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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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THE CHARACTERS AND CASTING

Louis Ironson - Male, Jewish, in his mid 20s to thirties A "word processor" who works at the federal appeals court in Brooklyn. Louis embodies all the stereotypes of the neurotic Jew: anxious, ambivalent and perpetually guilty. Yet that guilt does not prevent him from leaving his lover Prior when he contracts AIDS. Louis's moral journey, from callous abandonment to genuine repentance and sorrow, is one of the key maturations in the play; his awakening of responsibility parallels the awakening that the play seeks to awaken in its audiences. Louis's idealistic faith in American democracy, while often naive or self-absorbed, is similar to the faith Kushner himself manifests, so much so that some critics call Louis a stand-in for the playwright.

Prior Walter - Male, White, in his 30s. The boyfriend Louis abandons after Prior reveals that he has AIDS. Prior becomes a prophet when he is visited by an Angel of God, but he eventually rejects his prophecy and demands a blessing of additional life. The Angel is drawn to Prior because of his illness, which inscribes a kind of ending in his bloodstream, and because of his ancient Anglo-Saxon lineage, representing the notion of being rooted and stable. But he proves wiser than the Angels in rejecting their doctrine of stasis in favor of the painful necessity of movement and migration. Prior is as genuinely decent and moral as Louis is flawed. His AIDS infection renders him weak and victimized, but he manages to transcend that mere victimhood, surviving and becoming the center of a new, utopian community at the play's end.

Joe Pitt - Male, in his 30s A Mormon, Republican lawyer at the appeals court, Joe grapples with his latent homosexuality, leaving his wife Harper for Louis and being left in turn by Louis. Louis is at first drawn to Joe's ideology but ultimately turns on him because he is a conservative and an intimate of the hated Roy Cohn. His initial naiveté is challenged by Roy's unethical behavior and his painful love affair. Joe's path in the play (from self-sufficient and strong to helpless and dependent) is in some ways the opposite of Prior's trajectory. The play finally seems to abandon Joe, excluding him from its vision of the good society because of his ideology-an omission that comes off as uncharacteristically narrow and intolerant.

Harper Pitt - Female, white, in her thirties Joe's wife, a Valium-addicted agoraphobe trapped in a failing marriage who hallucinates and invents imaginary characters to escape her troubles. The perpetually fearful Harper obsesses about knife-wielding men and the ozone layer as a subconscious stand-in for her own difficulties. But through an inexplicable dream encounter with Prior, she learns that her husband is gay and begins to take control of her own destiny. Of all the major characters, Harper ends the play the farthest from where she began: as an independent, confident woman newly in love with life and setting off to build her own life in San Francisco.

Roy Cohn - Male in his 50s, A famous New York lawyer and powerbroker, Roy Cohn was a real-life figure whom Kushner adapted for his play. Roy is the play's most vicious and disturbing character, a closeted homosexual who disavows other gays and cares only about amassing clout. His lack of ethics led him to illegally intervene in the espionage trial of Ethel Rosenberg, which resulted in her execution. Roy represents the opposite of community, the selfishness and loneliness all too endemic to American life. However, his malevolence goes beyond mere isolation to actual hatred and evil. He is forgiven (though not exonerated) in the play's moral climax, after his death (from AIDS) unwittingly reconnects him to the gay community from which he always distanced himself.

Belize - Male, A black ex-drag queen and registered nurse, Belize is Prior's best friend and-quite against Belize's will-Roy's caretaker. He is the most ethical and reasonable character in the play, generously looking out for Prior, grappling with Roy and rebutting Louis's blindly self-centered politics. At times Belize feels less like an individual than a symbol of marginalized groups, particularly since most of his history and personal life are hidden from the audience. But despite these omissions he remains complex-full of hatred for Roy, yet possessing sufficient character and morality to forgive him.

Hannah Pitt - Female, Joe's mother, who moves from Salt Lake City to New York after Joe confesses he is gay in a late-night phone call. Hannah tends sternly to Harper but blossoms after she encounters Prior, becoming his companion and friend. Her chilly demeanor is melted by Prior and by a remarkable sexual encounter with the Angel.

