Productions Designs

Guilford College
2001
Directed by Jack Zerbe and Lee Soroko
Costume Designer ~ April Soroko
Set Designer ~ April Soroko
Lighting Designer ~ Bob Elderkin
Photographer ~ Bob Elderkin
The site also provides designs of each of the character's costumes from Part 1 and 2.
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA
April 7-16 2005 in Rand Theatre
Director: MFA student M. Honatke Miller
Designer: Miguel Romero

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Angels in America, Part I: Millennium Approaches"

University of Pennsylvania Theatre Arts Department, Studio Theatre, 2007
Direction: David Fox
Scenic Design / Painting: Rita DeAngelo
Scenic Consultant: Peter Whinnery

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Davidson College

Charlotte, NC

March 20-23 and 27-29, 2003

Directed by Ann Marie Costa

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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA

April 7-16 2005 in Rand Theatre

Director: MFA student M. Honatke Miller

Designer: Miguel Romero

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Citizens Theatre

Glasgow, UK

2007

Directed by Daniel Kramer

Designed by Dominic Cavendish

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The Hypocrities, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
Chicago, IL

Through May 7, 2008 with Part II on April 8, 2008

Director: Sean Graney

Lights: Jared Moore, Designed: Michael Griggs & Mikhail Fiksel

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Fort Lewis College Durango, Colorado

2005

Directed by Ginny Davis

Set Design Nathan K. Lee
Costume Design - Theresa Carson
Properties Design - Matt McDonald
Sound Design - Chris Weed

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Production Reviews

“Marching Out Of The Closet” by Frank Rich November of 1992

As a political statement, "Angels in America," a two-part, seven-hour epic subtitled "A Gay Fantasia on National Themes," is nothing less than a fierce call for gay Americans to seize the strings of power in the war for tolerance and against AIDS. But this play, by turns searing and comic and elegiac, is no earthbound ideological harangue. Though set largely in New York and Washington during the Reagan-Bush 80's, "Angels in America" sweeps through locales as varied as Salt Lake City and the Kremlin, and through high-flying styles ranging from piquant camp humor to religious hallucination to the ornate poetic rage of classic drama.
None of the other performances are in this league, although Mr. Mantello's cowardly Louis shows a lot of promise and K. Todd Freeman sizzles in the comic role of a one-time drag queen who ends up as Cohn's private nurse. Among the rest, the only one that does damage comes from Ms. Mace, whose lost wife exudes brash sitcom brio rather than the disorientation and vulnerability that might make the play's one major female character touching.
When the going gets truly heavy in Part 2, Mr. Kushner must share responsibility. The writing retreats to conventionality as he sorts out the domestic conflicts of his major characters. Long debates about the Reagan ethos and the hypocrisies of gay Republicans seem unexceptional after this year's Presidential campaign. But just when "Angels in America" seems to bog down in the naturalism and polemics Mr. Kushner otherwise avoids, it gathers itself up for a stirring cosmic denouement in which Mr. Spinella's Prior, having passed through a spiritual heaven and five years of physical hell, addresses the audience directly from the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. Envisioning a new age of universal perestroika in which "the world only spins forward," Prior foretells a future in which "this disease will be the end of many of us, but not nearly all," in which "we will not die secret deaths anymore," in which love and "more life" will be the destiny of "each and every one."
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Embracing All Possibilities in Art and Life by Frank Rich May 1993

But even as Mr. Kushner portrays an America of lies and cowardice to match Cohn's cynical view, he envisions another America of truth and beauty, the paradise imagined by both his Jewish and Mormon characters' ancestors as they made their crossing to the new land. "Angels in America" not only charts the split of its two central couples but it also implicitly sets its two gay men with AIDS against each other in a battle over their visions of the future. While the fatalistic, self-loathing Cohn ridicules gay men as political weaklings with "zero clout" doomed to defeat, the younger, equally ill Prior sees the reverse. "I am a gay man, and I am used to pressure," he says from his sick bed. "I am tough and strong." Possessed by scriptural visions he describes as "very Steven Spielberg" even when in abject pain, Prior is Mr. Kushner's prophet of hope in the midst of apocalypse.
The entire cast, which includes Kathleen Chalfant and Jeffrey Wright in a variety of crisply observed comic cameos, is first rate. Ms. Harden's shattered, sleepwalking housewife is pure pathos, a figure of slurred thought, voice and emotions, while Mr. Grant fully conveys the internal warfare of her husband, torn between Mormon rectitude and uncontrollable sexual heat. When Mr. Wolfe gets both of the play's couples on stage simultaneously to enact their parallel, overlapping domestic crackups, "Angels in America" becomes a wounding fugue of misunderstanding and recrimination committed in the name of love.
What has really affected "Angels in America" during the months of its odyssey to New York, however, is not so much its change of directors as Washington's change of Administrations. When first seen a year or so ago, the play seemed defined by its anger at the reigning political establishment, which tended to reward the Roy Cohns and ignore the Prior Walters. Mr. Kushner has not revised the text since -- a crony of Cohn's still boasts of a Republican lock on the White House until the year 2000 -- but the shift in Washington has had the subliminal effect of making "Angels in America" seem more focused on what happens next than on the past.
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Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika Review by Mark Fisher
May 3, 2007

