winning show. The room becomes dark and a soft light shines on 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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Oklahoma! Response Paper The musical being watched and analysed is Oklahoma! It is a 1999 Broadway musical directed by Sir Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Susan Stroman starring Hugh Jackman‚ Josefina Gabrielle and Shular Hensley amongst others. Oklahoma! is originally the result of collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II‚ with the former composing the music and the latter writing the screenplay. It is touted as a landmark American musical‚ and the 1999 production is a marker
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Formal Analysis A musical company The painting A Musical Company‚ part of the leiden collection‚ painted in 1642 by Dutch painter Gerard ter Borch is now on display as part of the vermeer suite exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. The painting depicts a young woman playing the virginal accompanied by two men: the one on her left is plays a viol da gamba and the other plays a violin. Gerard ter Borch is widely known for his small scale paintings of everyday peasant life known as genre scenes
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: A Musical Theatre Virtuoso For many‚ musical theatre is an experience that not only posses the power of entertainment‚ but the power of transformation. Masters of music such as Stephen Sondheim‚ Leonard Berstein‚ and George Gershwin used music as a theatrical element by which intense emotions and ever changing moods could be expressed. Their beautiful scores are regarded as the most impressive and moving in musical theatre history. Joining them at the top is Andrew Lloyd
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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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The Glory of the Lord by Handel has four motifs which are: ‘And the Glory the Glory of the Lord’ – This motif outlines the chord of A major‚ the tonic chord‚ and moves up the last three notes of the scale. This helps to establish the key. The word-setting is syllabic‚ one word to a syllable. ‘Shall be revealed’ – In this motif the second bar is a repeat of the first bar but a tone lower. The word ‘revealed’ is melismatic (several notes to one syllable). ‘For the mouth of the lord hath spoken it’
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A musical have more dancing than opera. Opera rarely needs to dance. 2. A musical is almost always performed in the language of its audience‚ while opera is no words to be speak in the performance of an opera. 3. An opera is drama set to music. In an opera‚ the moods‚ emotions and feelings are heightened. It combined vocal music which includes solos‚ ensembles and chorus and instrumental music which is played by the orchestra with costumes‚ stage action and scenic effects. However musical is a
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characters; all really well developed. My one I picked would have to be Bobby Strong. The play is just written for the audience to fall in love with him and we did. The actor really pushed the audience into loving him too. He had a lot on his plate (lines‚ musical numbers‚ dances) but‚ he still pushed his objective though. His objective was clearly to get the love of his life while getting justice for the poor. Bobby had my eyes glued to him every moment he was on stage. Bobby and Hope had the perfect Disney
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Niobid Painter‚ named after his most famous glazed ceramic vase paintings‚ is one of the most well known vase-painters of classical Athens Greece and is appreciated for his soft and balanced work of art. In the Red Figure Amphora with Musical Scene‚ in the scene that is believed to be the first of the two‚ the women in the woman’s quarter of the house‚ are elaborately dressed and are preparing far a music session. The scene depicts a seated woman relaxing while fingering a barbiton. Directly above
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anything else in this world‚ American Musical Theatre did not just come out of nowhere; it was started by many different ideas and talents coming together. According to American musical theatre history‚ the first musical performance took place in Charleston‚ South Carolina on February 8‚ 1735. It was the production of Flora‚ a ballad opera from England. According to the same history timeline and google‚ The Black Crook was however the first American musical production- performed on September 12‚
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