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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sympathetic criminals facilitates this captivation and leads readers to celebrate criminals. Bob Fosse and Fred Ebb capture the story of this celebration of criminals within Chicago: The Musical calling it “a story of murder‚ greed‚ corruption‚ violence…[and] all those things we all hold near and dear to our hearts” (Fosse & Ebb 1). Chicago: The Musical follows the story of murderess Roxie Hart through the corrupt judicial system of Chicago. Roxie starts as the wife to the lowly mechanic‚ Amos Hart
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Role of Students in Communal Harmony It is said that the real strength of a nation depends not so much on its natural resources or on its military capabilities but rather on its students. They constitute the backbone of a nation as well as the pillar on which the national edifice is built. They are the real wealth of a nation. Students play a very important role in our society. Every person looks upon the students for the welfare as well as the development of the society and the nation. A
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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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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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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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06/18/2010 Wicked The Wicked is concern about growth story of Elphaba. She is the daughter of the governor; however‚ she was unfortunately born in green‚ and gets no support from her father. Her sister Nessarose has been disabled in a wheelchair under the full love of her father. They came to the school‚ met the popular white Galinda and many students‚ so many wonderful stories happened. This is the first experience of appreciating the musical‚ the feeling is different from on the screen. The decoration
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This piece feels more like a story with a lesson or a song. The structure of the poem is full of patterns and repletion. The poem is made up of seven stanzas with six lines in each stanza. The first line of every stanza has nine syllables and ends with the word “Pan”. The pattern of syllables and repetition of “Pan” in this way create a song-like tone to the poem. The second and last lines of every stanza ends with the word “river”. This repetition of “river” creates a constant flow of ups and downs
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own. Amongst the extensive team of specialized professionals is someone who is absolutely crucial to the assembly of a motion picture: the music composer. Sound and music are key components of cinema that cannot be overlooked in any type of major analysis. When it comes to the dissection of the music score of any one of James Cameron’s films‚ there is really no better place to start than the production of The Terminator in 1984‚ which was in many ways looked at as the start of his career and his
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TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY The Australian Capital Territory Government is standing up for animals‚ becoming the first state to ban three of the cruellest factory farming practices ever inflicted on animals. The last battery egg facility has shut down and no pigs are currently factory farmed there. The Australian Capital Territory government has made the most of this opportunity to ensure factory farming cruelty is gone for good. A bill was passed to ban Pig Crates‚ Battery cages and Debeaking‚ this
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