Identify and Describe Career The career that I chose was Performing Arts, more specifically, Musical Theatre. I would perform as a singer, dancer as well as an actress, gaining the title of a performer. My career in a small view is performing different plays and musicals for people and making everyone happy. I chose this career, because I love performing and I’ve always done some form of it through elementary school until now. I had always enjoyed singing and playing music, but when I performed in front of the student body in Play Production II, everything changed. I had learned that I loved acting and singing the same amount. I decided, if I could do one thing, I would perform in some sort of musical. It is important to understand …show more content…
This job would be anywhere it took me, I could be in Oklahoma for a week and California the next, it would be hectic but worth it. I could stay home and perform at the Lyric Theatre or I could travel to different theaters and perform with a traveling cast, which would be fun and exciting. Normal days consist of waking up early and getting to the theatre by 11:00 or 11:30 in the morning and leaving at 11 in the evening, on special occasions you could leave at 12:00 in the morning (Ellis, “24 Hours With A Broadway Actress”). The workday for a performer normally starts when they wake up, but the day really starts once you’re at the theatre. Once there you would begin vocal warm-ups. Ali Ewoldt, Maria in West Side Story, she prefers to warm up in the bathroom due to the acoustics, “it’s like singing in the shower!” sShe says. Around 12:30, there is a half-hour call, …show more content…
In 2020 and forward, it is the same as now, 12% (Zuckerman, “Career & Salary Overview”). There is a difference between the New York Broadway pay and the Oklahoma Lyric Theatre pay. New York pays $26,000-$36,000 per year (Zuckerman, “Career & Salary Overview”), while working for the Lyric Theater would be $48,000 per year (“Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma Actor Salaries”). Fort Worth, Texas is about the same as Oklahoma’s pay, $53,246 (“Actor/Performer - Fort Worth, TX”), it isn’t much more than Oklahoma’s pay but it’s not as high as NY’s Broadway
The first strictly female-based shows were released in the 1950’s. These musicals attracted more female-based audience members and ticket sales rose exponentially. Musicals such as The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady showed how women were an important part of life, whereas musicals such as Spring Awakening, Aida, and Wicked showed extreme women empowerment. Gender inflicts and shapes every aspect of the musical. ”Gender is a constitutive element of Broadway musical theatre, fundamental to the musical’s architecture, and as vital a building block as music, lyrics, orchestration, spoken text, choreography, and dance, lights, sets, costumes, and props. It shows from the very beginning the role to be played” (Wolf, p.6)
Broadway Bound not a “regular” show with a storyline, but a sampling of some of the most loved shows that have hit the stage, including West Side Story, Les Miserables, Matilda, Kiss Me Kate, Bye Bye Birdie, and many more. You as an audience member will enjoy both thrilling group numbers and breathtaking solos, one right after another. In addition, performers share information about each show in between numbers, so thus attendees will not only be entertained but educated as well.
Theatre is composed of two major show types, straight plays and musicals. Both shows have their pros and cons, typically resulting in the audience liking one over the other. These two show categories make a theatrical season, usually consisting in a fall play and a spring musical, allowing drama students to have an option of what show they would like to audition for. However, actors enjoy performing in both straight plays and musical for different and complex reasons.
Music has always been an important part of my life. Upon entering the fifth grade, my parents bought me a flute, at my insistence. After moderate success playing the flute, I saw greener grass on the other side of the musical fence. Singing just had to be easier than making music with a long metal pipe. My perception and reality did not exactly match. Singing has its own subtleties and complexities which are not readily apparent to the casual observer. Abandoning the flute for singing, I began taking voice lessons in the tenth grade. My voice teacher was very experienced and encouraged me to pursue my interest in music beyond high school. After much deliberation, I decided to major in voice during college. This path would be fraught with unforeseen difficulties and exciting challenges.
