Watertight, the Musical

A chorus is a common element to Greek tragedy’s and in ancient theatre consisted of a group of people who provide a number of different contributions to a play, providing a historical perspective, acting as counsellors and advisors to the plays characters and at times representing various groups such as villagers or a jury. Within this essay, I will consider the main contributions of the chorus within “The Burial at Thebes”

The performance hall was designed in a thrust manner, which from a frontal view of the stage, I sat on the left hand side. This designed allowed for an unorthodox relationship between the actor and the audience. The actors would commonly come off the stage and run around the hall, lacing the rows. While running around, they would sometimes sing to one individual or extend their hand for

Pippin is a Tony-Award winning musical that captures the eyes of anyone who has the chance to see the show. It is a show like no other with tricks, stunts, and an overall show that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The music is intriguing and mystifying. Stephen Schwartz wrote the music and lyrics while the book is by Roger O. Hirson. Bob Fosse who is a legacy in the musical theatre world was the original Broadway production director. Fosse also contributed to the libretto.

Broadway Tours are a gift to the Great White Way lovers that, unfortunately, don’t live in traveling distance of New York City. With me being one of those people, hear that the popular musical of Kinky Boots was coming to the Music Hall I knew I had to see it. This musical has had many people talking about it because of the music and lyrics done by the legendary Cyndi Lauper. With a unique plot, I didn’t know exactly what to expect. From the opening number about shoes, I knew Lauper’s music deserved all the recognition it has received. How Harvey Fierstein wrote such an emotionally, moving story over a shoe factory I will never be able to figure out but every element of this show added to me almost in tears during the finale. This story follows

There's a scene in the new musical "RENT" that may be the quintessential romantic moment of the '90s. Roger, a struggling rock musician, and Mimi, a junkie who's a dancer at an S/M club, are having a lovers' quarrel when their beepers go off and each takes out a bottle of pills. It's the signal for an "AZT break," and suddenly they realize that they're both HIV-positive. Clinch.

On Thursday, October 19th, Ray Shultz, Professor of theater arts, and the theatre company, presented a lecture/demonstration on the soon to be staged musical Spring Awakening. Several members of the company as well as Professor Shultz spoke about the musical and gave the audience some of the background informations, as well as enacted three excerpts of the production.

Launched in 1975, the musical Chicago, created by a talented pair of composers and producers that included both John Kander and Fred Ebb later known as Kander and Ebb. Kander was born on March 18, 1927 in Kansas City, Missouri. His exposure to music began at an early age as a result of having had tuberculosis as a baby. During this time, Kander was cut off and not allowed to be around other people, that separation developed his ability for sound. Kander started piano lessons at the age of six. His parents and brother would often spend evenings playing the piano and singing. Kander’s first successes came while he was a student at Oberlin College, where he attended with James Goldman, a lyricist he had known since childhood

This project was all in all, one of the most impactful and positive things to happen. This was a success, it was successful, it impacted the community which is the main goal that I set. Specific things that happened during certain shows were what the theatre community is based upon. There were so many times when my actors exceeded all of my expectations, they really dedicated themselves to the performance. The one time I had to yell at them was to reprimand them for attempting to drink fake chloroform, that was it. What better way to end a grueling rehearsal than to yell not to drink chloroform from thirty feet away. In the end it was what I wanted, there were little things here and there but it was good, I told people with begging determination in my eyes before the project started that “It was going to be good. Guys it’s gonna be good.” Since this was a performance piece, I had to tell people what to do, and how to do it.

For the production of York Dance Ensembles ‘SPACE|TIME|LINE’, my position as a crew member was the sound operator. My duties and responsibilities was to take the music required and set it in order of the show. In addition, the sound operator must set levels for each song to ensure the music was suitable for the audience, as well as the dancers on stage. Other everyday duties were to ensure the speakers, god microphone, and headsets all worked properly before each run of the show. Most importantly, I had to communicate with the stage manager during the show to know when the music needed to be played.

The spring show Broadway and Connections was on April 20th and 21st. My ballet class was in the first act, Broadway. We did our variation to the song “Music of the Night” from the musical Phantom of the Opera. We were the corps de ballet for the pas de deux. This paper is my critiques on my performance in this show after performing and seeing it on video. First, the focus is on my performance as a whole.

The title of the musical I watched is called Legally Blonde: The Musical. The story was based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the film as well. The music and lyrics in this musical is created by Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin. This musical first premiered on January 23, 2007 at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco. The musical begins with a stereotypical sorority girl named Elle Woods who is introduced as a character who is infatuated with her ex boyfriend, Warner.

The interaction in a students’ musical team portrayed three current issues, which are blackmailing, braveness, and physical appearance inspired me to think more about it.

One of the most beloved films/musicals of all time. People enjoy this musical for numerous reasons but mostly because of its campy humor and heartwarming emotion. After many years, this musical is still very relevant and able to make an audience laugh.

The chorus is an essential feature of Greek classical drama. Instances of various types of dance, singing, and speech are some elements of a Greek chorus. “Composed of similarly costumed men, they performed on the orchestra located beneath the stage. The chorus stayed in the orchestra for the duration of the performance from which vantage point they observed and commented on the action of the characters.” Oedipus is a play written by Sophocles, a respected playwright, and it is “generally assumed that the main function of the Sophoclean chorus is a philosophical one; that it serves above all as the spokesman for a certain view of life.” The chorus can be dramatic in the following ways: “through the personality of the group forming the chorus and the appropriateness of their relationship to the action and the characters, through the iambic lines spoken by the coryphaeus, through physical participation in the action and through the choral songs.” The chorus is an important component of the Greek Tragedy Oedipus. Aside from its responsibility to effectively represent the people of Thebes, the chorus in Oedipus has a powerful influence over audience perceptions and emotions.

Nontraditional music theatre has rarely attracted the volume of attention that Opera or Broadway musicals have achieved. Perhaps because it has no traditional form, no set parameters to construct or convey an artistic idea. It embraces and makes use of all forms and styles of music, theatre, and media. This broad spectrum of available techniques, methods, styles, forms, technologies, etc., has created endless possibilities by which to create and perform art.