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It occurred to me when I was considering what to say here that since you all don’t see directors – it’s unique for Wesleyan to have a filmmaker standing where I am after a showing of work, while you have novelists, historians, poets and writers of various kinds of studies living amo...
First impressions: Overall look and graphic improvements are superb. Makes me want to explore and get into it. Looking at it for the first time, it actually took my breath away. Bravo. — Barton McLean, Composer/Performer with McLean Mix Kyma 7 expands on the sound modifying playfulness but...
Under Marc Bruni’s jazz-hands-happy direction, this adaptation of Gatsby—the first of many to come, now that the novel’s gone into the public domain—feels like it belongs on a cruise or in a theme park. It would make a good fit if Epcot’s pavilions expanded to include time perio...
While genuine overhead sounds are perhaps a stretch too far for this petite performer, its virtual delivery of the Atmos format outstrips any similarly priced soundbar and even a few that are more expensive. All told, the Beam Gen 2 delivers a spacious, enveloping soundscape that is full of...
What makes a good cabaret? A cabaret show is the product of many elements:direction, musical direction, theme, choice of material, venue, technical direction, how you present yourself (what you wear, flyers, photos), and marketing (attracting an audience). ...
We arrive at the finalAllegro moltoand strike a friendly enough landscape, if not a particularly long-winded one. The only feature of its plain main melody that strikes interest is the flattened leading note in bar 3; the rest of the melodic terrain makes for plain sailing. One of the few...
What makes good improvisation? You can almost guarantee a good improvisation if each player: 1) Says just one line and 2) Bases his or her line on the last thing the other character said. Youmust provide reasons for everything the audience sees that doesn't make sense. If you don't, ...
And it says everything when at the end of the evening, no matter who won, lost, or performed, there’s nothing but a sea of musical theatre kids laughing, posing for photos, Snapchatting, and celebrating what we all know and love. And as cheesy as it sounds, it makes me so ...
so united with one singular passion and one cause and one collective heartbeat. And I feel as a performer that reminding people of that is such a powerful experience. I didn’t feel here in America like that was acknowledged. Certainly in sports. Everyone just pretended like it never happene...