What also sets the play apart is its audacious mix of theatricality, philosophy and poetry. That explains how, despite its lack of resolution, "Millennium Approaches" was a hit two years before Kushner completed the second part.
American-born Kramer has all these aspects within his grasp, presenting an unceasingly fluid seven hours of theater played out on Soutra Gilmour's open, elemental set. The director understands the way Kushner soars from soap opera to metaphysics to paint something majestic from the simple building blocks of human relationships and the way the juxtaposition and interlocking of scenes is inherently theatrical. So too are the surreal interventions of angels, mannequins and long-dead ancestors. Kramer, who directed recent West End revivals of "Bent" makes you accept everything in this theater of dreams.
He couldn't do this without his actors, of course, and he has assembled a flawless company. Roy M. Cohn, the fictional version of the real-life political fixer, is a gift of a part, played by Greg Hicks with a rasping, amphibian creepiness that's strangely compelling. Likewise, Jo Stone-Fewings brings emotional complexity to the role of Joseph Porter Pitt, the closeted gay Mormon, revealing the callous contradictions behind the nice-guy exterior.
Rest of the cast is equally strong, whether it's the shape-shifting Ann Mitchell, switching from Jewish icon to Mormon matriarch, bleached blond Mark Emerson bringing dry wit to Prior Walter, the AIDS patient with a visionary imagination, or Kirsty Bushell, a tremendously deadpan Harper Amaty Pitt, the delusional young wife in a sexless marriage. With otherworldly appearances from a sonorous Golda Rosheuvel and a striking Obi Abili, plus Adam Levy's charming Louis Ironson, the cast creates a world which, even after seven hours, it is a wrench to escape.
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Theatre Review (Boston) by Greg Hard February 1, 2008

Even though it takes place in the 1980s, the play's themes - mainly human frailty, moral choices, political corruption, and human prejudices - all stand the test of time to this day.
The acting is spectacular throughout, especially by Bree Elrod and Tyler Reilly who deliver the best performances of the night. Richard McElvain's performance as Roy Cohn is angry and passionate enough, but it lacks the humanity of the others. Susanne Nitter does a fine job as Joe's mother, Hannah, and as Ethel Rosenberg, Roy's deceased enemy.
The scenery is sublimely minimalist. A few carefully placed pieces of furniture on a background that looks like the inside of an aluminum can, with very well done lighting design, are all that is needed. Kushner's writing and the passion with which the actors deliver the text stand on their own, requiring no extraneous props or scenery to be passionate and moving.
Angels in America is a must-see play. Despite the twenty years since its release, it rings true in today's political and social climate. The relationships it depicts, and its themes of human frailty, mortality, moral choices, and political corruption, all transcend time.

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Angels In America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes Part One: Millennium Approaches Review by Chicago Critic April 9, 2006

This amazing show is so engrossing, so filled with rich lyrical language and emotional performances that you’ll be on the edge of your seat totally transfixed with this epic drama. Listen to the text, see both parts separately then see them on the same day to get the complete message of this tremendous play. Kushner has much to say and Graney’s production gives it clarity with a steady mounting dramatic tension that engages us throughout.
The cast was splendid, especially Mechelle Moe as Harper, Kurt Ehrmann as Roy Cohn and Scott Bradley as Prior. These performers left it all out on the stage as they exuded the angst, fear and pain associated with their characters.
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Production History

Mark Taper Forum

Los Angeles, CA

October 1992

Director: Oskar Eustis and Tony Taccone

Sets: John Conklin, Lights: Pat Collins, Costumes: Gabriel Berry, and music by Mel Marvin

Roy Cohn: Ron Leibman
Joe Pitt: Jeffery King
Harper Pitt: Cynthia Mace
Louis Ironson: Joe Mantello
Prior Walter: Stephen Spinella
The Angel: Ellen McLaughlin

