Tony Awards: Did You Miss It?
By: Shaki
Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming hosted this years 69th Annual Tony Awards, presented Sunday night at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
The cast of Something Rotten! started the evening by poking fun at musicals with a well put together performance filled with dance breaks and at will singing.
Jason Alexander and Larry David addressed the snub of David’s “Fish in the Dark" prior to presenting the award for Best Musical to Fun Home. “The true measure of a man is not to be nominated and still show up to read a list of names of those who are nominated. That's a big man. That's a big, big man," David said. Alexander then calls him a loser. Alexander will take David’s role starting Tuesday.
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I don’t think that is bad either, because that is what they wanted and they achieved their goal. The Miss Firecracker show is entertaining and hilarious all in one. Popeye is witty and awkward, Carnell strives attention, Elaine is a southern bell, and Delemount acts crazy the entire time. I loved it. I wasn’t sure what the play was about when I bought the tickets but it is definitely something that I would do again. I didn’t see any problems with the play either. The scenery was representational, the actors understood their role, it was entertaining, the lighting was on schedule and accurately completed, and their costumes fit perfectly in the
In this case the participants were not quite as seasoned as those mentioned above. The play itself was quite clever and entertaining. Varying degrees of acting and vocal ability made for a very diverse cast. Meshing an 1879 play with Millennium type humor is no small feat. The scenes were concise; costumes were extrem...
What is music? Music is a very broad word that can mean and reflect several and different points of view. I don’t know about you, but to my understanding music is freedom of speech in the expression of feelings and emotions. Depending on the type of music base on genre, everyone tends to listen towards what their heart desires. Within the different types of genre, there are artists and bands that explore these genres and paint their points of view on how to express it. Artists such as the Weekend and Romeo Santos are two of my favorite artists that I love to listen on a daily basis, but what makes these artists so special? Romeo Santos and the Weekend may have differences in language, but they have several similarities that stands out to me
Musical theatre has been around for quite a while. But where exactly did it come from? The book Anything Goes, written by Ethan Mordden looks to explore just that. From operas to musical comedies, Mordden covers the basic history of musical theatre and why it’s important for the world to know.
The Last Night of Ballyhoo is an interesting play with many intertwined facets that require understanding of the time period to be fully understood. The acting is entertaining because of the different voice tones of the actors and actresses. The clothing of the actors and the way the stage is set, really makes the audience feel the emotion and passion of each character.
Before the beginning of the movie, cast members will wander around the theater, and yell out various lines from the movie. When the movie curtain starts to roll its way up, you see a bright pair of red lips singing. When the lips appear, people will start to yell out their favorite audience participation lines. One of my favorite spots in the movie to shout out lines would have to be in the very beginning when the lips on screen are singing the song "Science Fiction, Double Feature." The song is full of participation lines and props that people can bring to the theater with them. There is one line that I particularly like that comes from this song and it goes a little something like this; "and from a deadly place it came from (where?) outer space! (Thank you!)." Another example of audience participation/prop use would be when one of the characters, Dr. Scott, goes flying through the walls of the laboratory in his wheelchair. As he is rolling down the ramp from where he flew through, another character, Brad, yells out "Great SCOTT" and that’s when everyone takes the toilet paper they have brought with them and throws it all over the place. Once all the toilet paper has been collected by the cast leader, they pick out one person from the audience and DOUSE them with toilet paper and it’s the funniest sight one will ever see!
"Into The Woods," is a mixture of Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood, Jack In The Bean Stalk, Rapunzel, and The Baker and The Baker's Wife. It was held at the Springfield Theatre on Lawrence Street, on the eighth day of the tenth month of the year 2000. The plays were not separated in their own section the whole time. They mixed them all together most of the time. It was very interesting and entertaining. This musical was set in the woods (the whole time). Every skit was just like the original ones, but they put a little twist to them to make them funnier.
