Chicago Musical Analysis

The musical “Hamilton” is the most sought after musical in years. It is the first seen rap musical and it has received the most ‘Tony’ awards and nominations in Broadway history. Hamilton premiered off Broadway in 2015 and soon moved to Broadway to stun the world with it’s incredible everything, from plot to casting. For best albums, Hamilton was second ranked in Billboard magazine and has got endless supply of recognition for the ingenious play written by the phenomenal Lin Manual Miranda. Hamilton is currently the most popular sensation on Broadway because of the music with its creative lyrics and hidden messages, it’s stellar performance and the perspectives it gives us on the people that founded our county. (on the people that shaped our past and developed our future).

For this assignment. I will be talking about the original musical performance of 42nd street. I will present the conditions of the stage and setting for the original stage performance. In this, I will talk about the plot and the characters of 42nd street, how the plot progresses and how each character has their own purpose in the story in comparison to each other. I will talk about the underlying themes of 42nd street; how these themes are important

In Chicago, the main plot revolves around women who murder the men in their lives that have caused some injustice. Each woman has a story to justify the reason why the men had to die. Billy Flynn is a charismatic criminal lawyer that has never lost a case for a female client. The proceedings in jail and in the courtroom are anything but legal and ethical. It is clear that the plot is not serious. This justifies the fact that the female prison inmates are allowed to interact with each other in song and dance. Also the so-called warden can also act as a contract agent to get the girls their own Vaudeville act. The main purpose of the show is to water down the book plot and add individual entertainers. This is done to integrate the Vaudeville quality within a musical. In doing so the courtroom and jail is paralleled with a nightclub scene. The main purpose to maintain the Vaudeville quality is suggesting the cliché "all the world's a stage." In

Chicago is based on playwright by Maurine Dallas Watkins, who was assigned to cover the 1924 trials of accused murderers Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner for the Chicago

In the novel “The Scarlet Letter” and the musical “Chicago”, we are able to see many ideas and events that are similar, but there are also occasions where the actions that the characters take, differentiate. Both the novel and the musical’s main storyline is about a woman that committed adultery and have to face the consequences and criticism for what they did.

Baseball in Chicago was very big it grew a lot in Chicago back then in the 1800’s.

In Tri-School Productions’ Oklahoma, the cast takes the audience back to Claremore, Oklahoma to demonstrate the events that took place in the wild west during the early 1900s. The musical conveyed the western theme provided the audience with plenty of comedy and suspicious scenes. There were many parts that included the entire cast singing and dancing, especially to “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’” and “Oklahoma.” Both Curly, played by Holden Boger, and Laurey Williams, played by Isabella Torre, are one of the reasons why this musical was so successful. For some who have never seen Oklahoma, it may have been a bit confusing to watch at some points. It was difficult to catch on to names without looking at the programme. Many also noticed how this

The ensemble performing is the Texas State Jazz Ensemble and guest artist Steve Houghton. The performance was at 7:30PM at the performing arts center recital hall on November 1st, 2016. The title of the pieces that was performed was Slide’s Derangement by Slide Hampton which was written in the late fifties. BBC by Bob Florence and But Beautiful by Jimmy Van Heusen and Chuck Owen that was written in 1947. The performances with the guest artist Steven Houghton was Dangerous Curves by Jeff Golub and Matt Harris that was written in 2000. Blues for Stephanie by John Clayton that was written in the nineties. Jazz Crimes by Joshua Redman and Alan Baylock that was written in the 2002. Cariba by Wes Montgomery and Steve Alee

On Friday night, November 13, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. I attended the Manhattan School of Music for the Jazz Orchestra that performed by Jazz vocalists and MSM alumni Jane Monheit and many other musicians. That place is unlikely the ordinary place, people have appropriate dress on and have nicely etiquette toward the performers, unlike me, many of audiences seem like that they come to this concert with certain knowledge of Jazz orchestra. And its musical venue was the ideal spot for the concert, so I sat in a decent spot spot that located at midst of the concert hall where I can view all the performers and hear performers’ music clearly. And the conductor informally began the show was quite nicely and politely which made me feel really comfortable

It was an original song the guitarist wrote because the guitar part was so bad that I couldn’t hear his singing at all. Instead of strumming the guitar, he plucked the strings, which gave it jagged sound that had no rhythm or melody to it. They didn’t have that much acting in it either, which I wished that did because the few acting scenes that did were delightful like when they did the history of the American flag, instead of having the narrator just say the history like they did for the other parts, they had an actor playing the flag and telling her story and what she been as the flag, which was well executed. It was a shame that they didn’t put in more stuff like that into

The Chicago city boy is a fast-talking, dance loving, independent minded, outcast who finds nothing worthwhile in the small slow paced farm town of Bomont. Jean did a good job in playing into the rebellious free minded spirit of Ren. The resistance Ren showed and constantly showing adamant defiance toward Reverend Shaw Moore (Brian Burron) made the show engaging to watch. Though some of the dialogue came across slightly over dramatized and cheesy, the overall musical was entertaining and well choreographed. Ren’s mother, Ethel (Joanie Brosseau) accurately depicted a caring and concerned parent trying her best to make a living and keep her son out of trouble. The love interest Ariel (Seles VanHuss) did a great job playing the misunderstood, unruly preacher’s daughter trying to find a way to escape the confinement of living in Bomont.

There is one version of the story in the musical Chicago, that was done before the musical first officially aired. The non-musical play that was called Chicago, that was written in 1926, by Maurine Watkins had a lot of similarities with the musical Chicago (“Maslon, Laurence, and Michael Kantor”). In the play Chicago, the story is about two murder cases that happened in real life (Miller, Scott). The first murder case is about a character name Beulah Annan, who had an affair on her husband, then her husband threatened to leave her, but Annan then Kills her husband (Miller, Scott). In the musical Chicago, the character Rosie has many similarities with Beulah. In fact, when the character Rosie is on trial during the musical, a lot of the things she said is derived directly from Annan’s case (Miller, Scott). The second murder case is against Belva Gaertner, who shot and killed her husband in her car (Miller, Scott). The character that has a lot of similarities with Belva, is Velma. Velma and Belva in both stories claim that they were too drunk to remember how they both murdered their loved ones (Miller, Scott).

Some other inexpensive attractions in Chicago are the different museums and exhibits scattered around the downtown area.

The New York cast put real emotions into what they sang. I remember three moments the most in the songs, “Meet Me Inside,” “One Last Time,” and, “The World Was Wide Enough.” In Lin-Manuel Miranda’s version of “Meet Me Inside” when he yelled at Washington (“Call me son one more time”) he sounded honestly angry. However, in the Chicago one Joseph Morales sounded just mad not angry. In the New York version of “One Last Time” when Washington tells Hamilton about Jefferson running for president. Lin-Manuel Miranda actually laughed and sounded really set aback when he said, “I’m sorry, what,” when Washington said he wasn’t running for president. While the Chicago production I saw Morales said it, but he didn’t sound genuine. Also, in “The World was Wide Enough” Daniel Breaker (Chicago) just yelled, “It’s him or me, the world will never be the same/ I had only one thought before the slaughter/ This man will not make an orphan of my daughter,” but Leslie Odom Jr (New York) actually sounded like he was about to cry when he sang it. But all in all the play was great and I would love to see it

The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra Concert on October 14th featured three pieces; The Birds, Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Orchestra in C Major, and Symphony No.5. All the pieces were lovely and were entertaining to listen to. This concert also featured the Hersh Trio, comprised of Alexander Hersh on the cello, Stefan Hersh on the violin, and Paul Hersh on the piano, which the orchestra accompanied for one piece.