The big winner at this year's Oscars, the weekend before last, was of course The Artist, a delightful recreation of and tribute to the silent movies that revolves around the massive disruption caused in the careers of its stars by the arrival of the talkies and the emergence of new stars in their wake. It's precisely the same transition so memorably caught in one of the best movie musicals ever, Singin' in the Rain, …
SOURCE: The Stage at 01:58AM on March 6, 2012