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  Musical - Search View - MSN Encarta
The musical has been influenced by a variety of dramatic forms through the centuries, with the modern version emerging in the United States and Britain in the second half of the 20th century.
The popular music of the time included the tuneful but uninspired “She’s Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage” and “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.” Theater music of this period was typically modeled after operetta, in the manner of the tremendously popular 19th-century works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Kern’s shows were called the Princess musicals because they were produced in the intimate Princess Theater on Broadway, the New York City street that had become one of the world’s major entertainment thoroughfares in the mid-19th century.
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 Comedy Musical
This lively account establishes musical comedy as one of the first industrial cultures and offers fascinating insights into how it functioned ideologically as a celebrated embracing of the modern condition.
Bloomers (musical comedy troupe) - Founded in 1979 at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Bloomers is one of the only (perhaps the only) all-female musical comedy troupes in the United States.
History of the Songs The musical forms most associated with Music Hall Music Hall is a form of Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), the mother of John Joe's star fiddler, Anne (Andrea Corr, lead singer of the minstrel song.
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  Amelia Bloomer - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818—December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate.
When Amelia was 22, she married a lawyer by the name of Dexter Bloomer.
She moved to Iowa in 1852, and from 1871 until 1873, Amelia served as president of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association.
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 Bloomers | Our name   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Bloomer's day were heavy and cumbersome and picked up everything from the unpaved streets.
Bloomer describe them in her magazine, and wear them when she lectured, then the furor began.
Bloomers, the nation's first and only all-female, all-original collegiate musical comedy troupe, was conceived in the spring of 1978 when several freshwomen sought an opportunity to perform musical comedy.
dolphin.upenn.edu /~bloomers/name.html   (171 words)

  
 bloomers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Bloomers are an article of clothing invented by Amelia Bloomer to change the way women dressed.
Bloomers was a sitcom which starred Richard Beckinsale as a florist.
Founded in 1979 at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Bloomers is one of the only (perhaps the only) all-female musical comedy troupes in the United States.
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 Bloomers (musical comedy troupe) | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Founded in 1978 at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Bloomers is the nation's premier all-female musical sketch comedy troupe.
The group consists entirely of undergraduate women who write, direct, and perform all-original material.
Bloomers performs two major shows during the academic year in the spring and fall semesters, with smaller guest performances at coffee houses, charity events and comedy clubs.
www.babylon.com /definition/Bloomers_(musical_comedy_troupe)   (94 words)

  
 arthritis pain relief - Amelia Bloomer
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818—December 30, 1894) was an American women's rights and temperance advocate.
She supported the wearing of shorter skirts, but with undergarments reaching to the ankles to preserve modesty.
She moved to Iowa in 1852, and from 1871 until 1873, Amelia served as president of the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association.
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 Opera Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Denver comedy theater that hosts "Improv Hootenanny" and "On the Spot." They also offer adult and teen improv workshops, and performance opportunities for high school and college troupes.
New York City troupe that formed at Georgetown and is now based at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performs long-form shows and offers notes about their shows.
Washington University improv comedy troupe has info about and photos of their past and present members, as well as a list of the games they perform.
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 Playbill News: Philip Bosco to Head Cast of Encores! Bloomer Girl, March 22-25   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
As far as musical experience is concerned, he was to have co-starred in the once Broadway-bound Kander and Ebb musical The Visit.
Bloomer Girl recently received a rare revival at the hands of Cotton Blossom Musicals, a Manhattan troupe devoted to socially-aware musical works.
The musical ran 654 performances and was considered groundbreaking for its attempt to tell a socially relevant story within the frame of a musical comedy (Harburg did it a few years later, too, with Finian's Rainbow and Flahooley).
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 The Edinburgh festival 2006 -- Reviews -- Theatre 'M' -- 15 out of 156
But rest assured: it is. The whole show is gloriously silly and is well-acted; not least by the wonderfully convincing disembodied hand that walks its way across the stage at the end.
Welles' innovation is to present a troupe of Victorian actors meeting to 'rehearse King Lear, only to stumble upon the idea of putting Moby Dick on t'he stage.
With a gentle music soundtrack and cool, crisp, sensual performances, this is a perfectly cut diamond of a show -a wee gem.
www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2006/fringe/review_theatre.php?page=m   (4416 words)

