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Modern Broadway Musicals, 2006.
A paper looking at why the modern Broadway musical genre is not faring as well as older musicals and revivals of shows.
3,356 words (approx. 13.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 95.95
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This paper takes a look at the changes that Broadway, as a physical place, as well as a genre, has undergone since its inception, in an attempt to understand why modern Broadway musicals are not doing as well as they had in earlier years. The paper concludes that the diminishing popularity of Broadway today is due to both financial reasons and audience-motivated reasons.
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"Currently, according to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, at least one fourth of the 30 million visitors to New York each year still come to see a Broadway play (Kroll 64), making it one of the top reasons tourists travel to New York. However, while there indeed seems to be a resurgence of interest in Broadway, there is a great disparity in profits for older musicals and revivals of shows from earlier decades and the more current modern musicals."
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Broadway Shows, 2005.
A paper arguing that the intellectual content of Broadway shows has declined.
1,908 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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In this paper, the author argues that, contrary to what is often assumed, Broadway has become more populist, not less. The author argues that, in spite of the spiraling cost of tickets to Broadway shows, the shows pander to the least demanding, most pedestrian of artistic sensibilities.
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"It might be logical to surmise that because Broadway ticket prices have reached the dizzying heights of, say, tickets for major league baseball and football's better seats-in the neighborhood of $100 a ticket-the Broadway stage is becoming less populist, pricing theatergoers out of the velveteen seats. However, the opposite is closer to the truth. The higher those ticket prices go, the more populist the Broadway theater becomes."
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Playbill and the History of Broadway Theater, 2002.
The paper analyzes the role the reference guide, Playbill, has played in Broadway's history, focusing specifically on the musical "Showboat" and its accompanying Playbill.
1,343 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper explains the nature of a Playbill, a kind of reference guide to the show of the evening, summing up the cast list, the cast biographies, and also giving theatergoers a bit of advice about places to go in New York before and after the show. The paper examines the role the playbill plays in encapsulating the consumerist, capitalist nature of Broadway theater. It also explores the influence wielded by Showboat's playbill.
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" ?Show Boat,? originally produced in 1926, and later revived at the Gershwin theater in 1994, has often been called the first modern Broadway musical. The image on the cover of the show?s Playbill during its most recent incarnation on Broadway is a sentimental picture of a turn of the century family of three waving at a large, smoking Riverboat show boat ship. This Playbill artifact encapsulates, perhaps more than any other example of the modern, New York Broadway theatre, the nature of Broadway?s form of theatrical, musical entertainment. The Playbill is a nostalgic commodity that reduces the show to a singular theme, and attempts to encapsulate within its covers, in as non-threatening a fashion as possible, the nature of a show that has proved disturbing to many viewers."
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Broadway Musicals, 1999.
Examines history, appeal, success, major musicals past and present ("Grease", "Titanic", "Beauty and the Beast").
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 55.95
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The musical was long a Hollywood staple, a genre that was used year after year. After the 1960s, however, the film musical all but disappeared, though it continued in a modified form as a Broadway staple, just as it had been throughout this century.
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"The musical was long a Hollywood staple, a genre that was used year after year. After the 1960s, however, the film musical all but disappeared, though it continued in a modified form as a Broadway staple, just as it had been throughout this century. Imitation drives the motion picture industry as it seeks material for films, but it also drives Broadway to a great extent. Broadway and Hollywood have taken turns in recent years in originating material which would then be taken over by the other so that stage plays like Grease and Evita are adapted to film, while recent films such as The Lion King and older films such as Sunset Boulevard have been adapted to the stage. Hollywood and Broadway have in many instances in recent years combined forces to develop material for the screen that would also be valuable on stage, or for the stage that would be worthwhile as a film. The ..."
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Charles Busch's Broadway Plays, 2006.
A review of American playwright Charles Busch.
1,750 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper studies the works of Charles Busch, one of America's more well-known satirists and comedic playwrights. The paper begins with a review and critique of Busch's most recent production, "A Tale of the Allergist's Wife". The paper discusses the play's plot and development, as well as the actors, directors and producers associated with it and awards that it has won. The paper then compares "Allergist's Wife" to Busch's other works, including the play "Woman of the Year" and his writing for the HBO show "Oz". The last section of the paper discusses Busch's career rise and the parallel shift in American society, which can now embrace such an author and his "edgy" themes.