During the production, it seems the audience is somewhat staggered as it leaves the Mark Taper Forum, where the complete "Angels in America" had its premiere in 1992. The show is not merely mind-bending; at times it is comibined with confusion, eventually piling on the image and spiritual evernts that occur as as the angle that is in the production. There is alos the metaphors, which is vieew as being political and historical in the theatre that it is being viewed by the audience. The other performances were not so great, but limited to many, although it seems to many Mr. Mantello's cowardly Louis shows a lot of promise and K. Todd Freeman does a unique comic role of a one-time drag queen who ends up as private nurse of Roy Cohn. Among the rest, the only one that is a problem is Ms. Mace. Overall the production is great and it ended best of one of the most great productions of Angels in America.

Walter Kerr Theatre

New York City, NY

April 1993

Director: George C. Wolfe

Sets: Robin Wagner, Lights: Julie Fisher, Costumes: Toni-Leslie James

Roy Cohn: Ron Leibman
Joe Pitt: David Marshall Grant
Harper Pitt: Marcia Gay Harden
Louis Ironson: Joe Mantello
Prior Walter: Stephen Spinella
The Angel: Ellen McLaughlin

It is told that this production leaps beyond the bedroom into the fabulous realms of myth and American archetypes, which have preoccupied of the vernts being describled in such works as "The Colored Museum" and "Spunk." The production was great and the cast was unique and exciting. It is also told that Roy and Prior are larger than life, wheer they are the most unique and interesting characters in the play. In this production in which I thought was interesting that it seems to spae about history and the life that coes in every moment that the scenes appear. This production was so powerful and great that this show was always toled by many that it is the best ever. It is alos intersting that they described Cohn as the villian and the angel as the hero.

Boston Works Theater

Boston, MA

Jan 18 - Feb 10, 2008

Director: Jason Southerland and Nancy Curran Willis

Joe Pitt: Sean Hopkins
Harper Pitt: Bree Elrod
Roy Cohn: Richard McElvain
Prior Walter: Tyler Reilly
Louis Ironson: Christopher Webb

The acting was spectacular throughout, especially by Bree Elrod and Tyler Reilly who deliver the best performances of the night. The performance of Richard McElvain as Roy Cohn was great as himself being is angry and passionate enough. The problem of his character was that it lacks the humanity of the others. Susanne Nitter does a fine job as Joe's mother, Hannah, and as Ethel Rosenberg, Roy's deceased enemy. The scenery is the most noticed area of the production, where there was a few carefully placed pieces of furniture on a background that looks like the inside of an aluminum can. The lighting was the best and most watched area of the production. This production is a must-see play that everyone should see and that it is a spectacular production with great actors.

Citizens' Theatre

Glasgow, UK

May 1- 2, 2007

Director: David Kramer
Sets: Soutra Gilmour; Costumes: Mark Bouman; Lighting: Charles Balfour; Sound, Carolyn Downing

Belize - Obi Abili
Harper Amaty Pitt - Kirsty Bushell
Prior Walter - Mark Emerson
Roy M Cohn- Greg Hicks
Louis Ironson - Adam Levy
Hannah Porter Pitt - Ann Mitchell The Angel- Golda Rosheuvel
Joseph Porter Pitt - Jo Stone

Roy M. Cohn, played by Greg Hicks carries an amphibian creepiness that's strangely compelling. Jo Stone-Fewings brings emotion to the role of Joseph Porter Pitt, the closeted gay Mormon, revealing about the relationship of between the two, where they are the main two that took the show to a different level. While the rest of the cast is strong, it's the shape-shifting Ann Mitchell, switching from Jewish to Mormon, bleached blond Mark Emerson bringing dry wit to Prior Walter, as being the AIDS patient with a visionary imagination that he carries. Kirsty Bushell, a tremendously actress in being Harper Amaty Pitt, the delusional young wife in a sexless marriage. The show was the one of the biggest Blockbusters in the uk, where it was an amazing show to view as an audience.

