I just found my terms assignment sheet so I'll post it here. I'm only going to post the assignments for people who have not done their terms yet or who may not know what their terms were. If you have already posted your terms and you names on here then sorry. Also if you were gone the day we assigned these then just pick some from the list of people who have a lot of terms. I know this is really late and the test is tomorrow but I have had a busy semester and none of this would have happened if I hadn't volunteered to do it, so please don't complain to me about it.
Emily
Dadaism
Happenings
Bertolt brecht
Lorraine Hansberyy
Angry young men
The Group Theatre
Jordan
Existentialism
Jocque Copeau
The investigation
Sarah
The book Musical
Carousel
Annie get your gun
Sandow
George M. Cohan
Irving Berlin
Daylene
South Pacific
Guys and Dolls
My Fair Lady
Lindsey
The Jazz singer
Eubie Blake
Marilynn Miller
Florenz Ziegfeld
The follies
New Amsterdam Theatre
Davy
Showboat
Prohibition
Oscar Hammerstein
Betty
Walter Winchell
The Big apple
Fanny brice
Jared
Bert Williams
George and Ira Gershwin
Of thee I sing
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South Pacific- is a 1949 musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The story draws from James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1948 novel, Tales of the South Pacific, weaving together characters and elements from several of its stories into a single plotline. The musical won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950. The issue of racial prejudice was sensitively and candidly explored, particularly for the 1949 stage work.
ReplyDeleteSouth Pacific is generally considered to be one of the greatest musicals in history. Several of its songs, including "Bali Ha'i," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Happy Talk", "Younger than Springtime" and "I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy" have become worldwide standards. The Broadway production of South Pacific was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won all of them, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Libretto. It was the only musical production ever to win all four Tony Awards for acting. The show was a critical and box office hit and has since enjoyed many successful revivals and tours and spawned a 1958 film and other adaptations.
Guys and Dolls - is a musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure", two short stories by Damon Runyon. It also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably "Pick the Winner". It ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical, and has had several Broadway revivals as well as several West End productions.
My Fair Lady- is a musical based upon George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins so that she can pass as a lady. Higgins takes credit for Eliza's success, but she realizes that she can now be independent and does not need him.
The musical's 1956 Broadway production was a smash hit, setting a new record for the longest run of any major musical theatre production in history. It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and numerous revivals. It has been called "the perfect musical."
The Jazz Singer: Samson Raphaelson adapted the story of The Jazz Singer for stage. The play is a straight drama with all of the music taking place off-stage. It premiered on Broadway in September 1925 with George Jessel playing the lead. It was later adapted for film to become the very first film with sound.
ReplyDeleteEubie Blake: He was a composer and lyricist of ragtime. He wrote the Broadway musical, Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway musicals to be written and directed by African-Americans. Some of his hits include: “Charleston Rag,” “Love Will Find a Way,” and “I’m Just Wild about Harry.”
Marilynn Miller: She was one of the most popular actresses on Broadway during the 20s and 30s. She was well-known for her tap-dancing, singing, and acting, but well-loved for her combination of all three. She usually played in Cinderella, rags-to-riches, stories. Her life was wrought with heartbreak and difficulty, which resulted in her early death at age 37 in 1936.
Florenz Ziegfeld: He was the very first Broadway producer and impresario. His popularity began with Follies of 1907. His father ran a successful college of music, and Ziegfeld took that background to the stage. He is well-known for glorifying the American girl. The Follies resulted in the popularity of many famous stars: Marilyn Miller, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor, Will Rogers, Bert Williams, Anne Pennington, and many more. He built the Ziegfeld Theater on Sixth Avenue that cost $2.5 million. Show Boat was one of his major successes, but he was worried that he would lose everything.
The Follies: The Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical productions from 1907 to 1931. Headed up by Ziegfeld, they glorified the American girl and began many careers for many different actors, actresses, composers, lyricists, etc., etc. They were inspired by the Follies in France, and were a variety show of skits, songs, and dances.
New Amsterdam Theater:At the time of its construction, this theater was the largest in theater in New York City with a capacity of 1702. Today, it is the oldest surviving theater. It opened in 1903 with a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The theater hosted Ziegfeld Follies and a variety of other very popular Broadway shows. The crash of 1929 hit the theater hard, and it closed during the Depression; after that, however, it was reopened in 1937, but only for a short while. The New Amsterdam Theater was then converted into a movie theater and is still there today, owned by Disney.