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favorite musical, “The Drowsy Chaperone” while listening to its soundtrack on a record player in his quaint apartment. As the music plays, the show comes to life and emphasizes its nonsensical elements to satirize popular musical theatre. Opening on Broadway in 2006, the meta-musical was…

this specific performance would compare to the others. The musical Grease is the epitome of sexuality, rebellion, and teenage drama. What made Michigan State’s version of this beloved musical so special was that it used the script from the original Broadway production and incorporated all of its unfiltered glory into various design elements. The costumes of the characters served as the major design aspect of this colorful musical because they clearly showed the changing and eventual…

The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe follows numerous traditions of Gothic fiction and can be analyzed as an allegory demonstrating the inevitability of death. Prince Prospero is the main character of this short story and seeks a solution to the plague of the Red Death that is consuming his people at a rapid pace. In a hurry to escape the disease, he brings along those who have not been infected and settles in a castellated abbey. For fear of any form of disease to enter the castle,…

Shakespeare, and his effect on the image of musicals. Reason #1; his musicals. His musical 21 Chump Street was written in less than a week, which is almost unheard of in the musical industry. He also wrote the Broadway musical In the Heights. He is most well known by his other Broadway musical titled Hamilton, which tells the life story of the first American…

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin, with a libretto written by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin from Heyward's novel Porgy and later play of the same title. Porgy and Bess was first performed in New York City on September 30, 1935, and featured an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. After suffering from an initially unpopular public reception due in part to its racially charged theme, the…

Often in short stories, symbols are present. Symbols represent meanings beyond what they literally are in the story. In the short story, The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe, the gigantic ebony clock is symbolic. The ebony clock is symbolic because it symbolizes death and that time never stops. Symbols represent something other than themselves, which is significant to the story. The ebony clock in the seventh room symbolizes death. According to the short story, it…

(1860) increased the variety of American musicals (Musicals). The gilbert and Sullivan forerunners of our modern musicals (MIT). Some of the songs of Gilbert and Sullivan continue to appear in common Broadway shows (MIT). These works lead to a…

My opinion about the musical rent is that it is a okay movie. I personally think the people saying they was not going to pay the rent and setting paper and stuff on fire was a little bit to much. This movie shows you how rude and cruel people can be.One of my favorite parts is when the boy named Angel take his time to help the poor man. It show people who are going through some of the same things that people still go through to this day which i think is kinda good so people know that it is not…

grew up in Harlem, New York with his two brothers Augusta and Isidore. “Arthur Miller attended the University of Michigan before moving back East to write dramas for the stage. He earned widespread praise for Death of a Salesman, which opened on Broadway in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize along with multiple Tony's.”(Biography.com). The Pulitzer prize award that is awarded to musical artist, journalist, and authors. Miller also was well acknowledged for his pristine novel The Crucible. In his…

Whitney Bischoff found love with Chris Soules on The Bachelor, but things didn’t work out for them in the end. Now it turns out that Whitney is dating again and ready to find someone to spend her life with. Some fans were hopeful that Whitney would end up the next girl cast as The Bachelorette, but there will not be another season until summer of 2016 and who knows who ABC will choose for the show by then. US Magazine shared that Whitney is finally ready and has started dating again. Whitney…