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	Thespis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thespis of Icaria (6th century BCE) is claimed to be the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor in a play although the reality is undoubtedly more complex.
		Thespis supposedly innovated a new style in which one singer or actor performed the words of individual characters in the stories, distinguishing between the characters with the aid of different masks.
		Thespis was the title of an episode of the TV series Sports Night, in which it was mentioned that he became the first actor on November 23, and also that he became a mischievous spirit, as noted above.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thespis (516 words)

	Thespis (operetta) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, was the first collaboration between William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.
		Thespis was an extravaganza in which the gods of Olympus, now become elderly, were temporarily replaced by a troupe of nineteenth-century actors and actresses (one of whom was the eponymous Thespis, the Greek father of drama – continuity was never Gilbert's forte).
		The operetta premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in London on December 26, 1871, and ran for 64 performances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thespis_(play) (259 words)

	St. Pat's Thespis Production Notes
		However, both in arranging and orchestrating, we have otherwise been as faithful to Sullivan as possible; this is not a "souped-up" score.
		1 (Throughout the night): The orchestral lead-in and playout are from Section 2 of the Thespis ballet; the chorus itself uses "In the heights of Glentoun" from The Emerald Isle.
		Thespis' solo and the ensuing chorus are set to the first section of the Thespis ballet.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/thespis/html/stpats.html (1364 words)

	GREEK TRAGIC DRAMA
		Thus we have the term tragoedia, which means “goat song.” The chorus represented satyrs, woodland companions of Dionysus, and they sang a hymn to the god.
		THESPIS About the middle of the sixth century B.C., an Athenian by the name of Thespis (c.
		The new single actor added by Thespis was separate from the leader of the chorus.
	faculty.musowls.org /Sheltont/Literature/HO(gtd).htm (2068 words)

	Thespis -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Thus Thespis was indeed the first actor,”; and tragic dialogue began when he exchanged words with the leader of the chorus.
		The poet Thespis is credited with having invented tragedy when he introduced this first actor into Greek drama, which formerly consisted only of choric dancing and recitation.
		Although evidence about Thespis is scant, he is credited with introducing the prologue and speeches to drama.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9072103 (568 words)

	M.I.T. Thespis Photos by Harriet Fell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Thespis, the gods on Mount Olympus have grown old and tired, so they decide to take a vacation to Earth while a group of traveling actors takes their place.
		Thespis was the first collaboration between Gilbert and Sullivan.
		This version of Thespis consists of two existing Sullivan tunes, "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain" and "Little Maid of Arcadee." All other music has been specially composed for this show by Colin Johnson, and we are pleased to be presenting the world premiere of this new work.
	www.sheldonbrown.org /g-s/thespis (211 words)

	Students put on new version of Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Thespis' - MIT News Office (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In "Thespis," the gods of Mount Olympus have become weary and old and decide to take a vacation on Earth.
		"Thespis" will be performed in the Student Center's La Sala de Puerto Rico, a ballroom with a wooden floor and no stage, noted Ruth Jedlinsky.
		"Thespis" will be presented April 9-10 and April 15-18 at 8 p.m., and on April 10 and 18 at 2 p.m.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2004/arts-thespis-0407.html (571 words)

	Achaea - Dreams of Divine Lands
		Example: Thespis, the drama teacher says, "Declaims and welcome, to tonights' performance!" The rest of the theatre sees: [ONSTAGE] Thespis declaims, "And welcome, to tonights' performance!" Emotes are performed by saying the intended text, prefixed by the word 'emote'.
		Example: Thespis, the drama teacher says, "Emote flourishes his longsword, and performs a low bow." The rest of the theatre sees: [ONSTAGE] Thespis flourishes his longsword, and performs a low bow.
		Example: Thespis, the drama teacher says, "Announces tonight, I will be playing Callisto." Thespis drops a prop resembling a shining longsword.
	www.achaea.com /irex/helpview/help.php?q=theatre (1800 words)

	THESPIS (OF ICARIA) - LoveToKnow Article on THESPIS (OF ICARIA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Suidas gives the titles (of doubtful authenticity) of several of his plays (not confined to the legends of Dionysus, but embracing the whole body of heroic legends), but the fragments quoted in various writers as from Thespis are probably forgeries by Heracleides of Pontus.
		The statement of Horace (Ars Foetica, 276) that Thespis went round Attica with a cart, on which his plays were acted, is -iue to confusion between the origin of tragedy and comedy, and a reminiscence of the scurrilous jests which it was customary to utter from a waggon (aial,uuara ~ iandud.En~) at certain religious festivals.
		According to them, Thespis, actor and manager, transported his apparatus on a cart to the deme in which he intended to produce his drama, formed and trained a chorus, and gave a representation in public.
	www.1911ency.org /T/TH/THESPIS_OF_ICARIA_.htm (1487 words)

