Proscenium

Before I delve into details about the musical, I’ll begin with what I observed before the play started. The musical was performed on a proscenium stage. A proscenium stage is the arrangement of the audience facing one direction, as in a movie theatre, and the action is seen onstage through a frame of some kind according to the textbook. Thankfully I sat in the middle section of the audience on an aisle…

intimate space, I recognized that this concert was unlike any I had performed in previously because the space was not in a normal proscenium set up, and I believe I let that idea influence my experience. For example, I was able to interpret my piece in a unique way because I thought about…

university production of Our Town, a metatheatrical three-act drama from 1938 written by Thornton Wilder and directed by Philip Hays Wortham. The production was performed at the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts in the proscenium stage using the university theater students as the actors. Our Town consisted of three acts; the first was a simple introductory scene with the stage manager informing the audience on the history and the daily life of residents in the…

see in day to day life such as gang violence, drinking and teen pregnancy. The music was unbelievable and it got the complete attention from the audience and kept the audience very entertaining throughout the show. The type of the stage was the proscenium type and the stage type and the seating helped the audience to enjoy the show without any distraction. The show had physical comedic elements and verbal. They had done amazing task when they choose the actors and they did remarkable job to…

castle tower. Shrek the musical used a combination of scenic, lighting and costume design to enhance the performance for the audience. The scenic design of the performance was done by Tim Hatley. The scenes were done on what appeared to be a Proscenium stage, which as effective because it allowed a wide area of props and objects. It also create a film like quality to it. The scenes like the swamp were convincing and the layout of Farquad castle was captivating. The scene with Donkey and…

There were tree plays that took place that night. The one that caught my attention was Life Line. There will be an analysis of the characters and how the stage was set up and how that helped delivered the message of the play. There were two main characters, Judith and Carlos. There were other characters that the audience were not able to see them, only heard their voices, two males and a young girl voice. Some of the themes were relationships, death, sickness, and loneliness. These themes were…

helpful for me to follow along the performances as well as expecting what would come next. My seat was on the left of the stage, and two rows away from the last row. At first, I thought I would not have good views of the stage. However, the stage was proscenium arch stage, I could see everything that happened on stage regardless my seating position. Also, the Main Theatre gave me the feeling of being so close to the stage to the point I could literally hear every performers’ footsteps as they…

One of which is the Ames Performing Arts Center. The center has two theatres, a 1000 seat Proscenium Stage, and 150 seat Black Box. The 2,000 square-foot art gallery currently holds eight gallery exhibits every calendar year. Presentations range from classical music, to comedy, from jazz to Christian rock, from country to rock and roll. Another…

It’s a Small World: Post-Modernism When dancers hear the name Trisha Brown, they immediately think of adventure. Brown is known for her work breaking barriers and expectations on the traditional idea of performance. Even from a young age, Brown did not like to play anything the safe way, “Trisha Brown had a normal outdoors childhood… including tree climbing, and football playing”(). As she grew, her sense of adventure mirrored. Brown began taking dance classes as a child and she wished to…

Philadelphia Story was a play put on by the theater department at the University of North Texas, performed in a proscenium. This worked well because of the big stage you could have a big set, which in this play, was amazing. The play starts with the main character Tracy writing thankyou notes for the gifts she has received for her upcoming wedding, which happens to be the following day. After being introduced to all the characters you learn that this isn’t Tracy’s first wedding, but she use to…