The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, their ninth of fourteen operatic collaborations. It opened on March 14, 1885, in London, where it ran at the Savoy Theatre for 672 performances, which was the second longest run for any work of musical theatre and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece up to that time.[1] Before the end of 1885, it was estimated that, in Europe and America, at least 150 companies were producing the opera.[2]The Mikado remains the most frequently performed Savoy Opera,[3] and it is especially popular with amateur and school productions. The work has been translated into numerous languages and is one of the most frequently played musical theatre pieces in history.[4]
Setting the opera in , an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert to satirize British politics and institutions more freely by disguising them as Japanese. Gilbert used foreign or fictional locales in several operas, including The Mikado, Princess Ida, The Gondoliers, Utopia Limited, and The Grand Duke, to soften the impact of his pointed satire of British institutions.
Considered alongside The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire as one of Tennessee Williams’ finest works, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, premiered on Broadway in 1955. Set in a plantation house in Mississippi, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of the rivalries and misunderstandings that tear apart a family as it gathers for the 65th birthday of its patriarch, Big Daddy.
Director Debbie Allen has assembled a stellar cast for this revival, the first African-American production approved by the Williams estate for the Broadway stage. Academy Award nominee Terrence Howard is set to make his Broadway debut as Brick, the alcoholic son of Big Daddy and Big Mama (Tony Award winners James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad) and unhappy husband of “Maggie the Cat” (Tony winner Anika Noni Rose, most recently seen in the film version of Dreamgirls).
In the Heights is a new musical about three days in the life of Washington Heights, a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the island of Manhattan. It’s a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music.
In the Heights comes to Broadway after a successful run at off-Broadway’s 37 Arts. It was nominated for the 2007 Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics and won the 2007 Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Musical.
From the same producers who brought us Rent and Avenue Q, and created by a team of New York’s freshest young talents, In the Heights is the hip, modern and completely unique tale of a community at a crossroads.
A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect the teaching staff of being aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims.
Herrington High, Ohio, a small-town highschool. All of a sudden, the teachers start changing attitude. When Casey and Delilah have to hide in a closet in the teacher’s lounge, they witness the strangulation of Nurse Harper by two of them. Shocked, they manage to flee. Only moments later, the nurse seems to be very alive, but also somehow changed, like all the teachers and most of the students. Only Casey, Delilah and four others seem to be suspicious. Proof of an alien infection is finally brought by the chemistry teacher, who also points out a way to kill the infected humans. The plan now is to get the queen, before the aliens can spread out over the whole country.(Written by Julian Reischl {julianreischl@mac.com} )
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