Long-running musical theatre productions

Grease musical was written by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey based on students in Rydell high with fun-loving and different personalities. Mainly the play focuses on Sandy, Danny and Danny’s gang as they make their way through senior year of high school. As the show progressed, Sandy is introduced to the show as a new girl in the high school and over the summer Sandy and Danny start having an emotional involvement. While Sandy shares her new school friends about the story of emotional attachment…

A never-ending debate surrounds the necessity of public funding in support of fields in communication and the arts. In the United States, this argument lives in the desire to reduce funding to the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA). In fact, many current conservative leaders wish to eliminate it completely arguing that funding the arts is neither the government’s responsibility or fiscally prudent. Obviously, this is not an argument I believe in or support. For any artist and art-lover,…

-- revitalized “Sound of Music” production comes to Louisville Measuring up to the exacting standards set by Rodgers and Hammerstein’s iconic musical “Sound of Music” is no small feat. After its Tony-winning introduction in 1959 followed by the 1965 movie production starring Julie Andrews, “Sound of Music” quickly grew to be one of the most widely recognized shows of all time. However, decades later, esteemed director Jack O’Brien still managed to give the production a fresh perspective on the…

The Australian singer and songwriter - Sia and the American singer, songwriter, musician and actor - Patrick Stump, will contribute their talents in music to 'Charming' - an animated musical comedy concerning three princesses who discover they all have formally agreed to marry the same Prince Charming. Sia, who started her career as a singer in the local Adelaide acid jazz band Crisp, has written two tracks for the flick, one of which is the song "Balladino," that she will perform herself. The…

began performing in Vaudeville acts where they created the act Shuffle Along. Shuffle along was a huge success both colored and the white audiences made sure to follow the sensational show. The work of Blake and Sissle inspired a lot of the new black musicals and revues that were coming into Broadway. 9. George Gershwin is a very hardworking energetic and talented composer. In 1919 Gershwin got the chance to work for George White, White…

The character that I critically analyzed is Troy Bolton, from the High School Musical franchise. Troy is portrayed as the high school hunk, as he is the captain of the basketball team, a heartthrob that the girls admire and want to be with, and an idol to the other boys who strive to be as cool as him. Not only is Troy represented as a teenage jock, but he also has a passion for performing in musicals, which contrasts and contradicts many of the theories we have studied in this course. Troy’s…

The musical I went to was “Heathers; The Musical”, lyrics and music by Kevin Murphy and Laurence O’Keefe. Which is about a high school girl named Veronica Sawyer who was nobody until one day, three of the popular girls at her high school decided to she would fit perfect with them. Funny thing was that they were all named Heather. After being whisked away from her boring life and put into the Heather click, she meets a boy named JD who she falls in love with. Veronica, later in the year,…

Adam Richard Sandler, was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of five, Sandler and his family moved to New Hampshire where he and his siblings would grow up in a middle class neighborhood (McDonald, 2016). Sandler, who discovered his humorous talents at a young age, quickly became the class clown of his school. However, it was in middle school that Sandler began to develop his iconic sense of “wacky schoolboy humor” (McDonald, 2016). When Sandler was seventeen, he began…

Jacques Copeau was born in a well off middle class family in Paris, France. He had always had a love for poetry, theatre, and literature and became acquaintances with some of the theater people and playwrights of his time. He became known as an advocate for theater reform after he was impatient with commercial theater, and was a director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Copeau’s first stage play was Brouillard du Matin at the Nouveau Theater in France. Copeau’s Career Timeline In 1909, he became…

plant even himself all vanish. The plant can reproduce and create new personages in Cleveland, Peoria, Des Moines, and New York City. The outcome of the new plants will have identical results. The musical-comedy was very entertaining. I could see a moral taught in the adaptation for Boise Little Theatre. While Seymour…