Day Nine

Hey guys,

Seeing Peter Pan was alright I was expecting a little more, like I thought Peter Pan should of been an actual kid than a grown man with a tattoo no less, but he did know how to move and sing so I can understand why they picked him, and one other thing that was a little off was the skate board under the alligator, it really surprised me that they didn't even bother to hide it in the costume or anything! The theater was really nice though and the food. If I had been the director I would have fixed those things.

Thanks,

Andrew

Day Eight

Hey guys,

http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_felner_worldoftheatre_1/38/9929/2541988.cw/index.html

http://www.theatricalsolutions.com/

here's 2 resources I found

the first one is brief but it summarizes the technologies pretty well.

and the other one is really cool because it gives solutions to many common problems in theater technology that I would have never thought of, and plus the whole web site is devoted to explaining lots and lots solutions for all aspects of theater, which is really cool.

Day Seven

Hey guys,

Set day was iffy but OK, lifting and lowering the flats weren't fun but i honestly learned something in the end. I think the technical part of theater will be used for the avalanches and mushu.

thanks!

Day Six

Hey guys

I LOVED STOMP! i have seen it before but it wasn't the same this one was actually funny, the performers on stage could act along with their talent. I liked the finale at the end of the show but i didn't like the middle because i found myself getting bored because it was all the same. It was cool meeting the performers, i didn't realize how many different places the performers were from all over. IT WAS REALLY GREAT!

Day Five

Hey guys,

http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Theater.html

I honestly like Kabuki theater better than Greek because it seems to be more broad than Greek, its not just tragedy and comedy and it seems to involve better stories and better characters

thanks,

Andrew

Day Four

Hey guys,

This is my resource on Kabuki Theater

http://www.artelino.com/articles/kabuki_theater.asp

I honestly had no idea what Kabuki was, some martial art, haha, but yeah i had no idea. I guess its a theater form the Chinese had using music, and dancing. The actual word "Kabuki" means song and dance and men are usually the actors in Kabuki plays but it was made by a women and at one point women were banned from Kabuki theater.

Day Three

Hey Guys



I found this pretty good resource web site on the Fa Mulan legend



http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art29756.asp



It says that it all started with a poem told during the Tang dynasty, and has changed as it's been pasted down from mother to daughter and was taught in school before the movie was made. I think its pretty cool that the story was passed on all the way to 1998 and for them to make a movie on it, and i think its even cooler that back in 600 AD China women told their daughters this story and weren't punished, but yeah it's a cool legend and a cool movie!



Thanks,



Andrew

Day Two

Hey again guys





This is a link to the song called "Johanna" from the musical "Sweeney Todd", which is a musical based on actual murderer in 1800's London, the play's plot is about a barber whom had a beautiful wife, and a local judge wanted her all to himself, so he persecuted and threw him in prison and came to London 18 years later seeking revenge after finding out his wife was murdered. He becomes a barber again and kills his customers, waiting for the judge whom falsely prosecuted him and his wife, its a gruesome play, which surprised me because i had always thought of musicals as romance and goody goody stuff, but i was wrong and yet it is a story of love in a really messed up way and it has some beautiful numbers in it! It has become one of my personal favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s6BxjrmkxY

When I looked up musical theatre, the word "pathos" was used quite a lot. So I took a look and learned that basically, pathos is a form of persuasion using song and dance, it is supposed to hone in on the audience's emotions. It was used by Aristotle in his philosophies in rhetoric (which is the art of using language as a means to persuade through grammar, logic, and music) and Aristotle knows his stuff, he was not only a philosopher, but a writer too, a writer of theatre! When I think of musicals, i think of New York, Broadway to be exact, but New York isn't the only home to Broadway musicals, London actually has many famous theatres there and many musicals have been generated there, so that was cool to learn!

Thanks,

Andrew

Day One

Hi, I'm Andrew or Andy, I have been in a few productions at HLT before, so I have an idea of what to expect from this course and Mulan. I'm really pumped for this honestly, I'm ready to learn new things about acting, theater, etc. plus I love the movie Mulan, I can't wait to see all of the shows we going to see, especially STOMP!, I love the movie and have wanted to see it live for years, and I will be glad to meet the performers personally! Auditions are always nerve wracking for me, but I'm confident in what i did, i went out for Shang and Mushu, and I think I have some stiff competition, so let the best man win! =) Like I said earlier, I've been in a couple productions at HLT, two years ago, I was in a small role in Cinderella Wore Combat Boots and recently I was in a little bit of a bigger role in High School Musical, and I hope I have even more exciting and fun experience in this production then I did in my previous productions!



Thanks,



Andrew Hensley