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Dancers On Stage Making Of A Chorus Line Musical
1,198 wordsOn May 21, 1975, a spectacular new Broadway musical opened. The musical was unique because it told the stories of the dancers in the show rather than letting the audience just watch the dancers perform. A Chorus Line, a musical by Michael Bennett, was very popular when it made its day view and continues to be shown today to marvel its audience. Michael Bennetts inspiration for the idea to put together A Chorus Line came mostly out of frustration of the society he lived in the 1970 s. In Bennetts...
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2,719 wordsAmerican composer Cole Porter (1891 - 1964) American composer &# 038; lyricist Biography Coles family Cole Porters name derives from the surnames of his parents, Kate Cole and Sam Porter. Kates father, James Omar (known as J. O. ), was an influential man both in the community and in Coles early life. J. O. started from humble beginnings as son of a shoemaker, but his business savvy and strong work ethic made him the richest man in Indiana. Despite J. O. s obsessive drive for making money, he too...
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Buster Keaton Warner Bros
4,657 wordsIn 1927 Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, a silent drama with sound sequences in which Al Jolson sang and spoke. The film was a hit, and within two years American cinema shifted irreversibly to talking films. At first everyone was planted around the microphone, but even as the technology improved, sound still slowed down the onscreen tempo because of the greater detail and realism which it brought to action. This change helped the dramatic players of silents, most of whom had equal or great...
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5,023 wordsIntroduction to Death of a Salesmanfdsaffswq On February 10, 1949, at the Morocco Theatre in New York, Death of a Salesman opened. It was immediately acclaimed as a perfect blend of script, setting, staging, and acting. The New Yorker called the play a mixture of compassion, imagination, and hard technical competence not often found in our theater. Death of a Salesman swept the award field in 1949, winning the Drama Critics Circle award, the Tony, Theatre Club, and Front Page awards, as well as ...
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Strip Clubs Robert Louis
919 wordsJimmy Lips 10 / 14 Dance for Musical Theatre Research Paper: Inst. 2 Robert Louis Fosse 1927 - 1987 Robert Louis Fosse was born on June 23, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois. He was the son of a vaudevillian and appropriately enough was born into the theatre. As a child, the art of dance wasnt only used as a past time by young Fosse, but rather as a way of gaining attention from friends and family. From an early age he had already started studying ballet, tap and acrobatic dance. As Fosse grew up, his t...
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West Side Story Makes You Feel
3,811 wordsThe Search For New Direction In The The Search For New Direction In The Musical. From The American Dream To The Rock Opera. The Search for New Direction in the musical. From the American Dream to the Rock-Opera. 1950 to 1978 were despondent ones for the musical. American musical theatre had been showing signs of exhaustion. This most seemingly anti-intellectual of genres carries its own ideological project. Before this, the musicals not only exhibited singing and dancing; they were about singing...
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Bring In Da Artistic Director Rent
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1,805 wordsTheres a scene in the new musical " RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the 90 s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie whos a dancer at an S/M club, are having a lovers quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. Its the signal for an " AZT break, " and suddenly they realize that theyre both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you dont think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational musical i...
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3,425 wordsAs soon as movies learned to talk, they began to sing. In 1926, Warner Brothers released the short film April Showers, with Al Jolson singing a trio of songs. Jolson then starred in two silent features that included sound sequences in which he sang and spoke: The Jazz Singer (1927) and The Singing Fool (1928). By 1929, the first &# 34; all-talking, all-singing, all-dancing&# 34; musical was released: Broadway Melody, with a score by Arthur Freed and Nation Herb Brown. Produced by MGM, the studio...
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Dodd Mead Company 1984
1,708 wordsIntroduction The main reason why I chose to do my report on the history of theatre in NY is because I find theatre very interesting (As you know I do some of it myself). I also grew up in a house full of theatre teachers. I think this topic is very important to people who want to learn about theatre because many people believe that theatre in New York started on Broadway, but that is not true at all. In this report I would like to show you how theatre developed in New York. Chapter 1 18 th Centu...
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