Broadway

Being Black and Pursuing Musical Theatre Imagine yourself in kindergarten and having your teacher ask you “What do you want to be when you grow up”? From a young age, my answer was always different each time someone asked me about my potential career. I wanted to be a professional dancer, a hair stylist, an author, and so much more. As I grew older, I discovered a career where I could be all of these things onstage. I was twelve when I first introduced the idea of pursuing musical theatre in…

that there is to see on Broadway, at the same time, reminding you that you have neither the time nor the resources for such adventure. I stood still for a moment, admiring the extraordinary, bright neon signs. I took a deep breath and pulled out my phone in search of the famous Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in New York. As the location appeared on my phone, I started walking toward it. Right now you’re probably thinking, “Oh boy, this is going to be an adventure on Broadway!” But it is not; it is…

A second notoriously racist Broadway show born in the “Golden Age” of theatre is Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s musical, The King and I. However, this show is not notorious for appropriating black American culture, but rather Asian culture in Siam. The King and I differs from Show Boat, however, because it is based on a true story. In The King and I, a Welsh, widowed school teacher is brought in by the King of Siam to tutor his children. There is a clashing of personalities between the governess,…

Typically, in musicals women are depicted as skinny, attractive, well-mannered people who live up to the “ideal” expectations of society’s standards. This concept is constantly propelled in the public’s face because many actresses have a similar physique, petite and attractive. Usually, we will not see women who are overweight, acne ridden, or blessed with a raspy voice because these types of actors are not the model people company executives want to present to their audience. Instead, movies…

Perform a detailed Porter's Five Forces analysis for The Broadway Cafe. Be sure to highlight entry barriers, switching costs, and substitute products. Buyer Power: There are numerous coffee shops in the market currently. As such, this increases the number of competitors for Broadway Café provides clients with more choices to pick from. Thus, it is clear that the buyer power has tremendously increased in the market. Hence, it is essential for Broadway Café to develop good switching costs in order…

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…

Feminism in Broadway Musicals from Late 90s to Early 2000s Musicals since the 2000s have actually been dominated by women; women onstage and women offstage, as both bystanders and fans. However, there are numerous moments of empowerment of female that go unnoticed by audience members. From comical musical like 9 to 5, to solemn musicals like Violet, women are portrayed as fighting for what they want despite their fear and insecurities. Women are empowered through these musicals. The…

people. I am standing on the corner of W 47th street and Broadway, standing in front of a Starbucks. I should probably find a hotel.. I pull my phone out of my pocket and pull up google maps. I find the Night Time Square right down the road just past 7th Ave is only about $88 a night, so I grip the straps of my backpack and start walking. I walk past the Phantom of Broadway store and take a quick peek inside and notice all of the broadway shirts and other things, I make a mental note to stop…

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…

The Gender issues on Broadway is the different characteristics between feminine and masculine roles in the show, which includes the gender identity. The World War II has brought a loss of the original principles to the Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender. The Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, and transgender have been fighting for their freedom after the world war II. The new generation of gays and lesbians had discovered that they were not alone when the gay became more widely recognized as a…