category: performing arts

The Marx Brothers and America: Where Film, Comedy and History Collide

... pdf?sequence=2 Accessed January 25, 2021. 50. Raymond Schmidt, College ... script. 57. Louvish, Monkey Business, 249. 58. Margo Miller, “Losing Your ... exonerated until 1906. 258. Notes—Chapter. Six.

Writing and Selling Thriller Screenplays: A Screenwriter's Guide for Film and Television

... Pilar Alessandra, script consultant (@onthepage) So, typically, as Spaihts suggests in his tweet back in Chapter One, thriller movies tend to feature a lone protagonist, up against a lone antagonist (or, if not *actually* alone him ...

The Ecologies of Amateur Theatre

... Letchworth lacked history and cultural memory, and they harnessed English folk performance, pageants and other outdoor events ... Letchworth's place-making, and ... Art? (1897). He founded the Letchworth Amateur Dramatic Society in 1907, and ...

Television Dramas and the Global Village: Storytelling Through Race and Gender

... nanny search as an extension of their own good mothering. However, before ... MILF,” Mindy goes back to work while Danny tries staying home. He too finds ... nanny. As identified by Buzzanell et al. (2005), television mothers in this ...

The Espionage Filmography: United States Releases, 1898 through 1999

... Bruce Willis movies. He's a well-dressed emcee, guiding us through a ridiculous world of fantasy that he knows is silly, and we enjoy being let in on the joke. As for Chiles, she is reserved and rather cold, but thankfully so; at least ...

Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever

... songstress for " West Side Story " and " My Fair Lady , " makes her on - screen debut as one of the nuns . JI Have Confidence In Me ; Something Good ; The Sound of Music ; Preludium ; Morning Hymn ; Alleluia ; How Do You Solve A Problem ...

Theatre World 2008-2009: The Most Complete Record of the American Theatre

... Alyssa Hart ; Cast recording : Sony SK 87708 CAST Tracy Turnblad Marissa Perry " 1 ; Corny Collins Clarke Thorell ; Amber Von Tussle Ashley Spencer'2 ; Brad Kasey Marino ; Tammy Brooke Leigh Engen ; Fender Daniel Robinson ; Brenda ...

Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007

... Love You; Ukulele Lorelei; Tell Me More. While the plot was thin and the score mostly disappointing, the show was saved by Lou Holtz's clowning in a secondary role and the vi- vacious dancing choreographed by Sammy Lee. Alexander Aarons ...

Screenplay: Building Story Through Character

... arc • Sense of story/plot • Sense of theme Question: But how can I do my screen story justice in a logline of just a ... template below and fill in the specifics of your screen story. Doing so will give you a sense of what a logline ...

Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese

... Book and Mob , 32–5 ; Skolnick , House of Cards , 117 , 298 . 88 Skolnick , House of Cards , 31–2 , 117 , 176 , 211 , 217 . 89 The question is Herbert Packer's , cited in Skolnick , House of Cards , 9 . 90 Skolnick , House of Cards , 75 ...

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical: Theatre, Film, and Television

... the Grinch Stole Christmas Character Narrator Grinch Old Max Young Max Cindy Lou Who Singer 1966 television (voices) Boris Karloff Boris Karloff June Foray Thurl Ravenscroft 2006 Broadway John Cullum Patrick Page John Cullum Rusty Ross ...

Sound and Music for the Theatre: The Art & Technique of Design

The Art & Technique of Design Deena Kaye, James LeBrecht. Wendy Kesselman's plays include the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank ... play The House of Yes became an award-winning Miramax film starring Parker Posey. Her other plays ...

Incidental and Dance Music in the American Theatre from 1786 to 1923: Volume 3, Biographical and Critical Commentary - Alphabetical Listings from Edgar Stillman Kelley to Charles Zimmerman

... Mark E. Swan, and James O'Dea. The Top o' the World. New York: M. Witmark, 1907. Klein, Manuel, John Kendrick Bangs, and Vincent Bryan. The Man from Now. New York: M. Witmark, 1906. Klein, Manuel, R.H. Burnside, and Austin Strong. The ...

Performing Arts Books, 1876-1981: Including an International Index of Current Serial Publications

... lyrics for baritone and bass . 1398 Wagner lyrics for soprano . 1398 Wagner ... Matilda . 1402 Waltzes for orchestra . 1402 Waltzes from Vienna . 1401 ... When I grow up . 600 When I met Robin . 451 When I was young . 43 , 641 When ...

Consciousness, Performing Arts and Literature: Trajectories, 2014-2018

... sounds multiplying and rising together—and the together making a sound entirely new! ... I bet you that's how God hears the world. Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to ...

DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

... paranoia-criticism was DalĂ­'s most important contribution to Surrealist theory. He introduced this creative method (which he variously called the “paranoia method of criticism” or the “paranoiac-critical method”) in an essay titled “L ...

Women in American Musical Theatre: Essays on Composers, Lyricists, Librettists, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers, Directors, Producers and Performance Artists

... Jesus Christ Superstar (2000). Most women I spoke with, as was true in previous studies, did not want to be considered for their gender, but for their work. At the same time, all of those asked admitted to encountering discrimination ...

