There is a line in the musical Spamalot where Sir Robin sings to King Arthur; “In any great adventure, if you don 't want to lose ... you won 't succeed on Broadway if you don 't have any Jews!" (PBS, Broadway Musicals). If you can look past the sweeping generalization, Sir Robin’s surprising lyric turns out to be very true about musicals. Historians have recognized that Jewish immigrant culture heavily influenced the content of musical theatre when it was popularized in America during the early twentieth century. But in turn, it was the sociopolitical and racial climate of the 20th century that inspired the creative and thematic content of Jewish productions as well.…
Located at 189 Expressway Link in Branson, The Mansion Theatre is Southwest Missouri’s Premier Concert Venue. With 3000 seats and 20’ x 60’ projection screen, The Mansion Theatre is the largest of its kind in the region. With a soaring ceiling, magnificent stairs and a lovely ambience to boast, The Mansion Theatre is definitely a must-visit if you are in the area. Visti their website to look at what concerts are being hosted this season. Situated near the Mansion Theatre are popular landmarks amongst both locals and tourists.…
The Globe Theater was one of the most famous playhouses in the Elizabethan era. Actors performed many Shakespearean plays at the Globe. In 1599, Shakespeare and his company built the original Globe Theater. It flourished for nearly 14 years. In 1613, a fire took place at the Globe Theater and burnt it down.…
Students at Keokuk High School are involved in many different extracurriculars, from Football, to soccer, to band and even bowling, but one of the most popular extracurriculars is Show choir. The show choir at KHS is split into two groups, Vibrations (Junior Varsity) and Purple Harmony (Varsity). Both groups compete around the state, and sometimes out of it, to face off against other show choirs from around the area. Show choir takes up quite a bit of time, on a regular week show choir can take up to six hours just practicing and the competitions usually last about 20 hours.…
Opera is considered one of the most complex art forms. It is a theatrical vocal- instrumental piece consisting of acts and scenes. It incorporates singing, acting, orchestral music, costumes, often ballet as a type of the dance, and scenery (libretto) which is 'the script' of an opera. Libretto can be written by a composer himself, or by poets and novelists. The most common way is an adaptation of the plays, novels or tales, such as libretto by Luigi Ilica and Guiseppe Giacosa which is based on the novel 'Scènes de la vie de bohème' by Louis- Henri Murger.…
The Nickelodeon Theaters are significant to the evolution of American popular culture because they allowed Americans to experience modernity, and facilitated the formation of a national identity by transcending race and class lines. The theater served as an arena to disseminate cultural ideology to a diverse group of individuals, comprised of immigrants, the working class and American youth. The large scope of the theaters aided in consolidating the different cultural norms that separated rural and urban America during the period between 1905 to 1915. Furthermore, the original elite resistance to Nickelodeon theater’s bolstered the theater’s popularity, and helped to create the mass entertainment industry that is now a fundamental aspect of American popular culture. Ultimately, the nickelodeon theaters are a contributing factor that helped to the create the consumerist oriented popular culture that is present in America today.…
When professor mentioned that we would watch and discuss about a Broadway Musical show named ‘Memphis’, the first that came to my mind was, the actual city Memphis in the southern state of Tennessee. I was still confused as to how a city and its activities could be incorporated into a Musical show, which is assumed to be entertaining with melodramatic components, dance and music. I had an assumption that it would be academic, political, boring since it is to be watched in a classroom setting and that a professor would not choose something entertaining or something of the liking of the younger generation. I deduced that this play might touch the topic of race since race defined how a person is treated in most southern states. I assumed that…
The Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble is gearing up for their annual Summer Theatre School. The workshops will be held at various times throughout the Summer and are geared towards various ages groups ranging from as young as 3 all the way to adults. There are many workshops to choose, with a complete list available on their the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble website. “The content is chosen based off the most beneficial components for each age group and experience with what has been successful in the past.” Amy Rene Byrne, Education Director at BTE states .…
One difference between stage sets for theater and settings for motion picture is that stage sets aren’t usually as detailed as settings for motion picture. Audiences can’t pick up on small details they’d be able to see in film. “The director…must generally work with fewer sets, one per act” (Giannetti 302). Stage directors are a lot more limited and must be conscientious about how their scenes will play out with the few sets they have. Whereas settings for motion pictures can have virtually any setting and the directors can add in small details because they know the audience can see them.…
The LA Opera proudly presents its summer production of "La Bohème"! " La Bohème" depicts the timeless cinematic romance of six impoverished young bohemians surviving on love and laughter in Paris in the mid 1800’s. On May 14-June 2, 2016 the LA Opera will have guests fall in love again with "La Bohème’s" blend of riveting theatre and delightful music. GOLD METROPOLITAN MEDIA (GMM) is honored to partner with the LA Opera to bring such beautiful banners of Parisian romance to city light poles throughout Los Angeles. The team at GMM created a strategic location plan for this campaign to target Angelinos throughout the city and surrounding areas of Los Angeles.…
My absolute favorite movies are The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. I know that these are two vastly different movies but what they have in common is that they are both comedies and musicals. I love musical comedies, mainly because I grew up in the era of High School Musical but also because I love music. Music is one of my passions (even though I can not sing or play an instrument for my life) because it is so expressive.…
When it first started, musical theatre wasn’t what we think of today, it wasn’t even called musical theatre. The roots of this art form go all the way back to ancient Greece. In America, however, it goes all the way back to minstrel shows, then vaudeville, follies after that, musical comedy and then finally it developed into what we recognize as musical theatre. This paper will tell a brief history of how musical theatre, or more specifically, Broadway, developed. There’s one prominent person who helped to establish the basis of Broadway theatre, Florenz Ziegfeld.…
‘’A musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines song, spoken dialogue , acting, and dancing. The story and emotional content of a musical-humor, pathos, love, anger-are communicated through the words, music movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole. Although musical theatre overlaps with other theatrical forms like opera and dance, it may be distinguished by the equal importance given to the music as compared with the dialogue, movement and other elements. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called, simply musicals.’’en.m.wikipedia.org As this for me of a musical I think a musical is like a play because I seen plays with musicals and I think this is mostly referring to like…
What is Stage Management? How does this role apply to theatre productions? A stage manager will provide practical or organisational support to the director, actors and stage crew/ technicians throughout the production process (ACCT.2016). A stage manager will work with the director from week one to create a monumental final production will keep all onstage and off stage crew organised, this includes organising/conducting rehearsals, blocking, light changes and set changes.…
They should exist as mediators between realism and romanticism - with a mind for both the art and the business of it all. This is unfortunately not the case within the current musical theatre market. Producers of new Broadway musicals have been engaging in pattern-like behaviors as their interests are placed in the immediate monetization of the art, rather than the prosperity and artistry of the genre. This holds true for the rest of the musical theatre world outside of Broadway, as the top-down model of the industry suggests that musicals will most often only get produced around the world if they find some level of success on Broadway first. The shift in focus of musical theatre producers from artistry to monetization is evidenced in their decisions of which shows to develop and invest in to be produced on Broadway, a theatre complex that is widely viewed as the peak and center of the musical theatre world.…