The Sound of Music is a musical play that was written by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Howard Lindsay was born in 1889 and died in 1968. He became an actor at nineteen and went on to become a successful writer. Russel Crouse was born in 1893 and died in 1966. He served in the Navy and after that he worked on New York newspapers‚ gaining his first renown through a signed column in the Post. In 1932 he became head of the publicity department for the Theatre Guild and in 1933 wrote his first Broadway
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Raven Davis Professor M. Intro to Theatre June 25‚ 2014 Chicago Response The film Chicago is largely based on the Broadway musical of 1975. The said theatrical show ran for approximately 936 performances. It was the best project of Bob Fosse who had actually choreographed and directed the original Broadway production of 1975 plus had won an Oscar in a successful manner for his excellent direction in 1972 of the film version of famous Cabaret. It is to be highly noted that he died much before
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in order to understand more clearly what is going on. With these certain conventions‚ the audience can get a true grasp of a story which several actors are trying to portray. However‚ it hasn’t always been this easy to enjoy a play in a theater. Theatre and plays go back as far as “B.C.” times. Theater has been a means of art and entertainment for thousands of years dating back to the fifth century B.C. The beginning marked with the ancient Greek theaters. Over the vast years of cultural and technological
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earliest of the modern theatre movement was naturalism. Russia lagged behind the rest of Europe‚ as far as theatre was concerned. That point was proven when the Meiningen Players performed in Russia. The Meiningen Players created not only a set‚ but also an environment in which they are a part of (Gascoigne 265). Russian producers saw‚ first hand‚ how far behind they were. The Imperial Theatre system spent most of its resources on opera and ballet while neglecting legitimate theatre. Most of the administrative
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In 19th century Melodrama was the primary theatrical form in Europe. The word "melodrama" comes from "Melos"‚ Greek word for song. It originating in 18th century - used with a short piece of music contrast or associated with spoken drama. By the end of 19th century form‚ this merged into a salon entertainment. Often in melodrama‚ the dialogues were in the form of poetry rather than everyday language. It mostly involved 2 to 5 acts and almost never went over 5. Moreover‚ it contained limited characters
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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 in the West End. Behind the
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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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In the Heights is a musical written by rising star and Tony-winning Lin-Manuel Miranda. Many talented students of American were able to showcase their dancing and singing skills in this play‚ contributing to an entertaining play. While the volume of the dialogues was overpowered by the band‚ the detail in the scenery and the choreography made for an enjoyable musical. Because nearly all of the dialogues in the play were delivered through songs which were accompanied by the band‚ it was
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Harlequin. Rich was responsible for creating the first "Harlequinade. Harlequinades were produced all year round at his Lincoln Inn Fields Theatre‚ and these became so popular that David Garrick at Drury Lane felt obliged to mount his own pantomime‚ the difference being that his Harlequin spoke the lines‚ with less emphasis on mime. By 1773 the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane presented the first pantomime story that has a direct descendant today‚ "Jack the Giant Killer". The Harlequinades continued
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