Burlesque

opera, so they are able to enjoy a shorter version and relieve stress. Musicals gain some of its roots from the French and Viennese Operettas of the 1800s (Musicals). Mid 1800s, Crude American variety and Minstrel shows produced into Vaudeville and Burlesque (Musicals). Additionally, The Black Crook (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…

A Window for Opportunity: The Renaissance and Apollo The Harlem Renaissance was a time for blacks to show their skills and improve their personal situation and as well as the racial setting in America. The Harlem Renaissance was a gateway for any type of talent such as writing, acting, singing, playing an instrument, playing sports, or painting. Big names in the literature corresponded with W. E. B. Dubois, George S. Schuyler, and Langston Hughes. They would write stories, essays, and novels on…

in their recent anthology where they propose the rise of a new tendency in contemporary avant-garde poetry by women. They define the Gurlesque as “an emerging field of female artists now in their 20s, 30s and early 40s who, taking a page form the burlesque, perform their femininity in a campy or overtly mocking way. Their work assaults the norms of acceptable female behavior by irreverently deploying gender stereotypes to subversive ends” (Glenum and Greenberg 11). Based on this definition, I…

The Phantom of the Opera has been a smash hit in the world of musical theatre ever since opening on October 9th, 1986 in New York City. Since then, there have been a countless number of different productions and tours that have graced audiences across the world. Currently, there is a new production of The Phantom of the Opera on tour across North America, involving one of the largest casts of any touring company. This marvelously humongous musical has been brought to life by a number of persons…

“Poverty, hatred [and] war… all symptoms of The Human Virus,” according to William S. Burroughs. The use of satire in “The Lowest Animal” by Mark Twain and in “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathon Swift, criticizes mankind’s flaws, which beg for change in society. Twain and Swift work very hard to persuade their audience, using not only satire, but a diversity of rhetorical appeals in order to make their views more believable. In “A Modest Proposal,” Swift suggests that in order to end hunger and…

heroin, Jane Canary (Doris Day) undergoes a makeover, by imitating Katie Brown (Allyn McLerie), to become a feminine female; thus engaging into a heterosexual romance with Bill Hickock (Howard Keel) (cf. Mizejewski 185). Katie Brown an aspiring, burlesque singer and dancer, whom Jane mistakes as the famous hyper feminine Adelaid Adams (Gale Robbins), helps Jane to transition from a masculine cowboy into a real and proper woman, by confronting Jane with her own inadequate gender performance. Bill…

doctorate in human sexuality from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco in 1992 (Annie Sprinkle, 2016). The Post Porn Modernist Show is the story of Annie Sprinkle's sexual evolution told, and explored, through a series of burlesque-like autobiographical multi-media vignettes. During the course of its performance run, between 1989 and 1996, Annie Sprinkle allowed the Post Porn Modernist Show to evolve to represent her personal, aesthetic and political evolution.…

Courtly love is a medieval conception that emphasized chivalry and nobility, where it can be most commonly found in European literature. Most writers such as Geoffrey Chaucer address courtly love through stories about knights that perform diversified tasks and set out on adventures for their lady. Chaucer’s poetic satire, A Complaint to His Lady, is one of Geoffrey Chaucer’s earliest poems about the paradoxical concept that is love. One is able to see how Chaucer connects his idea of love…

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, who today performs under the stage name “Lady Gaga”, was born on March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City as the eldest child to Cynthia Louise and Joseph Germanotta. She was born of Italian heritage on her father’s side with some French ancestry from her mother. Musically gifted as a child, Stefani was able to teach herself how to play the piano by the age of four and was then trained in order to complete her knowledge of the piano, which led her to create…

within a signal form. This combination of two vastly different types of content, the lyrical beginning, and the punchy concluding rhyming couplet, demonstrates Byron’s use of different conventions and his combination of genres to his own egotistical, burlesque…