The Angel of America - Female, An imposing, terrifying, divine presence who descends from Heaven to bestow prophecy on Prior. The Angel seeks a prophet to overturn the migratory impulse of human beings, believing that their constant motion and change have driven God to abandon creation. Her cosmology is disturbingly reactionary, even deadly, and Prior successfully resists it in a visit to Heaven. This reactionary nature is rather surprisingly blended with a dramatic, Whitman-esque speaking style and an overpowering, multigendered sexuality.

Ethel Rosenberg - Female, A real-life Jewish woman who was executed for treason during the McCarthy era. The Ethel of the play returns as a ghost to take satisfaction in the death of her persecutor, Roy. Ethel hates Roy with a "needlesharp" passion, yet on his deathbed she musters enough compassion to sing to him. Her recitation of the Kaddish with Louis indicates her forgiveness.
Rabbi Isador Chemelwitz - Female, An elderly rabbi who delivers the eulogy at the funeral of Sarah Ironson, Rabbi Chemelwitz describes the conservative process by which Jewish immigrants resisted assimilation. Louis seeks spiritual guidance from him, and Prior later encounters him in Heaven on his way to confront the Angels.

Mr. Lies - Male, A travel agent who resembles a jazz musician, Mr. Lies is one of Harper's imaginary creations. She summons him whenever she wants to escape from her present surroundings, though Mr. Lies cautions her that there is a limit to her ability to flee from reality.

Henry - Female, Roy's doctor, whom Roy threatens with destruction lest he refer to him as a homosexual. Henry recognizes the folly of Roy's self-delusion but ultimately gives in to it, agreeing to set down his official condition as liver cancer.

Emily - Female, A nurse who attends to Prior in the hospital. Emily is one of several characters who give voice to the same anti-migratory impulse as the Angel, she tells Prior in no uncertain terms to stay put.

Martin Heller - Male, A Justice Department official and political ally of Roy's. Martin is fundamentally spineless, allowing Roy to manipulate him in order to impress Joe and then taking the abuse that Roy heaps on him along with a blackmail threat.

Sister Ella Chapter - Female, A real estate agent who handles the sale of Hannah's house in Salt Lake. Like Emily, she urges her friend to settle down and remain at home.

Prior I and Prior II - Males, Prior's ancestors who are summoned from the dead to help prepare the way for the Angel's arrival. Prior I is a medieval farmer, Prior II a seventeenth- century Londoner who is more sophisticated and cosmopolitan in outlook. Both men died of the plague.


The play, by Tony Kushner is one of the most interesting plays that have ever cross the path of theatre, where it is describing the atmosphere of Roy Cohn, He was one of the most famous lawyer in history and also seems to describe his life. It also surrounds about his questionable homosexuality and how his life has been affected by it. Indentity is the main idea that I think that Roy is encounting as he goes crazy and strange. This plays seems to describe the characters as they are marked by ethnicity such as: WASP, Jewish, Mormon, as well as black; in addition, the male characters are defined by their homosexuality. Even AIDS infection serves as an identity type, written into the skin as visibly as race. It also goes with religion of describing the characters of it that is being pushed upon in the play and also the spearding of Jewish religion, Mormonism and Judiasm. Most of the charcters have to be white, but in my view of it I think that any othet ethic can fit the other characters if it was be like double casting. There is also the aspects of the the Ronald Reagon and his Reagonmics that is told in the script and also the spearding and pain of AIDS. I think in my view that theer are different places that it undergoes like. I really think that double casting would be good, because the whole play is at least seven hours. The problem is that it is up to the copright issues that would matter. I wouldn't mind if the characters be hispanic or black especially the characters of Prior, Louis, and Roy, who I think would be the most interesting. Then again the issue would be the french language and the religion that not Hispanics are involved in, but it would be interesting if the non-traditional casting should happen with the play. I think that it would matter if if the main be white, because it would be more approriate for the play. On the other hand it would be very interesting to see how ethicity would make a possible impact in changing the race of it, where I think it would be great. The main thing that I think would work would be if double casting be involved if we get permission, but one question that will be affected by it would be the religion that surrounds the play that will cause questions pouring to the director about why this race and somewhat. In my view, I see no happen of seeing non-traditional casting be invloved in the play if possible, because I wouldn't mind if ethncity can be involved in the play of having hispanics in it in my view.

