Theatre 112 Quizes

Porgy and Bess, opened in 1935, but didn’t gain popularity until later years. The jazz-opera was the first of it’s kind, with an all black cast that

The Globe Theater was a theater that was built and owned by Shakespeare and the group he belonged to called the Lord Chamberlain's Men. Although it is not known exactly when the theater was built, the first record of it shows that it was built before the end of 1599. The Globe Theater was built using lumber from a theater that was not very far away. Even though the Globe Theater was built with wood from a dismantled theater, it was not the same as the previous theater. In fact the globe theater was much larger than the previous one. The theater was a great success for many years; nevertheless, it was burned down in summer of 1613 during a play of Henry VIII. During the performance something happened to a theatrical cannon to cause it to misfire

Theatre is a collaboration of various forms of fine art which utilizes live performances presenting before the audience on a stage at a specific place within a scheduled time (Dugdale 10). The message is communicated through a combination of various channels like songs, speech gestures or dances. Stagecraft skills are combined with elements of art to make the performance more physical and near to real life experience. Theatre is categorized broadly into drama, musical theatre, comedy, tragedy and improvisation. Any form of these accepts integration of various production modes and collective reception to influence the artwork being presented. As a result of this cooperation of items in the theatre

The original songs in the musical include Magic to Do, Corner of the Sky, Welcome Home, War is a Science, Glory, Simple Joys, No Time at All, With You, Spread a Little Sunshine, Morning Glow, On the Right Track, And There He Was, Kind of Woman, Extraordinary, Prayer for a Duck, Love Song, I Guess I’ll Miss the Man, and Finale. These are the songs Schwartz designed to be catchy, different, and exciting.

Integrating several plot lines and characters presented a significant challenge in addition to connecting these separate elements to Loesser’s score. The story of Guys and Dolls takes place in New York City in the 1920s and follows four main characters: Sarah Brown and her struggling branch of the Salvation Army, Nathan Detroit, charged with finding secret locations for the highly illegal “oldest established permanent floating crap game in New York,” famed gambler, Sky Masterson, who is challenged to seduce Sarah Brown and falls hopelessly in love in the process, and Nathan’s fiancé of fourteen years, Miss Adelaide, a show girl at a popular club seeking commitment from Nathan (Loesser).

Oklahoma! Is the first musical that was written by both Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers, or commonly known as the pair “Rodgers and Hammerstein”. Written in 1906 and produced in 1943 on Broadway; the pair wrote this musical revolving around the love stories of various people living in Oklahoma territory when there was a very firm grip on gender roles, especially the presence of male domination. Oklahoma! Supplies the audience with heavy acts of male domination in various dance numbers like “The Farmer and the Cowman” songs; such as “Poor Jud is Dea”, “Oh What a Beautiful Mornin” and even disputes between cowboys and farmers. Oklahoma’s patriotic love story seems as if it was made to be viewed by people as an act of recreation, but also for people who want to explore the time of frontier America where male dominance was heavily present.

Several key jazz figures made their way through vaudeville which allowed them to hone their craft. One of the earliest jazz musicians and orchestrators, James Reese Europe, was an early advocate for equality through acceptance of virtuosity in music endeavours. His orchestra backed up Vernon and Irene Castle who are known for the fox trot and their role in the social revolution through dance (D. 167-169). Another performer, Jelly Roll Morton, the self-proclaimed inventor of jazz, once graced the vaudeville stage as a comedic pianist (Devaux 48). Another prominent member of the jazz community was Henry Minton, who was among the initial generation to use the vaudeville circuit for upward social mobility (Kelley 62). Significantly, he later established Minton’s Playhouse, modernly known as a revolutionary location in the development of bebop because of its “cutting sessions” (Gourse 19). Billy Berg also got his start in Vaudeville later establishing jazz clubs notable for the first appearance of Charlie Parker on the West Coast and used as the backdrop for the film Bird by Clint Eastwood (Deveaux

For our critiquing assignment in our Introduction to Stagecraft 1, I ventured to downtown Toronto, to a small indie theatre called, The Unit 102 Theatre. There I saw the production of MISS; written by Dora Award-nominated playwright Michael Ross Albert who wrote such works as Tough Jews, The Spadina Avenue Gang with the Storefront Theatre. The set takes place in the aftermath of a shocking accident in a boarding school classroom, the story explores the tenuous connection between a high school teacher, her fiance, and a troubled student whose lives have been irrevocably changed by tragedy caused by a miscarriage, an affair, and the fear of the consequences that are not yet revealed, and finally, murder. This is a one act showdown between three

On December 27, 1927 when the premiere of Show Boat opened in the spectacular new Ziegfeld Theater, producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. had brought something new to Broadway. As Katherine Leigh Axtell writes, the show was “neither an operetta nor a musical comedy, neither a vaudeville nor a revue.” For the first time, composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II seamlessly integrated plot, character, music, and dance into a modern musical production -- starting a new genre of musical, which is often called “musical theater” or “book musical.”

The Globe Theatre became what it is today because of its history. What was its history exactly? Unfortunately, those are two questions many people don’t have an answer to. So, what is the history?

The Black Crook (1866), Show boat (1927), and Oklahoma! (1931) are some examples of early musical theater compositions.

National Tours – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Legally Blond The Musical</>, and Peter Pan

“A Musical Salute to World War II” directed by Luann Branch celebrated its 20th year of production in June 2015.

Starting off my group tried to use the list of movement vocabulary. That didn’t work out so instead we decided to focus on what our theme or story would be. Eventually we settled on two topics, unrequited love and love at first sight.

“In roughly built playhouses and cobblestone inn yards, an extraordinary development took place in England in the 1500s.” (Yancey, 8). At that time, an opportunity combined to produce literature achievement never before witnessed in the history of drama and theater. The renaissance, helped spark this movement by inspiring scientific and artistic creativity throughout the land. Models began writing dramas that portrayed life in both realistic and imaginative ways. This created work later captured the attention of the world that changed the English drama. The many aspects of Elizabethan theater helped to shape the acting and theater world forever.