	Thespis, Greece, ancient history
		He was an important innovator for the theatre, since he intoduced such things as the independent actor, as opposed to the choir, as well as masks, make up and costumes.
		Thespis walked around Athens pulling a handcart, setting up a kind of one man plays, where he showed the bad behaviour of man. The word for actor " thespian" comes from his name.
		His contemporary Solon resented him, with the explanation that what he showed on stage soon would be acted out in reality as well.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/history/ancient/thespis.htm (136 words)

	Card Shark and Thespis
		In contrast, the reader-protagonist in Thespis is a minor character inhabiting the periphery of the action, a witness to events that unfold.
		Thespis gives us a greater range of action and might offer us a chance to take a role, but that role is not central and our limitations are evident.
		Thespis, on the other hand, uses space chiefly as a place in which actors move; Thespian spaces tend to be large, bland, and crowded.
	www.electronicbookreview.com /thread/firstperson/bernsteingreco (7115 words)

	Sports Night: Thespis Recap - TV.com
		Jeremy claims that it is the anniversary of Thespis' first appearance on a Greek stage to become the first one to speak words in a play (as opposed to the song and dance style which preceded).
		Dana asks quizzically, "Thespis?" and Jeremy continues, revealing that he is now a mischievious ghost who likes to wreak havoc on performances.
		Dana also shouts out her defiance of Thespis as she walks out onto the set, to see why there is water dripping on it.
	www.tv.com /thespis/episode/55336/recap.html (1254 words)

	Thespis Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Transcript of a discussion of Thespis by members of the SavoyNet distribution list during September 1997.
		Forty Years of Thespis Scholarship by Selwyn Tillett and Roderic Spencer — The abridged and amended text of a talk delivered at the Sullivan Society Festival weekend, Cirencester, Saturday 21 September 2002.
		A chapter on Thespis from the book Gilbert and Sullivan Opera, A History and a Comment, by H. Walbrook, published in London in 1922.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/thespis/html/thespis_home.html (328 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Thespis 2003 /11-15 May 2003
		The Thespis Festival is an international festival of university theatre, held in Jerusalem for the 10th year.
		The Thespis festival was initiated by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which produces it in collaboration with the Department of Culture at the Jerusalem Municipality.
		With the years, the Thespis festival has become a fascinating cultural event, drawing massive audiences and bridging the gap between Israel’s artists of tomorrow and theatre artists from different cultures around the world.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=74 (300 words)

	The Greeks - Thespis becomes worlds first actor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And most remarkable of all the winners was said to be a wandering bard called Thespis.
		According to tradition, in 534 or 535 BC, Thespis astounded audiences by leaping on to the back of a wooden cart and reciting poetry as if he was the characters whose lines he was reading.
		In doing so he became the world's first actor, and it is from him that we get the world thespian.
	www.pbs.org /empires/thegreeks/keyevents/534_c.html (206 words)

	Savoyaires -- Background to the 2004 Production of Thespis
		It was an operetta called Thespis, or the Gods Grown Old, which tells a typical Gilbertian topsy-turvy story of a theatrical troupe whose members take over the roles of the Greek gods.
		Although it was generally well-received by the critics, it was evidently under-rehearsed and not exactly to the taste of the Gaiety's patrons; as a result, it closed after only sixty-four performances.
		Opening on March 18, 1982, at Theatre Building Chicago, Thespis was presented as a chamber production—performed with piano accompaniment by a cast of 13 playing the 16 named roles, so with neither chorus nor orchestra.
	www.savoyaires.org /thespis.htm (1062 words)

	Educational Theatre Association - call board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The International Thespian Society takes its name from the Greek poet, playwright, and chorus leader Thespis, who is considered to be the first actor.
		Before Thespis, who lived in the sixth century BCE, Greek theatre was performed entirely by a chorus.
		Tradition has it that Thespis was the first performer to step away from the chorus and deliver lines to them, introducing the concept of dialogue.
	www.edta.org /call_board/who_is_thespis.asp (119 words)

	104 The Origins of Greek Theatre I, Classical Drama and Theatre
		We might conclude the same about Thespis except that there is no primary evidence for his existence as there is for the American founding fathers.
		Unlike George Washington, Thespis could easily have been made up wholesale by later historians who wished to iron out and personify the complex evolution of early Greek theatre and make it easier in general to assimilate.
		What tragedy became is simply what Thespis and Aeschylus saw as practicable entertainment, because in manufacturing tragedy, they simply used what they wanted to of the celebrations and art forms around them.
	www.usu.edu /markdamen/ClasDram/chapters/041gkorig.htm (6460 words)

