Composing For Comedy and Drama
In the beginning of the sixties he composed the scores for comedies such as Dino Risi's Il Successo (1962) and Lina Wertmuller's I basilischi. His best-known scores for comedies includes La Cage aux Folles (1978) and La Cage aux Folles II (1980), both directed by Edouard Molinaro, Il ladrone (1980), Georges Lautner's La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding (1985) and Warren Beatty's Bulworth (1998).
Read more about this topic: Leo Nichols
Famous quotes containing the words drama, composing and/or comedy:
“War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)
“If I had my life over again I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practise, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is no other practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. Without an ever- present sense of death life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)
“The actors today really need the whip hand. They’re so lazy. They haven’t got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)