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Thousand Years Ago High Middle Ages
2,200 words... it hout straying too far from the traditional legend. The deeper interpretations of the characters and events in the story provide for a truth and authenticity not to be found in similar works, and the sense of humor gives White's novel an individual touch. T. H. White's The Once and Future King is one of the best retelling's of the Arthurian legend, and his additions to the tale create an invigorating and entertaining combination, ranking it among the most popular and best read of all. Nath...
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Taming Of The Shrew Broadway Musical
1,610 wordsChoose one of the various film versions of The Taming of the Shrew, the musical Kiss Me Kate or the recent film Ten Things I Hate About You, and critically evaluate the success or otherwise of this film as an appropriated text. The 1953 film of the musical Kiss Me Kate is successful in many aspects as an appropriation of the Shakespearian play The Taming of the Shrew. These include: the transmission of Kiss Me Kate from the live Broadway musical to the film version; and the clear portrayal of th...
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Catherine Zeta Jones Director Rob Marshall Chicago
546 wordsThe 1920 's in Chicago. The city is rife with illegal booze, jazz clubs, and corruption. Roxie (Renee Zellweger) is a chorus girl who dreams of being a star. One day she shoots her lover in a rage at his betrayal. In prison she meets Velma (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who was Chicago's most celebrated showgirl until she shot and killed two people. Velma has retained the city's most successful defense lawyer, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), who never fails to produce acquittals for women indicted for murd...
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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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York Henry Holt George Gershwin
2,553 wordsWho was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that? s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the dreams of every American citizen of the 1920 s. He achieved this by mixing different styles of music like Jewish, black, jazz, classical, blues and put them into one genre and created absolute music. George Gersh...
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Cause Of Death Broadway Musical
705 wordsJonathan Larson January 21. The time is around 6: 45 pm. ? Writer, composer Jonathan Larson was sitting in the very last few rows listening as cast he had chosen for his about to be Broadway musical, Rent went through one of the final dress rehearsals in The New York Theater Workshop. He and the Director of Rent Michael Grief began to sing one of the songs form the show when Larson began to feel a pain in his chest. The pain worsened. Larson (being the compulsive worrier and hypochondriac close ...
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