The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue.
My set was inspired by San Francesco di Paola, where many shows are performed in the city of Naples.
San Francesco di Paola opens it’s colannades around one side of Piazza Plebiscito.
Set and Costume Designs
12 Drama
Marissa Bendit
Final Project
MUSICAL LYRICS: 13, Jersey Boys, South Pacific, Wicked, Spring Awakening, Avenue Q, Next to Normal
Life-
“You fold his hands, you smooth his tie, you gently lift his chin. Were you really so blind, and unkind to him?” (Spring Awakening)
“I am riding on the brightest buzz, I am worlds away from who I was, and they told me it would change me, though they don’t know how it does. I have live a life of clouds and gray, but this is crystal clear ” (Next to Normal)
“you’re home again, I’m glad you found the key” (Jersey Boys)
Memory-
“Nothing’s done or set, there are options to consider” (13)
“Life was so simple back then, what would I give to go back and live…” (Avenue Q)
“Don’t wish, don’t start. Wishing only ruins the heart” (Wicked)
“How’d that happen? You ask four guys you get four different versions. But this is where all of them start. Belleville New Jersey…” (Jersey Boys)
We Thrill-
“it’s a season of firsts…the labels raking it in so they send over some girls when we hit Chicago at Christmas. And that night, I rack up a personal first” (Jersey Boys)
“We’re all set for Friday, so who could complain, except for you because you’re Jewish and you always complain.” (13)
“yeah, you’re fucked alright and all for spite you can kiss your sorry ass goodbye” (Spring Awakening)
Value Teams-
“give me a quarter, here in my hat” (Avenue Q)
“and then there’s me, but then there’s you. You’re the new kid in the school you’re not defined by one specific breed…you’re perfectly positioned to get me what I need” (13)
21 Sweet-
“Dawn, go away I’m no good for you, oh Dawn stay with him, he’ll be good to you” (Jersey Boys)
Summer Apples-
“I’m as corny as Kansas in august, high as a flag on the fourth of July” (South Pacific)
“But still it stays the butterfly sings and opens purple summer with the flutter of it’s wings” (Spring Awakening) “so you give him all the last month of vacation, and all of the time you can spare and then on the first day of classes, he acts like you’re not even there” (13)
Only Musical-
“no good deed goes unpunished, no act of charity goes un-resented” (Wicked)
“1,000 bucks I’m like scott free and I mean please that’s all I need, get real jose by now you know the score” (Spring Awakening)
With Photographs-
“keepsakes of a life that’s there behind her…remind her, you’ll find her” (Next to Normal)
“it’s the lamest place in the world, but it just got a little bit better” (13)
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Snippet Right There-
“It’s gonna be good you’ll see” (Next to Normal)
“big girls don’t cry” (Jersey Boys)
Whatta Crew–
“I think everyone’s a little bit racist, sometimes. Doesn’t mean we go around committing hate crimes” (Avenue Q)
“The crip, the geek, the Jew and his mother” (13)
“Bloody Mary is the girl I love, now ain’t that too damn bad” (South Pacific)
“Why stay, why stay? why not simply end it? We’d all comprehend it, and most of the world would say, he’s better off that way to be free, and maybe so is she.” (Next to Normal)
I’m All Ears To Ideas-
“God, I dreamed there was an angel who could hear me through the wall” (Spring Awakening)
“When ever I see someone less fortunate than I, and lets face it, who isn’t less fortunate than I?” (Wicked)
“Kiss me to fiercely, hold me to tight. I need help believing you’re with me tonight” (Wicked)
Light/ That You Shine-
“One light, Shines in the drive, one single sign that our house is alive” (Next to Normal)
Acoustics-
“younger than springtime are you, gayer than laughter are you” (South Pacific)
Stay…
”Stay, just a little bit longer, please tell me that you’re gonna” (Jersey Boys)
“Then you hold me and you whisper child the lord wont mind, its just you and me, child you’re a beauty” (Spring Awakening)
We Got It-
“we all have a little more homework to do, and I’ve been looking in the back of the book for the answers” (13)
Whatchu Think About Me? Am I Funny? Do I Make You Laugh?-
“A friend’s outside waiting the minute you both hear the bell” (13)
“Rag doll, I love you just the way you are, hand me downs” (Jersey Boys)
“Happiness at the misfortune of others, that is German!” (Avenue Q)
Don’t Let The About Stop You-