  
 Stage Listings | San Francisco Bay Guardian
In fact, their ardor is being intentionally stoked by their colluding parents (who realize, as one of the show's lively songs has it, that children only do what you tell them not to).
The pure fun in the show's laid-back banter and eclectic program masks a subtle musical education, while its good-natured mocking of the dark side of human relations – and playful embrace of the naughty but nice – consistently hits just the right note.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe presents its new musical spaghetti western, set in 1886 Texas and pointedly based on the presidency of George W. Bush and the war in Iraq.
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 Bloomers (musical comedy troupe) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The group consists entirely of undergraduate women who write, direct, and perform all-original material.
In addition to the cast, the group maintains a standing crew, business staff, and band.
This musical theatre related article is a stub.
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 WOLD NEWTON UNIVERSE: A SECRET HISTORY-Immortal Befuddled-Double Trouble-19th Century
Yet at the time he was a celebrity and a female reporter who had ambitions to be the next Nellie Bly pestered him as he chose to give up a promising musical career to become a swabbie.
When a cop returns the lady's gloves the boys realize their mistake and dispose of the bloomers as they take the girl to a soda fountain.
Although Ollu and Buzsla are confronted by the two sets of women, attacked by gangsters and thrown in jail they still kept up the pretense of being two sets of people and delivered the ring.
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All in all, the music was kind of jazzy, lower key, very entertaining and very good; featuring excellent work on all of guitar, keyboard and percussion.
With their music leaning toward gospel, they rented facilities and gave a well attended recital in Bemidji a few years ago.
A sample of the Slaughter's music will be available at northernherald.com For performances at weddings, events, etc., they may be reached at 218-755-1271 Photo Captions (photos are not included in The Library edition): Elizabeth and Roosevelt Slaughter on piano and organ Elizabeth displays her very professional greeting cards, embossed in braille.
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 Courses - Spiegel
Penn students rendezvous at ICA's Lounge 118 on First Wednesdays for coffee-infused conversation, avant-garde film or popular music related to the exhibitions.
Bloomers, the nation’s first and Penn’s only all-female musical and sketch comedy troupe, presents an original performance celebrating Ben Franklin.
Penn’s most popular, and the nation’s oldest, all-male comedy troupe Mask and Wig will perform their own tribute to Ben Franklin, exclusively for ICA and Penn First Wednesday.
www.upenn.edu /provost/spiegel/first_wednesday.html   (85 words)

  
 Weekend Guide: 7/13/06   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
A musical adaptation of the children's classic story by P.D. Eastman, adapted by Gregory, Dietz and Koerner.
THE KING AND I Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical based on the true story of an English governess and her experience as a tutor to the children for the King of Siam.
A farce about a neglected young wife in Germany whose life turns upside down after her bloomers drop in the middle of the town parade.
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 Newspaper
Music Boosters is proud to present Pagosa's encore presentation of "A Christmas Carol," a musical adaptation by Michael Demaio.
A wide variety of music was played, and there were many times when the dance floor was packed and the tables were virtually empty.
In response to repeated calls for the dance to be a regular event, the community center is happy to announce that community dances will be held the third Friday of each month, barring any conflicts with other events.
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 Penn Humanities Forum
I was surprised to learn that Franklin used both a sharp wit and satirical quality in his work.
I also employ these writing strategies each semester as an executive member of Bloomers, the nation's only all-female, musical, sketch-comedy troupe.
Around the time of this competition, Bloomers had been commissioned by Penn's Institute of Contemporary Art to write and perform Franklin-inspired bits—the research for which prompted me to enter this essay competition with the hope of bringing some light to Penn's most humorous (yet virtuous) Founding Father.
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 Beauty and the Beast at Beck Center biographies - Fred Sternfeld website
She studied theatre and music at Wittenberg University and The Cleveland Institute of Music and fashion and millinery at The Virginia Marti College of Art and Design.
After graduating from high school, Jessica plans to attend college to study musical theatre, after which she will then strive to reach her goal of shooting a hockey puck from the moon to Earth.
Josh studied musical theatre at the University Of Miami Frost School of Music and was the recipient of the Lisa Bowlin Abney Performing Arts Memorial Award for Excellence in the Arts.
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 flavorpill NYC
As the group's Pitchfork Music Festival gig this summer showcased, the band exudes warm, sparkling grooves and keening melodies that are best experienced with a slight buzz while the sun beats down overhead.
The New York Musical Theatre Festival is back for its third year, featuring more than 30 premieres of full productions, works in development, and commissioned plays, as well as concerts, panels, and — for the first time — a dance series.
The Musical), and Mary Magdalene (Korean sensation Maria, Maria).
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 TIME Magazine
For Lou Tudor, 56, of San Diego, joining the Late Bloomers Comedy Improv Troupe, which is geared to people over 55, started as an adventure but turned into something therapeutic.
Other groups offer musical reviews, oral histories or improv, like the San Diego--based Late Bloomers, who perform at a local theater, charge for their performances and pay the actors.
The Heyday Players, a troupe of 44 volunteer actors between their mid-50s and mid-80s who perform under the auspices of the Round House Theatre--in partnership with the Montgomery County, Md., Department of Health and Human Services--tackle such themes as alcohol abuse, bereavement, family relations and isolation.
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 Bloomers | The main page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Bloomers is the nation's first (and quite possibly only) all-female musical and sketch comedy troupe.
Founded in 1978 at the University of Pennsylvania, our shows are completely original works composed of both musical and straight bits created by the group.
They are directed, produced, choreographed, managed, and performed by undergraduate women.
dolphin.upenn.edu /~bloomers/main.html   (191 words)

