I chose the musical Harmony for my life performance report. The performance was in the Alliance Theater at the Woodruff, downtown Atlanta Georgia. I attended the show on Tuesday, September twenty fourth at 7:30 pm. The production was presented by Center Theater Group and Alliance Theater. The musical was a calibration between musician Barry Manilow and writer/songwriter Bruce Sussman. They planned on doing Broadway musical together some 40 years ago, but were side tracked by their own personal careers. In the late 1990’s, they started working together on a musical and researching the required historical data surrounding the forgotten German vocal band. Manilow and Sussman worked on the project off and on for nearly 15 years (the program booklet).
The plot of the musical is based around the first boy band that got famous in Germany in the late 1920’s. They were called the Comedian Harmonists. The musical is based on the true story about six men as musicians, from their rise to international fame and to their separation due to political change and World War II in Germany. The musical highlighted what was happening in Germany due to Nazi rise in power and control. The band were essentially restricted and boycotted due to their Jewish nationality and political believes.
The most impressive character was Erich Collin, played by actor Chris Dwan. Unlike the other members of the band, Collin had the most personal conflict and struggle. Coming from an upper class family, he had to decide on continuing his education in becoming a doctor or becoming a full time member of the band. In the end, he stayed true to his dreams and told his family of his secret life as a member of the Comedian Harmonists. To me, he represented a tru...
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...cramped at all to me. Although, the seating was a little small for me. I felt cramped into the seat, and it was uncomfortable siting there for two hours. It was a packed night.
My overall experience attending the musical at the Alliance Theater was great. I enjoyed the musical for what it is, but I did not enjoy the seating arrangement at all. I can see its importance as a medium of visual and sound entertainment. The theater is a form of entertainment that you really have to understand in order to appreciate and enjoy. Going through the topics of this paper, I got a chance to experience something new and interesting. To me, this form of entertainment is out dated. I’ll take a good paramount pictures movie any day. I’m sure in a few hundred years from now, people will say how primitive the movie genre was and their 3D interactive hologram is much better.
Kislan, Richard. The Musical: A Look at the American Musical Theater. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980. 84, 110, 116-121, 125-127, 128, 134, 163, 195, 201, 209. Print.
Ever heard of a story that sings of the “Angel of Music” and the “Phantom of the Opera”? A tale that once you have listened to the sweet melody that you will realized that you've pasted the “Point of No Return”? This love triangle has captivated multitudes ever since the 1910 original Phantom of the Opera was published in France by Monsieur Leroux, although most story lovers recall the musical of the same name by Andrew Lloyd Webber or the motion picture adaption. Although this story has been entertaining people for over a century, in this new era have prerecorded voices and movements begun to overshadow the talented performers of live theater? Although “The lavish screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera (2005) only deepened the damage” of the dislike of musicals made into film “with non-stars in the leads and an unimaginative production,”(Musical),which version, the live performance or the film, makes the story more attractive? To answer these questions, permit this essay to analyze two methods of storytelling: 2011 live performance Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall and the 2005 film, and decide if music and story lovers everywhere have too “turned from true beauty”.
Mise en scene is a French theatrical term meaning “placing on stage,” or more accurately, the arrangement of all visual elements of a theatrical production within a given playing area or stage. The exact area of a playing area or stage is contained by the proscenium arch, which encloses the stage in a picture frame of sorts. However, the acting area is more ambiguous and acts with more fluidity by reaching out into the auditorium and audience. Whatever the margins of the stage may be, mise en scene is a three dimensional continuation of the space an audience occupies consisting of depth, width, and height. No matter how hard one tries to create a separate dimension from the audience, it is in vain as the audience always relates itself to the staging area. Mise en scene in movies is slightly more complicated than that of an actual theater, as it is a compilation of the visual principles of live theater in the form of a painting, hence the term “motion picture.” A filmmaker arranges objects and people within a given three-dimensional area as a stage director would. However, once it is photographed, the three-dimensional planes arranged by the director are flattened to a two-dimensional image of the real thing. This eliminates the third dimension from the film while it is still occupied by the audience, giving a movie the semblance of an audience in an art gallery. This being so, mis en scene in movies is therefore analogous to the art of painting in that an image of formal patterns and shapes is presented on a flat surface and is enclosed within a frame with the addition of that image having the ability to move freely within its confines. A thorough mise en scene evaluation can be an analysis of the way things are place on stage in...
