Redeye’s 24 Hour production of Shrek: The Musical can be defined as a performance. Although normally deemed as a musical event or sports game, essentially, a performance is an event that can captivate an audience which consists of an action, interaction or relationship. The performances can be planned and practiced or be spontaneously done at one’s aggression. Performances normally involve multiple participants as well as spectators and change the identity of the performer. Redeye’s 24 Hour production of Shrek: The Musical can be properly called a performance because the ensemble, both actors, directors, managers, and stage crew, diligently worked for twenty-four hours timelessly rehearing, building sets, dancing, and collaborated to produce a finished product that would tell a story to the audience and virtually transports them into the world of Duloc and into the swamps where Shrek resides. Within the performance of …show more content…
Blending is basically when a person combines both different personas and roles. Essentially, blending can occur between a person’s normal state and a character, both imaginary or situational. This helped contribute to my reception of the blended Sarah/Fiona persona that was exhibited on stage. By blending normal Sarah with the character Fiona, it helped me to understand the character and how she fit into the context of the play as well as understand her intentions in the various scenes. Sarah also exhibited subjunctive action which contributed to blending. In subjunctive action, one pretends to be something they’re not by role playing and performing for an audience as the new persona. Sarah executed this as she embodied Fiona, a feisty princess who conceals her ogre identity and falls madly in love with Shrek, an ogre, only to realize that he accepts her unconditionally and does not want to change
The Reversal of Traditions in Shrek In traditional fairy tales ogres are man-eating beast. The prince usually rescues the princess; they marry and live happily ever after. How do the makers of 'shrek' use presentational devices to reverse this tradition to reveal the ogre as good and the prince as evil?
The Wiz is a musical/movie released in 1978 that was an adaptation of the popular film “Wizard of Oz”. It included several very popular stars of the time, which were Diana Ross, Michael Jackson and Nipsey Russell. The movie set place in New York City where the main character, Dorothy, suddenly is swept by a tornado in the middle of a snowstorm. She later then found herself lost in a city she had no clue about and curious as to how she could return home. After meeting 3 other characters during her journey that share similarities, they all embarked on a trip to OZ to fix each of their problems. Throughout the movie characters apply their own soundtrack through singing songs in harmony that compliment the mood of each scene.
The actors struggled with playing adjacent to actors in animal costumes. The head of the animal costumes was placed on top of the actor’s head, seemingly connected to a bike helmet. Thus, the actor’s faces were showing, distracting the actors playing adjacent to them who would make direct eye contact with the actor instead of the costume’s eyes. Though a small detail, this somewhat took away from the scenes. A costume that really stuck out as aiding in the development of the world was the witch’s costume when she regains her beauty. Her dress was an emerald green with black lace covering most of it. The green resembled the brightened mood in the ending of the first act while the black overlay of lace eluded to the dark future that was coming in the second
Popular music’s affect on a film’s narrative is demonstrated in the film Casablanca released in 1942. The film uses a song called “As Time Goes By” to create a transportation affect for the characters and audience. The song was written by Herman Hupfeld in 1931 and gained modest popularity through its inclusion in the Broadway musical Everybody’s Welcome. In Casablanca, there is a scene inside a restaurant where a woman, Ilsa, runs into an old friend of hers named Sam who is a pianist at the restaurant. She asks him about a mutual friend of theirs, Rick, and then asks Sam to play the song “As Time Goes By.” By the expression on Ilsa’s face and the tears in her eyes it is clear that the song makes her see something, however, the audience does not know what she is seeing. In his chapter on “Transport and Transportation in Audiovisual Memory,” Berthold Hoeckner describes how the audience knows “the song is a carrier, but we don’t know the cargo.” But as the audience listens to the lyrics of the song, they begin to understand the scene as they realize that the lyrics are about an old romance. While Sam is singing Rick enters the room and both Rick and Ilsa meet eyes and both freeze. At this point the audience assumes that the song was about Rick and Isla’s history.
During a musical performance many elements to be looked are not easily recognized by the average critic. A musical performance has multiple interactions taking place between the music, text, performers, audience, and space that all can contribute to a great performance. Overwhelming majority of the audience does not realize so much can be looked at during a single performance. At a performance by the University of Maryland Marching Band I was able to analyze the Musical Sound, Contexts of the Performance, and Interpretation of the Performance.
