The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas
"The story is one of the most intriguing in all literature, and one of the most remembered and beloved stories in human history. Well worth the effort to read through the long narrative."
http://books.google.com/books?id=4RUUAAAAYAAJ#reviews_anchor
"The Count of Monte Cristo is a delicious book, full of intrigue, great fight scenes, love, passion, and witty social satire."
http://www.amazon.com/Count-Monte-Cristo-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449264
Winnie the Pooh
Based on stories by A.A. Milne
Dramatized by Le Clanche Du Rand
"As long as there are children and parents to read to them, Winnie the Pooh will remain a favorite storybook classic."
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Tales-Winnie-Pooh/dp/0525457232
"Winnie the Pooh is the optimist and the philospher, he is able to see the good in everyone and make the best of every situation." http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99107.Winnie_the_Pooh
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
Adapted by: Joseph Robinette
"Barnyard life spins into real emotions teaching valuable lessons in camaraderie, devotion, sacrifice, and life's issues." http://broadwayworld.com/article/Charlottes_Web_The_Musical_20061212
"The book has liveliness and felicity, tenderness and unexpectedness, grace and humor and praise of life, and the good backbone of succinctness that only the most highly imaginative stories seem to grow." http://www.amazon.com/Charlottes-Play-Format-Joseph-Robinette/dp/product-description/0871292432
A Christmas Carol: The Musical
Based on the novel by Charles Dickens
Music by Lynn Ahrens and Alan Menken
"This rendition of the show received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for best musical...a Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one night."
http://www.mcleanplayers.org/mcp/Show.cfm?ShowID=225
''A Christmas Carol,'' despite music by Alan Menken (Disney's ''Beauty and the Beast'') and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens (''Ragtime''), has never been as much a musical as a spectacle."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9802E4D9133BF937A35751C1A96E958260
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
“Romeo and Juliet are two teenagers in love and their story ends in terrible tragedy.”
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6547864785&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6547864788&cisb=22_T6547864787&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=11314&docNo=1
“Romeo and Juliet is a much bigger story than just the two in the middle. It's actually a satirical comedy about rather useless adults. I had a bit of a eureka moment when I realised that Romeo and Juliet only lived in the context of the rather clumsy, cruel, thoughtless world that surrounded them.”
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6547864785&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6547864788&cisb=22_T6547864787&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=10939&docNo=21
Bear Country
by Michael Vigilant
“The wit, wisdom, humor and spirituality of Bryant are captured wonderfully by veteran actor Rodney Clark”
http://alabama.scout.com/2/833623.html
“The play focuses on Coach Bryant's characteristic leadership style and reveals some of the lesser known anecdotes and stories about his life and career, chronicling his evolution from a young man driven by poverty into an inspiring leader who left an indelible mark on the lives of his players and associates."
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/125036-Bear_Country_Shaping_Up_to_Be_an_Alabama_Shakespeare_Hit_Opens_Jan._11
Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare
“A comedy of errors The Abbey Theatre presents a new production of William Shakespeare's mischievous tour de force The Comedy of Errors.”
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6547925960&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6547925963&cisb=22_T6547925962&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=227171&docNo=2
“…his neatly plotted comedy of sundered families, divided selves and accidental husband swapping may touch on deep fears…”
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6547925960&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6547925963&cisb=22_T6547925962&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=142626&docNo=8
Othello
by William Shakespeare
"With a little perseverance, you will find Othello is quite Moorish."
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6547956879&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6547956882&cisb=22_T6547956881&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=314239&docNo=1
"As helmed by Arin Arbus, Shakespeare's domestic tragedy has been stripped of its stage trappings and presented virtually in the raw."
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6547956879&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6547956882&cisb=22_T6547956881&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=139224&docNo=6
The Furniture of Home
by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder
"Her play is hilarious but so very human and complex."
http://southernwritersproject.net/?tag=the-furniture-of-home
"They learn to let go of the past and hold on to one another in this hilarious and heartwarming story about what makes a home."
http://www.maxwell.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123138113
The Three Musketeers
Based on the novel by Alexander Dumas
Adapted by Charles Morey
"The movie was absurd but took itself too seriously; the play is extremely light-hearted and even slapsticky. The movie had virtually no good acting or characterization; the play is vivid and entertaining and performed with great skill"
http://www.ericdsnider.com/theater/the-three-musketeers/
"...director Geoffrey Sherman's production gets a lot of mileage out of the melodramatic comic conventions of the theatre, while staying true to the spirit and historical authenticity of the original novel."
