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Almost, Maine, La Salle University

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A Streetcar Named Desire, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene

The Show
Written in 1947 by American playwright Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire debuted on Broadway on December 3, 1947 and ran until closing on December 17, 1949. Elia Kazan directed the Broadway production and Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Jessica Tandy, and Karl Malden starred as the original cast. In 1948, Williams received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in New Orleans, the show kicks off when aging and mentally unstable Blanche DuBois arrives at her sister Stella's apartment and is thrust into the dysfunctions of Stella's marriage to her husband Stanley Kowalski. Tension picks up …

The Drowsy Chaperone, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene

The Show
Co-written by Don McKellar and Bob Martin, The Drowsy Chaperone debuted in Toronto in 1998 and opened on Broadway in 2006. The two friends had no idea that the joking spoof of 1920s musical comedy that they devised at Martin's 1997 bachelor party would morph into a hit musical of the decade. The show centers on The Man in Chair, a meek, mousy Broadway fanatic, who decides to listen to the soundtrack of his favorite fictional 1920s musical hit, The Drowsy Chaperone. As the music plays, the show comes alive in his apartment and he …

Macbeth, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene

The History Behind Macbeth

To anyone familiar with Shakespeare's play, the name evokes a sense of insatiably power-hungry madness. It is a show of depth and complexity that far exceeds both the limits of time and the limits of imagination, from when it was first performed circa 1605 to the modern day. Also, like all of Shakespeare's plays, the nature of Macbeth allows it to be set and staged in a variety of fashions, from the Highlands of Scotland to a diner in the Outback of Australia.

The original production revolved around the succession of the House …

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene

The History Behind the Spelling Bee

The Spelling Bee is a unique American tradition that has become a global phenomenon. The first official Spelling Bee was a national Spelling Bee in 1925 and was won by eleven year old Frank Neuhauser. The Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee allows fifteen year old children below eighth grade who have not previously won the bee, to compete. Each contestant is required to first win his or her school or local Spelling Bee and then the regional bee, usually sponsored by a local newspaper.

Proper spelling bee form involves hearing the word …

Noises Off!, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene

Noises Off! was written by Michael Frayn and first performed in the Lyric Theatre in London in 1982. The show came to America in December 1983, debuting at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City. Noises Off! is a story about a theatre company attempting to put on a performance of "Nothing On" while juggling sardines, dealing with falling pants, multiple prop mishaps and even more sardines. The play follows the actors trying to keep things together not only on-stage, but also in their personal lives. It is performed as a play within a play and …

Pirates Of Penzance, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene

The History of Pirates of Penzance

Pirates of Penzance is a story filled with songs, puns, lies, more puns, paradoxes, hearing deficits, leap years, duties, Queens, and of course, pirates. As the audience follows Frederic throughout his journey as a former indentured pirate, we learn about the immoral yet oddly dutiful life of a pirate. Our modern audience is familiar with pirates from the modern interpretation of the peg-legged, parrot wearing, skull and crossbones buccaneer who speaks with many "Arrr's" and "Scallywags." Yet, how accurate is this depiction?

The act of piracy pervaded the trading world for …

God's Favorite, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene
All action takes place in home of Joe Benjamin on the north shore of Long Island, NY.

Act I Scene I: Midnight
Act I Scene II: Two weeks later

Act II Scene I: A few days later

String Fever, La Salle University

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Setting the Scene

In String Fever, Lily explores the String Theory as a metaphor for the motivations behind her personal interactions.

The String Theory is often referred to as the "Theory of Everything." It has earned this moniker due to the fact that, through mathematics and physics, it attempts to explain how everything works with just one theory. It has earned some notoriety for the possibility that it could combine several standing physics theories and potentially even explain the existence of gravity.

