Art Institute of Chicago Museum Report When I first starting planning out the trip to down town to visit the museum I thought it would go actually the way I planned it. The plan was to wake up on Sunday make sure I wore enough layers of clothing because I am always cold; get on the train and go. Well it was a bit more complicated than that. I woke up later than I expected but still had fun waiting at the train station with my boyfriend. Also I did not wear proper shoes because when I started
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The History of Musical Theatre The recently released Les Misérables earned £8.1 million in its opening weekend‚ making it the largest opening weekend for a musical film in history‚ proving that the genre is still alive. But how exactly did this powerful art form originate? And from then on‚ how did it evolve to become the spectacularly vivacious being that it is today? The oldest known forms of music theatre were the ancient Greek plays with music and lyrics‚ as well as music and dance being
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Lerner got the inspiration for the musical Camelot from the idea based on the King Arthur Legend as adapted from the novel The Once and the Future King. Lerner also wrote the music with Frederick Loewe in the 1960’s. The musical faced criticism because some say it wasn’t as good as My Fair Lady‚ and the musical did suffer from structural problems‚ but it still was able to tour around the country. 2. There were two ways that the economics of producing Broadway musicals changed in the 1960’s. In the
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Musicals have been a form of entrainment for many years‚ in many different formats‚ either in the form of a theatre production or as a form of films. A musical has always been a form of escapism and entertainment‚ from the classical and now the post –classical versions of musicals. Over the years‚ many conventions of musicals have changed in the transition from theatre to film‚ but many fundamentals that make up a musical have stayed the same. In this essay‚ I will be commenting on these changes
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Courtney Cox 5-4-10 THEA 1334 Final Paper Costume Design THE ROLE OF COSTUME DESIGN IN MUSICAL THEATER Imagine a classic Shakespearian play or Italian opera performed in hip-hugging jeans or baggy t-shirts; or imagine the period musical 1776‚ produced by the wonderful Stuart Ostrow‚ performed in the groovy attire of the 1970s. These performances would seem completely out of place and confusing. One would not be able to grasp the completeness of the story or have any understanding of the time
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Rent is a rock musical that was created by Jonathan Larson. It’s based on the opera La Bohème. The musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City in a village called Alphabet City‚ under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a workshop production in a New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical’s initial home following its official 1996 opening. Jonathan Larson‚ the
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Leslie Odom Jr.‚ and the company. Musical notes begin and the theater becomes silent as 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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Today many people are familiar with the musicals South Pacific‚ The Sound Of Music‚ Oklahoma! and Carousel but do they know their origins? All of these plays were engineered by the dynamic due Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers who worked to broaden the boundaries of theater by merging theatre‚ music and film. Not only were they responsible for making their own plays but they formed musical scores‚ worked as lyricists‚ owned and operated the publishing company Williamson Music‚ and had their own
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Creating Musical Theater is a collection of interviews that the author‚ Lyn Cramer- a professor of Musical Theater Dance at The University of Oklahoma‚ conducted with directors and choreographers that make up today’s Broadway elite. For a student who have not had much chance to get to know and understand musical theater‚ this book is a great exposure to both the Broadway stages and the behind-the-scene actions. In this short review‚ I would like to narrow my experience of this book into two directors/
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At the heart of the film industry is a man who has revolutionized movies for generations to come. Since the release of The Terminator in 1984‚ James Cameron has been one of only a handful of writers and directors who is consistently certain to bring profit and success to Hollywood. According to Stephen McVeigh and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell‚ James Cameron “shares the rarefied heights of such A-list directors as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas‚ directors who work in similar generic and commercial
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