On November 4th, 2016, my best friend and I went to see the play at the Charles Winter Wood Theatre. This play is set during the 1950s, and the scene takes place in a night club in Chicago. This play was sponsored by FAMU’s Essential Theatre, and it was quite entertaining. It presents realistic situations such as the affairs, jealously, and debt in relationships. The director, Maurice Kitchen, wrote this play to present the Black artists who used their talent to escape the difficulties they have faced. The main character, Billy Gamble, was a show host and performer, who used his patients with musical talents to be on his show. Important aspects seen in the play were love and fame. The musicians expressed their feelings within their music.
Ms. Tiffany, their strict but loving instructor, gathered the dancers around her to have a brief meeting. She announced that every senior dancer was required to audition for a principal role of their choice, and that she will announce the cast two weeks before the show. Ever since last year, the dancers already knew which role they wanted, and practically already knew the choreography. They quickly began to go over the choreography and rehearse for the upcoming audition.
Dramatic Truth Ballet Theatre is a ballet company and ballet school that is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Dramatic Truth School of the Arts was founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1986. It is a Christ-centered professional performing arts school. Dramatic Truth School of the Arts develops in each of its dancers the unique fusion of excellent classical and modern technique with a heart of worship.
Professor Wolf is the author of Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (Oxford University Press, 2011), A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (with Raymond Knapp and Mitchell Morris, 2011). She has published articles on theatre spectatorship, performance pedagogy, and musical theatre. Professor Wolf also oversees the Lewis Center’s Music Theater Lab and has experience as a director and dramaturg. Wolf holds a B.A. in English from Yale and an M.A. in Drama from the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recent publications include
This production is produced by Roundabout Theater Company. RTC is the nation’s largest theater non-profit. This organization has both Off-Broadway and Broadway productions running simultaneously. For this Roundabout Theater Company production, Sydney Beers is the general manager. She is on the executive staff for the company and is the general manager on all current Roundabout productions. Michael J. Passarro is the Production Stage Manager and Pat Snow is the Assistant Stage Manager. Both of these people are season professionals in the field and have worked together on many other shows such as Evita, The River and Pippin on Broadway.
The actors that I will be discussing is Jenna Taylor, who plays Savannah Honeycutt. Another actor that I will be discussing is Charlotte Malone, who plays Hayley Quinn. Last but not less Alexis Bryner, who plays Norleen Sprunt. Savannah Honeycutt is the daughter that is successful and don’t have a boyfriend because of her mother. Hayley Quinn is the daughter in law that is the braid to be. Norleen Sprunt is the mother that is always in your business. The three characters that I choose was great characters. I choose these three characters because they were the funniest out through the play. They stay in scene with ever change that made. Even though they were the main focus of the play, other characters was funny. In every scene something happened
Cast and crew member for Christian Educational Consortium’s winter and spring theatre productions. Minor speaking part in each play, helped also with props, and set
4. Bobby Smith was the leading man in the play and he played a geeky journalist named Paul Friedman. Bobby was an unique actor who had the ability to switch emotions very quickly during scenes. For example, Paul could be having a serious conversation with Anne one moment and then he could switch his emotions to be a hilarious person. Kadedra Dobyne was the leading lady in the play and she played Anne Miller a stay a home mother of two small children. Kadedra showed her true colors in Act 2. She seemed more relaxed with the audience, had more confidence in her role, expressed more emotions and was more interesting
This play that I saw was at Dyersburg State Community College and the name of the play is The Waverly Gallery. The playwright of this play was Meleia Lewis. The people that present the play were named Lynn Karlgard, Corey Sawyer, Tyler Burns, Jessica Kogers and Bobby Solomon that was the character names and the director and choreographed is Ms. Lewis. The people that did the lighting be Taylor Anderson; sound was Savannah Alis.
After hearing about an interrogation term the process began for my characters, it was suggested that each ensemble member would wear blacks and a neutral half mask to hide the face, removing their identity, furthering to represent a collective. After researching into this response, it appeared that the interns, as ensemble, gave resemblance to a Greek chorus, due to never entering the stage space unless moving set. A Greek chorus was said to be costumed men that perform in the ‘dancing floor’, this being below the stage. In a number of scenes they would observe the piece and comment on the arrangements of the performers.
The tension with her fellow school mates was a problem but so was balancing her schedule. Moore was also in Uptown Girls and the directors worked together to decide what had priority. She had found away, but admitted to it being hard with such a heavy workload. Senior Jacob Madsen was also in Show Cats and The Sound of Music.
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
I choose to read Stage Struck by Tomie DePaola to a kindergarten class. The book Stage Struck was about a kindergarten class putting a play on for the school. The play was Peter Rabbit and the main character wanted to be the star of the play like he was in the last play they put on. He was so excited about the play that he could not focus on his work and kept talking to his friends about the play. The teacher told him to stop talking and when he did not stop, she told him he will not the lead star in the play someone else will be. He was a rabbit in the play and they did not have any lines to say. He remembers in his dance class that the audience like when they react to things on stage, like a smile or frowned. He came up with a plan to
If I could be in a TV show or movie I would trust me. As far as stage place and other productions not interested. My mom wants me to help out more at the church and signed me up for a bunch of different things. 5 AM or five arts ministry is our theater part of the church and my mom told them that I could be in the play. I'm not going to lie I had fun.
The Story Pirates Theater Troupe is a nonprofit educational sketch-theater group known for teaching kids the art of storytelling through writing. The group offers in-school and afterschool theatrical programs in New York and Los Angeles. These programs are “designed to create a safe space for students to express their most outlandish ideas and develop their creative writing skills” (DeBlasis, 2015). There were doubts whether this group would be able to continue to thrive in the age of the common core state standards and rigorous accountability expectations. However, they are!