https://blackboard.shsu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_38078_1%26url%3d
Friday, January 23, 2009
Project #1 - University of Alabama
1) Into the Woods
by James Lapine
"In her excellent biography of Stephen Sondheim, Meryle Secret describes the birth of Into the Woods as midwifed by Sondheim and his longtime creative partner James Lapine's desire to come up with a musical that was bright, lighthearted and funny."
http://www.curtainup.com/intothewoods.html
2)You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
by Clark Gesner
"It will make you smile ear to ear, then maybe cause you drop a tear or two at the end. You can't ask for more than that.You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6548008895&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6548008898&cisb=22_T6548008897&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8286&docNo=2
3) Moon Over Buffalo
by Ken Ludwig
"FADING rep stars George and Charlotte Hay are on the way out yet still dreaming of a big break, in this amusing comedy by Ken Ludwig."
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6548025485&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6548025493&cisb=22_T6548025492&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=166681&docNo=1
"If comedies and farces are your favorite choice of theatre, then Moon Over Buffalo, is sure to please."
http://huntsville.about.com/od/theatreanddance/a/moonoverbuffalo.htm
4) Andrew Lippa's Wild Party
by Andrew Lippa
"Much like a musical soap opera, The Wild Party unfolds an evening of raw and unapologetic passion that gets a bit too in your face for perhaps the average theater patron."
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Lippas_Wild_Party_20040321
"The Wild Party may not be the perfect musical we've all been looking for but it's great fun to watch and puts enough talent on display to have warranted a longer run than it will have."
http://www.curtainup.com/wildpartymtc.html
5) The Heiress -
by Ruth & Augustus Goetz
"may not be at the cutting edge of innovative drama, but that does not preclude it being an enjoyable evening."
http://www.curtainup.com/heiress.html
"It's the literate, highly theatrical Ruth and Augustus Goetz adaptation of the Henry James novel "Washington Square" (1880), a psychological horror story set in the upper reaches of genteel New York society in the 1850's."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=990CE0DC1F3CF933A25750C0A963958260
6) Reckless
by Craig Lucas
"It calls for plenty of humor and surprise until about a third or a quarter of the way from the end, at which point the tone darkens and the laughs dry up."
http://www.portifex.com/LArts/Reckless.htm
"In the course of this animated production from the Manhattan Theater Club, directed with subversive buoyancy by Mark Brokaw, Ms. Parker's smile will waver, tighten and shrink in ways that seem to age her at least a decade. And by the show's end, you may feel as if you've undergone a fast-forwarded program in Prozac withdrawal."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/theater/reviews/15RECK.html
7) Medea
by Euripides
"Evil enters the house of scorned enchantress Medea -- and stays there until the bitter end as Manitoba Theatre Centre takes another tragic stab at Euripides."
http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/Reviews/M/Medea/2008/11/22/7496256-sun.html
"A muddled, sort of revisionist version, though, is what we have in Theodora Skipitares’s flat new production at La MaMa."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/theater/reviews/19mede.html
8)Henry V -
by William Shakespeare
"But those comic bookends were received with warm enjoyment over the weekend at the New Victory Theater, where children almost outnumbered adults at the Acting Company and Guthrie Theater’s co-production. "
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/theater/reviews/03henry.html
"Henry V is an almost complete study of the war with France in the early 1400s told entirely from the English point of view"
http://www.curtainup.com/henry5lond.html
9) Transit of Venus
by Maureen Hunter
"-- and to put first things first, these women are the stellar magnets drawing you into this historical romance-cum-astrological adventure, (more a misadventure) both in fact as in this faction.)"
http://www.curtainup.com/b-venus.html
"Although it is, at its core, a love story, it also tackles the big questions of destiny, science and, in subtext, the face of God."