The costumes in Shrek The Musical were the cherry on top of an already well produced play. Shrek and Fiona looked like actual ogres and looked very realistic with the green face and body paint. From head to toe, Shrek looked like a real life ogre. His clothing topped of him ogre like look and made him look very far from human. Similarly, when Fiona turned into an ogre she envisioned an ogre from head to toe. Donkey’s costume was also very realistic. He looked very similar to Donkey in the movie and his ears brought the whole costume to life. Lord Farquaad’s costume was the most interesting in my personal opinion. His costume was made very creatively to make him look oddly short. He was left walking on his knees throughout the show and there was a black piece of fabric with short legs on the front to hide his actual legs. His makeup, especially his eyebrows made him look more sassy which fit his character very well. The flashy gems and fabric of his costume made him look like royalty which was very well fitting since he is a king in the play. Another costume that stood out to me was Pinnochio’s. His nose that lengthened when he lied was very creatively made and also very realistic. The body paint on his face and arms made him look like a real life doll and his shoes were a good touch in my opinion to the costume.
For this quarters culture project I went to go see the Fremd production of The Sound of Music. The play takes place in Austria during the time of Nazi rule. The play starts with a woman who is trying to become a nun but, all of the other nuns don't think she is capable of being one. So they send her off to be a governess to the kids of a high ranking Austrian military captain. Upon her arrival she quickly notices how strict the captain is as well as how disciplined his kids act. After the captain leaves, the governess has a chance to get to know the kids a bit better and come to realize the kids don't know what singing so her first order of business is to teach them how to sing. After this, she starts to teach and do things that would be frowned upon by the captain. Later in the play the captain returns home to find his kids singing and not wearing their uniforms. At first this upsets him very much but, he is convinced by the governess that he was being too strict and that he should interact with his kids more often. This is the point in the play that they hit to the audience that the captain and the governess start to have feelings for each other. This is also the point in the play that the captain starts drifting away from the "stay and fight mentality" rather than the "run and protect my family" mentality. Just as he was considering fleeing Austria with his family. He get commissioned by the Nazis against his will. The day before he was supposed to start working there is a culture festival which his family was going to be a part of.
Performing- The performing stage is where everyone is clearly aware on what they’re doing and the purpose of what they’re doing. Everyone is able to share their ideas with others. Confidence is showed among the team members as their able to communicate to other team members without help or assistance from the leader. They can take charge of their own ideas. The team focus on achieving their goals .Although the team can disagreement with...
performance to a major degree reflects the spirit of the times, and some of today's 'authentic' performances have less to do with historical accuracy, attempting rather to produce a performance which, in John Eliot Gardiner's words, will 'excite modern listeners.' (Sartorius)
Shrek and Donkey are on their way to rescue Princess Fiona. Donkey is confused as to why Shrek doesn’t just use his ogre strength to reclaim his swamp. Why go to the trouble of rescuing a Princess at all? Shrek tells Donkey that there’s much more to ogres than people think. Donkey is puzzled and asks for an example. After some thought Shrek hols out the onion in his hand and tells Donkey that Ogres are like onions. Donkey sniffs the onion and asks if they stink and make you cry? “No.” says Shrek. Donkey thinks again and wants to know if it is because like onions when left in the sun, Ogres get smelly, brown and furry. Exasperated Shrek tells Donkey that it is all about layers- onions have layers and Ogres have layers, they both have layers! Feeling that Donkey just didn’t understand, Shrek sighs and walks off. Why is a vignette from the movie Shrek similar to early childhood teaching? Analyzing our practices and programs as part of our critical reflection is similar. We as Early Childhood Educators become aware as time goes on that we are like onions and have to peel back our layers in order to grow. We can ask ourselves the questions within our
Theatre is a form of fine art, in which live performers or actors present either a real or even a fairytale-like story upon spectators. Theatre is known for having subcategories, one of the most common one being musical theatre. Musical theatre characterizes on combining music, spoken dialogue between characters, and acting and dancing numbers as well. Aside from this, the story of a musical usually involves comedy, sadness, love, and anger, which all could be seen through movement and technical aspects as a whole. All of the mentioned characteristics can be seen in David Lindsay-Abaire’s adaption of Shrek the Musical.
... a way for audiences and performers to connect on a closer level. They are both experiencing the surreal, disassociating themselves from the performance taking place. They both become more introspective. The performance becomes a vehicle for self-understanding, metacognition.
“Once upon a time in a far-off kingdom there lay a small village at the edge of the woods and in this village lived a young maiden, a care-free young lad, and a childless baker with his wife”, Introducing the 2014 adaptation of Into the Woods. Though the original musical words the introduction slightly different the concepts are the same. The childless baker and his wife go on a journey to find items they can give to the witch to end the curse she has put on them to keep them from having children. On this journey they encounter many different characters who have stories of their own, but in the end these characters contribute to the baker and his wife’s goal. The film and the musical are both very similar.
Drama according to the Wikipedia free encyclopedia is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance, which comes from a Greek word (drao) meaning action. A dramatic production depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes, it put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena. According to Learning Stream, “drama is a literary composition involving conflict, action crisis and atmosphere designed to be acted by characters on a stage before an audience.”