Dancing Cadet
This makes you proud to be an American.
I’m currently working on an original project for a children’s theater group and the question keeps coming up in my mind: How frightening can a scene be when creating for children’s theater.
Many times while talking with the seedy underbelly of society (yes, I am referring to thespians, or as Stephen Dietz says in his Dracula; [...]
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Setting up multiple movements in a single file with notation software.
The things you need to look for are:
1. Measure atributes: final double bar at the end of a movement
2. measure attributes, begin a new stqaff system
3. measure attributes: hide cautionery clefs, key and time signaures. This will give you a clean end of movement and [...]
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From HSM Producer Harold Paige
Yea! It’s finally going to be here! Cast, crew and production staff are invited to a premier showing of the DVD of Theater Arts Guild’s presentation of Disney’s High School Musical.
Cast, crew and production staff should have already received an email with the time and place of the showing - [...]
I received this question via email from a reader. Having no idea what the answer is I’m posting it in case someone else knows.
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Could you please tell me if you could find out the name of an adagio acrobatic trio that appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show?
It definitely was not The Bal Caron Trio or [...]
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the Bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco, California.
Today is the anniversary of the jukeobox (so I am told).
And today is my birthday.
Gratulerer med dagen!
Grattis pŒ fšdelsedagen
Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag
Events on May 27th
1120 - Richard III of Capua anointed as prince a fortnight before his untimely death.
1153 [...]
From Michael Shermer’s “Why People Believe Weird Things”.
Five Pre-Points
1. They concentrate on their opponents’ weak points, while rarely saying anything definitive about their own position.
2. They exploit errors made by scholars who are making opposing arguments, implying that because a few of their opponents’ conclusions were wrong, all of their opponents’ conclusions must be wrong.
3. [...]
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“It is nonsense to say what a musical should or should not be. It should be anything it wants to be, and if you don’t like it you don’t have to go to it. There is only one absolutely indispensable element that a musical must have. It must have music. And there is only one [...]
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Bye Bye Birdie plot overview and logo reference graphics. “We Love You Conrad, Oh Yes We Do….” - never in the history of Western music has a pen turned such sublime lyrics.
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ABOUT BYE BYE BIRDIE
he worst possible thing has happened! Conrad Birdie, the biggest singing [...]
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE) Complete tex. Written by Lewis Carroll and released in 1872.
Chapter 1 - Looking Glass House
Chapter 2 - The Garden of Live Flowers
Chapter 3 - Looking-Glass Insects
Chapter 4 - Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Chapter 5 - Wool and Water
Chapter 6 - Humpty Dumpty
Chapter 7 - The Lion and the [...]
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Your majesty shouldn’t purr so loud,’ Alice said, rubbing her eyes, and addressing the kitten, respectfully, yet with some severity. `You woke me out of oh! such a nice dream! And you’ve been along with me, Kitty — all through the Looking-Glass world. Did you know it, dear?’ It is a [...]
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– and it really was a kitten, after all
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She took her off the table as she spoke, and shook her backwards and forwards with all her might.
The Red Queen made no resistance whatever; only her face grew very small, and her eyes got large and green: and still, as Alice went on shaking her, she kept on growing [...]
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`Well, this is grand!’ said Alice. `I never expected I should be a Queen so soon — and I’ll tell you what it is, your majesty,’ she went on in a severe tone (she was always rather fond of scolding herself), `it’ll never do for you to be lolling about on the grass like that! [...]
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After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those still [...]
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The next moment soldiers cam running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole forest. Alice got behind a tree, for fear of being run over, and watched them go by.
She thought that in all her [...]
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However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human: when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth; and when she had come close to it, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself. `It can’t be anybody [...]
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She caught the shawl as she spoke, and looked about for the owner: in another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if she were flying, and Alice very civilly went to meet her with the shawl.
`I’m very glad I happened to be in the [...]
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They were standing under a tree, each with an arm round the other’s neck, and Alice knew which was which in a moment, because one of them had `DUM’ embroidered on his collar, and the other `DEE.’ `I suppose they’ve each got “TWEEDLE” round at the back of the collar,’ she said to herself.
They stood [...]
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