In 1983, Estonian stage and film actress Ita Ever starred in the Russian language film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel A Pocket Full of Rye ( using the Russian edition's translated title, The Secret of the Blackbirds ) as the character of Miss Marple.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

This uneven work was followed by another popular comedic success La locandiera ( Mine Hostess ), an adaptation of the classic and popular spoken stage comedy La locandiera by Carlo Goldoni, the libretto was prepared by Domenico Poggi.

In 1973, Lerner coaxed Fritz Loewe out of retirement to augment the Gigi score for a musical stage adaptation.

A musical stage adaptation of the Book of Esther, written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson, is currently in development with Dallas Summer Musicals.

In Roman Polanski's 1971 adaptation, Banquo is played by acclaimed stage actor Martin Shaw, in a style reminiscent of earlier stage performances.

* In Glass Mask ( episode 29 of the anime and volume 17 of the manga ), Ayumi Himekawa played Carmilla in a stage adaptation of the novella.

: In 2001 the first stage adaptation was performed at churches throughout the Romney Marsh, the final night being performed in Dymchurch itself.

His direction of a 1926 stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby by Owen Davis brought him to the attention of the New York critics.

** Holes ( play ), a 1998 stage adaptation of the novel

Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ) ( adapted in 2004 as the stage production Spamalot ) was a comedic adaptation.

In 2006, Lewis first announced plans for a stage musical adaptation of his 1963 film, The Nutty Professor.

The partnership went on to produce these and other Broadway musicals such as Allegro, Me & Juliet, Pipe Dream, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, as well as the musical film State Fair ( and its stage adaptation of the same name ), and the television musical Cinderella, all featured in the revue A Grand Night for Singing.

A stage adaptation of the book, written by Edward Einhorn, ran from November to December 2010 at the 3LD theater in New York.

This example was made famous in the stage musical West Side Story and its film adaptation.

In 1985, a television adaptation of the original stage play was created, directed by Albert Finney and originally aired in the US through HBO in 1985.

* A Little Night Music, ( 1977 ) a movie adaptation of the stage work.

* Sweeney Todd, ( 2007 ) a movie adaptation of the stage work, made with Sondheim's participation and approval, was directed by Tim Burton, featuring a largely nonmusical cast led by Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

On December 15, 2007 a German language stage musical adaptation premiered in Hamburg, Germany.

By this interpretation, it is ironic that the first authorized adaptation was a stage production in a girls ' school.

The first authorized adaptation of The Hobbit appeared in March 1953, a stage production by St. Margaret's School, Edinburgh.

* Talking Heads ( play ), a 2003 stage adaptation of the BBC series

Musical versions include the 1966 TV musical with songs by Moose Charlap, and Judi Rolin in the role of Alice, a Christmas 2007 multimedia stage adaptation at The Tobacco Factory directed and conceived by Andy Burden, written by Hattie Naylor, music and lyrics by Paul Dodgson and a 2008 opera Through the Looking Glass by Alan John.

With the stars of the stage adaptation of Chariots of Fire ( play ) | Chariots of Fire at the Gielgud Theatre, July 2012

So far these remarks, like most criticisms of Hardy, have tacitly assumed that his poetry is all of a piece, one solid mass of verse expressing a sensibility at a single stage of development.

NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket that launched Apollo 16 into space.

Jones said of that night, " I watched the Beatles from the side of the stage, I saw the girls going crazy, and I said to myself, this is it, I want a piece of that.

I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky ( 1995 ): A stage piece with libretto by June Jordan and staging by Peter Sellars.

They are distinguishable from Italian overtures in that they were written to stand on their own in concert performances, rather than to introduce a stage work, although a piece originally written as an overture was sometimes later used as a symphony, and vice versa.

Rosenberg's production starred Jacob Adler in the title role ; the play would remain a signature piece in Adler's repertoire to the end of his stage career, the first of the several roles through which he developed the persona that he referred to as " the Grand Jew ".

The piece is played by two pianists without breaks at any stage.

A theatre director or stage director is a practitioner in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production ( a play, an opera, a musical, or a devised piece of work ) by unifying various endeavours and aspects of production.

Purportedly, the future “ king of cool ” delivered his first piece of dialogue on a theatre stage in a 1952 play produced by the legendary star of the Yiddish theatre, Molly Picon.

At the end of a piece, Toscanini generally nodded rather than bowed and exited the stage quickly.

Then Agoracritus returns to the stage, calling for respectful silence and announcing a new development-he has rejuvenated Demos with a good boiling ( just as if he were a piece of meat ).

As a result, even when he is not writing a visual piece involving stage action, Birstwistle's music is frequently described as dramatic in construction.

In several pieces he asks players to leave and enter the stage during the piece.

As Bret Michaels was exiting the stage, he was struck in the head by a descending set piece and knocked to the ground.

Their space ship also appeared on their late 80's and early 90's tours in the form of a giant lighting rig and accompanied on stage by their giant pipe organ set piece which is known to Boston insiders as Bertha, because of its sheer size.

Ogre was restrained in a stage piece called " The Chair of No Cares " and injected with various substances, then prowled the stage on large metal stilts.

In the plot of the play " Eastward Hoe ", presented on the London stage in 1605, the villains of the piece attempt to flee to Virginia after accumulating debts in England.

The Web took this one stage further by creating a world-wide hypertext system that enabled the user to branch to different pages on computers anywhere in the world simply by pointing and clicking at a piece of text or an image.

In 1992 Jacques Lassalle approached him to stage a piece of his choice for Comédie-Française: Chahine chose to adapt Albert Camus ' Caligula, which proved hugely successful.

After the success of the next Lloyd Webber and Rice piece, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph received stage productions beginning in 1970 and expanded recordings in 1971 and 1972.

While it remained a popular stage piece through the 18th century, much praised and enjoyed for its wit, attitudes to its casual sexual morality became increasingly ambivalent as public opinion became ever more restrictive in this area, and more at odds with the permissive ethos of Restoration comedy.

Tirso de Molina is universally known as the author of El Burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra ( The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest ), the piece in which Don Juan is first presented on the stage ; but El Burlador de Sevilla represents only one aspect of his genius.

First, a small piece of shellcode ( stage 1 ) is executed.

This code then downloads a larger piece of shellcode ( stage 2 ) into the process's memory and executes it.