  
 Downtown Austin | Events Calendar
Baby Bloomers is a program for children ages three and under and their caregivers.
Miss Hollywood is a “screwball” comedy a la Kaufman and Hart, set against the backdrop of early Hollywood and classic Los Angeles political corruption.
The script and music, passed on from generation to generation, imparts lessons of wisdom through drama and humor as shepherds embark on a journey and encounter manifestations of evil that attempt to keep them from reaching their destination.
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 sfweekly.com - Arts & Entertainment
The San Francisco Mime Troupe mines the politics of the Old West.
The San Francisco Mime Troupe has been serving up hard-hitting political commentary through original musical theater productions since 1961; its shows have an unpretentious vibe and blood-stirring, power-to-the-people-type messages.
His latest is a comedy about a high-society chick who loses her bloomers during a public parade and becomes the center of unsavory attention.
www.sfweekly.com /Issues/2004-06-30/calendar/performance.html   (0 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Midsummer Night's Dream: DVD: Kevin Kline,Michelle Pfeiffer,Stanley Tucci,Rupert Everett,Calista ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Only Flockhart (as the lovestruck Helena), Tucci (a sprightly Puck), Pfeiffer (dazzling and funny as the queen of the fairies), and especially the sublime Kline (as weaver-turned-donkey Bottom) seem to connect with their characters in ways that make this adaptation occasionally soar; the rest are inexplicably left to flounder.
When two pairs of star-crossed lovers, a feuding pair of supernatural sprites and a love potion gone awry all come together in an enchanted moonlit forest, the result is a delightful mix of merriment and magic.
And in Shakespeare's hilarious "Comedy of Errors," there was the one sad element of Egeon.) The 3rd subplot involves the rift between the fairy king Oberon, and his wife Titania.
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 BRITISH TV SHOW REVIEWS "E"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Yet another of the post-modern comedies pioneered by Steve Coogan and encouraged by the success of The Royle Family where traditional jokes, much less any plot, are virtually non-existent.
This was a "new wave" musical about a beautiful Empress who wants the perfect husband and ends up marrying an Arnold Schwarzenegger clone--where they found a guy with that body who can sing, I'll never know.
Jonathan Meades is back with another of his witty series (begun in 1994's Further Abroad) dealing with seemingly mundane subjects and "stripping away the artifice" (as he says at the beginning of each episode) and then examining them from another angle.
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 wbli.com: Event Guide Movie reviews, production notes, and more! - "The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants"
It was adapted for television as a musical for NBC, and then adapted for the stage as a musical revue for children, with words and lyrics by John Forster.
Buckley began her film career through the music video world and segued into television commercials, first as a staff producer and then later bringing all of her skills to the table as an art director.
In addition to his film music career, in 1996, Eidelman was commissioned to compose and conduct a new concert work of his choice.
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 Omaha City Weekly
With music from Riley Jantzen and Ali Harter
Music classes, voice lessons, dance instruction, aerobic exercise classes in Spanish and classes on history, cultural tradition and music theory will be held.
April 9 Masters and Music series at the University of Nebraska at Omaha — Innovations in Sight and Sound, the next installment in the Masters and Music series at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), will be held this Sunday.
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 The Sunbeam Label
Meanwhile "So Long," from her first session for Sunbeam, was reissued in the summer of 1949 on the Old Swing-Master label, which had inherited her Sunbeam masters; on this occasion it was given a new coupling, "For Old Time's Sake" from her second session.
Some of the entertainment at Joe's Deluxe is preserved on the recordings made by two of the house band leaders: Dallas Bartley's session for Cosmo and his three soundies from 1945, and Bill Martin's 1946 sessions for Hy-Tone (although Martin used a studio lineup instead of the musicians he was appearing with nightly).
We are indebted to Charles Walton for his article, Marl Young, activist musician and the first Black music director of a network television show, which is based on his 1985 interview with Young.
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 <vrh>Introduction</vrh>
Each of the victims had eaten a piece of pie that had been prepared by Charles Abramson, a pastry cook who was the chief suspect in the incident.
Many of the comedy and other types of more frivolous shows that remained were cut from one hour to half-hour time slots.
Jordan began this bulletin from Munich at 8:52 p.m., September 29, 1938, interrupting an NBC broadcast of swing music.
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