Oz is one of the biggest American Musicals in film. It has become known world wide‚ it is apart of our American popular culture‚ and is best known of all films. It was based on the novel‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the 1900s. It was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayar in the year of 1939. This film just hit the end of the “Golden Age of the Musical” that started in the early 1930s. MGM benefited greatly from the hit of the rebirth of musicals. It’s known for the use of technicolor
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I will never be able to watch High School Musical again. Not that I was an avid devotee of High School Musical before‚ in fact‚ I had only seen High School Musical once before I was cast in Danville Area High School’s version of “High School Musical On Stage!.” Being five years old when High School Musical aired on Disney Channel‚ I was a natural-born Gabriella Montez on the playgrounds of my elementary school. Of course‚ I was Gabriella because I best fit the physical description in our small class
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Cultural Event Analysis: Heathers: The Musical The Center for the Living Arts is a small building in the downtown district in Rock Island. The district was dead except for the small line outside of a locked door. The 1989 movie Heathers had a cult following‚ people today have the same passion for Heathers: The Musical. I had first heard of the musical from people online raving about how good it was and how catchy the songs are. After I had sat though Davenport West’s spring play Seussical‚ I needed
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focus is emotion‚ there is a system of interpretation by which music can be logically realized‚ quantified and rationalized: such a method is called music theory. Music theory‚ although still technically an art‚ could be defined as ‘the science of musical tonality‚ rhythm and structure.’ Out of these three pillars‚ however‚ by-far the most influential and important is tonality. Tonality‚ according to Mark DeVoto‚ is‚ “…the organized relationship of tones with reference to a definite center‚ the tonic
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BOOK REVIEW About the Author Peter Barsocchini he was born on 1952 in San Francisco. He is an American screenwriter‚ author‚ and television producer best known for his scripts for the High School Musical series. In his early career‚ Barsocchini began his professional writing career while attending high school in the San Francisco Bay Area‚ writing more than 300 columns about popular music for the San Mateo Times. He also worked as a freelance reporter for the Associated Press and the San Francisco
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High School Musical Caroline Cascadden Block: 2.1 High School Musical is one of my favorite movies. The movie is entertaining to everyone. I love the characters‚ the music‚ the story‚ and mostly everything about it. I have watched it about a million times and still never get bored of it. The songs are very catchy and have great tunes. The songs in High School Musical are all different. The songs are not just fast solos. The songs change from slow‚ to fast‚ to duets‚ solos‚ groups‚ and many more
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The Great Chicago Fire happened on the night of Oct 8-10‚ 1871. One legend is at a barn located on the land of Patrick and Catherine O’ Leary at 137 DeKoven Street on the city’s southwest side and the fire started when the family’s cow kicked over the lantern and it lighted the hay and the barn caught on fire. Before the Great Chicago Fire the city average was 2 fires per day. In 1997‚ the Chicago City Council exonerated Mrs. O’ Leary and her cow. She turned into a recluse after the fire and she
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High School Musical is a jock and captain of the basketball team. Both the girls‚ Sandy is in Grease and Gabriella in High School Musical are sweet and studious. It is a discovered shared interest in music that brings Troy and Gabriella together in High School Musical; throughout the film they have to contend with the desire of their respective groups‚ the basketball team and the academic decathlon team as well as the ambitions of peers wanting the lead roles in the high school musical that try to
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For the Solo Theater project I have chosen Harold Prince and his theory on Concept musicals. After research on the life of Prince from his book “Contradictions” and biographies‚ I have learned about his major influence within the world of theater. Creating an entire new genre of musicals. To understand this theory I had to understand the the man behind it. Prince (born in 1928) adopted by Milton A. Prince. Rightful upbringing led him to finish school and serve in the military post WWII Germany
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the contagious disease‚ cholera‚ spread to the United States from Europe. Cholera ravaged the cities‚ such as Chicago in several epidemics‚ brutally damaging its victims’ physical health and frequently leading to death. In response‚ Chicago’s sanitary reformers and city engineers gained a new sense of resolve to combat these illnesses
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