Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Bus Stop Opera
Carnegie Mellon University: "A team of Carnegie Mellon University students from different artistic disciplines is taking their music to the streets. They are performing 10- to 30-minute operettas at public bus stops in Pittsburgh and New York City."
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This isn't the first time I've read about the "Bus Stop Opera," and I'm glad to be reading about it again. I hope I happen to catch a performance while I'm out, because this seems like it would be an interesting experience.
This seems really cool. It sounds very similar to the subway musical. I really like when we can take theater and live performances out of their usual home and put them into different environments in the world to see how people react and listen to them out of their usual environment.
I hope I can get off campus soon, if only to try to catch one of the Bus Stop Operas! They sound really entertaining; I really like the idea of taking theater to the streets and reaching such a wide audience.
I like that audience participation is encouraged, but I'm not sure if the audience will know whether or not to participate in the performance or not. I wish I could see one of these when I'm waiting for the bus, but so far, no luck :(
I'm glad this idea came into practice in completion. It would be very exciting to catch a performance while traveling. It is so cool to see people's artistic talents used in such creative ways.
I hope to keep hearing about performances like this. I feel that any opportunity to bring different disciplines together is something we can all benefit from.
This is a really cool idea. I wonder what skills an actor would really need to interact with an audience. I feel the only way for this to work is if the actors help write the content themselves. That way they really understand the set-up and plot of the story an can therefore alter it in the same style as the scripted parts.
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