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Theater and Contemporary Musicals

In ten pages this report analyzes the musicals Eye of the Storm, Blood Brothersl, Ragtime, and Dracula. There are no other source...

Musical Score of Fame The Musical

The rest of the musical score -- "Pray I Make P.A.," "Hard Work," "I Want to Make Magic," "Dance Class," "Tyrones Rap," "There She...

Eastern Europe's Musical Cultures and the Effects of Modern Technology

Europe prior to the end of communism. In what was once Yugoslavia, for example, Belgrade was a center for rock and roll and popul...

Overview of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Version of The Phantom of the Opera

transferred to Broadway in 1988 with Crawford and Brightman repeating their roles. The show was a resounding success and gave Andr...

Chicago's Theater World

A report of six pages considers the actor training offered by Chicago's theater district and includes a discussion of the Shakespe...

Various Types of Regional Theater

house; the Cassius Carter Centre Stage, a small theater in the round where experimental works are performed, and the Festival Stag...

A Lively and 'Theatrical' Dinner Party

are likely to be found. To provide contrast, the gender of the second guest should be the opposite of the first guest. There will ...

Musical Theater Legend Chita Rivera

her stunning performance in Call Me Madam, many other notable roles followed. She continued to earn an outstanding reputation in ...

In His Own Write - A Creative Look at George Gershwin

In six pages George Gershwin's own vantage point is applied to the American composer's life and musical theater contributions. Th...

Composer and Lyricist Stephen Sondheim

In six pages this paper examines American musical theater in a consideration of the influence exerted by Stephen Sondheim. Four s...

Theater and Dance

In twelve pages this paper discusses how dance has been an essential component in theater evolution throughout history in terms of...

A Musical Theater History

In this paper that contains five pages the musical theater genre since the mid-1500s is considered historically in an overview of ...

'Trunk Theater' and Euripides' Medea

In five pages this paper examines a 'trunk theater' rural school production of Medea, the Greek tragedy by Euripides....

Greek and Roman Theater

As such one could clearly argue that the basic design of the Epidauros influenced the design and construction of the Colosseum. Th...

The Lawyer from Springfield

progress. He tells the councilmen that they are making a decision which seems small in itself, but which, "taken altogether [wit...

Sound Theatre Company

the added enhancement of focusing on local talent and servicing the local people. Since the organizations initial entry into the m...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

Review of the 1997 Pantages Theatre Performance of Phantom of the Opera

In four pages this paper reviews this musical performance in terms of structure with staging improvement suggestions offered....

Life and Compositions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In five pages this paper examines the life and musical genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....

Mary Chase's Play Harvey and Contemporary Theater

In four pages this 1950 example of contemporary theater is examined in an analysis of plot, dialogue, type, and characterization e...

Oleanna by David Mamet

and critic Thomas Eagleton as a "modernist literary work," meaning that the content is purposely left minimal so that it is up to ...

Greek Theater and Women's Role

has obviously made her own way in life and has been well respected, her one goal throughout the entire play is to wed a man who is...

Contemporary Drama/2 New Plays & Aristotle

working class (Brown). Modern playwrights have expanded the conception of tragedy to include all walks of people in all circumstan...

Modern Theater and Greek Drama

role of the chorus: "[E]ach play had its chorus, or group of men, a dozen or so, who would observe the action from the orchestra, ...

Simultaneous Distribution in the Film Industry

of the industry. Steven Soderbergh is the director of Bubble, Wagners first film targeted for simultaneous distribution. Though ...

Musical Representations of Various Eras

Robbins conceived, directed and choreographed West Side Story in 1957, which was written by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim...

John Cage/His Impact on Music

"rubber, felt, or wood, as well as screws, nuts and bolts" (Machlis 632). The result of this preparation is that the piano produ...

The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht

The writer discusses Bertolt Brecht's play The Threepenny Opera and explains its significance to twentieth century theater. The wr...

Performance Art and Theater

In five pages this paper discusses the differences between performance art and theater with an example of theater being the Broadw...

Theater History

and it was here, thanks to Thespis, that "masked actors performed outdoors, in daylight, before audiences of 10,000 or more at fes...