I stood in anticipation behind the contestant’s podium as Alex Tribek read aloud the Final Jeopardy category. This was my chance to win the game, win the money I needed to pay off my mortgage, and car payments. I needed to win. I needed to win for my kids, for my sanity, for the well-being of my family. All my nerves and worries went away as soon as Alex read the Final Jeopardy category: “Broadway Musicals”.
Broadway Musicals? That was my entire life during middle school and high school. I was in every school production, obsessed over shows, listened exclusively to soundtracks, and was a self proclaimed theater geek.
I was so confident that I decided to wager all my $14,000 on this clue. Why not? I’m already ahead of the two other contestants, so if I get this right, I’ll sweep
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Yes, sure you can have my money! Just please let my family go!”
“As long as you follow the plan, they will be released without a scratch.”
As they led us back to the studio to resume filming, I had a horrible realization. What kind of mother would I be if I gave up? What kind of mother would I be if I gave into the bullies? Would I be deemed a hypocrite if I did the opposite of what I tell my kids to do everyday? I had to figure something out. I had to win this. The game of Jeopardy and this challenge. Now, all I needed was a plan.
I quickly ran back to my podium and realized that my correct answer was still scribbled on the board. My first instinct was to scribble out my answer and sabotage the game. If I didn’t win, they couldn’t take the money, right? But then they would just take the other contestant’s money and I wouldn’t have anything to bring back to my family. Now I was back to square one.
Then it hit me. The entire world and studio audience would see my answer. No one could stop what I would say, because by the time it was read, it would be too late for them to stop it! That was my solution! I could expose Alex Tribek and his
People have dreams of what they want to do or accomplish in life, but usually musical theatre is just pushed into the non-realistic void. It isn’t a dream for me. In the past four years, musical theatre has been clarified as my reality. Musical theatre has been the only thing I have seen myself wanting to do. My first love was The Phantom of the Opera, seeing how I watched it almost every day and it was one of the first shows I saw. Of course, I started doing all of those cute shows in middle school and making a huge deal about it to my family and friends, but I have never felt so passionate about something. The minute I get up on that stage I throw away Riley for two and a half hours and it’s the most amazing feeling! Being able to tell a story
Stempel, Larry. Showtime: A History of the Broadway Musical Theater. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2010.
...ush. Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater Hanover: Brandeis University Press, published by University Press of New England, 2003.
Motion pictures from Hollywood had taken Broadway’s place as the king of entertainment. The main reason behind this was that because it was culturally relevant and coming out with new flashy techniques such as Todd-AO and Cinerama.
Summers gave everyone permission to look at their slip of paper. The atmosphere is tense as it seems that this slip of paper decides who wins the lottery. However, there is also an eerie feeling in the air, so it is possible that the paper decides the loser, not the winner.
On a Wednesday night I saw Texas State Theatre and Dance Department's performance of A Chorus Line. The main plot of the musical entails the audition of 17 dancers for several Broadway roles on the chorus line. However, during their auditions the director Zach asks for personal stories of each dancer's life. Though the plot of this musical is seemingly simple in its twist on the traditional audition, it explores themes that reveal the human experience, the search for individuality, and the sense of self.
This simultaneously relieves some of the suspense regarding the result of the lottery, while also adding even more tension, as the audience still does not know Tessie Hutchinson’s fate.
A lottery has always provided a sense of hope and adventure to people, but the lottery takes on an entirely different significance in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”. The story takes place in a village of roughly three hundred people. Everyone in the village gathers at the center to take part. One representative from each family comes up, to take a piece of paper from an old, black, wooden box. The Hutchinson family has the black dot; each Hutchinson family member then comes up to pick another piece of paper.
Nothing lasts forever. Everything, whether good or bad has to come to an end. But people do say that sounds and voices do not die. Melodies we hear in our life lives on for generations and ever after. No matter who we are or wherever we come from; in whichever situation we were in, at some point of our lives, we have come across certain melodies that still live in our heart. And I am no different from others. There are certain musical pieces that have not only influenced my life, but have made a significant impact to change me for the better.
The head of the household went up and they were very nervous until they opened the slips of paper. “After that, there was a long pause, a breathless pause, until Mr. Summers, holding his slip of paper in the air, said, ‘All right fellows.’ For a minute, no one moved, and then all of the slips of paper were opened.” (pg. 4) The farther they got into the lottery, the more people felt apprehension. Before, they were talking about other towns getting rid of the lottery, but now, since no one did anything about it, someone will flip their slip of paper and find the black dot on it. When they do get it, they will become deceased. After everyone found out who had the slip with the dot on it, that didn’t mean that their dismay would be
As in all genres, the musicals have had its share of failures. Some worthy dramas have been pressed into service and musicalized and sometimes butchered in the process, and audiences have had to watch a fine play diluted into a mediocre musical. But the successes have been many and spectacular and they have left a long lasting effect on the American art and culture.
Our seventh memorable moment comes from a rare moment in lengthy history of The Price Is Right. On the Monday, October 17 edition of the long-running game show, Cathryn Pursel, Manfred Zimmer and Jessica Lammott managed to spin $1.00 on the Big Wheel during the first Showcase Showdown and win $1,000 each in the process. This odd occurrence has happened at least twice before in 1991 and 2003. Check out the most recent three-way tie in the clip below. #6 (Readers’ Choice) - Craig Ferguson Wins Second Consecutive Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Game Show Host" -
I first met “T” when I was placed into the same group as him in ninth grade drama class. I believe the teacher was trying to allow for diverse groups, leading to diverse opinions. My school was majority white, farm children, and T was no exception. Our group contained 5 people, including myself and T, and we had to create a script about teenage pregnancy. I always attempt to give everyone I meet a fair first-impression, but T decided to use this first meeting to complain about the groups and the content of the class. The rest of us worked diligently and co-operatively while T continued to either be on him phone or out for a “smoke-break”. T was an obvious sharp contrast next to the rest of the group.
The 2000s/ 2010s brought in a wave of movie musicals- adapted from the stage shows. These brought new audiences into the theatre world, and for the first time in 20 years, brought a love to some of the timeless musicals. With slightly altered songs to appeal to a newer audience, these films brought in much needed money into the industry, with films including: Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Fame- and many more. Together with this, musicals began to push the concept of the songs in them, with a wave of new styles being written. Rap musicals such as ‘Hamilton’ and ‘In The Heights’, Pop musicals including ‘Waitress’ and ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and Rock musicals of ‘American Idiot’ and ‘Spring Awakening’. Together they pushed boundaries of a ‘traditional’ musical theatre sound, and brought in something never before seen. Due to the influence of ‘Rent’, controversial issues and themes began to be explored more, such as Teen suicide, Murder, Ethnic barriers and everything else, which brought with them, a world of opportunities. It was clear that musical theatre was once again showing for a promising
Ever since I was a small child, I have loved music. The strong, steady beats, the