Exegesis

1.Adonai, Adonai-- A Hebrew word translated “lord,” that can be used to refer to a person or for the divine name. Ancient Hebrew practice was not to pronounce . www.philosophy-religion.org/bible/glossary_new-interpreters-bible.htm

2.Olam-- world (related to he'elem -- "obscurity"; ie, the Divine self-concealment)
www.sichosinenglish.org/books/likkutei-dibburim-5/28.htm

3.Fluor-- Fluor is any of a class of minerals first identified by Georg Agricola, which he described as resembling gems, but softer, readily fusible, and useful in smelting.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluor

4.Weehawken-- township in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census , the township population was 13,501. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weehawken,_New_Jersey

5.“ I wish I was an octopus, a fucking octopus. “Eight loving arms and all those suckers. Know What I mean.”
Many desiring that you have everything in the palm of your hand.


6.Ailene-- Ailene is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Bird, Rival` Aileen,Ailene The name Ailene doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name Ailene seems to be unique!
Found on

7.Grand Concourse Avenue-- multitude: a large gathering of people. wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

8.“ People who are lonely, people left alone, sit talking nonsense to the air… Beautiful systems dying old fixed orders spiraling apart..”
meaning Seeing that its time for new love and seeing new technology arrriving

9.“I’d like to go traveling. Leave you behind to worry. I’ll send postcards with strange stamps and tantalizing messages on the back. “Later maybe.” Nevermore…”
Meaning trying new things and moving on with your life.

10.Lesionnaire-- A pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of function of a part that a person has. www.nsc.org/ehc/glossar1.html

11.Azidothymidine-- (AZT) (also called ZDV) is an antiretroviral drug, the first approved for treatment of HIV.
Yiddish-- (ééÄãéù yidish or àéãéù is a nonterritorial High German language, spoken throughout the world and written with the Hebrew alphabet.


12.Neo-Hegelian- a follower of Hegelian, which isThe monist, idealist philosophy of Hegel in which the dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis is used as an analytic tool in order to approach a higher unity or a new thesis.

13.Valium-- Diazepam (IPA: /da?'æz?pæm/ ), first marketed as Valium by Hoffmann-La Roche is a benzodiazepine derivative drug. It possesses anxiolytic anticonvulsant sedative skeletal muscle relaxant and amnestic properties. It is commonly used for treating anxiety, insomnia, seizures, alcohol withdrawal and muscle spasms. It may also be used before certain medical procedures (such as endoscopiesto reduce tension and anxiety, and in some surgical procedures to induce amnesia.

14.Greco-Roman-- period of history refers to the culture of the peoples who were incorporated into the Roman Republic and Roman Empire.

15.Zeitgeist--is originally a German expression that means "the spirit of the age", literally translated as time (Zeit), spirit (Geist)".


16.Kaposi's sarcoma-- known as (KS) is a tumor caused by Human herpesvirus(HHV8), also known as Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus(KSHV). It was originally described by Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist practicing at the University of Vienna in 1872. It became more widely known as one of the AIDS defining illnesses in the 1980s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaposi's_sarcoma

17.Lymphadenopathy-- is a term meaning "disease of the lymph nodes." It is, however, almost synonymously used with "swollen/enlarged lymph nodes".
When the infection is of the lymph nodes themselves, it is called lymphadenitis, but when the infection is of the lymph channels, it is called lymphangitis . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lymphadenopathy

18.Roy Marcus Cohn-- (February 20 1927 - August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer who came to prominence during the investigations by Senator Joseph McCarthy into alleged Communists in the U.S. government, especially during the Army-McCarthy Hearings. He was also a key figure of prosecution in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. A highly controversial figure, he wielded tremendous political power at times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

