Follow King: Play Analysis

My favorite musical we have watched in here is a tie between Newsies and Les Mis, but this about Newsies. Newsies is a phenomenal Broadway production. Fun fact it was released as The News Boys in the United Kingdom. It was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega.

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder in 1937. Our Town is a play about the daily life in Act One, love and marriage in Act Two and death and dying in Act Three. The play is about two main characters, Emily Webb and George Gibbs. The play in Act One just goes through the daily life of the characters. Act Two it shows the love and marriage between these two characters and last Act Three shows life after death of the characters. The play has a man called the Stage Manager that is mainly a narrator throughout the play but also takes on the role of people in the town. The Stage Manager knows many thing about the people in the play Our Town.  The Stage Manager steps in, describes scenes, and seems to start and stop the action of the play whenever he wants. The Stage Manager has many similarities to God. The Stage Manager doesn't only know everything about everyone, he can also see into the future. The Stage Manager is also present in every scene watching it all play out. The Stage Manager and God are different because the Stage Manager unlike God makes

“The Producers” is one of the most famous musicals in Broadway. Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan adapted the musical from the 1968 film of the same name. The musical is about two producers that oversell interest in a Broadway flop in order to become wealthy. The musical consist in play with in the musical. The producers, Max and Leo, choose the worst play ever written and the worst director. However, the play turns out to be successful and Max goes to jail and Leo escapes with the money to Rio. The two more important external event in the play are the event when Leo decides to help Max and the moment when the play becomes a success.

This is a must watch Broadway show that makes your fine, terrible, or even boring day, an absolute blast. The Play That Goes Wrong has finally made its way to America and right at the heart of New York City near Times Square at the Lyceum Theatre. Therefore, the experience is a win-win situation for the audience. The Lyceum Theatre’s architecture is astonishing as it is filled with ornaments, I also realized the letter ‘L’ around the theater, but the most interesting fact is that it is a landmark. It has a proscenium stage while the audience is in the orchestra, balcony, or the mezzanine seats, like where I sat, and there is barely any space if you are a tall person. My seat was near the far end of mezzanine, I couldn’t see a part of the left side of the stage, so I found myself bending sideways to see what was going on, but I saw nothing. I found the side stage lights and a side balcony blocking my view and yet I had a great time.

Is it Important for a child to play? The obvious answer would be yes but what constitutes play? Free unstructured play? Structured play? What differences do these types of play involve and which is better? The question why should my child play and why can’t they do it alone comes to mind to many parents often or is sometimes not even thought about in their busy lives to keep the child provided for. It is often at the back of our minds that children enjoy themselves while making sure they have everything needed to survive is right at the forefront.

A saying that stands true to Bristol Blues infielder Max Goione as he has turned it around both offensively and defensively for the Blues this season. In his first six games with the Blues, Goione was batting .150 with no homers and one RBI. Since June 13, Goione is batting .257 with one home run and three RBIs, raising his batting average to .218. Although it’s no Mickey Mantle numbers, it’s progress that he feels was well needed.

Have you ever wished you could travel to another land like Oz and go on a magical adventure? Well I know for after seeing the Wiz with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, I sure wanted did. I finally got my wish of traveling to Oz by being in a production of the Wiz in elementary school. Ever since then I have been going to see as many productions of the musical because it is my favorite so why not choose this as one of my third shows to see for class. Wrong!!! To my hearts dismay, I should have relived the glory days of myself. In the production of the Wiz I saw, there were only 30 children so most of them played multiple roles ranging from being a background dancer to the main character. My goal was to focus on the main characters: Dorothy, Scarecrow,

2o years later and still confrontational A revival of Nick Enright’s Good Works, was demanded after not been staged in Sydney since 1994. Almost two decades forward, Darlinghurst Theatre company have collaboration in order to produce a play a year by Australian writer Nick Enright. Enright’s Good Works spans across the political, cultural and social Australian history from the nineteen sixties to the nineteen eighties.