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Thesis Statement
"A Tale of the Allergist's Wife"
Busch's Other Works by Way of Comparison
Further Contrasts and Comparisons
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"Busch's play chronicles the spiritual turmoil of Marjorie Taub - brilliantly acted by the veteran comedy and quite often serious actress Linda Lavin - a middle-aged Upper West Side wife and confidant to her Allergist husband - and others as the play delightfully exposes - and how her life changes when a former friend from her past suddenly appears on her doorstep. This is a wonderfully delicious and quite devious social satire that is filled with the wicked fun and delightful surprises one has come to expect from Busch works."
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"Cats" in the Theater, 2002.
Examines the use of the theater In Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical, "Cats".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 35.95
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical, "Cats", has consistently intrigued audiences. This essay examines the specifics of the brilliant use of the entire theater for the experience and concludes that this is the factor that contributed to the show's worldwide success.
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Class Act, 2004.
Discusses how Class Act's revenue from an agreement with Broadway Venues should be realized.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 0 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper examines how Class Act's revenue from an agreement with Broadway Venues could be realized. It explores the background of the situation and alternatives. It also recommends an accrual method of recognizing the revenue.
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"Companies regularly enter into business agreements where payments are made over a period of time. Such agreements can take the form of leases where the payments are regular and made over a long-period of time or ..."
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"Eat the Runt", 2002.
A review of the off-Broadway play "Eat the Runt".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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A theatrical analysis of on Off Broadway play called "Eat the Runt".
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Literacy and Culture, 2006.
A discussion regarding literacy as defined by the Amish Country, University Committees and Broadway.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper considers the definition of literacy in divergent examples, specifically in regards to the Amish, a Broadway play, and a University Academic Integrity committee. The paper outlines the complexity of defining and applying concepts of literacy by reviewing three representative texts describing different approaches to literacy in these three communities.
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"Literacy is a seemingly simple concept that, upon close inspection, has many interpretations. On a base level it indicates the ability to read and write and could therefore be viewed as a value-neutral process in which people learn a tool that they can then use to gather or produce written communication. However, once one begins to consider what literacy means in different cultural contexts, the concept takes on a level of complexity that suggests learning to communicate is influenced by class distinctions, religious beliefs, personal integrity, and many other factors. This paper will consider the concept of literacy through the prisms of what it means to three different communities: an Old Order Amish community, a University Academic Discipline Committee and the New York literati as regarding a play produced on Broadway."
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?The Fantasticks?, 2002.
A review of the off-Broadway production of ?The Fantasticks? .
1,232 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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This paper discusses how the musical play, ?The Fantasticks?, originally strikes the viewer as both an effective and humorous parody of the Shakespearean romantic drama, ?Romeo and Juliet?, and the classical Greek and Roman myth of Primus and Thisbe, upon which Shakespeare?s play is based. It looks at how, when examined for its deeper theatrical and literary significance, the play?s "spine", or story, and structure of theatrical staging also conveys to the viewer a more coherent explanation of the moral dilemma that underlines story of thwarted, adolescent love and the purpose of Romantic theater in general.
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"The distance of the wall that the children must overcome, emotionally, embodies this separation. ?You must always leave the wall,? is one of the final tropes underlined at the end of the play, by the narrative voice of the storyteller. In other words, in true love, one must also have distance as well as reinforcement of desire and connection. The play?s use of the wall creates a connection not only with ?Romeo and Juliet,? but also with the Classical Greek myth of Primus and Thisbe, where the two mythical personas whispered to one another to communicate across the distance of the wall. An infamous balcony that barred the two of them from communicating physically likewise separated the romantic protagonists Romeo and Juliet."
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"The Lion King", 2006.
This paper discusses the much acclaimed "The Lion King", which originated from an original script as an animated Disney film followed by a Broadway play based on the movie.