19."It is. Hell. The AFter Life.Which is not at all like a rainy afternoon in March, by the way, Prior. A lot more vivd than I'd expected. Dead leaves, but the crunchy kind. Sharp, dry air. The kind of long, luxurious dying feeling that breaks your heart."
Meaning about it's time for death to come upon us

20.Walter Winchell-- April 7,1897 - February 20, 1972 was an American newspaper and radio commentator. He invented the gossip column while at the New York Evening Graphic. He broke the journalistic taboo against exposing the private lives of public figures, permanently altering the shape of journalism and celebrity. He was a top gossip reporter, whose newspaper column and radio show could "make" or "break" a celebrity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell

21.Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick-- (November 19, 1926- December 7, 2006 was an American ambassador and an ardent anticommunist . After serving as Ronald Reagan's foreign policy adviser in his 1980 campaign and later in his Cabinet, the longtime Democrat-turned-Republican was nominated as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and became the first woman to hold this position.
She is famous for her "Kirkpatrick Doctrine," which advocated U.S. support of anticommunist governments around the world, including authoritarian dictatorships, if they were not totalitarian and went along with Washington's aims-believing they could be led into democracy by example. She wrote, "Traditional authoritarian governments are less repressive than revolutionary autocracies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeane_Kirkpatrick

22.Monolith-- is a geological feature such as a mountain , consisting of a single massive stone or rock, or a single piece of rock placed as, or within, a monument. Erosion usually exposes the geological formations, which are most often made of very hard and solid metamorphic or sedimentary rock.
The word derives from the Latin word monolithus from the Greek word μονόλιϑος (monolithos), derived from μόνος ("one" or "single") and λίϑος ("stone").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monolith

23.Hermorrhoids-- The term hemorrhoids refers to a condition in which the veins around the anus or lower rectum are swollen and inflamed. It may result from straining to move stool. Other contributing factors include pregnancy, aging, chronic constipation or diarrhea, and anal intercourse. It is either inside the anus-internal-or under the skin around the anus-external. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/hemorrhoids/#what

24.Louis Farrakhan-- (born Louis Eugene Walcott, May 11, 1933, is the Supreme Minister of the Nation of Islam (NOI) as the National Representative of Elijah Muhammad. He is also well-known as an advocate for African American interests and a critic of American society. Farrakhan has been the center of much controversy, and critics claim that some of his views and comments have been racist, homophobic, and antisemitic. Farrakhan has categorically rejected these charges,and has stated that much of America's perception of him has been shaped by media sound bites. However, there is plenty of evidence of videos of him announcing that he is the real Jesus Christ, and that the Jesus of the Bible being only a "type and shadow" of the "real Jesus", namely, himself, Louis Farrakahn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Farrakhan

25.Judas Iscariot-- (died April AD 29–33, Hebrew: יהודה איש־קריות‎ Yəhûḏāh ʾΚ-qəriyyôṯ) was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve original apostles of Jesus. Among the twelve, he was apparently designated to keep account of the "money bag" (Grk. γλωσσόκομον),[1] but he is most traditionally known for his role in Jesus' betrayal into the hands of Roman authorities.His name is also associated with a Gnostic gospel, the Gospel of Judas, that exists in an early fourth century Coptic text. Judas has been a figure of great interest to esoteric groups, such as many Gnostic sects, and has also been the subject of many philosophical writings.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=judas+iscariot

26.Kosciuszko Bridge-- a truss bridge that spans Newtown Creek between the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, connecting Greenpoint, Brooklyn and Penny Bridge, Queens. It is a part of Interstate 278, which is also locally known as the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. The bridge opened in 1939, replacing the Penny Bridge from Meeker Avenue in Brooklyn to Review Avenue and Laurel Hill Boulevard, and is the only bridge over Newtown Creek that is not a drawbridge. It was named in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, a Polish volunteer who was a General in the American Revolutionary War. Two of the bridge towers are surmounted with eagles, one is the Polish eagle , and the other the American eagle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosciuszko_Bridge_(New_York_City)