	Charles Schlotter's THESPIS Discography
		Without him, the original manuscript of Thespis should have been irretrievably lost, and the piece should have been subject to relentless speculation instead of becoming the tiresome commonplace that it, in fact, is.
		It is not known why Bertha Lewis was unavailable for the sessions, and Walker, while good, is no threat to Lewis (or Ella Halman, for that matter.) Avoid the Pro Bono CD transfer which is noisy, incomplete, and an octave and a half sharp.
		The public demand for Thespis recordings was scarcely satisfied even in the grim Depression days, hence this series of excerpts under the direction of Sargent, apparently a surgeon or dentist or possibly a veterinarian of some sort.
	www.concentric.net /~oakapple/gasdisc/thes-disc2.htm (2017 words)

	Recordings of Thespis
		Schlotter has kindly allowed me to post his Thespis Discography here, which is appropriate because it spoofs many of the descriptions found at this site, besides being hilarious in its own right.
		The original score of Thespis does not survive, but that has not stopped many an enterprising Savoyard from either composing their own score or assembling one from existing Sullivan melodies.
		The story, in brief, is that while preparing a performing edition of Sullivan's 1864 ballet L'Ile Enchantée, several numbers were found in a different copyist's handwriting, and with a different pagination, from the rest of the work.
	www.concentric.net /~Oakapple/gasdisc/thes.htm (652 words)

	AIA - Annual Meeting - A Staged Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old
		They trade places for a year with Thespis’ company of comedians, who proceed to flub their roles as deities.
		The act one finale consummates the role exchange (“Here’s a pretty tale for future Iliads and Odysseys: mortals are about to personate the gods and goddesses”), while the grand finale curses the failed comedians to lives as tragedians “whom no one ever goes to see.”
		Thespis: Strong singer-actor, baritone, one featured patter song and lots of ensemble singing.
	www.archaeological.org /webinfo.php?page=10290 (1202 words)

	MITG&SP: 2004 Spring Show: Thespis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thespis was the first collaboration by Gilbert and Sullivan.
		This version of Thespis will consist of two existing Sullivan tunes, "Climbing Over Rocky Mountain" and "Little Maid of Arcadee." All other music has been specially composed for this show by Colin Johnson and orchestrated by Todd Neal, and MITGandSP are pleased to be presenting the world premiere of this new work.
		It is password protected; please email the thespis list if you need the password.
	web.mit.edu /gsp/www/Archive/2004spring_thespis (252 words)

	Go To (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the music for "Thespis" is mostly lost, the words remain, so we know the plot and even the titles of the songs.
		Thespis suggests that the gods go down among the mortals and see for themselves, while his troupe stands in for them on Olympus.
		It was Sullivan who, years later, went to some pains to obtain the orchestral parts from the original producer, and since that music has never been found it is suspected that he may have burned it.
	www.savoyards.org /thespis.html (808 words)

	Thespis Journal: Thespis Journal Awards Blogs of the Year
		It is time for us, the staff writers at Thespis Journal, to honor the top blogs to be found around the internet and in the blogosphere.
		Each of these bloggers have inspired us to do better work, and to continue to write and express those ideas which often go unarticulated in the mainstream media.
		We at Thespis Journal saltue these expert bloggers, and we hope someday to achieve the status of these distinguished professionals.
	thespisjournal.blogspot.com /2005/12/thespis-journal-awards-blogs-of-year.html (680 words)

	thespis
		Synopsis: The Olympians have aged and feel the need to examine their status among mortals.
		Roles (Vocal parts were written moderately to be sung in the heart of the range for that voice):
		Thespis : Strong singer-actor, baritone, one featured patter song and lots of ensemble singing.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~mwilson/capn/thespis.html (1172 words)

	Thespis -- Transcript (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Isaac: Esther and I had a fight this morning before she left.
		Jeremy: (into mike) It was on this day in 534 BC that Thespis stepped out onto the stage of the Theater Dionysus during a choral song and dance and became the first man to speak words as an actor in a play.
		Dana: Thespis has been dead for twenty-five hundred years.
	members.aol.com /graecia13/thespis.html (3307 words)

	Movie Info for Sports Night: Thespis on MSN Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In frustration, Casey asks the Sports Night crew why November 23 is an important date and Jeremy (Joshua Malina) announces that the date marks the anniversary of the first spoken performance by the ancient Greek actor Thespis, who is universally accepted as the first actor.
		Furthermore, Jeremy elaborates, Thespis is now a ghost who enjoys haunting any type of production that occurs on November 23rd, and that the crew should be prepared for a night filled with unexpected mishaps.
		Isaac (Robert Guillaume), in the meantime, is fretting over an argument he had with his wife just prior to her departure for California to be with their nearly full-term pregnant daughter -- only to later learn that his daughter has gone into early labor due to some unexpected and potentially serious complications.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=531534 (309 words)

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