Tony Award for Best Musical

in order to sleep (http://www.biography.com/people/judy-garland-9306838). In 1939, she got one of her greatest successes in The Wizard of Oz. It showed off her singing and acting abilities. She was awarded with an Academy Award for playing Dorothy. She later made many more musicals such as Strike Up the Band, Babes of Broadway, and For Me and My…

without a doubt, Wicked. Like Maguire's many other novels, Wicked is told in a revisionist manner. It is a creative retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Maguire's novel was liked by so many, that it became the basis to the Tony Award winning musical of the same name.…

critique society have included one common thread; A hero. Whether you are reading biblical records of Moses, watching Shakespearian sonnets unfold, or bunkering down to binge read the latest best seller, you are taking the first step of a hero’s journey. Elphaba Thropp, the lead of the Tony Award-Winning musical Wicked, by Stephen Schwartz and Gregory Maguire, goes through an unconventional, but still overall relatable, version of the hero’s journey, in which she is changed for good and maybe…

1) The first goal I would like to accomplish is simply to become more comfortable acting on stage. I’ve performed musically many times and have mostly gotten over my stage fright for that, but delivering lines in a non-musical context has always daunted me more. My second goal is essentially to get “better” at acting. I know this is a somewhat subjective goal, but what I mean is that I would like to become more convincing when playing a character. This also ties in with my first goal, because if…

Anthony Perkins. Anthony Perkins was most noted for his part in the 1956 film Friendly Persuasion. It was in the middle of 1980s when he learned that he was HIV positive. He tried his best to keep his privacy about the virus until his death in September 1992 due to AIDS related pneumonia. 18. Magic Johnson. One of the best basketball players of all time, Magic Johnson announced he was HIV positive in 1991. He changed the world’s perspective about the disease and since he was still at the height…

Mongkut’s Modern Mission “Getting to know you…” Many people might know this famous song from Rodger and Hammerstein’s Tony award winning Broadway musical The King and I. This musical follows Anna Leonowens, a Western school teacher, to Bangkok, Siam, modern day Thailand. She becomes the governess to King Rama IV of Bangkok’s, more commonly known as King Mongkut,children. She was hired to teach his multitude of children in the Western way and also advised the king on trades and other affairs with…

In the movie, The Internship, two men, Billy McMahon and Nick Campell, lose their job due to the workplace becoming a technology driven field and they are left to find a new way of making ends meet, they decide to take an internship at, Google, to help kick start their new lives. While at Google the two men are paired with a group on young adults who are fighting for a position at Google as well, through working with this group the two men come to realize just how much has changed since their…

For example, Rock Music. The oldest form of rock was a mixture of musical genres such as R&B, country, and rockabilly. Instead of having the same rhythm and style, it had a faster tempo (which is the pace at which a passage of music is and should be played), it was louder, and, according to most people who lived and did…

For her“writing is 99.44100% generalous and race less”. FurthermoreWriting for Naylor is a way of defining identity as Naylor relateswith her 1985 “Conversation” with Tony Morrison, in her creativewriting class she learned that in order to write good literature,one had to read good literature .She is the first black Afro-American writer to read her predecessors .The list included Tillie…

honesty, though. Right? Anyways, I was ecstatic to be in your class. I can tell you know that Honors English II second period has certainly lived up to my expectations. I remember the assignment you gave us at the beginning of the year about a certain Tony…