27.Julius Rosenbergand Ethel Greenglass Rosenberg-- were American citizens who received international attention when they were executed after having been found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage in relation to passing information on the American atomic bomb to the Soviet Union. The guilt of the Rosenbergs and the appropriateness of their sentence have been subject of perennial debate; however, information released after the Cold War has been taken as confirming a charge against Julius about espionage, but not in relation to atomic bombs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Rosenberg

28.zaftig-- : plump, chubby, full-figured, as a woman (from Yiddish zaftik 'juicy'; cf. German saftig 'juicy') (OED, MW ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaftig

29.Gnome-- a mythical creature characterized by its extremely small size and subterranean lifestyle. The word gnome is derived from the New Latin gnomus. It is often claimed to descend from the Greek gnosis, "knowledge", but more likely comes from genomos "earth-dweller", in which case the omission of e is, as the OED calls it, a blunder. Another possibility is that it comes from the Arabic which means sleep. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome

30.Sodomy-- (IPA: /'s?d?mi/ ) is a term used today predominantly in law(derived from traditional Christian usage) to describe an act of "unnatural" sexual intercourse normally interpreted as referring to anal intercourse, as well as bestiality. When used in a religious context, it has a negative connotation.

31.Bayeux Tapestry-- (French: Tapisserie de Bayeux) is a 50 cm by 70 m (20 in by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The Tapestry is annotated in Latin. It is presently exhibited in a special museum in Bayeux, Normandy, France. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language

Facts: Basics

TITLE: ANGELS OF AMERICA

AUTHOR: Tony Kushner

LANGUAGE/TRANSLATOR: English and some French
YEAR OF ORIGINAL PUBLICATION: Written and workshopped in 1989-1990, Premiere in 1991, but published in 1992.

GENRE/LENGTH/STRUCTURE: Political drama (preoccupied with themes of democracy, community and personal responsibility)/Three Acts within scenes

AGENCY CONTROLLING LICENSE: The Gersh Agency

ROYALTY FEE: Will be there next week by Kandice

CAST BREAKDOWN: 21 Characters- 8 actors- 5 male, 3 female and double casting if possible

TIME AND SETTING: October-November 1985-January 1986 New York City with a few scenes in Salt Lake City, Moscow and an airliner flying to San Francisco, along with others in Heaven, Hell, dream sequences and places imagined by the characters.

BRIEF BIO OF AUTHOR:
Born in Manhattan in July 16, 1956, Tony Kushner grew up in Lake Charles, Louisiana where his family moved after inheriting a lumber business. He earned a bachelors degree from Columbia University and later did postgraduate work at New York University. In the early 1980s, he founded a theater group and began writing and producing plays. In the early 1990s, he scored a monster hit with the epic, seven-hour, two-part, Broadway blockbuster Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes which earned for Kushner a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Evening Standard Award, two Olivier Award Nominations, the New York Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and the LAMBDA Liberty Award for Drama. This groundbreaking play focuses on three households in turmoil: a gay couple, one of whom has AIDS; a Morman man coming to terms with his sexuality; and the infamous lawyer Roy Cohn, a historical figure who died of AIDS in 1986, denying his homosexuality all the way to his deathbed. NEWSWEEK wrote of Angels in America:
"Daring and Dazzling! The most ambitious American play of our time: an epic that ranges from earth to heaven; focuses on politics, sex and religion; transports us to Washington, the Kremlin, the South Bronx, Salt Lake City and Antarctica; deals with Jews, Mormons, WASPs, blacks; switches between realism and fantasy, from the tragedy of AIDS to the camp comedy of drag queens to the death or at least the absconding of God."
Kushner has also written A Bright Room Called Day and Slavs! (from material not used in Angels in America), as well as several adaptations including Goethe's Stella, Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan, Corneille's the Illusion, and S. Ansky's The Dybbuk. His work has been produced at the Mark Taper Forum, the New York Shakespeare Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, Hartford Stage Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Los Angeles Theatre Center as well as theatres in over 30 countries across the globe. He is the recipient of a 1990 Whiting Foundation Writers Award and playwriting and directing fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Mr. Kushner is currently an adjunct faculty member of New York University's Dramatic Writing program.
www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc51.html

