Musical theatre is an art form of theatrical performance that has graced the stages of Broadway for close to two centuries, combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance to create a versatile performance art that has stunned people all over the world. Humor, pathos, love, anger is all communicated through movement and music as an integrated whole to create visual and aural masterpiece. “Broadway is Taking Leaps Towards a Sustainable Future.” (Hagiwara, 2011) implies that Broadway Musical theatre
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
Broadway was one of the first forms of entertainment. Before there were television programs, or movies, there was Broadway. Broadway originated in New York in 1750, when actor-manager Walter Murray built a theatre company at the Theatre on Nassau Street. A musical would show about once every weekend. The shows were very male based, and would commonly show a relationship between young boys and their fathers. Women were slowly integrated into Broadway, and as society changed its point of view on women
Every theatre nerd knows how important the first Broadway musical you see is. For many of us – especially the younger ones – it is the only one we have seen. No matter which one you watch, it’s incredible: the theater, the stage, even without the performers, the feeling of watching a musical on Broadway is exhilarating (prep). My threshold musical is Kinky Boots – and let me say, it was a great one to be my first. The best part is that it was completely unplanned. Over the summer, my family
“Wicked” is my favorite Broadway musical. I have been fortunate to see “Wicked” three times, in three different cities, most recently New York City. Each time I see it, I compare it to the previous time. I have discovered that although the story stays the same, the interpretation by the actors, and the differences in set décor, change my perception of the characters in the story. The musical begins with the celebration, by the Ozians, that Elphaba is dead. Glinda soon arrives, and is accused of
I attended a performance of the hit Broadway musical, Kinky Boots, in Rudder Auditorium on Texas A&M campus on the night of Wednesday, September 27, 2017. The show ran from 7:30pm to about 10:30pm, including a twenty-minute intermission between two acts. This was a unique opportunity, given that the production was done by the current professional touring cast of the musical, who usually only comes to major cities like Dallas, Austin, or Houston during a national tour. As stated in the program distributed
Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical The Broadway musical has been entertaining a wide variety of Americans for generations. It is not always clear what exactly draws millions of people across the country to these shows each year, some scholars, including Stacy Wolf, argue that the spectacular costumes, grandiose music, and exciting story lines, offer Americans an escape from their reality. It has been argued that Broadway musicals do not promote positive or progressive views of women, but
Ride the Cyclone is a Broadway musical produced by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell in 2008. It is part of the Uranium Teen Scream Trilogy. The Musical is about 6 teenagers, in the Uranium City St. Cassian Chamber High School choir, who visit the fall fair in their town, Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada. They perform their last show for the folks visiting the fair. They are met with Karnak, a machine that predicts the future and can tell the exact time, place, and reason of death. He can even
Irene Sharaff is a successful costume designer who has designed for many different movies and Broadway productions. She also worked designing costumes for the American Ballet Theatre, the New York City Ballet, and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She was born in Boston on January 23, 1993. Her career in costume design ran from 1928 to 1981 making it 53 years. She died August 10, 1993 due to congestive heart failure. She studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Arts, the Art Students League
Shuffle Along easily became the most popular musical of the Harlem Renaissance. Shuffle Along opened on May 23, 1921 at the 63rd Street Theatre (which wasn’t technically considered part of the Broadway stretch at the time) and ran for 504 performances. This was also the longest running black musical on Broadway to date. Revivals of Shuffle Along would appear in later years but none were ever as successful as the original production. This is largely in part due to the time period that Shuffle
RENT the Musical There's a scene in the new musical "RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the '90s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie who's 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. It's the signal for an "AZT break," and suddenly they realize that they're both HIV-positive. Clinch. Love duet. If you don't think this is romantic, consider that Jonathan Larson's sensational
in the right place at the right time. A neighbour of his mother's, Oscar Hammerstein II, was working on a new musical called Oklahoma! and it didn't take long for the adolescent boy to realise that he, too, was intrigued by musical theatre. Although he subsequently studied composition with Milton Babbitt, he chose to apply what he learned he all-or-nothing commercial hothouse of Broadway. Like Hammerstein, he has written the occasional pop song (with Jule Styne for Tony Bennett) and dabbled in films
One of the very first electrified streets in the United States was Broadway. This gave it many opportunities to become a large icon for our nation. As we know now it is one of the most well-known places for great entertainment. However Broadway was not always the iconic entertainment center it is today; it was stolen, had New York City emerge around it, and persevered through many difficult economic and cultural times. Broadway started out as the main trading route of the Lenape Indians. The trail
Oklahoma opened at the St. James Theatre, New York, on Wednesday March 31, 1943. The top ticket price was $4.80. It ran on Broadway for over five years, besting the previous record holder Hellzapoppin by more than two years. For fifteen years, from 1946 until 1961, Oklahoma held the record as the longest running show in Broadway history. When Okalahoma closed on Broadway May 29, 1948 after 2,212 performances, more than four and a half million people had seen it there. In our expressive
George Gershwin is one of the greatest influences to American music in the 20th century. His compositions can be found throughout the entertainment world, ranging from Broadway to motion pictures. Though he had a short career, George Gershwin's music continues to bring inspiration and delight almost sixty years later. On September 26, 1898 George Gershwin was born to the Gershowitz family as Jacob Gershowitz. The Gershowitzs' were an immigrant family that lived in Brooklyn, NY at the time. His parents
excellent role model, and has won numerous awards. 	Lucille Ball's major contribution has been as a comedienne. Not only was she the star of the world renowned television show, I Love Lucy, but she has also performed on radio, in films, and even on Broadway. Ball had an extraordinary personality. "In short, Lucille Ball's unique brand of wacky physical comedy made her the queen of TV. . ." (Dziemianowicz 54). Her hit television show, I Love Lucy, was one of the most watched television shows of all time
excitement typical of such a fast-paced lifestyle. My main reason for having such a strong urge to move to a city like New York is the variety of entertainment such a city offers, such as shopping, unique eateries, and shows like concerts and musicals. During my stay in New York, I was s...
Helen Tamiris, originally Helen Becker, grew up in New York, New York on the Lower East Side. In her lifetime, she danced, choreographed, and helped initiate modern dance. Later in her life, she moved to the “Great White Way,” otherwise known as Broadway, to choreograph many shows. In 1911, or at the age of eight, Ms. Tamiris began studying dance at the Henry Street Settlement with Irene Lewisohn. After that she studied with the children’s chorus at the Metropolitan Opera Company, where she learned
A Perfect Ganesh Analysis of the play elements. The author: Terrence Mcnally’s career began in the New York off-off-Broadway boom of the late 1960s. Most of his 60’s plays are not really relevant although some are funny. However, during the 70’s his plays began to get recognition. Nowadays, his plays are performed in off-Broadway theaters and he is known as the author of tragicomic plays, filled with breadth and depth. He still lives in New York and is one of the America best playwrights
Blake, too old for military service at 35, stayed stateside, putting music to songs they sent back. When the armistice was signed, Europe and Sissle returned, and the three hoped to work together to bring African-American theatrical shows back to Broadway. It all came to an abrupt end when Europe was killed by a band member. After Europe's death, Sissle and Blake were encouraged by his manager and the backers of the band to enter the white vaudeville circuit. There were very few black performers