‘Hamilton’ Is The Very Model Of A Modern Fast-Paced Musical
FiveThirtyEight: “Hamilton,” the hit Broadway musical biography of Alexander Hamilton, helped its composer, writer, lyricist and star Lin-Manuel Miranda win a MacArthur fellowship, and many critics seem to think it packs a lot of genius into its more than two hours. Miranda’s music is much closer to hip-hop and rap than to the usual Broadway ballads, and he explained, in an interview with Grantland, that it would be impossible to tell Hamilton’s story at the pace of a conventional musical.
The Story Behind the Ritual that Still Haunts Broadway
Atlas Obscura: For fans, lights are a vital part of the theatergoing experience. Rows of expectant ticket holders wait for the lights to go down and then they wait for them to go up so they know the journey is over. Plenty of tourists trot down New York’s Broadway just to gawk at the marquees.
But for lots of cast and crew, the most atmospheric of all theater lights is a bare bulb called a “ghost light”.
Severing with Huntington Theatre, BU puts theater building up for sale
The Boston Globe: After 33 years, Boston University and the Huntington Theatre Company are parting ways, and the university is putting the BU Theatre up for sale, effective immediately.
For the highly regarded Huntington, which just two years ago won a Tony Award for regional theater, the dissolution of the partnership with BU ushers in a period of uncertainty.Princess Leia bikini sells for $96,000
BBC News: Bidding for the costume opened at $80,000 at the online auction, run by US firm Profiles In History.
As well as the bikini, the unnamed winner received a collar, several chain links, and a letter of authenticity from Star Wars designer Richard Miller.
Fisher disliked the outfit, calling it "what supermodels will eventually wear in the seventh ring of hell.",.
Hi-Ho, the Glamorous Life: The Practical Magic of Props
San Francisco Theater Pub: Making theater means spending your life creating and re-creating other worlds onstage. Some of the tools we use to create these other worlds are abstract – language, gesture, spatial relationships. But there’s also a whole heap of tangible stuff that becomes part of the world of the play: sets, lighting, costumes, props. These items need to be carefully considered, and obtained, and maintained. October 2015 is Design Month on the Theater Pub blog, so, to kick things off, I asked friends and members of the community to share their favorite stories about props.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
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