2,235 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper explains that the story of "The Lion King" is a serious drama with comic moments containing "real issues" of guilt, despair, alienation, and the need to take responsibility, which is similar to "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, both of which are based on archetypal myth. The author points out that, whereas the animated film was tremendously popular and profitable, "The Lion King" stage play forever changed children's theater, stretching the boundaries of children's theater so that children's plays are now often very rich in content and in stage-craft and a little scary in places. The paper concludes that the success of "The Lion King" is that it not only entertains children but also leaves them with a moral template of loyalty, social responsibility and spirituality, which are pro-social values precious to society.
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"Myths contain archetypal characters who speak to human beings at a deep level of consciousness. Simba and Hamlet are archetypes of the mythical child in exile. An archetype is an image that appears over and over in literature and myths and so is familiar to us all. The stories of Jesus, Moses, Buddha and Perseus (as well as Simba and Hamlet) all are about the mythical child in exile. Myths may not be literally true, but they contain essential truths, which resonate in the hearts of human beings. Myths always involve the "world of mystery and imagination, of feeling, participation and transformation...in the creation of order and of a secure reality out of darkness of the unknown.""
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"The Real Thing", 2002.
An analysis of the Broadway 2000 production of "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper will discuss the play "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard, and will reveal how a writer must learn to discern his ideas of love in reality, rather than as a playwright. By discovering the production of the play in New York, we can learn how this 2000 production reveals this 20-year old play.
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"Phantom of the Opera", 2002.
This paper discusses the experience of seeing "Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway.
550 words (approx. 2.2 pages), 1 source, $ 19.95
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The paper describes the staging of "Phantom of the Opera". The author points out the difference between experiencing a live production and reading a script: Reading a play gives us a chance to consider why a playwright does what he does, how he uses words, and how he builds a plot; but, without seeing the play, we have incomplete knowledge of it.
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"The set and lighting dramatically enhances the experience as well as the understanding of this play. The plot is a play within a play, putting a special burden on some of the actors who played opera singers. They had to act as characters in the main story of Phantom of the Opera, and then don a second persona when they are in the play within the play, the opera being produced as part of the story line."
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Responsibility, 2007.
This paper discusses vocational and ethical responsibility as portrayed in the movies.
2,213 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 68.95
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In this article, the writer discusses ethical responsibilities in the workplace and examines how this subject is portrayed in various films. For this purpose, the writer studies the following movies: "Broadway Danny Rose", "The Conversation", "The Hospital" and "Things Change" . The writer points out that if one does not strive to live according to one's personal sense of morality, then one is likely to be haunted by one's own sense of moral inferiority. The writer concludes that "Broadway Danny Rose" and "Things Change" show that taking on more responsibility than one can handle might be dangerous, but the humor of the first film and the compassion of the second film in comparison with the brutal misery of the lives of the characters of "The Conversation" and "The Hospital," make the risks of Danny and Jerry seem like blessings in comparison.
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"The Conversation" as directed by Francis Ford Coppola, depicts a man who might not seem to be a conventionally responsible individual even in his personal life. Harry Caul has no family ties. He lives entirely alone, in a small apartment in a city where he seems to know no one other than the persons he works for as a spy. Yet despite the potentially immoral nature of occupation, that a professional surveillance expert, Harry becomes haunted by a sense of moral responsibility for the consequences of listening to other person's conversations."
"The film begins after Harry has left the East Coast because his wiretapping caused the death of three people. Although Harry was just doing his job, and did not want to hurt these people, these individuals died as an unintended consequence of Harry's actions. Harry cannot even bear to confess the action to a priest, even though his evident loneliness conveyed by the starkness of his dwelling-place and his monotonous routine makes him seem haunted by guilt in the eyes of the viewer."
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Tony Awards, 2005.
This paper discusses the reason the Tony Awards were named after Antoinette Perry.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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The paper explores why the Tony Awards were named after Antoinette Perry and who exactly Antoinette Perry was. The paper discusses how these questions are often not mentioned when people talk about the Tony Awards, but there are many reasons that the Tony Awards were named after Antoinette Perry. The paper examines how the life and works of Tony Antoinette Perry affected Broadway, the lives of many GIs, actresses and actors and many others. The paper relates that the way to show the appreciation for all that Tony Antoinette had done for Broadway was to name the Tony Awards after her.
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