The Broadway Theatre

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

Arthur Miller first heard the story of a Brooklyn longshoreman that would become the basis for his play, A View from the Bridge in 1947. He would not write it until 1955, when it was produced on Broadway as a simple, unadorned one-act. Miller would then develop and expand it into a full-length production with director Peter Brook in London in 1956. The incubation period of A View from the Bridge, spanning from 1947 to 1956, straddles and absorbs a host of major events both on the national landscape

“Forty-Second Street”, where Busby Berkeley took his reputation and experience as a dance director for several Broadway shows and helped rebuild film musicals’ rapport. Due to the fact that, in the 1940s, America was fully focused on World War II in one way or another, “Yankee Doodle Dandy” was produced in 1942 by Warner Bros. Studios, and was a musical biography of George M. Cohan, “The Man Who Owned Broadway”. This musical highlighted the American patriotism and values that many

“An American Folk Opera.” George Gershwin’s most successful piece of expansive musical drama was subtitled with this term that no musician or critic had applied to a work of musical drama before the 1935 premiere of Porgy and Bess. Much has been written about the work’s subtitle; its literal meaning, its evolution, and its implications for a changing cultural landscape. Porgy and Bess was the last in a triptych of literature and theater surrounding the character of Porgy, a crippled beggar living

Purpose: To inform my audience of the different types of Broadway shows, the third longest-running show in history, and why warm ups are used before showtime. Central Idea: There are 3 different types of Broadway productions, the Lion King is the 3rd longest-running show in history, and Broadway stars use warm ups to keep their voices in check. Introduction Lights, camera, ACTION! These 3 words are used constantly in the acting world. Broadway stars have practiced their lines and songs so many times

In 1887, one year prior to Eugene O’Neill’s birth, the first vote on women’s suffrage is taken in the Senate and fails. (Scholastic). In 1955, the year following O’Neill’s death, a woman, Rosa Parks, became the symbol for the civil rights movement. While these two events can seem unrelated, they frame the time in which Eugene O’Neill lived where the structure of gender roles in society experienced radical changes. Women received voting rights, as well as more legal and workplace rights that had never

have been married for a long time. He also said that there are problems and consequences when people fall apart. This play is a great play because a lot of people can relate to it.The play is considered a drama. The play “was commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville and had its world premiere at the Humana Festival of New American Plays in March 1998.” This play has been revised twice throughout the years. The first revised version was in October 1998 and the second one that was revised was in October

Cultural interactions are important when it comes to settling during an immigration. The movie ‘West Side Story’ shows the way the Puerto Ricans tried to fit in and be a part of the New York City community. Once they got into New York City, the Puerto Ricans engaged themselves in various economic activities like working in stores for other people. The main theme of the West Side Story showed that intercultural relationships were an important part of the lives of the immigrants and emigrants of NYC

and won 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical. While this was not Broadway’s first concept musical it was one of the first successful. It was also one of the first to deal with adult themes and relationships. At that time people usually went to the theatre to escape and Company was holding up a magnifying glass to everyday couples and their marriages. The climatic ending comes when Bobby’s heart has finally thawed and he stands on the precipice of his future ready to find his mate. Company is a concept

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