“You’ve got to be taught to be afraid of people who’s eyes are oddly made, and people who’s skin is a different shade you have to be carefully taught” (South Pacific)
“I saw the cover and I judged the book, I turned away with out a second look, but now now now I see a brand new you…and I cant stop myself from loving every itty bitty thing you do” (13)
My Favorite & Exclusive-
“True love takes a lot of trying, oh im crying. Lets hang on to what we got! Don’t let go girl we got a lot” (Jersey Boys)
The Kick In The Pants Leads To A Modern Attitude Made From Scratch-
“I hear the human race is falling on its face, and hasn’t very far to go” (South Pacific)
“Mama the weeping mama the angels who made me so bad” (Spring Awakening)
“My own father said give her up don’t bother, the world isn’t coming to an end” (Jersey Boys)
September-
“spring and summer, every other day. Blue wind get so sad blowing through the thick corn through the bales of hay.” (Spring Awakening)
The Theater-
“ Didn’t I see this movie and didn’t I cry?” (Next to Normal)
“I’ve been here for the show every high every low, but it’s the worst we’ve ever known” (Next to Normal)
“Any minute I’ll be getting closer, and I’ll be where I want to be” (13)
Check It Out.-
“Super boy and the invisible girl, everything a kid ought to be, he’s immortal forever alive, then there’s me” (Next to Normal)
“learn to live the unexamined life…dancing through life, skimming the surface” (Wicked)
“but remember, everything charlotte says is a lie, it’s a lie it’s a lie, it’s a lie” (13)
The Passions I Have-
“You touch my hand and my arms grow strong” (South Pacific)
“its almost like lovin’, sad as that is” (13)
“you can be as loud as the hell you want, when you’re making love” (Avenue Q)
“And if it turns out, its over too fast, I’ll make every last moment last as long as you’re mine” (Wicked)
If You Believe-
“who love you pretty baby, who’s gonna help you through the night” (Jersey Boys)
“And everything else goes away, everything else goes away. And you play till its perfect you play till you ache.” (Next to Normal)
“its time to trust my instincts, close my eyes and leap” (Wicked)
I Ensue-
“Maybe I can seize a little o-p-p opportunity” (13)
“I know I have to help her, but hell if I know how…I was here, at her side, when she called when she cried” (Next to Normal)
Life-
“I am riding on the brightest buzz, I am worlds away from who I was, and they told me it would change me, though they don’t know how it does. I have lived a life of clouds and gray, but this is crystal clear ” (Next to Normal)
“you’re home again, I’m glad you found the key” (Jersey Boys)
Phase One:
12 Drama
Marissa Bendit
Final Project
USE: 13, Jersey Boys, South Pacific, Wicked, Spring Awakening, Avenue Q, Next to Normal
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Memory
We Thrill
Value Teams
21 Sweet
Summer Apples
Only Musical
With Photographs
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Snippet Right There
Whatta Crew
I’m All Ears To Ideas
Life
Light
That You Shine
Acoustics
Stay…
We Got It
Whatchu Think About Me? Am I Funny? Do I Make You Laugh?
Don’t Let The About Stop You
My Favorite & Exclusive
The Kick In The Pants Leads To A Modern Attitude Made From Scratch
September
The Theater
Check It Out
The Passions I Have
If You Believe
I Ensue
Our Town
by Thorton Wilder
Marissa Bendit as Emily
I can’t bear it. They’re so young and beautiful. Why did they have to get old?
Mama, I’m here! I’m grown up! I love you all, everything! I can’t look at everything hard enough. Oh Mama, just look at me once as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by! I’m dead! You’re a grandmother! I married George Gibbs, Mama! Wally’s dead too, Mama. His appendix burst on a camping trip to Crawford Notch. We felt just terrible about it. Don’t you remember? But just for a moment now were all together. Mama, just for a moment, let’s be happy. Let’s look at one another. I can’t! I can’t go on! It goes by so fast. We don’t have time to look at one another. I didn’t realize all that was going on and we never noticed!
Take me back up the hill to my grave, but first: wait! One more look, goodbye! Goodbye world! Good bye Grovers Corners. Mama and Papa. Goodbye to clocks ticking and my butternut tree! and Mama’s sun flowers and food and coffee–and new ironed dresses and hot baths and sleeping and waking up!
Oh, earth, you are too wonderful for anyone to realize you! Does any human being ever realize life while they live it every, every minute?
