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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Throughout my writing experience I have always struggled with my body paragraphs. I tend to always have a strong introduction but once I began to go into my first body paragraph I lose my train of thought. One of my main issues is that I get to wordy. Which then leaves me with fragments. Lastly‚ which I’m sure most people have an issue with is basic grammar errors such as‚ spelling and placing commas. I feel that my writing has had a small progression. Through this class I have learned more writing
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Mughal-e-Azam: The Musical From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Mughal-e-Azam is a musical based on the 1960 movie of the same name. It has been directed by Feroz Abbas Khan and produced jointly by Shapoorji Pallonji and the National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA). The show created new benchmarks in theatre production in India and has taken it to an entirely new level gaining plenty of national and international recognition. It also happens to be India’s first grand-scale Broadway-style musical. The show
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Prior to what we believe to be the “Golden Era” of American Musical Theatre‚ one must first delve into the dark past modern musical theatre tries to bury beneath today’s jazz hands and glitter covered performers. The era of the Virginia Minstrel shows not only is derogatory towards African American slaves and recently freed slaves with the use of stock characters‚ but it uses exaggerated stereotypes and costuming to create the illusion that the African American race is inferior to Caucasians. These
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referred as being necessary for functionality‚ for life and not just for mere adornment. Definitions of beauty differ from person to person and those definitions can be more characterized as aesthetics. Aesthetics is known one way as the outward experience of how something looks‚ and how pleasing it is. This pleasing feeling of how something may look is the psychological responses to beauty and artistic expressions. A word that can be used as a noun‚ verb or adjective is a philosophy to some. The
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It is very pleasant to recollect my school days. I was admitted to class III. I passed long eight years in the same school. This long period was associated with pleasant memories of various kinds. During this long period of eight years I had come in contact with many students of my own age. I mixed with them freely. I had intimacy with many students. Some became my bosom friends. I will never forget them in life. I was good student at school. I had keen competition with another boy. Either he
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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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Stephen Sondheim‚ hailed by many as a genius‚ has had a long and illustrious career in Broadway musical theatre spanning five decades. During those fifty-some years‚ Sondheim has essentially reinvented the Broadway musical. The Sondheim canon shows three distinct ways Sondheim has contributed to musical theatre. First of all‚ the difficulty of Stephen Sondheim’s music has raised the standard of musical theatre. Actors simply cannot stand onstage and sing as they used to in the days of Gershwin and
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but to grow as a performer. In Acting in Musicals‚ Mr. Jory attempts to answer an often debated question “Is the art of acting different in musicals and plays?” This is a very important subject for acting teachers; should we as professionals leave out a large lucrative portion of the professional acting roles simply because we prefer straight plays over musicals or worse don’t have
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Edwilker Dombolo Professor Cynthia Williams English 1301/ Tuesday 08:00 a.m. 20 March 2012 First Work Experience When I was a senior at high school we created the organization "Filhos de Angola." The meaning in English is Sons of Angola (Angola is my country) and we used to do a lot of social work like raise funds to help Elderly people‚ homeless ‚ orphan kids‚ and ex-convicted. The purpose of this organization was only this and nothing else because sometimes it is really hard to see
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