Play Summary: Cold Open

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

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.

In his book Hardball, Chris Matthews discusses the useful strategies for getting ahead in politics that he observed during his time working in Washington, D.C. He breaks up his observations into chapters with different lessons. Three of the most important lessons are “It's Not Who You Know; It's Who You Get to Know,” (Chapter 1) “All Politics is Local,” (Chapter 2) and “Dance With the One That Brung Ya.” (Chapter 4). These chapters illustrate how important making and keeping connections and relationships is in Washington. The “game of politics” is played by using these relationships to gain favors, votes, support, etc. According to Matthews, the people who get ahead are the ones who make and keep these important connections and relationships with other politicians and the public.

The video starts by the neighbors all in a meeting at a house. The power goes out and everyone freaks. The phones all at the same time go off like someone was getting a call at the same time. The windows explode and so does the punch bowl. Dylan is quick to try and grab his gun. Will calms Dylan down by telling him the gun is not necessary, which it really wasn’t. Dylan was very impatient and quick to get scared or annoyed. People start to question the new neighbors around 7:32 minutes. They all get suspicious of the neighbors because they have a working car and working lights. Later, Dylan starts a mob and they attack the neighbor’s house. Will tries to stop them. The house sets ablaze and the new neighbors are trapped. No one knows who the real monsters are,

While much of the neighborhood appears on-screen in the beginning of the shot, one important thing is notably off-screen the whole time: The view from which the camera pivots. Behind the camera was the apartment of L.B. Jeffries, and the camera pans to the left, inside his window, to finish with a brief tour around his living room that teaches us his most important character traits. We see first, in an extreme close-up of a cast, that Jeffries has a broken leg. And then the camera pans left and we see why: A broken camera appears on screen, and a rack focus shift to the background shows a photograph of an automobile accident with a tire flying straight at the camera. Then several other framed photographs of exciting events appear on the screen, telling us Jeffries is a photographer who craves adventure and excitement.

Mark O’Rowe wrote his play Terminus in 2007. It was originally performed by the Abbey Theatre, and had a revival in 2011. Mark O’Rowe is a playwright and screenwriter from Ireland. He is best known for writing Howie and the Rookie in 1999. Terminus is one of his newer plays, having only been in production for eight years. I plan on adapting Terminus for a new stage production. Some of the plot will be changed, however the majority of it will stay the same. I have a cast planned as well as many ideas for staging, set design, and costumes.

The play Wicked, written by American lyricist Stephen Schwartz, was a play that demonstrated several conflicts that a person went through during their lifetime. Elphaba, the protagonist, was born with green skin because of a choice that her mother made. She had to deal with the fear and the looks that people gave her because of her appearance. Elphaba dealt with the mockery of others during her years in school. When reading the play, one could compare Elphaba’s circumstances to discrimination or racism towards African Americans in the nineteen sixties. In college, she discovered that she had magical powers that she could use for good. The people in the town of Oz stereotyped her and assumed she was a witch who wanted to harm everyone because of her

“Blizzard,” by David Ives, is truly a mysterious thriller with many questions to be asked after reading the play. The play does not seem to add up due to it ending without a real answer since the readers never find out if Salim and Natasha killed Joe and Sandy and if they were imposters. We also don’t know what happened to Jenny and Neil after the lights dim. They possibly could have been killed by Salim and Natasha as well. The questions of, what actually happened? And who did it, are prevalent in this play and causes an uproar of emotions to the reader. Although this play was concise and short, it was very compact and strong.

For my third and final cultural event this semester, I attended the screening for the Mexican play, El Censo, which was shown during the Liberal Arts Symposium. The play is about a lower income family of tailors in the 1940’s who find themselves horrified and confused when confronted with having to respond to the Census, which largely relates to taxes which they have not paid and cannot afford to pay in the poor economic conditions. In many ways the issues which the play deals with, including modernization and people’s reactions as well as economic difficulty, are pertinent not only to every country in one way or another, but to every time period in one way or another. I will thus be comparing the situations and fears expressed in the play

Clifford Geertz in “Deep Play” gives us a detailed account of the Balinese cockfight which he defines as a sociological entity and a simulation of social matrix. Persistently ignored by the natives, anthropologist and his wife were only accepted into the community after demonstrating solidarity by fleeing from the cockfight like other villagers. Through his interaction with the Balinese and observation, Geertz attempts to disentangle the meaning and nature of cockfight which appears to play a significant role in Balinese society. At first, he analyzes the cockfight from general and universal perspective, assuming that cocks are “magnifications of the narcissistic male ego”, but then considers the particularities of the Balinese culture: Its

Last April Something Rotten! came to Broadway at the St. James Theatre on 44th Street.

Once Carly and her parents left the restaurant they realised they were running late for the movie so together decided to take some side streets. They turned down Grange St, there was no light down the street and they could barely see anything but didn’t think much of it.You could hear the pitter patter of water hitting the ground and crunch

Chris Matthew’s Hardball consists of four different parts containing different themes and policies on how the political world is run. All four parts: Alliances, Enemies, Deals, and Reputations contain personal anecdotes, historical context of Presidents’ careers, and rules Matthew’s has formed throughout political experience. The beginning of each chapter starts off with a quote that foreshadows the subject of each chapter. Although Matthews does establish important rules to follow as a politician, I disagree with some of his points even though I am a democrat like him.

“Clocks” by Coldplay addresses the topic of purpose. The song begins as the main character is pleading for help when he has been knocked down on his knees. He talks about every word gone unsaid in his life and every missed opportunity. Then he explains his thoughts on the world, feeling like everyone is just waiting for him to take action. In the end, he realizes his sense of purpose in life and uses this uncertainty to his advantage. “Clocks” carries a theme that although purpose may be hard to figure out with pressure and uncertainty, life’s purpose will always come in the end. In the first verse, the song says, “A tiger’s waiting to be tamed singing” (Coldplay 8). Coldplay is referring to the urgency of the situation. He feels the world