Explore Angel de Quinta’s STAGE DOOR Blog with an amazing collection of excerpts from Broadway plays. Post your comments on your favorite shows on your blogs. I'm not to big into broadway plays. I've mainly seen them in movies I've watched. Mainly because I just can't get behind all the singing that is in most of them. In the movie(where I originally saw it), "The Producers" there is a play called, "Springtime for Hitler" that is probably one of my favorites because though it has a lot of singing in it it is very satirical. They are not glorifying what happened but instead bringing it down a peg. It is also very well done with set pieces and costumes with would be expected since it was in a high budget movie. Next would have to be have to be "The Prodigal Son", (Not sure if it's broadway but it's a play) a friend of mine turned me onto it because she likes watching up and coming actors and seei...
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Watch any Opera created before 1920 and write a three page paper (minimum) with your personal research and comments on the “mise en scene“. What did you discover watching this opera? How do you think audiences reacted to it when it was originally presented? Why do you think this piece is important in the chronology of Opera? How is technology used in it? If you were a 21st century director, how would you turn this piece into a VIDEO GAME? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYn8oJcszmE (The Fairy Queen) The Opera I chose to watch and write a paper on was The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell which was originally composed in 1692 . It is a re-telling of the Shakespeare play A Midsummer Nights Dream . This opera is considered a semi-opera due to the fact that it has both spoken parts as well as singing and dancing . It is episodic nature as well and contained supernatural elements as did the original source work . Purcell stuck true to Shakespeare’...
Watch Pjotr Sapegin’s Madama Butterfly animation and comment about it. This was this weeks assignment for my ART211 class. It was extremely well done for a stop motion short film. The most care in crafting seemed to be put into the female doll, while the male was literally a Ken doll with a different head. Scenery was simplified but still helped tell the story. It relied heavily on metaphors and symbolism because there was no speaking. The symbolism of everything in the end literally broke your heart as you watched it and could genuinely feel as the doll did and wanted to rip yourself apart with heartache. I enjoyed watching it and would definitely recommend it to others. It's a visual animation of a Opera that is tragic and deep and beautiful. I don't want to give to many spoilers away. It takes place during a war when Americans would go to foreign countries and get the local girls pregnant and leave, ...
In this Assignment for Art211 we had to combine two related or unrelated objects together. The theme was Baroque inspired because we had been going over technology in Opera. I have always loved the big hairstyles worn by people and all the accessories they could put into it as well as how big they could make it. To me sometimes it reminded me of clouds based on the mass of the hair woman wore. I did not want to overcrowd the hair to much but still wanted to show its mass. So I turned it into a storm cloud(which holds a lot of water) and decorated it with a small paper boat and some typical cartoonish lightning. Around her neck I gave her a typical Baroque collar(originally I wanted to turn it into an accordion because of its similarities but felt it would add to much to the image.) Lastly I looked up lacework that was used in the Baroque period and decorated her bodice with it. I tried to make it look over the top and as if someone could wear it while acting in a Opera or to a gra...