Plot Summary
Angels in America focuses on 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. Meanwhile, Joe is offered a job in the Justice Department by Roy Cohn , his right-wing, bigoted mentor and friend. But Harper, who is addicted to Valium and suffers anxiety and hallucinations, does not want to move to Washington. The two couples' fates quickly become intertwined: Joe stumbles upon Louis crying in the bathroom of the courthouse where he works, and they strike up an unlikely friendship based in part on Louis's suspicion that Joe is gay. Harper and Prior also meet, in a fantastical mutual dream sequence in which Prior, operating on the "threshold of revelation," reveals to Harper that her husband is a closeted homosexual. Harper confronts Joe, who denies it but says he has struggled inwardly with the issue. 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.
http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/angels/summary.html

Graduate Schools

Graduate Schools

1. University of Iowa

The University of Iowa
107 Theatre Building
Iowa City, IA 52242-1795
Phone: (319) 335-2700 or (800) 553-IOWA
Fax: (319) 335-3568
E-mail: theatre@uiowa.edu

Master of Fine Arts in Dramaturgy (Two Years)

The MFA in Dramaturgy is central to the mission of training theatre artists who will create the theatre of the future by building on theatrical traditions of the past. While providing the training needed to work as dramaturgs on works of all periods and types, the MFA in Dramaturgy at Iowa focuses on the training of new play dramaturgs with special skills in the development of new work. At Iowa, the tradition of new play dramaturgy extends back to the founding of the department in the 1930s. Along with such figures as Columbia's Brander Matthews and Yale's George Pierce Baker, Iowa's first Chair of Theatre Arts, E.C. Mabie, pioneered the development of drama as an independent discipline in which scholars and artists could train to create and lead the theatre of the future. Under the leadership of Oscar Brownstein in the 1970s, the MFA Program in Playwriting offered one of the country’s first courses in Dramaturgy, through which MFA candidates in Playwriting served as dramaturgs on department productions of classic plays. In the 1990s, the department developed a pilot program in Dramaturgy in close association with the Playwrights Workshop. The program was formally approved by the Graduate College in 1999. The Department of Theatre Arts sponsors semester-long residencies and short-term workshops by leading playwrights, dramaturgs, and other theatre artists. Many of their courses and workshops are open to MFA Dramaturgs. The MFA Program in Dramaturgy requires a minimum of sixty-four semester-hours of coursework in dramaturgy, theatre history, and dramatic literature/theory/criticism. Although students must fulfill particular course requirements, each student’s plan of study is individualized in consultation with the program head. In addition to developing expertise in traditions of Western theatre, students are encouraged to situate their work as scholar/dramaturgs in the context of nontraditional and non-Western forms. In the final year of enrollment, students are required to complete a thesis that represents their dramaturgical philosophy and its application to theatre practice. While coursework in history, literature, and theory is essential to the program, so is the development of applied skills in dramaturgical research, analysis, and collaboration, through which students draw on their knowledge and skills in helping facilitate the creation of works for the stage. Students are required to serve as dramaturgs in the Playwrights Workshop, the principal course of the MFA Program in Playwriting, and on the annual Festival of New Plays, a weeklong series of productions and readings developed by MFA playwrights in collaboration with students across department programs. Students are also expected to serve as production dramaturgs on the department’s Mainstage and Gallery productions. For interested students, there are production opportunities in the Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre and our department’s companion units in the Division of Performing Arts - the Department of Dance and the School of Music. Must have a 3.0 or better.