As a student of hers, I am confident in saying that she puts all of her hard work and efforts into her productions. Hard work pays off and thanks to her, the transitions between all scenes especially act two scene three to the finale were a great success. She did a extraordinary job casting the actors and hiring Abby Peterson Murrel as the choreographer. Abby did a fantastic job directing the “Waiters Gallup” there was so much movement and this song/scene that it is easy for it to become a jumbled mess, however she made clean, cut movements that is was a breeze to follow. Rudolph Reisenweber played by Garrett Johnson, the head chef of the overwhelming restaurant, was well placed. We see the first and second cook dressed in completely different outfits making appearances on either side of the stage while other waiters are dancing to songs in the middle. The choreography kept things interesting and the dances in a musical can make or break the performance. Overall, Cherie and Abby did amazing jobs directing each person to have a place among a crowded
2.Growing up I watched a show called "Everybody Hates Chris" I really love this show because it had a significance meaning behind it all. This show presents both social class and social mobility.His social class is being poor. Social mobility is being showed when they modernized their lifestyle by moving out of the projects to live in an all white neighborhood. It was difficult for chris to adapt because he was colored and was treated unfairy. His brother and sister were able to get an education in their old neighborhood while he had to go to a school called Brooklyn beach which was a poor neighborhood on the other side of his town. He's mother felt that him going to a white school will provide him with a better education. He had big responsiblities
Through the years, comedy movies have generally had the same idea, to make the audience grin and giggle. Abbott and Costello were a popular comedy duo in the 1950 's who 's slapstick style kept viewers entertained. In the 1960 's comedy musicals became increasingly popular with movies such as Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Music Man. These movies attracted people of all ages with their enjoyable and catchy toons. Even today, people of all ages can sing all of the words to the famous song, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. In the next decade, comedy movies began to have more of a vulgar tone. An R rating became the new normal for the 1970 's with movies such as Blazing Saddles, Animal House and the infamous Rocky Horror Picture Show. Comedy movies in the 1980 's were becoming more appealing to the teenage crowd. Some very well known classics, still popular today are Ferris Bueller 's Day off, Sixteen Candles, Ghostbusters and The Goonies. The 1990 's ushered in an abundance of senseless cinematic features. Movies such as Dumb and Dumber, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and Happy Gilmore kept spectators laughing with simple-minded and foolish characters. Today 's comedies are a mixture of styles that are largely influenced by comedies of the
To begin, the musical I went to watch was a high school version of the musical Grease. In the beginning, the male lead, Danny Zuko, meets a girl on the beach. At school, he tells his friends about her and how she doesn't live anywhere close to them. Little does he know that the girl, Sandy, recently moved and now attends his high school. Sandy (the lead female character) becomes friends with a bunch of popular girls, known as the “Pink Ladies”. When the "Pink Ladies" introduce Sandy to Danny at the football team’s pep rally; Danny acts rudely towards Sandy. Eventually, he pays attention to Sandy and decides to act like a jock after seeing Sandy hanging out with one. After joining the school’s track team, he ends up in Sandy’s good graces again. They both go to the local burger spot to avoid everyone they know. However, once they arrive, they notice that their friends got there before them. After seeing his
When the lights come up the audience is immediately thrown into an old and dingy movie theatre complete with popcorn strewn across the floor. It is within this set that deep social commentary is made throughout the
Every face had excellent expressions, presenting their characters perfectly. Also, each actor added their own twist on the characters, anywhere from a slight accent to body language, adding more depth to the entire musical. Furthermore, every actor changed their voice in a way that depicted their character’s emotions and attitude at that particular moment. Also, the color of the lights changes according to each scene and the mood for that particular scene.
The 2000s/ 2010s brought in a wave of movie musicals- adapted from the stage shows. These brought new audiences into the theatre world, and for the first time in 20 years, brought a love to some of the timeless musicals. With slightly altered songs to appeal to a newer audience, these films brought in much needed money into the industry, with films including: Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Fame- and many more. Together with this, musicals began to push the concept of the songs in them, with a wave of new styles being written. Rap musicals such as ‘Hamilton’ and ‘In The Heights’, Pop musicals including ‘Waitress’ and ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ and Rock musicals of ‘American Idiot’ and ‘Spring Awakening’. Together they pushed boundaries of a ‘traditional’ musical theatre sound, and brought in something never before seen. Due to the influence of ‘Rent’, controversial issues and themes began to be explored more, such as Teen suicide, Murder, Ethnic barriers and everything else, which brought with them, a world of opportunities. It was clear that musical theatre was once again showing for a promising
...heir moans. At this time during the performance the performers gave the audience detailed sounds of different types of moaning that women often do. I found this act to be the most hilarious, along with the other audience members, because the moans from the performers were so overly dramatic yet accurate. This was a great way to uplift the mood of the performance after the other disheartening stories.