On April 7‚ 2017‚ I viewed the musical production‚ “The Great American Trailer Park Musical.” The director of the musical was Jimm Cox. The set designer was Barry Whitfield. Rich Robinson was the lighting designer. The poster designer was Slade Mullinax. The production was held at the Performing Arts Center located on the University of South Carolina Upstate campus. The theme that I took from‚ “The Great American Trailer Park Musical‚” was that certain people are put into one’s life for a reason
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Reefer Madness. They basically turn the film into a musical comedy that pokes fun at the hysteria caused by the original work. However‚ I don’t think it is the artist’s main purpose to just make fun of the ludicrous allegations made by the 1936 production. Instead‚ I think the artists were trying to illustrate how some people will go to the extreme to convince us of their ways even when it comes to the most harmless and minuscule of things. The musical accomplish this by creating a mashup of theatrical
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This year at PXHS there was a great musical called the Music Man. The musical was truly serious and hilarious. There were many phrases and jokes being said that I did not understand‚ but the adults did. I saw that the people who played the characters practiced hard on the dancing‚ singing and acting. They had to memorize many lines‚ especially Harold Hill and Marian Paroo. The musical took place in River City. It was a story about a librarian/piano teacher and a traveling salesman. At first‚ they
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Third International Conference Science and Technology in Archeology and Conservation. 7-11 December 2004‚ Hashemite University‚ Jordan. acta Fundación El legado andalusì‚ Spain. pp. 263-280 Assessment of the Relations between Ancient Theatres‚ Landscape and Society Naif Haddad Dept. of Conservation Science‚ Queen Rania‟s Institute of Tourism and Heritage‚ the Hashemite University‚ Zarqa 13115‚ Jordan‚ E-mail: naifh@hu.edu.jo ABSTRACT The theater is a specialized category of buildings designed
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Over the last few years‚ we have seen a rise in musicals in cinema that have been on par with the films of the past were responsible for the genres rise in film history. These films and shows are original‚ revolutionary‚ but also keep intact the traditional conventions and styles at the heart of the genre. Two bodies of work that represent this rise are La La Land and crazy ex-girlfriend. The musical genre uses two major elements of film which are sound and movement such as dancing‚ singing‚ and
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The musical Annie is based on the strip cartoon Little Orphan Annie which began in New York. It was created by Harold Gray‚ who came up with an idea for a comic strip called Little Orphan Andy. But the New York News didn’t want one more strip about a boy so he it.So‚ Andy became Annie. The first strip appeared in August 1924. The cartoon strip proved to be so successful that it was almost immediately picked up by the Chicago Tribune. Within a few years‚ the strip found its way onto the pages of another
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"There is something in the puppet that ties its dramatic life more to the shapes of dreams and fantasy‚ the poetry of the unconscious‚ than to any realistic drama of human life." [1] The word‚ ’puppet‚’ is derived from the Latin pupa‚ meaning little girl or doll. The metaphoric extension of the word first recorded in the 1540’s is: ’person whose actions are manipulated by another.’ [2] Puppetry is the art of taking an inanimate object or representational figure‚ manipulating it and giving it life
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West Side Story is a brilliant updating of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ the two warring families of Verona now two streets gangs of kids from two different immigrant cultures coexisting in one New York City neighborhood. West Side Story demonstrates yet again the enduring quality of Shakespeare’s work‚ how he explored personal desires and social structures so intrinsically human that we can still identify with his characters 400 years later and recognize how our reinvented society mirrors those
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use drama‚ humor‚ religious fervor and much more to combine opera with theatre. Porgy and Bess was also important in the history of musical theatre. Nearly a 124 performances were played which is impressive for an opera and it was also a major success on Broadway. There is a reason why Porgy and Bess is known as the great American opera. 10. In 1937‚ Rodgers
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Golden Age of Broadway “Oklahoma! Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.” These iconic song lyrics are from the chart-topping musical Oklahoma!. This musical introduced‚ the now idolized‚ Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein (Brockett pg. 462). Rogers and Hammerstein wrote the musical‚ in hopes of making it on Broadway. Instead‚ they wrote a musical that started the next era to sweep through Broadway. The Golden Age of Broadway was the beginning of what will later be one of the most recognizable
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