The theme of this musical was different than the contemporary comical musicals in the sense that the plot had a tragic ending. This presented a huge challenge to the creators. West Side Story, for the fir...
..., Scott. Strike Up The Band: A New History of Musical Theatre. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2007. Print.
I’m in love with music because it always seems to make my day go by better. Rap, recitals, jazz and classical concerts top in my music preferred list. My passion for music made me very excited about going the Columbus state musical concert held in the River Center of Performing Arts In the Legacy Room. The theatre is located in a nice location giving the audience a full range of sound and sight. The sounds are incredible and I really loved how I could hear everything. The stage can be seen from any place that one decides to stand on. For this particular concert, the venue was dimly lit. The concert staged was adorned by different musicians, with their amazing performances.. The audience could not help, but dance and sing along with the musicians. During this concert report I will tell you about the three recitals I attended and how they struck me as being some of the best music I’ve ever heard.
On Wednesday, May 23rd, I attended the College Choir concert in the Reamer Campus Center. The choir performed a variety of songs, ranging from pieces in Latin to traditional American folksongs. Two of the pieces featured solos, and one even featured percussion instruments. Mrs. Elinore Farnum provided piano accompaniment for each of the songs, and performed beautifully. I was extremely impressed by the talented choir members and their ability to sing such a varied range of songs.
I went to see the musical Spring Awakening on October 24, 2015 with my mom and my older sister. This musical was about teenagers that are discovering what it is like to be getting older and what falling in love really means. The reason that I chose this was because I am a teenager myself and I will be experiencing the problems of the real world, if not now, soon. Before I went to see the production, I was expecting it to be like most of the other musicals that I have seen, that just have songs and a basic plot line. However, the production certainly did exceed my expectations. After seeing the show, I felt as if it had actually impacted the way that I look at my future, in a good and bad way. In addition, I was not expecting it to be as outgoing as it was. Specifically, it taught me that you can find love even if you are still young and that as you get older life will get more complicated and you will have to overcome many challenges. Also, it proved to me that music can make an experience much more memorable, which is what this musical did. With no doubt, this musical was very worth doing because of the ways
Theatres and How We Had Fun." Little, Brown, and Company. (Boston, Toronto, London); 1991. P. 139, 144.
As an actor, I venerate authentic storytelling. I love being transported completely into the world of a show, emerging at the end with an understanding of the characters and the events to which I feel personally connected. One time when I felt this way after seeing a show was seeing the musical Here Lies Love at the ACT Theatre in Seattle. It’s strange for me to refer to this production as a musical, though it is almost entirely sung-through, because it felt more like an experience.
thesis of how the musical brought our inner child out to realize our true struggles in life.
Musical concerts are undoubtedly an incredible opportunity to experience a great aesthetic pleasure by listening to the musicians perform in front of your eyes. The power of music can hardly be overestimated – it can transfer a number of messages, thoughts and feelings through the performed sounds. Therefore the one can comprehend the music in the best possible way only when it is heard live. Musical concerts are often revelatory and highly impressive experiences to me. This essay thereby aims to provide my reflections and impressions of the concert of Gregory Porter & the Metropole Orchestra which I had the opportunity to attend in Nashville, TN.
Theatre has heavily evolved over the past 100 years, particularly Musical Theatre- a subgenre of theatre in which the storyline is conveyed relying on songs and lyrics rather than dialogue. From its origination in Athens, musical theatre has spread across the world and is a popular form of entertainment today. This essay will discuss the evolution and change of musical theatre from 1980-2016, primarily focusing on Broadway (New York) and the West End (London). It will consider in depth, the time periods of: The 1980s: “Brit Hits”- the influence of European mega musicals, the 1990s: “The downfall of musicals”- what failed and what redeemed, and the 2000s/2010s: “The Resurgence of musicals”- including the rise of pop and movie musicals. Concluding
After a movie theater with its play-list is found, a movie is picked, and the trip is made, customers are faced with the almost certain minimum cost of $8.50 per person to get in. That means a family of four, would have to pay over $35 just for movie tickets. Once inside, if the concession stand is unavoidable the cost continues to multiply because any food, snack, or drink is always at least half the price of a movie ticket.
Theatre as we know it now was born more than two thousand years ago and has gone through many streams until it reached the current modernity. Among these streams is the avant-garde theatre. This theatre achieved a break in the traditional theatre and became the forefront of a new experimental theatre. Therefore it is necessary to ask how this theatre started, what impact it had on society and if this type of theatre is still common in our modern era.