Historical and Cultural context of the Musical Hairspray The Buddy Dean Show which was a teen dance show in Baltimore is memorialized in the musical and film by John Waters‚ Hairspray. The plot of this story revolves around an attempt in which teens from both backgrounds in Baltimore integrate successfully in a teen dance show called The Corny Collins show. There was a massive cultural revolution in musical taste in the ‘50s and ‘60s that was signalled by teens from the big band sound of rock and
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4/26/2010 Creative Presentation – Les Miserables as a Musical Les Miserables (Les Mis for short) is a musical that was composed in 1980 by the French composer Claude-Michel Schonberg with the libretto‚ or text‚ by Alain Boublill and lyrics by Herbert. It is one of the most performed and well-known musicals in the world. On October 8‚ 2006 Les Miserables celebrated 21 years on London’s West End and became the longest running West End musical in history‚ reaching 9‚500 performances. The show continues
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The musical production Rent is Jonathan Larson’s adaptation of Puccini’s ‘La Boehme’‚ and was set in New York in the early 1980s (Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ n.d.). The musical has a variety of characters: straight‚ gay‚ lesbian‚ cross-dressing‚ and bisexual. Many of the cast’s characters have HIV/AIDS. Larson personally identified with the musical‚ as he too had several friends that had HIV/AIDS who had then later passed away from the disease (Encyclopedia of World Biography‚ n.d.). HIV/AIDS
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message through art. In this case though‚ Hairspray has been the selected piece I’m choosing to write about. It is considered to be a flashy‚ catchy‚ musical that ultimately hits on racial segregation and inequality. In this paper‚ I will be covering different material ranging from the actual background story of the musical‚ the themes the musical is trying to convey‚ information on John Waters (the man who started it all)‚ some elements of set design‚ and the overall influence Hairspray has had
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Shout! The Musical Analysis Shout! The Mod Musical gives a good performance that portrays the atmosphere and events of the ‘60s in Britain. The crew employ a variety of means to achieve this. Voice overs are used to inform the audience of what the character is reading. The play uses the magazine Shout! to explore social elements of that time. Each of the characters are a young woman dressed in a different colour to reflect her personality. They are referred to as Blue Girl‚ Green Girl‚ Red Girl
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Wicked: A “Wonderful” Musical! On March 17th‚ 2017 I saw a phenomenal musical called Wicked. The theatre it was playing in was the insert theatre in London name here in London‚ England. The musical was extremely touching and brought the audience to tears because of the magnificent acting and beautiful voices. The actors hooked the audience from the first line of the show and kept them in their grasp until the final bows. Wicked is set in the land of Oz and is about two girls in university who despise
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Working: The Musical was a musical with a series of stories explaining the life of a worker. Most of the workers in the play were blue-collar workers trying to make a living explaining there enjoys and struggles they have with their job. The scenery of the play was a very plan and had nothing but straight edges and shapes that made a work factory. I believe this to have been symbolic‚ because there is no roundness to these jobs. The jobs are routine and is repetitive that continues in a straight
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Shayla Smith Period 4 4/7/16 A beautiful musical put together by a Christian K-12 school. So beautiful‚ so amazing. Full of beautiful actors and singers. A very precise performance with expert actors and actresses. Amazing voices came from the mouths of these young kids. The costumes were amazing and accurately portrayed for the play and each character. Because they were apart of an orphanage and very poor their costumes were raggedy and old and used. Yet‚ even though the costumes weren’t
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Ever since I was a young kid‚ I was extremely fond of music. Music was all around me: on the television‚ in school‚ at the store‚ and especially in the car. Not only did I love to listen to music‚ but I loved to play it as well. I am not saying I was any good at playing music‚ because I was not. But to a young child‚ hitting their hand on anything could be music‚ and to me it definitely was. As a child‚ I was exposed to rock music and oldies. However‚ I grew up in Prince George’s county‚ so I
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BatBoy the Musical by Keythe Farley and Brian Fleming was very strange. I can’t decide if I liked it’s storyline. It was about a boy who is half human‚ half bat‚ which had been chronicled in Weekly World News and had been discovered in the West Virginia Hills. He had been brought to the town of Hope Falls‚ which brought fear and intrigue to the folks of the town. The Sheriff thought that it was only Dr. Parker who would know what to do with him‚ so he brought him to the Parker Family. The Parkers
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