In Tim Miller's "Rooted" the only performer was Tim Miller himself. The performance was centered on his struggles as a gay man as well as his husband's struggles on trying to immigrate here legally from Australia, so they could live together as a family. This performance was very interesting in the way that it felt. I didn’t particularly love this performance in terms of what he said, I am not a gay man and I have never had to immigrate to another country, but I loved the way he interacted with the audience. He occasionally moved around the stage, but for the most part he stayed around the front in one area. Tim Miller made it feel like a very intimate setting. He made me feel like he was an old friend telling me of his adventures in trying to get the Department of Homeland Security to recognize his husband’s need for a green card, so they can be together instead of on different sides of the globe.

Alana Horne is a first year student at Middle Georgia State University, where she is actively working on her core classes in the hopes of transferring into The University of Georgia and eventually working at Walt Disney World and for the Disney Company. In the meantime, she volunteers with Princesses with a Purpose and also volunteers for Perry Players Community Theatre in Perry, Ga. The plays that she participated in at the Perry Player’s Theatre are as follows: Oliver, The Addams Family, and A Christmas Carol. In these plays she has been in the ensemble except for A Christmas Carol where she starred as the Ghost of Christmas Past. In the company she participates in, Princesses with a Purpose, she plays the characters of: Anna (Frozen), Tinkerbell

A. This piece is a challenge for me because of Blanca’s dialect, first and foremost. Her accent and vocal mannerisms are such an intrinsic part of her character that to execute them poorly would not do her character and the monologue justice. In order to get her dialect right, I have to make sure it was not too light or strong or loose that it gets in the way of vocal clarity and understanding. Additionally, if the accent is too strong, it can become stereotypical. Since some of the things Blanca says are ridiculous and ignorant, it can be challenging to really act truthfully as if I really believed in what she is saying. Playing the action while still keeping it in the moment is different than doing stand-up and trying to be “funny”, so I try to focus on what I want and my circumstances. It’s also a challenge to stay in control and pace myself despite the rapid-fire text.

How “I Learned to Drive” is an interesting drama because it meant to educate people to be aware of their relative and other people around them to be a victim of sexual abuse. This play was written by Paula Vogel. The most aspect that interested me of that play was the way that Paula Vogel arranges the scenes of the play in a non-chronological order to keep the audience's attention until the last part of the play. The author did an excellent job to write the play in the easiest way and understandable to send a message to other people to learn from Lil Bit's secret. Also, the author mentioned the problem that might cost people a lot due to the bad relationship between the families and their kids. The main character of the play is Li'l Bit, who was molested by her uncle Peck and

"It can be a painful challenge to take the necessary time and steps needed for producing every note in life that you must play to hear the sounds of your own voice, work, and creations, which formulates beautiful orchestrations and stories with you, your family, and God." ~ Jon Barnes

In John Patrick Shanley’s play, “Doubt: A Parable”, and Paula Vogel’s play, “How I Learned to Drive”, both have strong themes of sexuality in the forms of sexual predation and pedophilia. Although these two stories are considerably different, the message is the same. “Doubt” is a play that concerns a mystery over whether or not a boy (Donald) has been raped by a priest, and “How I learned to Drive” is a play about a woman (Li’l Bit) who reminisces about the sexual molestation and the emotional manipulation she had to endure at the hands of her uncle. Although these plays both have main theme of sexuality, they each have vastly different settings, desires, and outcomes. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the theme of sexuality in both of these plays.

On October 19th, 2017, I had the honor to attend the Indiana State University production of A Piece of My Heart. This play could be considered a historical documentary and was full of drama, thrill, and action. A Piece of My Heart was originally written by Shirley Lauro, a very popular play writer with many other well-known plays. The play was based around 6 extremely strong and opinionated women who were sent to the Vietnam War to either help or entertain the American Men. Consisting of 5 army nurses, one country singer, and multiple different army men the production was able to provide a full understanding of how life was in Vietnam during the war. This play was performed by Indiana State University students.