Lessons of Vocal Coaching Shakespeare in Hollywood

by Deborah Thomas

This thesis is a personal narrative of my experience as vocal coach on a production of Ken Ludwig's Shakespeare in Hollywood directed by BT McNicholl and performed in the Raymond Hodges Theatre of Virginia Commonwealth University in ...

Lessons of Vocal Coaching Shakespeare in Hollywood

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This thesis is a personal narrative of my experience as vocal coach on a production of Ken Ludwig's Shakespeare in Hollywood directed by BT McNicholl and performed in the Raymond Hodges Theatre of Virginia Commonwealth University in November 2005. Chapter one covers my identification of the play's vocal and aural challenges; what I did to prepare for those challenges; the research I gathered on 1930s Hollywood prototypes for the play; an examination of Shakespearean verse, especially that in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and how Ludwig synthesized Shakespeare's verse with that of his own. Chapter two is divided into an account of the rehearsal process; a description of my sessions with the individual actors and an exploration of the dynamics of the vocal coach-director relationship. Chapter three focuses on the finished production and summarizes my response to the experience.

Shakespeare on screen a midsummer night s dream

by Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (éd.)

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Shakespeare on screen a midsummer night s dream

Author: Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (éd.)

Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre

ISBN: 9782877758437

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Ce livre a pour objet l’étude des représentations du Songe d’une nuit d’été à l’écran, la pièce ayant fait l’objet d’un colloque qui s’est tenu à Rouen sous les auspices de la Société française Shakespeare. Les plus grands spécialistes de Shakespeare et de Shakespeare au cinéma ont contribué à l’ouvrage. Monolingue anglais, le livre contient en outre une bibliographie exhaustive sur le sujet.

Broadcast your Shakespeare

by Stephen O'Neill

Emphasizing the absurdity of broadcasting censorship, Ken Ludwig's farcical
play Shakespeare in Hollywood (2004) turns Will Hays into a buffoon and the
enforcement of the code into a farce. Although Ludwig dramatizes a fictional
conflict ...

Broadcast your Shakespeare

Author: Stephen O'Neill

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 1474295126

Page: 336

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This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media. It importantly develops the field by providing a comparativist approach to Shakespeare's dynamic media history. Contributors to Broadcast Your Shakespeare address the variety of ways Shakespeare texts have been expressed through different media and continue to be. Writing at the intersection of Shakespeare studies and media studies, these international contributors also consider the role of a particular media in producing Shakespeare's effect on us - as readers, viewers and users. The volume suggests how current analyses of new media Shakespeare have much to learn from older media, and that an awareness both of media specificity and also continuity can enhance Shakespeare pedagogy and research.

Lend Me a Tenor

by Ken Ludwig

"Lend Me A Tenor is a furiously paced comedy with more than a touch of the Marx brothers.

Lend Me a Tenor

Author: Ken Ludwig

Publisher: Smith & Kraus Pub Incorporated

ISBN: 9781575257761

Page: 296

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"Lend Me A Tenor is a furiously paced comedy with more than a touch of the Marx brothers... A marvelous combination of wonderful farcical moments and funny lines." Time Out New York "Somewhere up above, George S. Kaufman, Abe Burrows, Moss Hart and all those clever fellows who wrote the comedies of yesteryear are rolling with laughter, echoing the audience last night at Moon Over Buffalo. The play is nothing less than a love letter to live theater." Boston Herald "Ludwig's comedy [Leading Ladies] is so funny, it will make sophisticated and reasonable men and women of the 21st century cackle till their faces hurt." The Houston Press "Shakespeare in Hollywood is so deliciously inventive, you'd swear Ludwig and the Bard were in cahoots. At once poignant and funny, literary and farcical, sophisticated and silly, political and fanciful, high-brow and low-brow... a delight!" The Baltimore Sun

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... a one - act about 2002 , while Ken Ludwig's Shakespeare an unlikely
relationship between a semiin Hollywood went upstairs last fall . As obscure
writer and the Indian - born for other venues , Marsha Norman's doctor who might
also be her ...

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Monologues for Men by Men

by Gary Garrison

Ken Ludwig ( Shakespeare in Hollywood ) is the author of several Broadway , Off
- Broadway , and West End plays and musicals . Lend Me a Tenor was produced
in London by Andrew Lloyd Webber and nominated for the Olivier Award as ...

Monologues for Men by Men

Author: Gary Garrison

Publisher: Heinemann Drama

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This second volume edited by Garrison and Wright is a collection of monologues that are reflections of what men are thinking about in the new millennium, particulary in the wake of September 11, 2001, and how they're putting those thoughts and feelings into theatrical expression.

Plays International

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The love triangle unfolds in you have Ken Ludwig's gift for labyrinthine
uncomfortably ambivalent on his blind date a ... like Florence's Ludwig's
Shakespeare in Hollywood who is slightly panicked at not hearing from mother ,
kept alive by her ...

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Current Biography Yearbook

by Maxine Block

Kenneth David Ludwig was born in 1950 in York , Pennsylvania , where he grew
up . ... are Trinity College , a division of Cambridge UniversiSullivan and Gilbert ,
Leading Ladies , Shakespeare ty , in England . While in Great Britain , he
attended in Hollywood , and the book for The Adventures of several plays a week
, in ...

Current Biography Yearbook

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AMERICAN LIVING , History Theater , Box 2677 , Hollywood CA 90078. ... The
American Stage Festival has produced many new musicals in the past five years
including Ken Ludwig's Gilbert and Sullivan , the ... Dance , by Dennis Raymond
Smeal ( new play - romantic comedy ) ; The Tempest , by Shakespeare ( classic )
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... Studio 18 May 01904 550149 I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES Neil Simon's
rarely performed Hollywood - family comedy Scarborough ... Alison Chitty
designs Chichester Festival Theatre 20 May 01243 812917 LEND ME A TENOR
Ken Ludwig's comedy ensures that ... 2072 KING LEAR Bill Alexander directs
Corin Redgrave Stratford , Royal Shakespeare 30 Jun 01789 412668 THE
POCKET DREAM ...

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FORBIDDEN HOLLYWOOD - Gerard Alessandrini takes aim at the West Coast
Babylon in this new musical satire . ... THE WINTER'S TALE — The Pearl
Theatre's static staging of Shakespeare's late tragicomedy . ... MOON OVER
BUFFALO Carol Burnett and Philip Bosco are on a brief hiatus from Ken Ludwig's
farce .

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Theater Week

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... by Burt Shevelove , Larry Hollywood and film stardom in in Buffalo in the 1950s
, Ken choreography by Joey McKneely ... WHERE AND Ludwig's new farce is
about a WHERE AND WHEN Opened blues , conceived & co - created by dir . by
... DREAM Royal Shakespeare Rosalyn Coleman , Keith David , Sa at 2 , Su at 3.

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