Fiddler on the Roof- A Chorus Line A Chorus Line and Fiddler on the Roof have one major connection, they are both about tradition. A Chorus Line follows dancers in the middle of an audition, hoping to get this job. To dancers trying out for shows is almost like a tradition. Every dancer who wants to make it out there is gonna work their butt of to try to get a job in the chorus. Audition after audition after audition you try just to get a small part and keeping that tradition can be very hard. Not wanting to give up, that determination is what makes a dancer a dancer. That love and need to be on the stage working till you drop. Keeping that “tradition” can challenging but in all it is worth it for that moment on stage. A chorus line follows …show more content…
In Phantom of the Opera the there is a Phantom at the Paris Opera House. The phantom is a man with a scarred face who was thrown in a circus as a young boy and treated as the devil child. He is whipped and scared and laughed upon. Until a young Madame Giry helps him escape into the basement/sewers under the opera house.The Phantom is lonely and has fallen for young Christine Daaé. Every time she refuses him he does something terrible to a person or thing in the opera house. At the end the phantom does not end up with Cristine, he is left alone. In Sweeney Todd the same way Sweeney Todd was accused of a crime he did not do, when we returns he discovers that his wife was raped by the judge and the same man. To get revenge Sweeney begins to kill a bunch of people. In the end Sweeney kills the judge but he also kills his wife and then is killed. Both the Phantom and Sweeney were heart hurt so they did everything to be with the thing they loved, for the phantom it was Cristine and for Sweeney it was his daughter . The did terrible things to get revenge and instead they were left in turmoil. The Phantom of the Opera and Sweeney Todd have similar plot lines with different
The most prominent character parallel between the two works is that of Prince Hamlet and Sweeney Todd. They have similar motives and plans to reach their
and in front of the whole school during spirit week and international week, without a bit of apprehension. Gaining this confidence was and is the key to victories in dance competitions. Confidence and my familiarity with a variety of dance forms such as hip-hop, jazz, and several Indian classical dances can be credited to my winning first place in a memorable competition, where, for the first time, my two friends and I choreographed the dance piece that we performed. This experience also helped as the same friends and I had 2 weeks to choreograph, perfect, and perform alongside a famous Indian singer as he sang live. These values specifically pushed me advance further into the art form, and were also extremely useful outside of the dance
For the dancer, music and choreography are paramount. The music guides the dancer, and the moves express the music. However, the dance has to start from somewhere.
The Pressures of Dancers The typical idea of a dancer is that they are tall, slender, full of energy, and lucky because they dance with all of the “stars”. Much of this is true, however, what many people do not think of are the many hardships that a dancer goes through in order to achieve their high status in the dance world. It takes a lot of hard work and determination along with good direction to become a dancer. However, nothing good comes without a price.
The Phantom of the Opera is the classic telling of the story of a beast or a broken man who feel in love for a women who he could never have because of his own obstacles and deficiencies. But never the less it shows that love is eternal in all senses if you find the person that can “make your song take flight”. In both compositions there were differences in transitions, symbolism and delivery of scenes with opposite moods or tones that may have left things to imagination. The Phantom of the Opera Musical and Film payed great homage to the classic gothic love novel it all started from and brought to life the words written into beautiful musical compositions that set forth a standard for the
He comes back to find Judge Turpin and wait for the opportunity to take his life. Sweeney Todd attack mostly people of authority and he is sending a message that he is not afraid of authority
Plot The Phantom of the Opera, is one of the most popular gothic, play, story, and movie. This story takes the reader through a wondrous gothic journey, in the Paris Opera House. To understand the story, the characters must be introduced. The phantom is commonly mentioned in the story. He is Erik.
A Chorus Line is a musical that focuses on Broadway dances who are auditioning for spots on a chorus line. Throughout the play, the different backgrounds and struggles of the different dances are shown to the audience, explaining the behavior of the dancers. As the past of each of the dancers is unfolded, the audience understands and appreciates the musical more and more. Not only does A Chorus Line portray the difficulties that performers must overcome to be successful, it also demonstrates the real world fact that not everyone can “make it.”
