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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"musical comedy"”.
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"Costume Design And Construction For A New Musical Comedy: ""clever Things."""
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Broadway noir: Film noir and musical comedy in City of Angels (1989)
… elements of film noir through the conventions of musical comedy and thereby subjects both genres to affectionate satire. This essay explores the connections between these idiosyncratic forms of entertainment, particularly in the ways that noir devices and tropes emerge from songs penned by Cy …
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Transformations: A Folkloric Exploration of the Musical Comedy Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
… Sondheim and James Lapine's 1987 award-winning musical Into the Woods. In doing so, I hope to accomplish several directives. First, to enrich understanding of the musical for all audience members, especially those with a folklore or theater background. I feel that understanding the underlying …
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The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 1: a Critical Edition
… career yielded at least thirty plays and several musical scores between 1676 and 1709. All of D'Urfey's plays contain music, and his efforts promulgated the genre of musical comedy. The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694), D'Urfey's most successful work, was the first theatrical adaptation of …
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A Prompt Book For The Strafford High School Production Of Li'L Abner
… production of Norman Panama and Melvin Frank's musical comedy, Li'l Abner. Chapter One consists of a biography of creator, and creator as lecturer. Chapter Two is the analysis of the play itself. Chapter Three is an outline of production procedures including production choice, casting, …
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Leonard Bernstein's Works for the Musical Theatre: How the Music Functions Dramatically
… of Leonard Bernstein's works for the American musical theatre attempts to demonstrate how the composer has explored the dramatic function of music in opera, operetta, musical drama, and musical comedy. The study is limited to his six works which contain a narrative line complete with …
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Aida Overton Walker, “Actor Lady”: Unveiling Race and Gender in African American Performance Motifs, 1900-1912
… scripts and song sheets for In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (1902), and Sons of Ham (1901). The black female performer in musical comedy at the turn of the twentieth century, I argue, actually occupies a space more complex than that of the male black performer, both veiled and unveiled, …
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When the carnival is over : Peter Barnes' Red Noses and the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin
… to poetry, to modern slang, to rhetoric, to musical comedy, to ritual, to dance, to opera, to slapstick. .. " Furthermore, all of Barnes' plays operate, as Stephen Weeks (1996, p.46) points out, "as much through the boldness of their visual imagery as through the inventiveness of their …
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Camping in the Classroom: Ridiculous Theatre as Serious Drama
My first semester pursuing my MFA in Voice and Speech Pedagogy I vocal-coached an openly gay student playing a straight character who would mask his sexual identity in such a manner that his performance became stiff and uninteresting. Rather than using his personal identity as an asset in the …