2. Roosevelt College
Masters in Directing/Dramaturgy (Three Year Program)
They offer to help with tuition for graduates.
Chicago 430 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605 (312) 341-3500

3. Ohio State University
PhD. in Dramaturgy (Ninety credit hours)

The Ph.D. program is designed to serve prospective teachers, critics, and scholars in theatre studies. Also, in support of the scholarly degree, it provides some training opportunities in production. Each candidate, working with an adviser, develops an individual program of study that includes not only a wide range of general courses in history, critical theory, dramatic literature, performance analysis, and research methods but also a specialized group of courses in the candidate's areas of interest. Each candidate also selects at least one area of production for training (acting, directing, design, or dramaturgy). In addition, candidates have the opportunity to take courses taught by adjunct faculty outside the department. Candidates will thus develop a strong foundation in theatre studies; they will also be able to design special programs of study, appropriate to their backgrounds and professional aims. The Ph.D. degree requires a minimum of 90 credit hours (including the credit hours for the dissertation).

Areas of Study
Theatre history and historiography, critical and dramatic theory, genre history and theory, production analysis and dramaturgy, women and theatre, archival access and training, contemporary performance arts, and design technology; Russian theatre, Greek theatre, ancient and modern, Asian theatre, English and American theatre and drama.
Department of Theatre
1089 Drake Performance and Event Center
1849 Cannon Drive
614/292.5821


4. University of Hull (United Kingdom)
Master’s in Performance Translation and Dramaturgy (Two Years)

The Department offers supervision of research degrees (MPhil and PhD) in a wide range of subjects, reflecting both the individual interests of staff and the three overlapping research groups (Historiography, Performance Translation and Dramaturgy and the Processes of Performance and Production) that constitute our research culture.
Your research might take the traditional form of a wholly written thesis, or might be centrally based on experimental practice supplemented by written critical commentary and other forms of documentation. Either way, you are offered the opportunity to expand your own knowledge, and that of the subject area, through original research in a form tailored to your needs, under expert guidance.

Postgraduate and Research degrees
For further details about our research degrees, please contact Director of Studies
Prof. Richard Boon
r.boon@hull.ac.uk
+44 (0)1482 465206

5. University of Aarhus (Denmark)
MFA In Dramaturgy (Two Years)
In the Department of Dramaturgy we study scenic art ranging from Greek tragedy to present day performances. We scrutinize the theatrical nature of everyday interaction. And we investigate the overall structures of communication and experience framing the manifold theatrical events. In research and teaching we take into account the multidimensionality of scenic art: theatre as a public institution, children’s theatre, theatre experiments, events, role play, digital theatre, the dramaturgy of exhibitions, film, video and television. We deal with the role of theatre and of the dramaturg in teaching, society and culture. Our teaching mixes analysis, practical production, experiments in our two theatre halls with theory and analysis.
Dramaturgy offers an undergraduate and a graduate program, a supplementary program and a program for high school teachers.
Department of Dramaturgy, University of Aarhus, Langelandsgade 139, DK 8000 Aarhus C, dramkj@hum.au.dk , Tel. +45 8942 1810, Fax +45 8942 1828


6. University of Washington
PhD. of Criticism/Dramaturgy (Three Years of Studying)

The Ph.D. program provides comprehensive training in theatre and performance scholarship with a dual emphasis on theatre and performance history and dramatic theory. Particular strengths of the program include American, English and Classical studies, race and gender studies, semiotics, Asian and post-colonial theory. The three-year plan of study addresses a full range of Western and Non-Western materials from the ancient to the postmodern.
Graduates of the program have gone on to careers as university professors, arts administrators, dramaturgs and critics. Most applicants have theatre degrees and stage experience, but production work is not an integral part of the doctoral program. The enrollment is small, and individual attention to scholarly projects shapes the student's experience throughout the course of study. Whatever their particular interests, Ph.D. students are expected to develop the broadest possible understanding of theatre theory and history.
UW School of Drama
Box 353950 Seattle WA 98195
206.543.5140 phone
206.543.8512 fax

