You could say that was the start of his career as a composer. Menken attended Rochelle High School in his home town and after graduation went to Pre-med school to become a dentist. Lucky for us he later changed his major to music. After college Alen attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York where he worked at local clubs writing jingles and songs as an accompanist. Alen Menken got his first big break in January of 1979 with Howard Ashman in the Off-Broadway production “God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater.” Three years later he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music in his Off-Broadway Production “Little Shop of Horrors” and from that in January of 1987 Menken was given his first Oscar nomination for a song with in it called “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space.” In 1990 Menken was nominated for three Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe Nominations and went on to win two of each for his work in the Walt Disney production “The Little Mermaid”.
In 1959, she graduated from Wesley College with a B.A. with honors in political science on a scholarship. Joseph Medill Paterson, a member of the Medill newspaper-publishing family, married her the same year, together they raised three daughters; twins Anne and Alice, and Katie. Even with the difficult job of upbringing her children, she managed to earn a degree of M.A. in Public Law and Government from School of Advanced International Studies and a certificate from the Russian Institute, both at Columbia
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams I had the opportunity to enjoy the play A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Ladislav Smoček at Činoherní klub[1] a week ago as it has been performed there since October 12, 2011. A Streetcar Named Desire was set in the 50s, in the time when the Great Depression that the Americans were facing had just ended. Tennessee Williams, an American playwright finished the play in 1947 after the Second World War. Its premiere was held at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in New York and it was directed by Elie Kazan. Jessica Tandy played Blanche, Kim Hunter played Stella and Marlon Brando played Stanley.
Stormie Reaves The History of Broadway Mr. Culverhouse In 1811, the city planners of New York City began a massive building execution of the grid, which is now a major characteristic of Manhattan. Broadway, as we know it, was born. All existing roads were redesigned according to this concept; only Broadway was spared. The theater district sits between the 41st and 53rd Street and between the Sixth and Ninth Avenues. Numerous well-known musicals and their actors celebrated their first successes here before gaining great fame.
Born April 16, 1889, in London, England, Charles Spencer Chaplin was no stranger to the stage. His mother and father, both British music hall entertainers, exposed him to the limelight from birth. He made his own stage debut at age five, filling in when his mother lost her voice mid-song. Chaplin found his escape from a life of poverty by landing a spot in the Karno Pantomime Troop. This allowed him to develop his comedic skills and brought him to America, where he signed a contract with the Keystone Film Company.
On December 08, 1941, while the President was addressing Congress, an unpublished play entitled “Everybody Comes to Rick’s” arrives at the Warner Brothers story department. It is slated to be just one of the 50 or so movies to be filmed the following year. It is renamed “ Casablanca”, and production begins in May of 1942. The timing of this movie could not have been more perfect. It is a love story.
Project part one: Paul Lynde By Marie Fullmer I chose Paul Lynde as the subject of my project. He was a very funny man, and was most famous for being the center square on the game show Hollywood Squares in the 60s and 70s. Paul was born on June 13, 1926 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He attended Northwestern University and studied drama with other now-known-celebrities Charlotte Rae, Patricia Neal, and Charleton Heston. He graduated in 1948 amd moved to New York where he started performing as a stand-up comedian.
South Pacific by Hammerstein the second and Joshua Logan is generally considered to be one of the greatest musicals in history, but this musical wasn’t always a Broadway hit! It first started out as the story line of two short stories by James A. Michener from his Pulitzer prize-winning 1948 book, Tales of the South Pacific. When Director Joshua Logan, a World War two veteran, read Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific he decided what a sensation it would be to adapt it for the stage. He and producer Leland Hayward purchased the rights for the work from Michener; they also asked Richard Rodgers to do the honors of to compose the music and Hammerstein the second to write lyrics and the Libretto of the upcoming musical. Both Rodgers and Hammerstein accepted the job and they began transforming the short, but detailed stories “Fo Dolla” and
Part One a) “Sudden ghosts out of the past: Duncan Schaeffer, a friend from college. Lorraine Quarrles, a lovely, pale blonde of thirty; one of a crowd who had helped them make months into days in the lavish times of three years ago.” F.Scott Fitzgerald. (1931) b) “Aren’t you going to answer the door? He’ll wake the whole hotel.” Arthur Miller. (play,1949) He includes illusions and delusions in their drama.
* She was married at the age of 16 to Jim Doughterty, known as an all- American young man. * In 1946, she signed a one year $150/wk contract with Twentieth Century Fox studios * Unsatisfied with some of her roles, in 1948 Monroe signed a six month contract with Columbia Pictures * In 1954 she married a second time to famous baseball player Joe Maggio * In 1954, she settled her disagreement and returned to Fox studios * In 1956, she married a third time to Arthur Miller, a renowned playwright * She won the Golden Globe award in 1960 for Best Motion Picture Actress in Some Like It Hot * In 1999, she was ranked as the sixth greatest female actress of all time by the American Film Institute Famous Films Include: * The Jungle Asphalt- 1950s (Metro Goldwyn Mayer) * Gentlemem Prefer Blondes- 1953 (Fox Studios ) * There’s No Business Like Show Business - 1954 (Fox Studios) * The Prince and The Show Girl ( * Some Like It Hot- 1959 (Fox Studios) Life Setbacks At birth, Monroe was considered at orphan. Gladys Baker, her mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.