In this module we explored the future of theatre and its total integration with other presentational formats.
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Want you to look at your course pack and canvas as well and really kind of identify what we\’re looking at in these five elements the first one would be audience trends and it really kind of goes to the idea of what audiences want to see in a given time and if it\’s also called the hook so you\’re saying hey audiences went to flock to go see Hamilton and if we do some contemporary musical thing it\’ll that same audience may come and see that as well So what kinds of trends are available that you can see as a consumer\’s person as a student you don\’t need a PhD to figure that out you can see people are interested in a good one would be would you I don\’t know if we were to like emphasize answer what do you think about social media do you think that\’s a trend and if you did some sort of musical or play that dealt with social media and its influence on people would that be something that people might want to see or that at least it\’s on them on and probably the answer would be yes then success is defined excuse me success as defined for imitation wood producers normally do they got round this show was a hit this shows a hit so let\’s do more shows like that and I\’m thinking of any too proud which was about the temptations the Motown musical which was about a group about the Motown the artists then they have other musical the Carole King show and one of those three shows have in common they\’re all shows about musical artists of the 60s and so they all were big hits ain\’t too proud with probably the most recent one but I can even be more if you want me to Billy Joel had a musical and so on and so forth and so successful imitation or television shows that have been made or better yet movies that have been made into Broadway shows those are all through imitation they get the same idea and why would they want to imitate something they want to say alright we\’re doing it differently we\’re going to put it on the stage and we\’re going to do it this way and they\’re going to hook into that same audience probably if wicked gets made into a movie they\’re going to want to hook into the same audience as well when they pitched Avenue Q back in 2004 it was looked upon as Sesame Street for adults and people critics generals normally would want to see it but of course they did and that became an audience which then became the same kind of thing Book of Mormon was a very similar kind of audience than with mine is going well Book of Mormon is very similar the audience was too cute same writers C making a promise So what does that mean you say I am making a promise if you see this show I\’m going to show you American history and rap music and I\’m going to tell it the way you\’ve never seen it Hamilton if you see this show I\’m going to show you a gorilla climb the Empire State Building on stage King Kong invite you want to go see this show and you want to learn about Gloria Estefan and listen to Latin music is on your feet instantly worry estefan would be added to that success is defined for imitation D the creation of agreement the creation I can\’t even speak anymore the creation of agreement between artist and audience the idea that hey I\’m going to do this thing for you and you\’ve come to pay me for not paying directly but you bought tickets and now we both agree that we\’re doing this and here it is I\’m giving it to you and otherwise how many times I don\’t know you personally have new either bought something or went to something a restaurant and play and movie and you said oh wow they kinda promised me that this was going to be this this and this and it really wasn\’t my little thought bubble right now is I don\’t know if any of you have seen it there was actually a it and then there isn\’t there another it was it called it two or also it or I don\’t know after that those two movies so I asked my students what did you think of it they said old trailer from is one thing and will be sought in the movies it was a little silly and ridiculous now I I didn\’t see either at or the second it whatever it is you email me and let me know what the name wants it too I don\’t know because I didn\’t like the trailer you know I thought clowns you know nightmare so I I didn\’t do it but anyway creation of agreement and the last one in the future you cannot get this wrong where do you think the audience fits in where you are going to be stuck at home if you want to see a Broadway show you\’re going to be able to buy the ticket and watch it on your TV because we can\’t go to a theater anymore I used to talk about that and now it\’s like real what\’s going to be the 21st century where we fit in how are they going to reach audiences what what\’s going to happen and that\’s your based on your reading and it\’s really kind of your projection of what you think it might be and I know some of you are performers and in my camera classes this last semester with covid all we did was focused on auditioning on camera you know where you do it at home and you know certain people had iPhones other people when you know had other things they had to use what they had but that\’s the new normal if you\’re a commercial actor an actor you have to self tape yourself and submit it in and then they may use you and I\’ve been talking to people in the film side of this they\’re developing scriipts for the shows that you may want on television with just a smaller group of people and and they\’re going to make sure they\’re all healthy and then filmed everything within that context and then send them home so the audience and the performer where they fit in is going to be kind of an interesting thing to look at for the future OK do you have any questions let me know
Directions:
Write five paragraphs (A-E) in your own words (no copy and paste from outside sources) using each of the headings below and a detailed paragraph beneath it (Minimum of 100 words for each subheading A-E) describing your thoughts about the total integration of all media, including theatre, into one as discussed in your course pack. Separate each element A-E.
Please answer all prompts in your own thoughts and words and outlined format or lose credit. Don\’t forget to state the question and put your answer below it.
Specifically identify what your course pack says about the following:
A. Audience Trends – The Hook
B. Success as defined through imitation
C. Making a promise to the audience
D, The Creation of Agreement between the artist and the audience
E. The 21st Century, where does the audience fit in?
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