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Men And Women Slave Masters
1,885 wordsLangston Hughes says, "Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. Of course, you laugh by proxy. You " re really laughing at the other guy lacks, not your own. That's what makes it funny-The fact that you don't know you are laughing at yourself. Humor is when the joke is on you but hits the other fellow first-Because it boomerangs. Humor is what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your unconscious therapy" Laughter for c...
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Musical Comedies Radio Stations
1,155 words... he reconstruction period constitutional amendments were passed to assure civil rights and voting rights for former slaves and some blacks were elected members of the House and Senate; Whites wanted to be assured that blacks were still inferior and blackface troupes were not showing this by continuing to hire blacks. Therefore, audiences depleted, and many troupes that had incorporated blacks started to perform on circuits like the "Chicken circuit, " which hit most black owned theaters. Blac...
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The Rebirth Of American Musical Theatre
1,611 words... oma! had proved, on opening night, a stunning stage experience such as one does not often encounter in a lifetime of play going. From the moment the curtain rose and the first lines of the first song were sung, down to the final scene with the presentation of the title number, the audience sat spellbound as a new kind of stage art unfolded with incomparable beauty and majesty. (181) Along with dance and villains, Rodgers and Hammerstein also took on a new approach to forming the music that t...
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Musical Comedies Science Fiction
609 wordsOne of the longest-running and most successful off-Broadway shows of all time, Little Shop of Horrors, is what could be called an affectionate spoof of the 1960 Roger Corman movie, Little Shop of Horrors. Little Shop of Horrors has become a household name thanks to a highly successful film version and a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. The 1982 play Little Shop of Horrors is one of the most unlikely, but successful, musical comedies of all time. The plot of the Lit...
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Men And Women Musical Comedies
2,284 wordsProfessor Jim Gray of Sonoma State University defines culture as a means of survival. Going by this definition of culture the evolution of black humor has definitely been a foundation in the survival of the comedy in America. This paper will be a discussion of how African American Humor has evolved and for centuries has changed and continues to change the way we look at comedy. Before beginning this paper, I must stress the importance of humor for all races. Truly, the environment in which most ...
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