... as the audience waited for the show to begin. By the roar of the crowd, I knew that it was the biggest crowd I had ever performed in front of. Chaos backstage swirled around me, but I seemed frozen in place. Nerves kicked in, and I felt as if a dozen butterflies flapped their paper-thin ... to go off. 'Click' 'click' 'click'! You could hear the breakers turn, darkening the stage. I heard the stamp of high heels confidently stride on the gym floor in front of the closed curtains. My drama teacher's voice echoed throughout the gym. The audience and even the cast backstage f...

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... Goffman explains that individuals take on roles and the creation of these front and back stages. The front stage, as expected relates to one individual performing before the audience as the audience takes the back stage and listens. This is also related to the physical setting or front which these stages take place. The front is the physical layout or appearance of the setting. (Turner 394 ... us to communicate easily. Since both of us are good listeners, we each had the opportunity to "perform" on and back stage. I felt we were both polite as for neither of us interrupted the other whe...

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... go through with it. The day came and I was fully prepared. I kept telling myself that I could do it and that nobody would "Boo" me off the stage. When the act before me was performing I was feeling like I needed to run far away. But I kept thinking about how much I wanted my dream of Broadway ... to come true and that if I couldn't perform in front of this high school auditorium audience then I certainly cannot perform in front of a packed house at the Cadillac Palace. So I did it, I walked on that stage and sang my heart out. When that spotlight hit me some kid of special ... and I fel...

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... nowhere else a person can go to see this magic ten feet in front of them and forget it is not real. When I walk into the undersized theater I see approximately two hundred seats. Straight ahead of me I see the old, wooden stage that creeks when I walk upon it. Every board is a different hue ... rearranging of the sets and lighting portraying different scenes. The cool concrete floor surrounds it. The concrete is splattered with stains telling of past misfortunes. The stage itself is only about ten feet long by eight feet deep. I sit down in my red, broke in chair. The material feels like...

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... the theatre containing seats covered by a roof. If someone were able to afford it, he would sometimes pay up to five pennies to sit next to the stage. Although women attended theatre in Elizabethan times it was often considered inappropriate, and therefore, when wealthier women attended plays, they would wear masks to conceal their ... yard so that the audience were able to view the performance from three different sides of the stage. The stage in the BPAC however, is only three to four feet high and is only viewable from the front. The BPAC boasts two chorus change rooms, as well as two...

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... Roussanoff, and as always William O"Donnell putting together an immense light design to set the mood for each and every Act. Although; on stage, the one who really shed some light on the audience was Pete Demario. Pete, playing the peasant was so suave, moving across the ... Maldonado-Lopez, both choreographer, and performer in the performance showed his flare with his Rebecca Taylor in "Tell Him" in Act I. His soft moving across the stage, and the beauty of Rebecca Taylor just made the scene so much more enlightening. Raphael just had that look to him, that he was going to be ... then S...

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... when the play is set. The more comic/humorous scene is probably the most hilarious scene out of the production and is based on Malvolio running onto the stage with yellow stockings making a total fool out of himself. This only happens when a forged letter signed by the one he loves is sent to him ... and orders him to wear yellow stockings and kneel down in front of the lady and admitting to his love towards her. The actor who played Malvolio had magnificent skills as he managed to perform despite embarrassing himself in ... front of his peers and family in such a calm manner not even n...

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... view of the performers and hear the music clearly. The venue was the perfect place for the concert, small and intimate with a seating capacity for eighty-five ticket holders and a stage that was only large enough to accommodate the instrumentalists, their instruments and their equipment. Moreover, the concert hall is designed to provide equally-distributed sound from the ... front row to the back of the theater. When attending a jazz concert, it's important to have the right mindset before it begins. I was ready to appreciate the jazz music, having an ... , but one could barely hear he...

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... The Truman Show is the control that the media has over viewers today. He addresses how the media controls the "means of communication" by surrounding us with illusions, script and stage managing events for an accepting and/or ignorant audience. The media manipulate, change and control peoples" lives. Although these themes could be exposed in a darker way, Weir decides to portray ... Truman and quell his fears that some one could be watching him. Examples of this would be the light that is meant to represent "Sirius" falls onto the road in front of Truman's house. This problem is quickly...

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"Talk is cheap," according to an old English proverb, but proven wrong in every day life. To few, public speaking comes naturally. The ease to speak in front of large audiences and the ability to chose the right words at the right time seems as though they were born with the talent. Some benefit by taking courses through ... , then you have little chance of achieving your goal (4). Many aspects go into effect when communicating a message: the location, light, distance between speaker and audience, and seating arrangements. While having a stage for the speaker, set aside from the audience, wil...

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... tooth comb..... Hanging on to your every word, we know that it still takes a hell of a lot of courage just to get up there. Just to get on stage or get in front of the class and disperse this material. In any given dramatic performance like plaza suite by Neil Simon performed recently.... the biggest outcry for proper interpretation was that of ... ...

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