Musical film

Nick Moyer  Music 324  November 16th, 2013    Lion King Musical Outline    What musical theatre does best is to be abstract, not literal reality. Julie Taymor director  of The Lion King, did exactly this when she directed the musical The Lion King. The Lion King  Broadway show in 1997 won six Tony awards, eight Drama Desk awards and the Theatrical  World Award. Everything in this show including lighting, choreography, orchestration, scenery,  costume design, and performance all came together to make an unforgettable masterpiece

Most people have heard his musical scores in famous movies and movie series such as Jaws, Superman, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, E.T., Harry Potter, and Star Wars, but many people don’t know the composer behind the movies’ masterful scores. John Towner Williams was born on February 8, 1932 in Queens, New York to John and Esther Williams. With a father who was a percussionist for the CBS radio orchestra, Williams was exposed to music from a young age. As a child, he studied piano, trumpet, trombone

Because of the limits of technology, films of the 1890s were under a minute long and until 1927; motion pictures were produced without sound. The cinematograph was a motion picture film camera, which also served as a film projector and developer. The cinematograph weighed 16 lbs. and was manually operated by a hand crank. The cinematograph produced a sharper projected image than had been seen before. This was due to its design, which used a kind of fork held film reel, held in place through the perforations

The life of Stephen Schwartz Stephen Schwartz is a famous American composer, producer, and creator of music and film. Stephen Schwartz has been appointed as having one of the most significant careers in American musical theater for over four decades (Laird, 2014). With a degree in drama, Schwartz was first hired as a producer in his early years. Schwartz was interested in musical Theater since the early 1970’s when he was famous for three popular shows on Broadway; Godspell, Pippin, and The Magic

contributions to American culture including film. His works includes songs, chamber music, ballets, theater, symphony orchestra, solos, and chorus. Copland’s approach to composing included twelve-tone, a basic exhibition of serialism. Crawford & Hamberlin (2013), describe this style as organizing twelve pitches of the chromatic scale into a unique pattern. This method expressed a way of organizing notes freely, without focusing on a key center. To non-musical ears, the atonality heard is interpreted

As a dancer, Fosse performed in two very successful musicals, Call Me Mister and Make Mine Manhattan. ("Chicago The Musical"). During the mid 1950’s, Fosse went back to New York and decided that he needed to make a name for himself as a choreographer (“Maslon, Laurence, and Michael Kantor”). Fosse’s first successful hit as a choreographer was “Steam Heat” from the Pajama Game ("Chicago The Musical"). In 1959, with the production of Redhead, Fosse earned the ultimate award

Hammerstein: Richard Rodgers was only 16 when he began his musical collaboration with Lorenz Hart. Rodgers was acting as composer and Hart as lyricist. Manhattan was their first breakthrough in 1925 and other songs including jazz standards such as “Blue moon” (1934) and “My funny valentine” (1937), "Isn't It Romantic?" (1932) and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (1940). Together, Rodgers and Hart wrote the music and lyrics for 26 Broadway musicals. Which includes: On your toes (1936), Babes in Arms

someone else for a change. Together these two create Musical Theater, possibly one of the best two combinations known to man. Musical Theater is a worldwide form of entertainment that has been around since ancient times and exhibits emotion through a series of acts which include singing, dancing and scripted acting. Different areas of the world follow unique storylines which are relevant to their past and current events. The beginning of Musical Theater dates back to ancient times and originates mainly

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, she is still well-known for her first Broadway debut in Hairspray as Lou Ann (Amber Von Tussle). If you can't recall those particular acts, Becky Gulsvig was in the original Broadway cast of Legally Blond, as Leilani, In addition to Broadway shows, Becky Gulsvig is known in the following areas: National Tours – Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Legally Blond The Musical</>, and Peter Pan Television – All My Children and Legally Blond The Musical Commercials Off-Broadway

music I was a little excited about these music pieces being played. The highlight musical piece would have to be the Suite from “Star Wars”. All of the pieces were great but,