Musicals, Spring Awakening and Wicked Many successful musicals nowadays will take you on a trip back into a certain time era. For example, Catch Me If You Can, Ragtime, Billy Elliot, Hair, The Color Purple and Anything Goes, all of which have had tremendous success. The musicals Spring Awakening and Wicked take you on a trip to the past and have both been smash hits at the box office. Although they do have those aspects in common, they are completely different musicals that both take different approaches to their story lines. In this essay I will be talking about the differences in the issues the story deals with, the characters of each story, as well as the musical differences.
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey And The Gothic 2011 Introduction Northanger Abbey was one of the first novels that English writer Jane Austen wrote. Although it was written around the years 1798-99, the novel was not published until December 1817, five months after Austen’s death. Northanger Abbey tells the story of seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland on her first visit to the city of Bath and, later, to the Tinley’s house (the “Northanger Abbey” of the title.) Being a Gothic novel aficionado, Catherine keeps expecting real life to play out like one of her favourite novels. Consequently, the young heroine finds herself involved in many embarrassing situations throughout the novel.
I took this class theater because it was something I need toward my major, I figure it was going be an easy course but I was wrong after the first day when we did reading from the text. Theater deals with a lot of critical thinking because I was thinking a lot and at the same time learning too. I didn’t really know a lot the history behind theater as well I know now. First of all, theater has never occurs in my mind of how important it is because I always thought it just about people who played a role of many different chartists and story. All my life I always come cross seeing a one type of theater is seeing one’s of my favorite R and B musical singer at a concert and that simmered seeing a play because they both have a lot in comment like the audience, stage spaces, director, producer, and many more.
‘The Thirty-Nine Steps’ Evaluation of the Performance On the 15th of October The Thirty-Nine Steps’ was performed at the criterion theatre. The performance was based on both John Buchan’s book and the 1935 film version by Alfred Hitchcock; however it was adapted by Patrick Barlow. It is also currently directed by Maria Aitken. ‘The 39 Steps’ was the winner of Best New Comedy, Laurence Olivier awardS in 2007. The play starred just four actors; Martyn Ellis, Josefina Gabrielle, Simon Gregor and Simon Paisley Day who had to play all of the characters.
When I saw previews of Funny People on TV, the advertising made me believe that it was going to be a comedy. This was the use of genre film. Most people expected it to be a comedy because of the previews, the title, the actors, and the history of Judd Apatow movies. However, after actually seeing the movie, I didn’t think it was a comedy so much. With George Simmons health issue and his personal life with his ex lover, him not being a good family man, and him falling off as a comedian, I thought it was more of a serious film with funny parts added to it.
On April 30, 2011 I went to see The Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in the year 1902. This showing of The Wizard of Oz was performed by the Adams City Drama Club at their theatre in Commerce City, Colorado and directed by Justin Davis. However, this was not the same old Wizard of Oz everyone has seen and heard about etc. Instead of having the actors sing the songs that were in the play the songs were played by the orchestra while the actors danced and the audience sung them. This choice by Mr. Davis I felt was a risky one because there were a lot of songs in that play that not everyone in the audience was familiar with.
The author has expressed his own thoughts and ideas through the play and has presented a story of a woman using some characters. This play had aroused great controversy at that time because of its crucial attitude towards the marriage norms. There are many authors and people who have argued with the statement and play of Henrik Ibsen. This paper focuses on the views and ideas of different authors regarding the play “A Doll House” written by Henrik Ibsen (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dollhouse/themes.html). Author Henrik Ibsen was one of the best and major writers and directors of the 19th Century.
Some of my goals were to learn English, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to communicate and succeed as an immigrant. The decision to come to USA was my parents decision , at first it was hard because I didn’t like the idea, but later on I realize that I didn’t have other option so I decided to start learning . “In America everybody can be successful and if we try hard everybody can make their dreams come true” my teacher used to always tell me that and I could never forget it even when she forgets to told me that it wouldn’t be easy. At first I felt that I could never learn, because when I was listening it sounds like people said 1000 words without pause. Well that’s because I don’t know how to speak it an I try to listen what people said, but it always got me confused Last name 2 because when I read, it was so different from what I heard.
Movie review: Sweeney Todd TDBOFS Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is originally a musical written by Stephen Sondheim in the year of 1979. In the year of 2007, Tim Burton directed this musical in a film adaption. The movie did not only become a musical on film but also a horror movie with dark humour and a lot of drama. Every musical consists of a lot of singing and dancing, which in this case is very much accomplished by the big amount of both dancing as well as singing. However, since it is a musical, it has to consist of other genres, which in this case are horror, drama, and dark comedy.
I don’t even know when I started to like music, like listening to music. When I saw my cousins wore big headsets and listening to pop music I couldn’t figure out why they were so obsessed by a song. There was a channel on television that will play classic music from the old movies and it was playing the theme song from movie Drunken Master II. It was such a uprising song and I was so excited to hear it on television. I took my dad’s old recorder and a tape that he didn’t want started to record the song from television.