The Hypocrities, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre
Chicago, IL

Through May 7, 2008 with Part II on April 8, 2008

Director: Sean Graney
Lights: Jared Moore, Designed: Michael Griggs & Mikhail Fiksel

Prior Walter: Scott Bradley
Louis Ironson: Steve Wilson
Joe Pitt: JB Waterman
Harper Pitt: Mechelle Moe
Roy Cohn: Kurt Ehrmann
Angel: Jennifer

They said that this is one of the most amazing shows that was fill with emotional performances in the age of the epic drama that was filled. The best of the cast were Mechelle Moe, who was splendid in her performance as Harper. Kurt Ehrmann as Roy Cohn was nown of being amazing and gifted. Scott Bradley was Known to be emotional and great in his performance of prior and that this was considered of being one of the best shows ever in Sean Graney's worK. This is Known as being one of the finest worK of Sean Graney of doing this production. The whole cast but the main three that tooK the show were Mechelle Moe, Kurt Ehrmann, and Scott Bradley.

TIME

The year 1985 was declared International Youth Year by the United Nations.

January 20 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term in office (publicly sworn in, January 21).

January 28 - In Hollywood, California, the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

February 28 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry,killing nine officers in the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

March 4 - The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then to screen all blood donations in the United States.

March 11 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

April 15 - South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages

May 5 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, Germany which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.

May 23 - Thomas Patrick Cavanagh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.

July 13 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush served as Acting President for eight hours, while President Ronald W. Reagan underwent colon cancer surgery.

August 6 - In Hiroshima, tens of thousands mark the 40th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city.

October 2- Actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS at the age of 59, becoming the first public figure to die from the disease.

October 18 - The Nintendo Entertainment System is released in US stores.

November 15 - In separate events, mail bombs kill two people in Salt Lake City, Utah; a third bomb explodes the next day, injuring career counterfeiter Mark Hoffman. The ensuing police investigation leads to the arrest of Hoffman for the two murders.

November 19 - Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

November 20 - Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0

November 26 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.

December 1 - The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public.

December 16 - In New York City, Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino organized crime family. During the shootout Andrew Bearse was born in the middle of the street

December 24 - Right wing extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and 2 children in Seattle. Rice suspected the family of being Jewish and Communist and claimed his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to the crime.

December 27 - Rome and Vienna airport attacks. Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.

December 31 - The last issue of The Columbus Citizen-Journal is circulated.

January 20 - The first federal Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, honoring Martin Luther King Jr., is observed.

January 28 - STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (see Space Shuttle Challenger disaster).

The stories of two troubled couples, one gay, one straight: "word processor" Louis Ironson and his lover Prior Walter and Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt and his wife Harper. After the funeral of Louis's grandmother, Prior tells him that he has contracted AIDS, and Louis panics. He tries to care for Prior but soon realizes he cannot stand the strain and fear. Roy receives a different kind of surprise: At an appointment with his doctor Henry, he learns that he too has been diagnosed with AIDS. But Roy, who considers gay men weak and ineffectual, thunders that he has nothing in common with them—AIDS is a disease of homosexuals, whereas he has "liver cancer." Henry, disgusted, urges him to use his clout to obtain an experimental AIDS drug. During these two of the most important in my view was the rise of AIDS that had occur and almost once again Ronald Reagan changing the views of America. The devastating that AIDS had devour the world and the many deaths that it left behind. Also the economic that brought America to life was Reaganomics, which change America forever. Also at the time Communist was still around in the country known as Soviet Union, where the Cold War was still going. There was also the rise of AIDS and the impact that was happening with the death of Rock Hudson. Homosexuality was hided and unknown in the 80s, where it would change when gay were known of easily contracting the disease, where that would be a top topic and still is today. There was a Gay Pride Parade in 1985 where five Catholic priests marched in the parade. One even said that all five were homosexual and represented a much larger group of absentee gay priests. Open hostility towards homosexuals not only in the bars but in the courts also. In 1985 the Supreme Court in Virginia found that, "a homosexual man was ''an unfit and improper custodian as a matter of law.''
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The four pillars of Reagan's economic policy were to:[1]

reduce the growth of government spending,
reduce marginal tax rates on income from labor and capital,
reduce government regulation of the economy,
control the money supply to reduce inflation.
In attempting to cut back on domestic spending while lowering taxes, Reagan's approach was a departure from his immediate predecessors.

Reagan became president during a period of high inflation and unemployment (commonly referred to as stagflation), which had largely abated by the time he left office. It continues to be a matter of debate to what extent this was caused by Reagan's fiscal policies and to what extent it was due to other factors, such as the inflation-fighting monetary policies of the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker and a large decline in oil prices caused by the resolution of supply shocks in the Middle East. (Though it can be said that his policies of lowered regulations in the Oil business was one of the factors that reduced Oil Prices).
With the Tax Reform Act of 1986, Reagan and Congress sought to broaden the tax base and reduce perceived tax favoritism. In 1983, Democrats Bill Bradley and Dick Gephardt had offered a proposal to clean up/broaden the tax base; in 1984 Reagan had the Treasury Department produce its own plan. The eventual bipartisan 1986 act aimed to be revenue-neutral: while it reduced the top marginal rate, it also partially "cleaned up" the tax base by curbing tax loopholes, preferences, and exceptions, thus raising the effective tax on activities previously specially favored by the code. Economists of most affiliations favor cleaning up the tax code, Click heresince tax preferences and exceptions distort economic decisions.[citation needed.