Previously, the Particle Theory was the accepted idea for studying matter. It states that matter is made …

Guys And Dolls, La Salle University

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Act I

Opening
Scene I: Broadway
Scene II: Interior Save-A-Soul Mission
Scene Ill: Phone Book
Scene IV: The Hot Box - Nightclub
Scene V: A Street Off Broadway
Scene VI: Mission Exterior
Scene VII: A Street Off Broadway
Scene VIII: Havana, Cuba
Scene IX: Havana, Exterior
Scene X: Mission Exterior

Act II

Scene I: The Hot Box - Nightclub
Scene II: The West Forties
Scene Ill: Crap Game in the Sewer
Scene IV: A Street Off Broadway
Scene V: Interior Save-A-Soul Mission
Scene VI: Night, Street Off Broadway
Scene VII: Broadway

Recent Tragic Events, La Salle University

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Charles Willson Peale's "Belfield": A History Of A National Historic Landmark, 1684-1984, James A. Butler

Books About Belfield

From the Preface:

Artist, inventor, museum-keeper, naturalist, and polymath, Philadelphian Charles Willson Peale may not have been in a league of his own because of his achievements in so many diverse fields , but fellow members of that league of colonial overachievers would include such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson. (Peale painted all three, and from Belfield Peale conducted an extensive correspondence with Jefferson at Monticello.) Any home of people such as these would be of interest; moreover, Peale in his Belfield years self-consciously fashioned a land cape to express his personality. The account of Peale …

Into The Woods, La Salle University

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Dramaturg Notes

Into the Woods is an eclectic mishmash of everyone's favorite childhood fairy tales. These fairy tales do not stem from their ever-popular Disney versions, but from their original versions from Grimms' Fairy Tales. The Grimms' fairy tales were the first publications of many of the stories involving the characters Sondheim and Lapine incorporated into their musical, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, Little Red Ridinghood, Jack and the Bean Stalk, and many more.

What is unique about all of Grimms' fairy tales is that each one, although very different from the rest, is told in the style of …

Picasso At The Lapin Agile, La Salle University

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Arsenic And Old Lace, La Salle University

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Synopsis of Scenes

The entire action of the play takes place in the living room of the Brewster home in Brooklyn. Time: 1940s.

ACT I
An afternoon in September.

ACT II
That same night.

15 MINUTE INTERMISSION

ACT III
Scene 1: Later that night.
Scene 2: Early the next morning.

Setting the Scene...

Arsenic and Old Lace, written by Joseph Kesselring in 1939, was first performed on stage in January 1941. The play gained popularity as a result of the conditions Americans faced during the Great Depression and World War II.

During this period, Americans sought refuge from the pain …

Urinetown, La Salle University

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Piranesi's Views Of Rome, La Salle University Art Museum, Madeleine Viljoen

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

Giovanni Battista Piranesi prints, June 22 - September 1 2007

The City Re-Imagined, La Salle University Art Museum, Madeleine Viljoen

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

Architectural prints from the 19th & 20th Centuries, January 23 - February 25 2007

The Philadelphia Story, La Salle University

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The action of the play takes place in the course of twenty-four hours at Seth Lord's house in the country near Philadelphia. The time is late June in the late 1930s, and the scenes are as follows:

Act ONE: The sitting room. Late morning, Friday.

Act Two: SCENE I: The porch. Late evening, Friday.
SCENE 2: The porch. Early morning, Saturday.

Act THREE: The sitting room. Late morning, Saturday.

Jekyll & Hyde, La Salle University

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20th Century Japanese Prints, La Salle University Art Museum, Carmen Vendelin

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

Selections from the permanent collection, June 23 - August 31, 2006

Delighting In The Everyday: Dutch Golden Age Painting And Prints, La Salle University Art Museum, Madeleine Viljoen

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

Loans and selections from the permanent collection, April 25 - June 15, 2006

The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare [Abridged], La Salle University

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Red Herring, La Salle University

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A Poor Man's Art: Mexican Retablos From Philadelphia Collections, La Salle University Art Museum, Madeleine Viljoen

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

Mexican Retablos lent by St. Joseph's University and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. Shein

Graphic Expressions: The Prints Of Kathe Kollwitz, La Salle University Art Museum, Madeleine Viljoen

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

Prints of Kathe Kollwitz in the permanent collection, January 23 - March 31 2006

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, La Salle University

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Benjamin Bernstein: A Memorial Exhibition, La Salle University Art Museum, Madeline Viljoen

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

A Memorial exhibition for Benjamin D. Bernstein (1908-2003), Spring 2005

You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, La Salle University

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Africana, La Salle University Art Museum, Madeline Viljoen

Art Museum Exhibition Catalogues

African-American artists of Philadelphia, African tribal art, and the African-American seen, February - March 2005