A lovable, heartwarming story of love is one of “ Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”. A story of seven men who have no guidance find themselves in love. The two main characters in the play are Adam and Millie. By being husband and wife they help the story out with their own love and romance. The seven brothers fall in love with seven beautiful woman and through out the play we see al the ways they try to get their gals. The singing in this play helps us figure out the songs: “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”, “Goin Courtin”, and “Sobbin Woman”. The style of music they use to get this point across is old fashion, traditional music.
This live performance of “Bless Your Beautiful Hide” by Adam is a confident and arrogant way to find love. In this song Adam explains how he is here to find himself a wife. That’s just what Adam does too. By hearing this song the viewer gets the hint that the play is a love story about him and this beautiful lady that he is staring at. Adam uses his bass voice to keep the tempo moderately constant. The dynamics change throughout the song with a grand finish of a chershendo. Adam uses accents in the song to emphasize his feelings of getting a wife. An orchestra is accompanying him with the instruments like: trumpets, banjos, and trombones. This sets the mood for the story to take place.
“Goin Courtin” has a different kind of tempo to it than does “Bless Your Beautiful A Hide”. The tempo in this song is a little faster than the other song. Millie is explaining to the brothers how to get a girl. How to get a girl in nice, gentleman way. Millie uses tone color in this song to make the mood very happy and exciting. Millie uses a slow calm voice to get the instructions across to the boys on how to get a girl. When she get to the “Goin Courtin” part of the song she speeds thing up to make it more dramatic and to get the brothers to think this is the fun way of getting the gals. She uses body language to help the brothers realize all the excitement that is involved in getting the girls.
“Sobbin Woman” is Adam’s way of explaining to the brothers how to get the woman.
While Anna Williams views escaping the confines of marriage as a desirable thing, Charlotte Lennox’s greatest lament, as expressed by her poem “A Song,” is merely to have the freedom to love who she pleases. Although Charlotte Lennox has a more romantic view of men and love than Anna Williams, neither woman denies the need for companionship. Charlotte Lennox’s opinion towards love is expressed clearly in her piece “A Song.” The poem’s female speaker is experiencing unrequited love.
Miranda becomes attracted to Adam, a masculine soldier who shows his devotion to the war and traditions. He is heroic figure according to the traditional principle. Yet Miranda was able to
meeting, fighting, reconciliation. Dawe juxtaposes the characters with a metaphor “she was Sanyo-orientated”” He was Rank-arena bred”. The juxtaposition of the persona described with the metaphor suggest two very different backgrounds; like that of the Shakespearean Love classic Romeo and Juliet; Two characters of which have conflicting backgrounds yet still manage to uphold a passionate relationship. “A faulty tube led to their meeting” suggests the man may be repairing the TV also a fateful situation has brought them together; falling in love with the good Samaritan; having the woman propose he stay while with her “’watch me a while;’ she said …”. Dawe also uses visual imagery to explore the romantic genre. “They fell in love and shared a samboy crunching in the afterglow” creates a mental image of a romantic movie where two lovers relax together watching the sunset. Dawe climaxes the poem with a fight between the characters, in the fifth stanza where the two contest the program wished to be viewed; either “Candid camera” or “Twist and shout”. As with every classical love story the poem concludes with a typical
In the play, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” it tells a story about Joseph, one of Israel’s son, who can interprets dreams and his faith with God even when times goes bad for him. If you look deeply into this play, it is a religious play that mentions about the Holocaust and the different song styles to make the lyrics of the song through.
On a Wednesday night I saw Texas State Theatre and Dance Department's performance of A Chorus Line. The main plot of the musical entails the audition of 17 dancers for several Broadway roles on the chorus line. However, during their auditions the director Zach asks for personal stories of each dancer's life. Though the plot of this musical is seemingly simple in its twist on the traditional audition, it explores themes that reveal the human experience, the search for individuality, and the sense of self.