100 Greatest Film Scores

... Randy Newman The Film Many filmmakers have created motion pictures that are ... Baltimore in the 1950s. Although in Levinson's script the street his family ... Baltimore on the Fourth of July, 1914. The Music Randy Newman's score injects ...

Entertainment Awards: A Music, Cinema, Theatre and Broadcasting Guide, 1928 through 2003, 3d ed.

... A Taste of Honey”; Herb Alpert, arranger 276 Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or Instrumentalist: “It Was a Very Good Year”; Gordon Jenkins, arranger 277 Best Instrumental Performance, NonJazz: “A Taste of Honey”; Herb Alpert ...

Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

... Johnny One-Note,” a designer showstopper calculated to get a huge hand for a single elongated note: “Johnny could only sing one note, and the note he sang was this: AHHHHHHH!!” (a C actually). It's a belter's holiday, but it mocks ...

Writing The Broadway Musical

... lyrics of all three of these songs, “Why Can't the English?.” “Wouldn't It Be Loverly?” and “Company,” work because all the characters employ their specific languages to the fullest. These are then completed by music that further speaks ...

Four Scores and Seven Reels Ago: The U.S. Presidency through Hollywood Films

... Ellis, Joseph J. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation. New York ... AP US History Study Guide. 2014. https://ap .gilderlehrman.org/essay/andrew ... Island Rod, September 4, 2010, https://thisislandrod.blogspot.com/2010/09 ...

The Academy Awards Book of Lists: An Unauthorized, Unofficial, and Unprecedented History of the Oscars Part Two

Chris Stodder. movie . Only two later movies had two nominated songs : The Princess and the Frog ( 2009 ) and La La Land ( 2016 ) . THE FEEL - GOOD FILM OF THE DECADE A FILM BY DANNY SLUMDOG BOVE MILLIONAIRE Best Music ( Original Song ) ...

Musical Theatre: A History

... Rodgers and Hart. The rarely heard “Have You Met Miss Jones?” was the closest thing to a hit in the score. During their stay in Hollywood, Rodgers and Hart had written an unused musical for MGM about a Hungarian count whose prayer for a ...

Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America

... Music offered comparatively little for major pop singers. Steve Lawrence's cha-cha version of the title number appeared on his 1960 Lawrence Goes Latin album, and Perry Como included “My Favorite Things ... sheet music from The Sound of Music ...

Soundies and the Changing Image of Black Americans on Screen: One Dime at a Time

... Reet, Petite, and Gone (1947), a sixty-seven-minute featurette starring Jordan and Soundies regulars June Richmond, Vanita Smythe, and Mable Lee. Like Caldonia, Reet was produced by Louis Jordan Productions, with Jordan's manager, Berle ...

Jumping the Color Line: Vernacular Jazz Dance in American Film, 1929–1945

... Swing Cat's Jamboree (1938), for instance, features an expressively gesticulating Louis Prima, whose enormous mainstream success in later years was very much based on his high-energy, comic entertainer persona. This short film also ...

Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads: Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation

... hai Japani // My shoes are Japanese, Yeh Patloon Inglistani // These trousers are English, Sar pe lal topi Rusi // The red hat on my head is Russian, Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani // And yet my heart is still Indian. T. he above song lyrics ...

The Sound of Cinema: Hollywood Film Music from the Silents to the Present

... Imperial March.” Giacchino's music indicates the early stages of the Galactic Empire before it became identified ... trumpet sounds like that, a French horn sounds like that' and so on,” says Rogue One composer Michael Giacchino.39 That ...

Object Performance in the Black Atlantic: The United States

... grandma and grandpa dolls. Once I got home and opened the package, however, I was enchanted with the miniature ... porn. Then I noticed that Grandma and Grandpa's wedding rings were visible in even the steamiest sequences. I thought ...

Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present

... Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. 35. Print. Clover (Chainsaws 37). Clover (Chainsaws 39). Of course, when these movies became franchises, peace could not be ...

Screening Vienna: The City of Dreams in English-Language Cinema and Television

... Romance.”21 A muchbetter known “Austrian romance” is Erich von Stroheim's silent film, The Wedding March (1928). Michael Burri commented that “The Wedding March mapped social hierarchies onto the urban space. The inner city marks the ...

Billy Wilder: Dancing on the Edge

... Josefine Mutzenbacher oder Die Geschichte einer Wienerischen Dirne von ihr selbst erzählt ( Josephine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore , as Told by Herself ) ( Vienna : Private printing , 1906 ) ; The Memoirs of Josephine ...

Filmmaking For Dummies

Bryan Michael Stoller. If your script does get a thumbs-up from a script reader, you ... screenplay to a studio or distributor, you need to throw a powerful pitch. A ... Miss Cast Away & the Island Girls crosses Cast Away with Miss Congeniality ...

Compact Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media

... Lynch's shortest film (which was also his first), entitled Six Men Getting Sick (1967, 40 sec.), hints at the existence of two distinct filmic worlds that interact Lynch on the Run: The Proximity of Trauma in the Short Film Todd McGowan.

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