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Cyndi Lauper

Girls Just Want To Have Fun lyrics

I come home in the morning light.
My mother say´s when you gonna live, your life right.
Oh mother dear we´re not the fortunate ones,
oh girls just want to have fun.
The fon rings in the middle of the night.
My father yells what you gonna do with your life.
Oh daddy dear you know you´re still number one,
but girls they want to have fun.
Oh girls just want to have.....
that´s all they really want.....some fun.
When the working day is done, girls they want to have fun.
Oh girls just want to have fun.
Some boys take a beautiful girl,
and hide her away from the rest of the world.
I want to be the one who walk in the sun,
oh girls they want to have fun.
Oh girls just want .....

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Bruce Springsteen

Born In The Usa lyrics

Born down in a dead man's town
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
Till you spend half your life just covering upBorn in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Got in a little hometown jam so they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the yellow man
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Come back home to the refinery
Hiring man says "son if it was up to me"
Went down to see my V.A. man
He said "son don't you understand now"
Had a brother at Khe Sahn fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there he's all gone
He had a woman he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Down in the shadow of penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years burning down the road
Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go
Born in the U.S.A.
I was born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a long gone daddy in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A.
I'm a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.

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Michael Jackson

We Are The World

There comes a time
When we head a certain call
When the world must come together as one
There are people dying
And it's time to lend a hand to life
The greatest gift of all

We can't go on
Pretneding day by day
That someone, somewhere will soon make a change
We are all a part of
God's great big family
And the truth, you know love is all we need

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

Send them your heart
So they'll know that someone cares
And their lives will be stronger and free
As God has shown us by turning stone to bread
So we all must lend a helping hand

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

When you're down and out
There seems no hope at all
But if you just believe
There's no way we can fall
Well, well, well, well, let us realize
That a change will only come
When we stand together as one

[Chorus]
We are the world
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So let's start giving
There's a choice we're making
We're saving our own lives
It's true we'll make a better day
Just you and me

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Michael Jackson

Thriller lyrics

[1st Verse]
It's Close To Midnight And Something Evil's Lurking In The Dark
Under The Moonlight You See A Sight That Almost Stops Your Heart
You Try To Scream But Terror Takes The Sound Before You Make It
You Start To Freeze As Horror Looks You Right Between The Eyes,
You're Paralyzed

[Chorus]
'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
And No One's Gonna Save You From The Beast About
Strike
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
You're Fighting For Your Life Inside A Killer, Thriller
Tonight

[2nd Verse]
You Hear The Door Slam And Realize There's Nowhere Left To Run
You Feel The Cold Hand And Wonder If You'll Ever See The Sun
You Close Your Eyes And Hope That This Is Just
Imagination
But All The While You Hear The Creature Creepin' Up
Behind
You're Out Of Time

[Chorus]
'Cause This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
There Ain't No Second Chance Against The Thing With
Forty Eyes
You Know It's Thriller, Thriller Night
You're Fighting For Your Life Inside Of Killer, Thriller Tonight

[Bridge]
Night Creatures Call
And The Dead Start To Walk In Their Masquerade
There's No Escapin' The Jaws Of The Alien This Time
(They're Open Wide)
This Is The End Of Your Life

[3rd Verse]
They're Out To Get You, There's Demons Closing In On Every Side
They Will Possess You Unless You Change The Number On Your Dial
Now Is The Time For You And I To Cuddle Close Together
All Thru The Night I'll Save You From The Terror On The Screen,
I'll Make You See

[Chorus]
That This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
'Cause I Can Thrill You More Than Any Ghost Would Dare To Try
Girl, This Is Thriller, Thriller Night
So Let Me Hold You Tight And Share A Killer, Diller, Chiller
Thriller Here Tonight

