Alice – The New Opera
Jan19

Alice – The New Opera

“Dodgson himself wrote that he imagined his work as musical theater — an “operetta”.”- Gary Bachlund  Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska are scheduled to reprise their roles as the Mad Hatter and Alice, respectively, in Disney’s Alice in Wonderland 2 on May 27th, 2016.  Unfortunately, the sequel to the original blockbuster (the sixth movie to earn more than $1 billion worldwide) will, in the words...

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Alice, Is This Cool?
Apr30

Alice, Is This Cool?

  “Johnny Depp has made it cool to like Alice,” was Miss Alice Llandudno Nicol Thompson’s answer to my question — Why do children today still love Alice in Wonderland?  With Johnny Depp’s 3-D visual spectacle of a movie currently standing at a worldwide gross of $1,024,299,904, I suspect he made Alice in Wonderland very cool for a lot of Disney executives too. But what about serious Carroll fans? ...

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Alice — Meet Alice
Apr19

Alice — Meet Alice

 “Without Alice there would be no Wonderland.” — Ian Turner  “Magic, beauty, color, amusement, character, intrigue, questions, excitement, puzzlement, amazement, fear, suspense, fun and a happy ending” are the reasons why Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is still a classic today, according to Ian Turner, celebrity host of Llandudno, Wales, Alice Day on May 4, 2012. And Turner’s favorite...

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