The house at the Vivian Beaumont Theater had just been cleared from the matinee audience. Among couple of Playbills scattered around the floor, sat Ashley Park in her University of Michigan sweater. “Tuptim is actually my first professional Asian role,” said Park about her character at the Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King & I, “It is such an honor to be in this huge production that transports people to Siam everyday.” With over 45 Asian-American actors in the company, The King & I is currently the biggest production on Broadway and the first of its other productions that stick with the characters’ ethnicity righteously. Alongside Tony winners Kelli O’Hara and Ruthie Ann Miles, Park played Tuptim -the King’s present from Burma, a girl who went against the King’s slavery and wrote the Siam version of …show more content…
and Cinderella, being an Asian-American actor is not a limitiation for her career, it actually gives her an edge to be casted in a production. “But again, there will always be a limitation for all actors, there’s also gender and age,” said Park, “I can’t be casted as George in Sunday In The Park With George, because simply I’m a female and I can’t play a role in Hairspray or Ragtime because the two shows are about a certain period in history and race.” Park believes that in the contemporary musical theater industry, colorblind casting has become a goal for a lot of the productions and it is a movement that she is excited to be a part of in the touring company of Cinderella. Although she started to audition as the ensemble member and an understudy for the lead, Park relates to the role of Gabrielle, the nice step-sister, a role that is commonly played by six-foot something white actresses (Marla Mindelle played the part on the original Broadway production in
Who was once a hero, was now the villain in many regards; he was the protagonist at first, and after, became the antagonist after his fortune took over his morality. Henry Ford had well-meaning intentions at first. Truly wanting to connect the world, he wanted to create a car that everyone can afford and be able to enjoy. Although he achieved his goal of creating this car, the model T, several unintentional controversial ideologies were established along with it.
In T.H. White's Once and Future King, fate plays a very important role in Arthur's life when he meets Merlyn and Merlyn becomes his mentor. When they first met, Arthur was confused as to why Merlyn was going all the way home with him until Merlyn said, "Why not? How else can I be your tutor?" (37) Arthur realizes he had been on a quest to find his tutor. This quote is important to the theme because it was Arthur's first quest on his journey towards king. This reason this quote is so important is because Merlyn is preparing Arthur to become a great leader. After all of Arthur's training with Merlyn, Merlyn tells Arthur that he might not know it yet but he will be, "Hic jacet Arthutus Rex quandum Rexque futurus... The Once and Future King." (287) This quote foreshadows that Arthur, will in fact, become the great leader. If it were not for training with Merlyn, he would not be the great leader he developed into throughout the book.
Green, Stanley, and Cary Ginell. Broadway Musicals Show by Show. 7th. Milwaukee: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2011. Print. (Green and Ginell )
Hamlet, performed by the Yohangza Theatre Company of Korea and directed by Jung-ung Yang, is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet that integrates the Korean Shamanist rituals with the original storyline and text. Performed in Korean and featuring an all Korean cast, the play made its debut in 2009 at the Myeongdong Theater in Seoul. The play was layer also performed at the at the 2010 Oz Asia Festival in Adelaide, the 2011 Shakespeare-Festival Neuss in Germany, and at the Peacock Theatre in London in 2014 (Yung). It is clear that many liberties are taken in this adaptation of Hamlet; therefore, evaluating the effectiveness of the overall production based on the accuracy of the play in relation to the original text will be unfruitful. Instead,
There is no doubt that today's entertainment has lost most of its touch with the more classical influences of its predecessors. However, in mid-1994, Walt Disney Pictures released what could arguably be the best animated feature of all time in The Lion King. With a moral base unlike most of the movies released at the time, TLK placed a children's facade on a very serious story of responsibility and revenge. However, this theme is one of the oldest in history, and it is not the least apparent in one of the oldest works of literature by The Bard himself, William Shakespeare. The work that Disney's TLK parallels is none other than Hamlet: Prince of Denmark, and the film shadows this work so closely, that parallels between the main characters themselves are wildly apparent. This very close comparison has led critics "to compare the movie to Hamlet in the importance of its themes" (Schwalm 1). But with a closer inspection of the characters themselves do we see just how apparent these similarities are.
Hamlet and a popular amount of Disney movies share many parallels. The Lion King was actually based entirely off the play Hamlet. There are many themes in this play that are relevant in many other pieces, such as Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, and Hercules. Beauty and the Beast helps convey betrayal among people who care for each other, while Mulan allows people to see a deeper meaning in Hamlet’s own personal passion. Furthermore, Hercules allows one to connect the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia to a romance that is almost as complicated. While constructing this essay, I was able to discern a deeper meaning from the wise words of Shakespeare by taking the minute details, and linking them back to something similar and familiar.
A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin is a complex novel filled with an equally complex and diverse set of characters. Martin explores and questions many aspects of humanity, society, and morality by creating three-dimensional, imperfect characters. For many of these characters, it is difficult to determine whether they should be considered good or evil due to the fact that they are so human and realistic. Some characters are easy to love, and others, like Joffrey Baratheon, are incredibly easy to hate. It can be difficult to talk about Joffrey without immediately wanting to write him off as one of the cruelest and worst characters ever created. Not many people stop to ask why he is the way he is. What caused him to become so mean and sadistic?
Lee, Josephine D.. Performing Asian America race and ethnicity on the contemporary stage. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997. Print.
...Adesola. "Black Women on Broadway: The Duality of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun and Ntozake Shange's for colored girl." Black Women on Broadway 15.2: n. pag. Print.
Many perceive The Lion King, Disney's most successful movie to date, as Disney's only original movie; the only movie not previously a fairy tale from one country or another. This, however, is not the case. While The Lion King seems not to be beased on a fairy tale, it is in fact strongly based on the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare. Disney writers cleverly conceal the basic character archetypes and simplified storyline in a children's tale of cute lions in Africa. To the seasoned reader, however, Hamlet comes screaming out of the screenplay as obviously as Hamlet performed onstage.
“The Palace Thief” by Ethan Canin, shows Hundert a moral person from a boarding school named St.Benedict, and taught students with different backgrounds, including 3 generation of Senator’s sons, but when one of the Senator’s sons named Sedgewick, caused Hundert to be a person who praised himself by saying ‘he did this or he became this because of me’. However, in reality, Sedgewick stole his spotlight from the reunion to Hundert going back to his landowner. “The Palace Thief” was a story about never losing one’s own morals, because it is the power to do the righteous.
The first actor that impresses me the most is Macgregor Arney. He portrays two characters in the play, Florindo and Arlechino, amazingly. His humorous scenes contribute to the overall success of the play. He portrays several different body shapes during
EXPOSITION: Orsino expresses his love for Olivia: While Olivia is mourning for her dead brother; Orsino falls in love with her. He is trying to get her to marry him but she refuses. Since she mourns for the loss of her brother for seven years, Olivia will not see anybody who seeks a relationship with her.
The King and I (1951) is a story of Anna Leonowens and her time at the Siamese court as the governess to the children of King Mongkut where Robbins dance was challenged in his culture diverseness. This ballet work was integrated by Robbins with Cambodian classical dance style.
...could surpass her ability to visually play the part of a Fairy Queen but. Unfortunately the costumes and makeup could not cover up the fact that she cannot smoothly speak the prose found in this play. If I had a choice I would like to see Nicole Kidman play this role with possibly more elaborate staging for the realm of the faeries.