Favorite Lady
by Leanna Renee Hieber
Favorite Lady was first presented by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2003
Characters:
FRANKIE, art student, 20’s – MARISSA BENDIT
CYNDI, art student, 20’s – CHLOEROSE BREE D’ORAZIO
LISA, art student, 20’s – OLIVIA FEAL
PLACE
An art studio in any metropolitan/campus area.
SETTING
Early evening, modern day.
Michael Caine
Acting in Film: An Actor’s Take On Movie Making
“Mr. Caine gives you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to rob him blind! The man who’s hypnotized the camera lenses for a quarter of a century reveals the most closely guarded secrets on script preparation, working with the director, forming a character, voice, sound, and movement. Pearl by pearl he lays out the Caine wisdom on everything from set politics to set decorum, the film bureaucracy and more!”
– The Working Arts Library
Well-known playwrights on the craft:
“Perfection In the Theatre: Outside New York, there’s still some flexibility in the audience. Even so, we tend to repress our emotions. We don’t laugh as loud as we want to or allow ourselves to enjoy what’s there — especially if the critics tell us how to react. Instead, we keep narrowing the definition of what a play can be. We’re losing the opportunity for someone like Samuel Beckett to spring up, because we no longer want our plays messy. But my God, sometimes we need mess. These are messy times and plays can reflect that. Angels In America is a mess — and I mean that as a compliment.” – Paula Vogel
“As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.” – ARISTOTLE, Poetics
“The most important playwight’s gift is to hit your time and speak your time.” –David Hare
“Try to be original in your play and as clever as possible; but don’t be afraid to show yourself foolish; we must have freedom of thinking, and only he is an imancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.” – ANTON CHEKHOV, letter to A.P. Chekhov, April 11, 1889
“If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.” – EUGENE IONESCO, Notes and Counter Notes
“There’s something very perverse in me that loves trying to do the impossible and put things on the stage that are very hard to stage and that maybe people haven’t seen before. And I have this impulse to see how far the form can take me. Because I think of all the arts, the theatre is the most conservative, because you have that ghastly problem of having to sell all the tickets every night.” – Tina Howe
“One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their live.” – ARTHUR MILLER, The Shadows of the Gods
“Playwriting: People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them ‘all of my life. — Edward Albee”
STILL LIFE: A Play in Five Scenes
from the collection “Tonight at 8:30”
by Noel Coward
Compare and contrast the original one-act play by Noel Coward written in the 1930’s with the current Broadway production and the 1945 film.
Studio 54 was originally built as the Gallo Opera House. The theatre opened in November 1927 with a production of La Boheme, San Carlo Opera Company’s first production of an unsuccessful three-week season.
After financial difficulty with the opera, impresario Fortune Gallo soon turned to producing legitimate shows such as Electra, featuring Antoinette Perry (for whom the Tony Awards are named), and the Oscar Hammerstein musical Rainbow.
After continued failure, the theatre gained a reputation for bad luck and was sold in foreclosure shortly after the stock market crash of 1929.
In 1930 the space was renamed the New Yorker Theatre and housed productions like Ibsen’s The Vikings. Over the next few years, the theatre continued to house flops. The space changed hands several times and became the Casino de Paris, the Palladium, and the Federal Music Theatre restored and run by the WPA.
The space was purchased by CBS in 1942 and became the CBS Radio Playhouse Number 4, and later Studio 52. Over the next three decades it was home to radio broadcasts and, later, renowned television shows like The Jack Paar Show, The Jack Benny Show, The Johnny Carson Show and such varied fare as The $64,000 Question, Beat the Clock and Captain Kangaroo.
In the late 1970s, the space was sold and transformed into the nightclub Studio 54, one of the most famed discos of all time. After the club was closed in 1986, it became a venue for rock concerts in the late ’80’s. Thereafter, the space was largely neglected until 1998 when Roundabout discovered the theatre, a jewel in the rough on the northern-most edge of the Broadway district. Today, Studio 54 is a permanent home for Roundabout Theatre Company and will house our musicals and large-scale productions for years to come.
Brief Encounter
Questions for Trip:
In what ways is this production innovative?
How do the set, costumes and props integrate the storyline and themes in the play?
What are the main themes in this production?
What was your favorite part of the play and why?
Did you relate to these characters adapted from Noel Coward’s script and screenplay? Why/why not? Be prepared to discuss acting choices.
Does the dance and movement add to the story?
Do the film clips, mixed media and moving images add to the production values? In what ways?
Imagine that you are a theatre critic. Please rate this production. How many stars would you give it and why?