country, rap and all the rest meet up for the sole purpose of picking up awards. But when viewers tune in to the 2016 awards on Monday, they'll see a style of performance that's only rarely been part of the Grammy awards: Broadway. The show's opening number will be performed by the cast of Hamilton, the hit musical based on the life of Alexander Hamilton. While the Grammy Awards themselves will be given out at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the cast of Hamilton...
- 2/9/2016
- by Drew Mackie, @drewgmackie
- PEOPLE.com
The 29th Annual Bistro Awards gala, set to take place on Tuesday, March 4, has announced two new presenters. Stephen Schwartz, the Oscar, Tony, Grammy, and Golden Globe-winning composerlyricist, who wrote the scores to such musicals as Pippin, Wicked, Godspell, and The Magic Show, will present Ben Vereen, the Tony Award-winning actor-singer-dancer, with the Lifetime Achievement Award. And Dee Dee Bridgewater, who recently starred as Billie Holiday in the acclaimed Off-Broadway play 'Lady Day' and who can be listened to twice weekly in her own programs on the all-jazz nonprofit radio station Wbgo, will present Amy Niles, acting president and CEO of the Newark-based station, with its award.
- 2/19/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yesterday, May 23, the company of Godspell celebrated their Academy Award-winning writer Stephen Schwartz in a one-night-only concert featuring songs from Schwartz's Pippin, Wicked, The Bakers Wife, The Magic Show, Working, My Son Pinocchio, Children of Eden, Rags, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted and more. The concert benefits Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below.
- 5/25/2012
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yesterday, May 23, the company of Godspell celebrated their Academy Award-winning writer Stephen Schwartz in a one-night-only concert featuring songs from Schwartz's Pippin, Wicked, The Bakers Wife, The Magic Show, Working, My Son Pinocchio, Children of Eden, Rags, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted and more. The concert benefits Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. Check out highlights fro the concert below...
- 5/24/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yesterday, May 23, the company of Godspell celebrated their Academy Award-winning writer Stephen Schwartz in a one-night-only concert featuring songs from Schwartz's Pippin, Wicked, The Bakers Wife, The Magic Show, Working, My Son Pinocchio, Children of Eden, Rags, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Prince of Egypt, Enchanted and more. The concert benefits Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS. BroadwayWorld was on hand for the event and brings you photo coverage below.
- 5/24/2012
- by Jennifer Broski
- BroadwayWorld.com
Comes now a new original opera, "Séance on a Wet Afternoon," about a husband who plans to make his wife famous. Oscar and Grammy winner Stephen Schwartz of "Godspell," "Pippin," "Wicked," "The Magic Show," "Butterflies Are Free," never before composed an opera. So, why now?
"It came about because The Granada in Santa Barbara was commissioned to do this and a friend suggested me. I'm an aficionado," said Schwartz. "I've always entertained the idea of writing an opera. I actually...
"It came about because The Granada in Santa Barbara was commissioned to do this and a friend suggested me. I'm an aficionado," said Schwartz. "I've always entertained the idea of writing an opera. I actually...
- 8/6/2009
- by By CINDY ADAMS
- NYPost.com
Stephen Schwartz, who is currently working on a revival of Pippin at The Los Angeles Musica Center, will take time out to be the guest of honor at an all-star tribute to his celebrated songbook. Shoshana Bean (Broadway and La "Wicked"), Rex Smith ("Pirates of Penzanze", "Sunset Boulevard", "Scarlet Pimpernel"), Eric Kunze ("Miss Siagon", "Les Miserables", "Damn Yankees"), Marissa Perry ("Hairspray"), Lindsay Mendez ("Grease"), Terron Brooks ( "The Lion King" and NBC-tv's movie "The Temptations") and Tony-nominated actors Cathy Rigby ("Peter Pan", "Seussical") and Jonelle Allen ("Two Gentlemen of Verone") will join 40 talented students from The California Conservatory of the Arts and its sister school, The McCoy Rigby Dance Academy, in "Defying Gravity --- The Music and Lyrics of Stephen Schwartz" for two performances, January 24 and 25, at the Irvine Barclay Theatre on the campus of the University of California, Irvine. Stephen Schwartz has had a career spanning four decades and has...
- 1/24/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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