* 1979 – Chantal Janzen, Dutch actress, musical star

8½ inspired among others: Mickey One ( Arthur Penn, 1965 ), Alex in Wonderland ( Paul Mazursky, 1970 ), Beware of a Holy Whore ( Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971 ), Day for Night ( François Truffaut, 1973 ), All That Jazz ( Bob Fosse, 1979 ), Stardust Memories ( Woody Allen, 1980 ), Sogni d ' oro ( Nanni Moretti, 1981 ), Parad Planet ( Vadim Abdrashitov, 1984 ), La Pelicula del rey ( Carlos Sorin, 1986 ), Living in Oblivion ( Tom DiCillo, 1995 ), 8½ Women ( Peter Greenaway, 1999 ), Falling Down ( Joel Schumacher, 1993 ), along with the successful Broadway musical, Nine ( Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit, 1982 ).

After some TV commercial and radio appearances, including the CBS Radio Mystery Theater in 1974, Patinkin had his first success in musical theater, where he played the part of Che in Evita on Broadway in 1979.

In the 20th century there was also renewed interest in Machiavelli's La Mandragola ( 1518 ), which received numerous stagings, including several in New York, at the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1976 and the Riverside Shakespeare Company in 1979, as a musical comedy by Peer Raben in Munich's antiteater in 1971, and at London's National Theatre in 1984.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

Later it was the subject of a 1959 ballet by English composer Sir Malcolm Arnold and, in 1979, a Tony award-winning Broadway musical by Stephen Sondheim.

Sweeney Todd has also been featured in several films, the most recent being 2007's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, based on the 1979 musical.

A Musical Thriller ( 1979 ), the acclaimed musical adaptation of Bond's play by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler starring Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd ( here christened Benjamin Barker ) and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett.

The success of One flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest allowed Forman to direct the long-planned film Hair a ( rock opera ) in 1979, based on the Broadway musical by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and Galt MacDermot.

All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical film directed by Bob Fosse.

* Laura Benanti ( born 1979 ), musical theatre actress, who has appeared in numerous Broadway theatre productions.

At Pinewood Studios northwest of London, and on location in Yugoslavia, he worked on what would become one of the top grossing films of all time, the musical Fiddler on the Roof ( 1971, re-issued 1979 ), which won three Oscars and was nominated for five others, including Best Picture and Director.

Along with the Banshees, early Cure gigs from 1978-1979 supporting post-punk bands such as Wire and Joy Division also influenced Robert Smith's shift in musical direction from The Cure's 1979 album Three Imaginary Boys to 1980's sophomore effort Seventeen Seconds.

Smith has also been involved in other musical projects, including stints in 1979 and 1982 – 84 as guitarist with Siouxsie and the Banshees, as well as a side project in 1983 with Banshee bassist Steven Severin called The Glove.

By 1979, he had devised a computer system called UPIC, which could translate graphical images into musical results, wrote Andrew Hugill in 2008.

Following the success of the Broadway musical Annie, the strip was resurrected in 1979 as Annie, written and drawn by Leonard Starr.

A former staff writer for PolyGram Publishing in Nashville, Pettis ' musical career was started in 1979 when Joan Baez covered one of his songs, " Song at the End of the Movie ", on her album Honest Lullaby.

Since the end of the 1960s Mayall has been living in the U. S. A brush fire destroyed his house in Laurel Canyon in 1979, seriously damaging his musical collections and archives.

Lansbury starred as Mrs. Lovett in the original 1979 production of Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller Sweeney Todd.

His Broadway credits also included the 1967 Neil Simon comedy The Star-Spangled Girl, the Frank Loesser musical Greenwillow ( 1960 ), for which he was nominated for another Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical and Bernard Slade's 1979 play Romantic Comedy opposite Mia Farrow.

She also appeared opposite then-husband Peter O ' Toole and Richard Burton in Becket ( 1964 ); as Ursula Mossbank in the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips ( 1969 ), again starring O ' Toole ; once more opposite O ' Toole in Murphy's War ( 1971 ); as Emmeline Pankhurst in the TV mini-series Shoulder to Shoulder ( 1974 ); as Lady Ann, the unfaithful wife of Alec Guinness's character George Smiley, in the BBC1 espionage dramas Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy ( 1979 ) and Smiley's People ( 1982 ), adapted from John le Carré's novels of the same names ; in Nijinsky ( 1980 ); and as the queen Cassiopeia in Clash of the Titans ( 1981 ).

In 1979, she had a part in the Miloš Forman-directed musical film adaptation of Hair.

A musical stage adaptation starring Liv Ullmann and George Hearn had a brief run on Broadway in 1979.

It was played by both men while they toured together from 1979 – 1982 in the musical review The Big Broadcast of 1944.

Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ), Sondheim's most operatic score and libretto ( which, along with A Little Night Music, has been seen in opera houses ), once again explores an unlikely topic, this time murderous revenge and cannibalism.

* Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ) ( book by Hugh Wheeler ; directed by Hal Prince )

* Sweeney Todd ( 1979, Best Cast Show Album )

* Sweeney Todd ( 1979, Best Score )

* Rothman, Irving N. " Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ).

* Three productions, all musicals, have won all " big six " awards for their category: South Pacific ( 1950 awards ), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ( 1979 awards ) and Hairspray ( 2003 awards ); each won the Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book, Best Performance by a Leading Actor, Best Performance by a Leading Actress and Best Direction awards.

She won Best Actress in a Musical for Mame ( 1966 ), Dear World ( 1969 ), Gypsy ( 1975 ), and Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ).

These included The Sweeney ( 1975 – 78 ), Minder ( 1979 – 94 ) and Quatermass ( 1979 ).

* 1979: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Book by Hugh Wheeler, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

Their association spawned a long string of productions, including Company ( 1970 ), Follies ( 1971 ), A Little Night Music ( 1973 ), Pacific Overtures ( 1976 ), and Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ).

* Sweeney Todd ( 1979 )-director

In 1979, Sweeney led the maintenance workers of Local 32BJ out on strike again, and won additional contract improvements.

Sarah Rice is an American theatre actress known for her work in the Stephen Sondheim productions Sweeney Todd and A Little Night Music, the former of which won her a Theatre World Award in 1979.

Wheeler won the Tony Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical in 1973 and 1974 for his books for the musicals A Little Night Music and Candide, and won both again in 1979 for his book for Sweeney Todd.

The most famous Euston Films productions include Van der Valk ( 1972 – 1973, 1977, 1991-1992 ), The Sweeney ( 1975-1976, 1978 ), Minder ( 1979 – 1980, 1982-1985, 1988-1989, 1991, 1993-1994 ), Quatermass ( 1979 ), and Reilly: Ace of Spies ( 1983 ).

In 1979, the company created Minder as a vehicle for Sweeney star Dennis Waterman giving the company its longest running show.

* 1979: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Hugh Wheeler