an actress‚ and was later introduced to aspiring actor Adolph Green. The two made a great team‚ becoming the longest running creative collaboration in theatre history‚ forming a group called the Revuers‚ in which they started performing and writing their own funny comics‚ that also included actress Judy Holiday. In 1944 she had her first Broadway show called “On The Town” she worked with composer Leonard Bernstein and choreographer Jerome Robbins writing the lyrics‚ along with Adolph Green‚ the show
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Third International Conference Science and Technology in Archeology and Conservation. 7-11 December 2004‚ Hashemite University‚ Jordan. acta Fundación El legado andalusì‚ Spain. pp. 263-280 Assessment of the Relations between Ancient Theatres‚ Landscape and Society Naif Haddad Dept. of Conservation Science‚ Queen Rania‟s Institute of Tourism and Heritage‚ the Hashemite University‚ Zarqa 13115‚ Jordan‚ E-mail: naifh@hu.edu.jo ABSTRACT The theater is a specialized category of buildings designed
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"There is something in the puppet that ties its dramatic life more to the shapes of dreams and fantasy‚ the poetry of the unconscious‚ than to any realistic drama of human life." [1] The word‚ ’puppet‚’ is derived from the Latin pupa‚ meaning little girl or doll. The metaphoric extension of the word first recorded in the 1540’s is: ’person whose actions are manipulated by another.’ [2] Puppetry is the art of taking an inanimate object or representational figure‚ manipulating it and giving it life
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they watch closely. Hamilton: An American Musical is an incredibly popular show and has made many changes to broadway. Broadway shows used to not be appealing to every generation‚ but since opening night of Hamilton‚ it has a whole new meaning. Musicals have been interesting to every generation since the two acts about a founding
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The film Mamma Mia! (Lloyd‚ 2008) is based on the extremely popular and successful Broadway musical which opened in 1999 in London. Since then‚ this Broadway production has become a global phenomenon which has entertained countless audiences‚ and still holds on strong as one of the most enjoyed and accepted musicals of this generation (Shenton‚ 2009). And so it is assumed that the motion picture adaptation of Mamma Mia! would be just as popular; and it was‚ expanding into one of the highest-grossing
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Rent is personally one of my all time favorite productions. It is a Broadway musical and motion picture that is set in New York City’s East Village during a time period when HIV and AIDS was a common issue. This musical expresses many other issues through its content. Most of these issues are things that the characters must learn to deal with and try to fix throughout the span of the film. Some of the problems depicted are the characters struggling with drugs‚ understanding sexuality‚ paying their
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’Hair’ is a play about the choices and struggle of a group of people in the 1960s‚ called hippies. Hippies believed in peace and love‚ not war and violence‚ growing out their hair as a representation. The play was inspired by a need to change the social standard in America. ’Hair’ is a rock musical about the revolution of sexuality and social standard. Their mission was to change people’s perception of racism‚ environmental destruction‚ poverty‚ sexism and sexual repression‚ violence at home and
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Blood Brothers Evaluation Last week we went to the Phoenix Theatre in Leister Square to see Blood Brothers. When we walked into the theatre‚ I noticed that the proscenium arch stage was slanted which put everything on the stage in perspective. There was no live orchestra‚ and all the sound travelled easily throughout the room as it was quite a small theatre. Before the play‚ I had been told that the story was based in Liverpool and I had high expectations as it is one of the longest-running musicals
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for each other. They get married and Jud reappears. Curly frantically fights him and Jud falls on his own knife. Curly is announced not guilty in a court and the show ends happily. The music and lyrics have proven to be some of the best in musical theatre with songs that include "Oh What a Beautiful Morning"‚ "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top"‚ People Will Say We’re in Love‚ "I Can’t Say No"‚ "Oklahoma! and many more. The musical is a typical American musical where 2 acts are included in the musical
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THEATRE Theatre a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture‚ speech‚ song‚ music or dance. Elements of design and stagecraft are used to enhance the physicality‚ presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from
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