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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"On Broadway"”.
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A study of Bill Frisell through Paul Motian's On Broadway recordings
… work through an analysis of his improvised solos on Paul Motian’s albums On Broadway Volumes 1, 2, 3, Bill Evans, and Monk in Motian while simultaneously examining Frisell’s guitar technique and his musical influences. The analysis of his solos on Motian’s album draw from a selection of twenty …
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A director's approach to the new Gershwin musical Crazy for You.
… "new" Gershwin musical Crazy for You premiered on Broadway to rave reviews. The musical production, adapted from the 1930 Gershwin musical Girl Crazy, featured a new book by Ken Ludwig, choreography by Susan Stroman, and a score compiled from the music catalog of George and Ira Gershwin. The …
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Broadway in the Age of American Idol: Celebrity and the Broadway Musical, 2003–2018
… Attack</em> and other celebrity theorists, Broadway followed suit and celebrity names were seen with regularity on Broadway marquees in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. While Broadway has nourished numerous individuals into becoming stars, those who are upheld above others …
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St. Elizabeth’s Catholic Church, Lubbock, Texas
… to stray away from many of the traditions and values on which the Catholic Church was founded and developd. The tradition and inherent values of the Catholic Church should be expressed by the architecture that represents it. Facility Statement: In the Catholic Church, a church is the …
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Shared comedic elements of three plays in modern American theater: "Six Degrees of Separation", "I'm Not Rappaport", and "Broadway Bound"
… include Herb Gardner's I'm Not Rappaport, which won three Tony awards including best actor and best play for the 1985-86 Broadway season; Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, which premiered on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre in December of 1986 to strong reviews; and John Guare's Six Degrees of …
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Getting to Know Rodgers and Hammerstein: Education and Adaptation in 21st-century performance
… American musical theatre when Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943. This collaboration is often cited by historians as the first fully-integrated book musical on the Broadway stage. Their collaboration produced such hits as Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. While …
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Connecting the dots: a history of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George
This thesis is a history of Stephen Sondheim's musical Sunday in the Park with George (1984), which was inspired by Georges Seurat's masterpiece: Un dimanche à la Grande Jatte (1886). By first examining the lives and careers of Seurat and Sondheim, a foundation is established to take a deeper look …
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"individual yet as one": Performing Deafness and Performing Community in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God
In this thesis, I examine the relationship between deafness, women, and performance in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God. The play was a massive popular success, both in its run on Broadway and its movie adaptation. Deafness and deaf people had never been so visible in American hearing …
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The Greek Pastures: A Modern Mystery
One of the more interesting dramatic phenomena of the past decade is Marc Connelly’s play, The Green Pastures. The play is unique both in subject and in method. It has for its subject a Southern Negro’s imaginative picture of Biblical history; for its method, a narrative sequence of episodes …
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Blossom Time: Three Lyricist-Librettists and the Early Twentieth-Century American Musical Theatre
Anne Caldwell, Dorothy Donnelly, and Rida Johnson Young were three of the most prolific lyricist-librettists on Broadway from approximately 1900 to 1930. Despite their many successes, which included some of the best-loved American operettas and musical comedies of the era, they have yet to achieve …
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A place for West Side Story (1961): Gender, race, and tragedy in Hollywood's adaptation
… three years after West Side Story premiered on Broadway, Hollywood created a highly successful film version. Although directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins strove to remain faithful to the original production in many ways, the change in medium necessitated a number of alterations, …
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Revolutions Off Off Broadway, 1959-1969: A Critical Study of Changes in Structure, Character, Language, and Theme in Experimental Drama in New York City
<p>The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze and categorize the approaches to structure, character, language, and theme that make the dramaturgy of certain playwrights writing for the Off Broadway theatre during the 1960s revolutionary in contrast to the dramaturgy of the majority of American …
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“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical
… to come to terms with our past and present on both a national and an individual level as it stages and restages war mythology on the Broadway Stage. As the nation has won, lost, and abandoned foreign conflicts, the connotation, remembrance, and commemoration of war in American memory has …
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Kiss today goodbye, and point me toward tomorrow : reviving the time-bound musical, 1968-1975
As musical theatre scholars Stacy Wolf, Sheldon Patinkin, and John Bush Jones have argued, American musicals are among our country's most valuable social documents as they depict the dominant discourses and reigning values of the cultural moment from which they first emerged through song, dance, …
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"I've a Voice, I've a Voice": Determining Stephen Sondheim's Compositional Style Through a Music-theoretic Analysis of His Theater Works
This dissertation offers a music-theoretic analysis of the musical style of Stephen Sondheim, as surveyed through his fourteen musicals that have appeared on Broadway. The analysis begins with dramatic concerns, where musico-dramatic intensity analysis graphs show the relationship between music and …
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A Chorus Line: Does It Abide By Rules Established By Actors' Equity Association For The Audition Process?
… been cast as "Bobby" in A Chorus Line at Orlando Broadway Dinner Theatre in Orlando. I will use this opportunity as my thesis role. As part of my thesis defense, I will combine an analysis of the character of "Bobby" in A Chorus Line with an assessment of Actors' Equity Association's audition …
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Choir Boy, A Scenic Design
… tend to follow when they approach a design. Not only does this aid us in streamlining our process for ease and efficiency, but it also allows us to feel like we have left our individual and personal mark on the project, whether it is recognized by every individual audience member or not. In the …