Broadway

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson on April 4, 1928. Maya grew up in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. Maya Angelou is a female that is a black American American that liked to experience. At a very young age Maya parents had split up. At the age of 7, during a visit with her mother, Maya was raped by her mother’s boyfriend. Growing up as a teenager Maya had a baby at the age of 16 as a teenage mom that also dropped out of high school. She had a son name Guy Johnson. Maya Angelou…

“Let’s see here,” I responded, starting to count on the three rightmost fingers of my left hand. “He had the best cut of roast beef he’s ever eaten in his life, got to see two Broadway shows, and had a short-lived romance. If that doesn’t qualify as having a great time, I’m hard-pressed to figure out what does.” My Mom has said more than once that she wants me to someday get to travel overseas. “After my time spent in London…

Lange thought that it was hard to adjust to the comedy in Tootsie because she had just had to play a very serious role in Frances. During the shoot of an angry scene of Tootsie, she stormed out of the dressing room and destroyed the set. She said there was dead silence after the incident (“50 Facts About Jessica Lange”). “To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I’ve never done before.” This quote from Lange fits the switch from a serious film, Frances, to a comedy film, Tootsie…

his ham radio, and perhaps most all music. sports, arts, science, music and agricultural experiments. He enjoyed discussing Broadway musicals and Buddhist philosophy. During his free time, His Majesty played several musical instruments including the piano and saxophone, soprano saxophone is his best. King Bhumibol was an accomplished composer. One was a song for a 1950 Broadway show. Candlelight Blues (Saeng Tien) was his first work in 1946 sparked his love for composing music. Out of a total…

Pickford is a successful actress and producer .She started acting at a young age and then reached Broadway. She demanded higher salary so she would be able to get paid as much as men actors. She inspired future generations of women and filmmakers. She said “the past cant not be changed. The future is yet in your power”. She appeared in 51 films in 1909…

segregation and other issues in the South. Regardless of the millions that her best selling book brought her, Lee lived her same old lifestyle, in a regular apartment in New York, who used the bus system like everyone else. It was only thanks to the Broadway composer Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy that Harper Lee was able to pursue funding. They provided her with funding for 1 year allowing her to quit her job. Harper lee underwent too infringements of her copyrights for her book To…

The title “DNA” caught me attention and my expectations of this stage play grew with a lot of excitement. So going into this play I took some of my screenwriting chops, character development complex story plot and each character’s goals and wants. Also, performance from each actor. This lead me to ask myself a few questions. What does each character have in common, how every actor is going to execute their character’s traits to make it believable and will I walk away from this stage production…

Uta Hagen was born on June 12, 1919 in Gottingen, Germany and was raised in Madison, Wisconsin. She later went onto study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic arts in London. Uta Hagen made her professional debut in 1937 at the age of 18 and made her broadway debut in ‘The “Seagull”. Uta Hagen won her first Tony Award, Drama critics award, and the Donaldson award in 1950 for her performance in “The Country Girl”. She went on to star in many classics such as “St. Joan” and “A Month in the…

From the time one sets foot in New York City everything feels different, the atmosphere, the people, the scenery. New York is a whole other world set apart from the real world. It is seen as the place to be in order to conquer dreams. The place where one goes to “make it big.” It is a symbol of freedom, history, and entertainment. While I was in New York I gained an insight into just how free and beautiful our country really is. It truly changes a person and their appreciation for society.…

From Athens to Broadway, the simultaneous presence of wardrobe and makeup is used to reveal each character’s narrative in the play. By concealing the body with a costume, the actor’s former identity is buried so that the character’s new essence can emerge. For this reason, costumes are the most legitimizing aspect of a play. Police uniforms, metal name tags, black suits, mullets, and graduation robes alike are just some everyday costumes worn by ordinary people to send out a message without the…