Long-running musical theatre productions

David Wright Emily Lane College Writing 1 4/17/15 Vaudeville (Where theatre all began) Many people love watching musicals, and plays but they were uncertain on where it all started. The answer to that is Vaudeville. Vaudeville is defined as a theatrical genre of variety entertainment. It was very popular in the United States and Canada from the early 1880’s until the early 1930’s. When you think of a typical vaudeville performance it is usually known as a series of separate unrelated acts…

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Richard Charles and Oscar Hammerstein Richard Charles Rodgers was a composer. Richard wrote over 900 songs and did 43 broadway plays. He was born june 28, 1902 near long island, New York. He died december 30, 1979. His father was successful physician and his mother was a amueture musician. Richard started music when he was six, he played the piano. By the age of fourteen he had written two popular songs. His first song that was published was “any old place with you” in 1919. Richard met…

A musical film is a genre of film that consists of songs as well as dialogue. This type of film became popular in the 1930’s and is around today. Musical films started being created when the technology of sound became advanced enough to put music in a film. Musicals that would normally be performed on a stage in a theater could then be made into a film. Musical films allowed the musicals to improve because of the variety of set and the ability to shoot a scene more than once if someone…

We went to the Broadway Theater to see Cinderella, a musical with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. As we all known, Cinderella is one of the Disney princess stories from our childhood; however, the musical version of Cinderella has slightly changed from the original story. When you walked into the theater, you just feel you will ever want to go out there. The theater decorated likes a royal castle, with gorgeous long stairs, crystal lights, and fancy couches. The…

An American Musical. Hamilton first made its off-Broadway debut in February 2015, with its first performance being sold out. Just 6 months later, the play was transferred to Broadway in August, where it debuted at the Richard Rodgers Theater. Hamilton was written and composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, winning him a Pulitzer Prize for the musical. In 2016, Hamilton received a record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, winning 11 of them, and also winning the Grammy award for Best Musical Theatre Album.…

show is about. Whether you like plays and musicals, I’m sure at one point in your life you will see one or hear a song from one. The 1940’s and the 1950’s were a golden age for Broadway. (Gordon, John Steele) The industry was booming. Television wasn’t popular yet, so everybody’s form of entertainment was either on the radio or musicals. Everyone would go to shows. New Yorkers didn’t…

Are there any new stories left to tell? Many believe that The Lion King, one of Disney's most successful movies to date to be solely based off of the centuries old play Hamlet. Disney writers do a careful job at concealing some parts with others screaming out Shakespeare. With similar roles, scenes, and plot it cannot be denied that The Lion King is a remake of Hamlet. The characters roles from The Lion King closely parallels Hamlets. For example, Simba the main character in The Lion King,…

ABBA. The title of the musical is one of the group’s songs, and it sung throughout the show. I chose it because I saw it pretty recently with one of my closest friends, and it opened up a world of new love and appreciation for Broadway and Musical Theatre to me, even though I loved it already. It’s hard to talk about the musical without mentioning the history of the hugely successful group, ABBA. “Mamma Mia” was inspired by the music of ABBA, and, the score of the musical consisted of only…

called the American version of the Romeo and Juliet. I will like to note the contribution of West Side Story to the history of musical theater. The creators did their research and although the creation time was long, they came up with a game changing idea in the music theater arena. At that time not many plays on Broadway attempted to introduce or present musical theater productions which explored, in depth, issues of racism, geographical, social, cultural and economic through modern dance and…