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connection to the plot. The formula was absolute – most producers on Broadway thought that it was impossible to fill seats without having pretty girls, silly antics, and catchy tunes.…

the Chico Theater Company, and it was very well done. The Producers takes place in the year 1959, in New York. It is about a past-successful Broadway producer, Max Bialystock (played by Conan Duch) who almost pulls off a well planned Broadway scam with the help of his accountant Leo Bloom (played by Seth Snyder). Bialystock was once one of the greatest Broadway producers, but had a stroke of bad luck as each new play he created had flopped. No one wanted to sponsor his plays, so he had to…

ARTHUR MILLER: HIS LIFE, WORKS, AND ACHIEVEMENTS Arthur Miller was one of the main American playwrights of the twentieth century. Miller was conceived in Harlem on October 17, 1915, the child of Polish outsiders, Isidore and Augusta Miller. Miller's dad had set up a fruitful clothing store after coming to America, so the family appreciated riches; in any case, this thriving finished with the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The Depression showed to the writer the delicacy and vulnerability of human…

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Masque of the Red Death explores the topic of death and how no human, despite the precautions made, can be able to escape it. Poe portrays the fictional Red Death as an unstoppable and mysterious force, depicting Death itself, it’s inevitability, and the discomfort towards the topic through personification and other literary techniques. The uneasiness created by irony is achieved through Prince Prospero and his guest’s carelessness towards the Red Death and…

The macabre mood Edgar Allen Poe is so famous for provoking in his readers is crafted in “The Masque of the Red Death” by utilizing his ominous symbolism. “The Masque of the Red Death” is already presented as an eerie, evil story just within the presentation of the title. The short story is riddled with obvious and not so obvious symbols, all which contribute to the mood and overall effect of the story. The castle itself is an important symbol of wealth and the…

watched the film and listened to the soundtrack so many times that I did not need to take any notes on it, when it came to watching the film for the purpose of this essay. The 2005 film Rent, directed by Chris Columbus, is based on Jonathan Larson’s Broadway musical of the same name. The film depicts the lives of an outcast group of friends, living in New York City in the 1990s. Rent deals with the hardships the characters must face…

Symbolism in “The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe is An American master of Gothic Horror. Poe is famous for many of his horrific stories, for example “The Masque of the Red Death”. This horrific story is about a disease called the Red Death that plagues the setting of the story killing these victims quickly and gruesomely. The main Character Prospero, the prince, decides he wants to lock his gates to prevent him and his palace from catching this disease. Later, after several months…

Rent, by Jonathan Larson is a play that enters the life of a certain group of people, Bohemians, as they go along there journey of struggle to find love, life, and freedom. The film revolves mainly around two men named Mark Cohen, and Roger Davis. In the beginning we can see that the characters are unable to pay their rent, or even pursue a lifestyle to bring them happiness. As the plot of the film progresses we are introduced to more characters and their own individual predicaments. Their…

When it came to the 1990s, the incorporation of both theatrical elements and rock music in the musical theatre has matured significantly, which has been notable in the show Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Advocated by Fricke (1998), Hedwig had been by the time the first rock musical that truly rocked. On the one hand, Hedwig serves as a successful model where elements of musical theatre and rock have been harmoniously integrated. For instance, based on only eleven songs of its musical score, the…

Time are changing but the women progression in theater are moving slowly. Even though women are in a good standing Off Broadway they are at a standstill on the Broadway scene with only ten percentage women directors and playwrights in the years 2013 and 2014 directing and writing show. But on the opposite end of the spectrum the majority of audience attending Broadway and off Broadway shows are women. Equality in theater survey conducted using Canadian resentenced in 2010 indicates that women…