Based on a 2003 novel by Robert Kaplow, the movie is a coming-of-age screwball comedy in which Zac Efron, lately of "High School Musical," plays a stage-struck high-school senior who unexpectedly finds himself playing a bit part in "Julius Caesar." ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)
CHANNEL SURFING: Broadway star Sutton Foster, whose ABC Family pilot (from Amy Sherman-Palladino) reportedly has been picked up to series, appears on USA Network's Royal Pains (10/9c) in a stage-struck episode about a Hollywood actor (Medium's Jake Weber) who comes to the Hamptons to do Shakespeare, and all's not well that ends well. ... ❋ Unknown (2012)
Warning to stage-struck Gleeks: Don't go to Sardi's expecting to encounter the Patti LuPones of the theater world. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Sarah became stage-struck in her first year of high school. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It's been way too long since lawmakers tackled the problem of stage-struck parents who exploit their kids. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was a stage-struck 18-year-old who, like her, came from Buffalo, N.Y., and nothing much happened beyond the mere fact of their meeting, which is portrayed more or less accurately by Bobby Steggert and Kate Burton in the first scene of "The Grand Manner." ❋ Unknown (2010)
In this, her first feature film, which was written and directed by Steve Antin, Ms. Aguilera is Ali, a stage-struck Iowa girl who decides to head for L.A. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)
If our players had been stage-struck young men and women of the usual kind, they would have developed much more quickly; but their art would have been the ordinary stage art of their time. ❋ W.B. Yeats (2000)
I was flashed-back to being a stage-struck teenager, who from age 16 to age 18, must have played that album about a zillion times. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Played with mercurial Elan by Joseph Fiennes, Shakespeare gets unlocked when he meets Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow, sizzling with sensual intelligence), a stage-struck young aristocrat who disguises herself as a boy so she can act in the males-only Elizabethan theater. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Everyone wants to be an actor: the financier Fennyman (Tom Wilkinson) is transformed into a stage-struck ingenue when he's given a bit part. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The vast majority of these people are stage-struck with their own inflated faux import as "deciders". ❋ Unknown (2008)
Born and raised in Missouri, she later said "I was a stage-struck kid and I got out of St. Louis fast." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Mike McGowan and Michele Ragusa wrap their operetta-quality voices around "So in Love" and "Where Is the Life That Late I Led?" to luscious effect, while William Ryall and Gordon Joseph Weiss are scene-stealingly good as the stage-struck gangsters who tap-dance their way through "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." ❋ Unknown (2008)
Carey Mulligan is burningly intense as Nina, the stage-struck girl from the provinces who steals Arkadina's lover, then loses him again. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Preminger's father made a bargain with his pampered and stage-struck son: Take a law degree, then follow your theater interest. ❋ Whit Stillman (2007)
Standouts in the 11-member cast included lush-voiced mezzo Jenna Lebhertz, as Thelma, the theater usher whose post-performance coffee is inspired by "Automat," and Adam Hall, whose bright tenor illuminated the stage-struck Jimmy, a non-Hopper figure. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Except for the stage-struck young girls people come here for negative reasons—all gold rushes are essentially negative—and the young girls soon join the vicious circle. ❋ F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1994)
The indefatigable King and his trusty coadjutors worked nearly all the intervening nights with great zeal, for to these stage-struck heroes it was truly a labour of love. ❋ Unknown (2004)