They call him the Phantom of the Opera or Opera Ghost. His only companion is his singing protégé, a soprano singer named Christine Daaé. Christine remembers hearing stories of an Angel of Music from her late father. She is drawn to and yet also terrified by her Angel of Music, whose voice carries through walls while she sleeps and whispers to her through the day. With the Phantom’s help Christine goes from being a chorus girl to the lead act.
Intentionally or not, the original tale of a horrific-looking outcast and cold-blooded murderer whose “death’s head” appearance and heinous crimes would make it impossible for Christine to choose him—even though her character has always felt a great connection to him. Instead, the show emphasized the Phantom’s isolation, his musical vision, and the mysterious attraction Christine feels for him. It also brought to life both the emotions of despair and hope: the leading ladies have always needed to depict Christine’s enduring grief for her late father, her tragic relationship
Phantom of the Opera is the longest running musical to date, as it has been touring non-stop for 28 years. Phantom is known as being a tremendously heart wrenching performance that centers around a love triangle and angst. The love triangle involves Christine Daae, Raoul, and the Phantom, who is also known as Erik. Christine came to the Opera Populaire as a young child where she grew up mastering the arts when her father passed. The Phantom was a man deformed at birth and was shown in a freak show until he eventually ran away as child and found shelter in the lake beneath the Opera House, where he found Christine and became captivated with her. Raoul, who was once a childhood friend, became a benefactor of the Opera House where he sees Christine
Love can make people commit violent acts that they would normally not consider. The Phantom of the Opera is a novel written by Gaston Leroux, which combines love and violence to explore relationships between men and women whose personal experiences of love are vastly different. It is about a man named Erik, also known as The Phantom of the Opera. He has a devil’s appearance and angel’s voice. His shameful face made his parents hate and ignore him. They made him wear a mask to hide his face and keep him away. Erik feels he is separate from society, Erik feels strong sense of inferiority, choosing to close his heart and live alone in the darkness.
A Midsummer Night's Dream is, in a way, Romeo and Juliet turned inside out--a tragedy turned farcical. The tragedy both are based on is the story of "Pyramus and Thisbe." In one, Ovid's story is treated as a melodrama (in Romeo and Juliet) and in another, it is fodder for comedy (in A Midsummer Night's Dream).
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux was a gothic novel written in 1910 (add historical context) The main protagonist in the story her name is Christine Daaé and she is an actress. After lessons with a mysterious figure she calls the “angel of music,” she acquires a beautiful singing voice. The main antagonist of the novel is the phantom of the Opera a man who when he was young ran away from home because of his deformities. Now he lives within the Opera house and terrorizes the people within its walls. The main plot of this story involves the protagonist Christine Daaé and the antagonist phantom of the opera or also known as Erik. Christine is an actress at the opera house of Paris and a mysterious
The Phantom of the Opera centers on the Paris Opera House which has over time become the Phantom’s domain. Upon the news that the opera house has been bought and is under new ownership, the Phantom demands that the new owners honor the “agreement” he has established with the previous owners and that the fifth opera box is kept empty for his use and that his salary of 20,000 francs per month is honored. The Phantom also demands that Christine, whom he has secretly been giving singing lessons to, replace Carlotta Giudicelli, the opera company’s prima donna. He also warns that if his demands are not met, that the opera house and the opera company will need to pay the consequences. Though the origins of the Phantom are unknown to the general population of the opera house, Madame Giry knows more about the Phantom than she lets on. It is later discovered that Madame Giry helped the Phantom escape a life of abuse from a freak show and that she hid him at the opera house where she was studying ballet. It was during Christine’s and the Phantom’s singing lessons that he began to fall in love with her and came to be obsessed and protective of her. The return of Christine’s first love, Raoul, threatens to tear Christine an...