The Phantom of the Opera

examples of excellent rock musicals. You can’t have any type of film list without including romance, especially when it comes to musicals. Many musicals have romance at their core, including cross-overs from other sub-genres, such as Mamma Mia. Phantom of the Opera, though a darker sort of musical that borders on obsessive love, and Grease are prime examples - though Grease 2 was a flop. Musicals also sometimes take on social issues. West Side Story (1961), though an adaptation of Romeo and…

about Gillian Lynne, a British ballerina, dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director. She is noted for her popular theatre choreography associated with two of the longest-running shows in Broadway history, Cats and The Phantom of the Opera. In a conversation Sir Robinson had with Gillian Lynne, she stated that she wasn’t a very academically inclined student in a traditional public school. She was taken to a specialist who discovered that she learned by dancing. She needed…

The kind of music that we have been going over these past five weeks or so in this class is not new to me, but at the same time I am not totally comfortable with the different styles and how each are unique. When deciding what concert to go to o I could write this report I was unsure which one to pick. I was unsure of what each concert had to offer me with what pieces of music that would be played. After much debate and deliberation I came to the determination that the best concert for me to…

The Freaky Fridays Dance Concert by Clayton Productions was an awesome show. It was a well preformed show with good music, costumes, lighting, and dancers. The show was very freaky and spooky. The dancers in the show all wore torn, ragged costumes and dark make-up around their eyes and light foundation to make themselves look like zombies. I think this was very effective. The dancers looked spooky, creepy, and frightening. Everyone in the show stayed silent unless they were singing, growling,…

Emma loses her ennui when she is with Rodolphe and gains confidence in her identity. After they experience their first sexual encounter Emma giddily thinks, “’I have a lover! a lover!’ delighting at the idea as if a second puberty had come to her. So at last she was to know those joys of love, that fever of happiness of which she had despaired” (131)! Emma has always wanted a lover like those resembled in the books she reads. Now that she has a lover, she experiences a “fever of happiness,” like…

Literature is a language in itself. Understanding that language allows the reader to fully appreciate the work at hand. After all, the grammar of literature is "a set of conventions and patterns, codes and rules, that we learn to employ in dealing with a piece of writing" (Foster xii). Memories of past stories, seeing symbols in the writing, and pattern recognition play important roles when reading a book. Pattern recognition in literature can help the reader decipher texts that would otherwise…

Over the next 25 years he continued to add to his massive repertoire. The Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew’s Passion and Well-Tempered Clavier Part 2 are a few examples of some of his major works. In 1729, he obtained a position as the director of Leipzig’s music club. He wrote music for the orchestra and they performed once a week (Koster). He was immersed in music until the year before his death. His last great work, the B minor Mass was finished in 1749 (Koster). At the end of his career, Bach…

Best places to celebrate Halloween in the World: Halloween is the festival of celebrating the freewheeling spirit and becoming the part of some spooky rituals. With trick- or-treating and costume and theme parties are the main attractions of the Halloween, there are some places around the World to be to experience nerve-wracking fear of the Halloween at the very best. From Dracula's Castle in Romania to the streets of Oaxaca, here are the most haunted and creepiest tourist spots to visit on…

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love musicals and some of my favorites include: Wicked, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Footloose, and Phantom of the Opera, but this musical was barbaric. There was no excitement or emotion portrayed by any of the actors throughout the show; especially during the musical numbers. The one and ONLY CHARACTER who had enthusiasm, energy, and emotion was Tyler Smith…

In fact, the governess becomes so distraught when the girl refuses to acknowledge their deceased visitor that she “gives way to a wildness of grief” (James 72). Obviously, no balanced person dives into hysteria with the force of a distraught soap opera actress, so the governess's unrestrained display of despair further cements her derangement. Although the protagonist might appear on the surface level to be reacting normally to the presence of ghosts, her previous unnatural behavior suggests…