[Rap Performed By Vincent Price]
Darkness Falls Across The Land
The Midnite Hour Is Close At Hand
Creatures Crawl In Search Of Blood
To Terrorize Y'awl's Neighbourhood
And Whosoever Shall Be Found
Without The Soul For Getting Down
Must Stand And Face The Hounds Of Hell
And Rot Inside A Corpse's Shell
The Foulest Stench Is In The Air
The Funk Of Forty Thousand Years
And Grizzy Ghouls From Every Tomb
Are Closing In To Seal Your Doom
And Though You Fight To Stay Alive
Your Body Starts To Shiver
For No Mere Mortal Can Resist
The Evil Of The Thriller

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Wham! Featuring George Michael

Careless Whisper Number 1 Song of 1985

I feel so unsure
As I take your hand, and lead you to the dance floor
As the music dies
Something in your eyes
Calls to mind a silver screen
And all its sad goodbyes

[Chorus]
I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should have known better, than to cheat a friend
And waste a chance, that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you - ooh…

Time can never mend
The careless whispers, of a good friend
To the heart and mind
Ignorance is kind
There's no comfort in the truth
Pain is the whole you find

[Chorus]
And I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should have known better, than to cheat a friend (should have known better - yeah)
And waste a chance, that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you, ooh…

Never without your love…

Tonight the music seems so loud
I wish that we could lose this crowd
Maybe, it's better in this way
We'd hurt each other, with the things we want to say

We could have been so good together
We could have lived, this dance forever
But now, who's gonna dance with me?
Please stay

[Chorus]
And I'm never gonna dance again
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Though it's easy to pretend
I know you're not a fool
I should have known better, than to cheat a friend
And waste a chance, that I'd been given
So I'm never gonna dance again
The way I danced with you - ooh…

(Now that you're gone…) now that you're gone
(Now that you're gone…) was what I did so wrong - so wrong?
That you had, to leave me alone

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LIKE A VIRGIN by Madonna

I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didnt know how lost I was
Until I found you

I was beat incomplete
Id been had, I was sad and blue
But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new

Chorus:

Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats (after first time, with your heartbeat)
Next to mine

Gonna give you all my love, boy
My fear is fading fast
Been saving it all for you
cause only love can last

Youre so fine and youre mine
Make me strong, yeah you make me bold
Oh your love thawed out
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold

(chorus)

Oooh, oooh, oooh

Youre so fine and youre mine
Ill be yours till the end of time
cause you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Ive nothing to hide

(chorus)

Like a virgin, ooh, ooh
Like a virgin
Feels so good inside
When you hold me, and your heart beats, and you love me

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ooh, baby
Cant you hear my heart beat
For the very first time?

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/m/madonna/like+a+virgin_20086923.html
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SPACE

This is the main meeting that got the U.S. and the Soviet Union to be friends finally.

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This is one of the many parades that occurin the 1980s involving gays and AIDS.

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF1404/Browning/Browning02.jpg




The first famous person to die from AIDS and where the disease became more aware of in 1985.

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This was one of the most famous ads in awareness of AIDS in the mid 1980s.

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Chuck Norris was the top action hero in 1985-1986 with his films of "Missing in Action 2, "Code of Silence", "Invasion U.S.A." and "Delta Force."

http://upload.moldova.org/movie/actors/c/chuck_norris/thumbnails/tn2_chuck_norris_1.jpg




This picture represents the first issue that Reagan wanted to do to change America and to make better than it had ever had been with the beginning of his policy known as Reaganomics.

http://reagan2020.us/images/1982ReaganomicsTime.jpg




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This is one of the common gay pride parades that had occur that gay pride is everywhere.

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This shows the clothing of women, because of cyndi Lauper, they realize that they can be just like men and have fun, where women seem to be in equal terms as men.

http://www.liketotally80s.com/images/eighties-fashion.jpg





The pic shown hwere is what many men would wear when they ever went out to the parties an clubs as shown here.




This is one of the most popular clothing in the mid 1980s.

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This quilt was the largest ever made. Each patch represents a death victim of AIDS, where millions of Americans had died.

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These are the two men that changed the 80s and that the economy would improve dramtically.

http://twr.mobrien.com/twr/twr-v18/President_Ronald_Reagan_and_Vice_President_George_Herbert_Walker_Bush.jpg




The rising technology of the radio arriving, where most music was lisyened to in the 80s.

http://www.pocketcalculatorshow.com/boombox/graphics/jvc-1985.jpg




This is the style that many professional wore in the 80s in the type of suits wore plus many lawyers were known of wearing.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/pictures/2007/05/08/wallstreet460.jpg




This shows the life of New York City in 1985, where in the play they are seen in Times Squares and strolling down Manhattan.

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