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The Stage Door blog was very new to me! Firstly, because I am not educated when it comes to Broadway, the closest I’ve gotten to Broadway is musicals on DVD or Broadway Avenue if that counts? Secondly, the language barrier posed a challenge when it came to understanding the textual parts of the blog. The video segments of the blog made me feel as though I would really enjoy Broadway. Everything from the acting, production value, stage displays and music seem as though so much work goes on behind the scenes. It’s crazy to me that some people devote their whole lives to acting in Broadway plays and I haven’t even seen one. After looking through the blog and doing some outside research, I think I should step into Broadway by first watching productions based on movies I know, such as Legally Blonde and then go into famous plays such as Cats and Wicked . One of the videos I watched was Miss Celie’s Blues , which was incredibly well done! Its from the Broadway play called The Color Purp...

Eleanor Corrigan Professor Roundtree Art and Technology 12 February 2018 Salome             The story begins around 30 AD, in a beautiful palace located in Jerusalem. The castle belongs to King Herod, who is married to Herodias. Herodias has a beautiful daughter Salome, which is technically King Herod’s niece. However, King Herod killed his brother in order to marry Herodias and become Salome’s step-father.   In the beginning of the opera, King Herod is having a banquet, which Salome seems to be bored with. The voice of Jochanaan is heard, a prisoner whose voice seems to be coming from underground. He curses Salome’s mother for living a “sinful” life, which Salome questions. The soldiers refuse to answer her continued questions until Narraboth, a guard fascinated with her, orders Jochanaan to be seen.             This is where it all gets interesting. When Joch...

In Pjotr Sapegin’s Madama Butterfly animation, a love story comes to life. A woman meets a sailor and falls in love with him. They sleep together, which was a little weird and graphic compared to the normal Claymation videos I am used to (aka Rudolf the red nose reindeer) and shortly after the sailor leaves. She later finds out she is pregnant and is overjoyed to tell the sailor upon his return. However, when the sailor does return he comes in a car filled with his assumed wife and children. They take the women’s child along with them and the women is left heartbroken (who wouldn’t be).   At the end, she takes her own life and is blown away with the breeze. In the afterlife, she is at peace with her life.             My first thought after watching this opera was how impressed I was with the intense emotion of passion and depression they could portray in a stop-motion animation. Secondly, I think the music was really well do...