Montanna Checketts
A Patriotic Salute to America and to Her Troops was presented by Age Well Forsyth and directed by Dr. Linda Ledbetter. I saw this play as an audience member on April 1st.
The key purpose of this play was to teach American history and to honor our troops. They show this from a narrator, who gives brief summaries of each American wars, and shows pictures during the time of that war to show us what the war was like. They were successful showing this by having the narrator speak clearly and loudly and openly stated what they were talking about. They also sang or played songs that were either about that time or popular during that time. They also had the audience, in the beginning of the play, stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and gave the meaning behind each word in it. They spoke clearly and made it easy to follow along.
They run the audience through American history from the America’s independent to present day through song, dance, and a slide show. Teaching most America’s history is the narrator. There’s no clear setting as a large amount of the play there were a singer(s)/performers under a spotlight or the actors are ding a dance number.
The performers were amazing singers. They sang as a chorus, as a
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It was an original song the guitarist wrote because the guitar part was so bad that I couldn’t hear his singing at all. Instead of strumming the guitar, he plucked the strings, which gave it jagged sound that had no rhythm or melody to it. They didn’t have that much acting in it either, which I wished that did because the few acting scenes that did were delightful like when they did the history of the American flag, instead of having the narrator just say the history like they did for the other parts, they had an actor playing the flag and telling her story and what she been as the flag, which was well executed. It was a shame that they didn’t put in more stuff like that into
The full name of the performance is MUS 150 Choral Recital Hour. The name of the physical theater in which I saw the play is the Knuth Hall, and it was a choral concert. I saw the show at 1:00 pm on April 4, 2016, and it took approximately fifty minutes long. The ticket was free. My seat was on left row. It was a good place because it was very close to the stage, and I could see everything clearly. There are probably 200 seats in the theater. The concert was informal because it was free and didn’t have printed programs.
Broward College, Central Campus Theater in building 6, on Sunday, the 1st of November. The play was performed by Broward College students. The type of stage was Proscenium stage with extended apron. I thought it was a little bit small, but it did not show as a problem. The pre-show was dark and a feel of suspense. I felt excited to see how everything would play out. The play takes place down south of Chicago in the 1950’s.
The play was about a girl who wanted to become an astronomer. Her name was Henrietta Leavitt and she goes off to study at Harvard and figures out the patterns of stars. In the end she has figured out world changing information about the sky and the solar system. The story worked really well because the actors showed us almost exactly what happened. It was interesting to learn how they measure the stars and how they figure out the patterns. I loved the actual script because it was not confusing at all.
The first song that they played was very lively and loud. The song was basically a series of solos and the composer described it as
The stage manager starts out the play by telling us the date which is May 7, 1901. This alone will bring you back to a time where things are very different for people. He tells us a little about the town’s people, he mentions the paperboy whom will later die in World War 1. The state manager is telling us about this town and you have to imagine there was no
Many people hail “The Star Spangled Banner” as the greatest piece of American music. The audiences of America’s national anthem seem, instinctively, eager to express their respect by embracing the notion to remove their hats and stand up. However, not many people ponder over the question of what “The Star Spangled Banner” truly means. What does it mean? Why does it deserve so much reverence and honor? What exceptional difference allows it to prevail over the masterpieces of prominent composers like Mozart and Beethoven? The answer is fairly simple. “The Star Spangled Banner” symbolizes America’s perseverance, its set of moral laws and ethics, and its history that constitutes what America truly means.
The structure of the plot itself is unusual. There are no props and no backdrop; the Stage Manager is the only thing or person on stage at the beginning of the play. There is also no fourth wall when it comes to the Stage Manager; he speaks directly to the audience as he says,
At the opening of the play the audience is in the Studio(Wilson never gives us a name of studio), which appears to be decent for the 1920s and has basic necessities such microphones and a other equipment for recording in the control
It also looks at the government and how they brainwashed the minds of people to agree with their destructive plans. The play focuses on a character named Archie Rice, he is a failing music hall performer.
Most, almost all the members in the band also sang, along with their other role in the band.
Write a paper that explains how history is portrayed in a particular play emphasizing what a certain historical event, personage, or situation enables the playwright to communicate. Discuss what effect the playwright's transformation of historical reality has on an audience.
They followed the steps on how to get an audience attention when telling a story or doing a presentation. First, they told us what they are going to do which was to kill the king, and how they are going to do it, and lastly why they did it. One thing I found really successful was even though the play was really comical the actors were able to keep the storyline in a way that I could understand. The show kept me on edge, it kept me wondering what craziness is going to happen next. Although the show was really comical it also had a lot of life lessons that I learned. Firstly, one thing I learned from watching the performance is that” Once a traitor always a traitor.” In the show, there was a guy that plotted a coup with a soldier so they could overthrow the king so that soldier “ “captain Bondure” could take over. In the end, the traitor ended up betraying the soldier and stole the crown. The second thing I learned from this performance is never let anything bring you down no matter what the circumstances are. In the case of Ubu Roi, the princess lost her dad. Then her mom died right in her hands while they were on the run hiding in a cage. She never gave up on her idea to revenge her families’ death.
The play tells the story of a cowboy Curley McLain and about his romance with a farm girl called Laurey Williams. The play includes musical themes and there is also a fifteen minute dream ballet scene and this is in the play because it is a unique and interesting way to show Laurey’s struggle with her feelings about two men and these two men are Curly and Jud. The roles are filled with people who are called a triple threat and this means that they can sing, dance and act, because there was dancing in this play the piece was choreographed by Agnes de Mille. There were many special effects in play and the one that was the most exciting and unique was the stage because it was on a circular floor where is moved around so when the scene changed
with the power of the audience in the play as well as the story seems
The stage for the play was really small I think of taken ⅓ of my classroom. The stage was set of as part of a house. Most likely a dining room. It had a 1700 to 1800 look to it and majority of the furniture was brown. The play was in the time period