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Transit%20of%20Venus
10) Thoroughly Modern Millie
by Richard Henry Morris
"For this ''Millie'' has shed the barbs of irony for a fuzzy high-spiritedness."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C0CEFD8173FF93AA25757C0A9649C8B63
"But talent is not enough. Two shortcomings ultimately defeat this well intentioned show – a lack of creative imagination and several painfully miscast leads. And without those, you cannot have a first-class musical comedy."
http://www.musicals101.com/millie.htm
by James Lapine
"In her excellent biography of Stephen Sondheim, Meryle Secret describes the birth of Into the Woods as midwifed by Sondheim and his longtime creative partner James Lapine's desire to come up with a musical that was bright, lighthearted and funny."
http://www.curtainup.com/intothewoods.html
"The musical delves into the darker side of beloved childhood fairytales, drawing out the reality behind happily-ever-after"
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/November/nov3_intothewoods.shtml
2)You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
by Clark Gesner
"It will make you smile ear to ear, then maybe cause you drop a tear or two at the end. You can't ask for more than that.You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown"
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6548008895&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6548008898&cisb=22_T6548008897&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=8286&docNo=2
3) Moon Over Buffalo
by Ken Ludwig
"FADING rep stars George and Charlotte Hay are on the way out yet still dreaming of a big break, in this amusing comedy by Ken Ludwig."
http://www.lexisnexis.com.unx1.shsu.edu:2048/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T6548025485&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T6548025493&cisb=22_T6548025492&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&csi=166681&docNo=1
"If comedies and farces are your favorite choice of theatre, then Moon Over Buffalo, is sure to please."
http://huntsville.about.com/od/theatreanddance/a/moonoverbuffalo.htm
4) Andrew Lippa's Wild Party
by Andrew Lippa
"Much like a musical soap opera, The Wild Party unfolds an evening of raw and unapologetic passion that gets a bit too in your face for perhaps the average theater patron."
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Lippas_Wild_Party_20040321
"The Wild Party may not be the perfect musical we've all been looking for but it's great fun to watch and puts enough talent on display to have warranted a longer run than it will have."
http://www.curtainup.com/wildpartymtc.html
5) The Heiress -
by Ruth & Augustus Goetz
"may not be at the cutting edge of innovative drama, but that does not preclude it being an enjoyable evening."
http://www.curtainup.com/heiress.html
"It's the literate, highly theatrical Ruth and Augustus Goetz adaptation of the Henry James novel "Washington Square" (1880), a psychological horror story set in the upper reaches of genteel New York society in the 1850's."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=990CE0DC1F3CF933A25750C0A963958260
6) Reckless
by Craig Lucas
"It calls for plenty of humor and surprise until about a third or a quarter of the way from the end, at which point the tone darkens and the laughs dry up."
http://www.portifex.com/LArts/Reckless.htm
"In the course of this animated production from the Manhattan Theater Club, directed with subversive buoyancy by Mark Brokaw, Ms. Parker's smile will waver, tighten and shrink in ways that seem to age her at least a decade. And by the show's end, you may feel as if you've undergone a fast-forwarded program in Prozac withdrawal."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/theater/reviews/15RECK.html
7) Medea
by Euripides
"Evil enters the house of scorned enchantress Medea -- and stays there until the bitter end as Manitoba Theatre Centre takes another tragic stab at Euripides."
http://jam.canoe.ca/Theatre/Reviews/M/Medea/2008/11/22/7496256-sun.html
"A muddled, sort of revisionist version, though, is what we have in Theodora Skipitares’s flat new production at La MaMa."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/theater/reviews/19mede.html
8)Henry V -
by William Shakespeare
"But those comic bookends were received with warm enjoyment over the weekend at the New Victory Theater, where children almost outnumbered adults at the Acting Company and Guthrie Theater’s co-production. "
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/theater/reviews/03henry.html
"Henry V is an almost complete study of the war with France in the early 1400s told entirely from the English point of view"
http://www.curtainup.com/henry5lond.html
9) Transit of Venus
by Maureen Hunter
"-- and to put first things first, these women are the stellar magnets drawing you into this historical romance-cum-astrological adventure, (more a misadventure) both in fact as in this faction.)"
http://www.curtainup.com/b-venus.html
"Although it is, at its core, a love story, it also tackles the big questions of destiny, science and, in subtext, the face of God."
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Transit%20of%20Venus
10) Thoroughly Modern Millie
by Richard Henry Morris
"For this ''Millie'' has shed the barbs of irony for a fuzzy high-spiritedness."
http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9C0CEFD8173FF93AA25757C0A9649C8B63
"But talent is not enough. Two shortcomings ultimately defeat this well intentioned show – a lack of creative imagination and several painfully miscast leads. And without those, you cannot have a first-class musical comedy."
http://www.musicals101.com/millie.htm
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