When moving to New York City and trying to find a job, it can be very difficult and quite nerve racking but it is getting increasingly easier because so many jobs are being created. There are so many different aspects of a production that take so many people doing different jobs. From writing the show to producing to opening night, many shows are worked on by close to one thousand people on average before the official opening night. To see the production of “Wicked” at The Gershwin Theatre, it takes 211 people to run each performance; there are eight performances a week! (Contray, “How Many People
in rehearsal for a show, it is now even more critical to spend numerous hours on their
It ranged the silly scripted movies of his teen years that he’d act out with his best friends to jingles for politicians that helped his father, Luis, as a political advisor to Ed Koch. It was at nineteen when Miranda hit his first big break. Attending Wesleyan College in Connecticut, sophomore Miranda took it upon himself to write a musical about what he knew and loved, his home. It was there that first draft of Miranda’s first musical, In The Heights, was born. It would be almost another decade, in 2008, before Miranda’s show would hit Broadway and amaze audiences with a type of musical experience that was so rarely seen. Like his later musical, Hamilton, Miranda employed genres of music not familiar to the Broadway stage, including salsa and rap, to tell the story of a group people in his home town. Another major accomplishment of In The Heights is that it allowed a more diverse casting. Like Miranda’s home neighborhood of Inwood, most of the cast of characters were played by Latino and Latina actors, as well as other actors of color. This was purposely done as Miranda, a Puerto-Rican American, felt that people like him needed to be seen more on stage. It wasn’t just for the sake of diversity, but reality as
The producer is the person who oversees all parts of a theatre production. They are in charge of the financial and managerial functions of a production, raising or providing financial backing, and the hiring of personnel for creative positions.
As a stagehand you would: load and unload equipment; help carpenters to build and put up scenery; attend rehearsals; move scenery, furniture and heavy equipment during performances; open and close curtains between acts; operate manual and automated scenery-moving machinery; clear the stage and backstage area at the end of the performance.
unemployment; competition for roles is often intense. While formal training is helpful, experience and talent are more important for success in this field. Because of erratic employment, earnings for actresses are relatively low.
There's always people telling me “Why I would pick film as a career? You're going to struggle for most of your life and your probably never going to make it big.” The simple answer is “well I love movies”, but even though that's true and it's a big reason, it's not the only reason. The truth is I was never good at math and that's a problem when you want to be an engineer growing up. Being an engineer was just a title for me and I never understood what it was and when I took a course in school I didn't like it or do well. As my senior year came closer not knowing what to study became a problem. Eventually I found myself watching movies and tv shows every night before bed and one night watching a classic called Cinema Paradiso a character by the name of ******* said something that I will never forget “Whatever you end up doing, love it.”. So I asked
It begins a few days after the announcement of the big production. Emails are sent around the school to every student old enough to take part in the project, seeking out girls who our enthusiastic about signing up for the auditions. The audition preparation would all depend on whether it was a purely theatrical performance, or a musical number. If it is a musical, the audition would not only include speaking a section from one of the selected speeches of dialogue, but also a test of vocal solidity and talent, maybe even a dance if you’re one of the unlucky few who have not got such co-ordinated feet.
Music, notably known as the sound of heaven; the one aspect of life that can speak multiple languages by combing different tones and beats to create one unique sound wave. Constantly evolving over the years, this complexed form of melodic syndrome has opened doors for thousands of people across the globe. From musical prodigies to extremely dedicated dream chasers, the music industry has become one of the most famous career choices today. Additionally, some of these career paths include education, song writing, performance, audio technology, music therapy, and business. Informatively, the most difficult path to obtain in the music industry is performance, specifically a vocal artist.
I’ve always loved acting. Since I was six years old I knew I wanted to be an actress, I watched Anastasia, an animated musical, and I fell in love. Ever since then I wanted to act, I kept reenacting movie I loved. My aunt is a set designer for Fox Colombia, which was then RTI, and I would get to read all the scrips, be on a set while they were shooting, be around the production, and I was the happiest kid. After a lot of begging I had my first audition at 8 years old, but my “acting career” didn’t last long because shortly after that we moved to the United States.
Yet more time I spent at school, working on homework and just seeing the reality in the society it made me drop those job dreams. It was too much studying in order to be a lawyer and prosecutor, too much studying and responsibility to be a doctor, not enough talent to be a singer or actress, and its too complicated to be a president in the future. So I really could not stick with one vocation that I wanted to become yet still looking for one hoping to have something one day. Just like any other kids I loved watching television shows and movies, loved playing instruments. As I got older I stopped playing instruments because it wasn’t challenging me anymore, but I got into listening music and watching movies. Up until 9th grade in school I didn’t focus on academic grade but I had to when I moved the school in United