Based on a series of Brothers Grimm fairy tales, Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (1987) focuses on fairy tale characters such as Cinderella, Jack and Little Red Riding Hood’s wish of life fulfillment. Numerous fairy tales are intertwined with one new tale in attempt to carry the childhood stories into an adult realm without ridding of their child-based sensibilities. (Knapp, 2009.) Little Red’s song, “I know things now” is performed after she escapes the wolf’s belly. It is a reflection song on what she has learnt from the experience of speaking to strangers. Sondheim cleverly integrates musical devises such as key, modulation, pitch, accompaniment, dynamics, motif and rhythm alongside language and literary devices to contribute to the development and growth of the character and story.
The episode started out at Stanley's bachelor party. He was talking to Ralph about how he and Agnis were planning to move into her parent’s house after they get home from the honeymoon. Ralph is portrayed as the dominate male character in the play and he is quick to say that you should get your own place and not let Agnis decide where you two should be living. Stanley, who is more quiet and nondominant, seems too look up too Ralph so he does what he said and ends up getting into a fight with Agnis. After their fight Agnis stays the night with Alice and Ralph to get away from Stanley. Ralph comes up with this plan to
The musical “Cats” is an outstanding show that captivates audiences of all ages. It is based on a book of poems called, “Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats”, written by T.S. Eliot. “Cats” tells a nonsense story of different cats. The amazing music, unique costumes, and intricate dance choreography bring a breath-taking story to life that a leaves a lasting impression on the viewer.
“The Bridegroom” by Ha Jin, is a short story about a man struggling with homosexuality in modern day China. The narrator, Old Chang, is the non-biological father of a young woman named Beina. Old Change promised to take care of Beina after her father, a close family friend, passed away. Beina then gets married to a very handsome man named Huang Baowen. Baowen quickly becomes the focus of this story. The climax of this short story is Baowen being revealed as a homosexual. This short story highlights Jin’s theme of homosexuality and shows the internal and external struggles of both Baowen and Old Cheng, through first person narrative, setting, and emotional appeal.
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In this essay I will show how the Song of Songs implies the philosophical ideas that the definition of beauty is not dependent upon society’s prejudice or taste; that it is most precious when it is protected and guarded; and that with edenic love comes maximal blessing. The book exists as an ancient poem of inspired literature, where the author paints different interactions between two lovers: a Shulamite woman, and a shepherd who is known as “the beloved” (2:3).
The main song being alluded to is "Varsouviana," a polka song that sounds a bit like merry-go-round music, which is constantly playing in Blanche’s head and disturbing her thoughts (Williams 141). Blanche’s husband had previously killed himself to this song, it now playing in repeat in her head and building up guilt on her shoulders as it was theoretically her fault. The tune works to set the scene for the instability overcoming Blanche, the creepy music inside her head unable to be heard by any other ears mixed with her inability to escape the guilt and anxiety that seems to blanket her every thought. Williams is able to incorporate this disturbing music on stage to show the audience Blanche’s slow decline of health, the insanity that steadily consumes her due to her lack of living with her present existence. Another song blended into the story is “It’s Only a Paper Moon” by Harold Arlen, a song that speaks on love and how it becomes an overwhelming aspect of people’s lives. It explains how love causes dependency as it morphs one's reality to fantasy: “It’s only a paper moon, just as phony as it can be— But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me!” (Williams 120-122). The song alludes to the illusory world she lives in, her desire for someone to join in on it through love as she slowly descends into madness, relying heavily on others to fuel her
thesis of how the musical brought our inner child out to realize our true struggles in life.
It is well known that Shakespeare’s comedies contain many marriages, some arranged, some spontaneous. During Queen Elizabeth's time, it was considered foolish to marry for love. However, in Shakespeare’s plays, people often marry for love. With a closer look into two of his most famous plays As You Like It and Twelfth Night or What You Will, I found that while marriages are defined and approached differently in these two plays, Shakespeare’s attitudes toward love in both plays share similarities. The marriages in As You Like It’s conform to social expectation, while the marriages are more rebellious in Twelfth Night. Love, in both plays, was defined as
To give a little background on the play, the pursuit of marriage is the driving force behind the play. “I now pronounce you, man and wife.” This traditional saying, commonly used to announce a newlywed couple during a wedding ceremony, marks the happily ever after that many dream of today. In today’s society, marriage is an expression of love between two individuals. Marriage has not, however, always been an act of love.