7. Wayne State University
PhD In Dramaturgy/Theatre Practice (Ninety Credit Hours)

Candidates for the PhD must complete 90 credits beyond the baccalaureate, including 30 hours of core courses, 30 hours of dissertation credits, one course in research methods, and a 6-credit minor within or outside the department. A maximum of 30 credits can be transferred from master’s level work. Dissertations normally employ critical or historical methods and do not involve production as such. The dissertation advisor, dissertation committee, or the graduate committee may provide additional requirements. Qualifying examinations cover both major and minor areas. Academic and Production Components On the academic side, the program concentrates on the traditional, broadly intellectual issues of theatre scholarship. PhD students study dramaturgy and theatre aesthetics, along with seminars in theatre history, dramatic theory and criticism, dramatic literature, and directing theory. On the production side, PhD students direct a fully-supported play with an undergraduate production team each year of 3-year residency. Core academic requirements are normally completed by the end of the second year and followed by qualifying examinations. The third year is devoted to developing a draft of the dissertation, and an additional year or two in the field is generally sufficient to complete and defend it. Part-time PhD students are also accepted, although production requirements may be different for them accordingly.
Department of Theatre
Wayne State University
4841 Cass Avenue, Suite 3225
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone (313) 577-3508 Fax (313) 577-0935
theatre@wayne.edu


8. York University (Toronto, Canada)
MFA in Dance Dramaturgy (Two Years)

York’s Dance MFA is unique — the only program in the world to offer research opportunities in both choreography and dance dramaturgy within the context of diverse contemporary dance practices. A two year program consisting relying on Choreography thesis and Dance Dramaturgy thesis. The MFA is aligned with the Dance Department’s pioneering BFA program (the oldest and largest of its kind in Canada) and builds on the 30-year history of York’s internationally recognized MA in Dance.
York University
Office of Graduate Admissions
PO Box GA2300
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON
CANADA M3J 1P3
Tel: 416-736-5000
Fax: 416-736-5536

9. Mary Baldwin College (Staunton, VA)
MFA Emphasis in Dramaturgy (Two Years)

Dramaturgy, the art of writing for the theatre, is the discipline which unites scholarship and stagecraft. Dramaturgs use their knowledge of the Early Modern social, historical, and cultural context to contribute to choices made by actors, directors and designers in rehearsal and in production. The dramaturgy emphasis leaves little room for elective classes. The program advises MLitt dramaturgy students to begin taking MFA required courses during the two MLitt years because some of the required courses are offered every other year.
Mary Baldwin College,
Staunton, VA 24401 1-540-887-7019

10. University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa,AL)
MFA Playwriting/Dramaturgy (Three Years)

Consists of a Three Year Program of Dramaturgy Classes and Playwriting plus Practicum &Thesis coursework.
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Department of Theatre & Dance
Box 870239
115 Rowand-Johnson Hall
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0239

LORT THEATRES

LORT THEATRES
1. Clarence Brown Theatre Company AT UT Founded 1974
LORT Categories D
Resident/Dramaturg- Klaus van den Berg or Kim Midkiff, who is the Dramaturg there.
Contact Information
University of Tennessee , 206 McClung Tower , Knoxville , TN 37996-0420
Website: www.clarencebrowntheatre.org
Email: cbt@utk.edu

2. The Guthrie Theater Founded 1963
Founder(s) Tyrone Guthrie , Oliver Rea , Peter Zeisler
Contact Information
818 South 2nd St , Minneapolis , MN 55415
Website: www.guthrietheater.org
Email: support@guthrietheater.org
Senior Dramaturg
Michael Lupu
LORT Categories A, D

3. Barter Theatre
Barter Theatre Address:
127 West Main Street, Abingdon, VA 24210
Phone (276) 628-2281 Founded in June 10, 1933
LORT Type: D
Dramaturge
Catherine Bush
Dramaturge/Playwright-in-Residence
276/619-3344

4. Huntington Theatre Company
Contact Information
264 Huntington Ave , Boston , MA 02115-4606
Website: www.huntingtontheatre.org
Email: thehuntington@huntingtontheatre.org
Literary Manager: Ilana M. Brownstein
LORT Categories B+, B
Founded 1982

5. Florida Stage
Contact Information
262 S Ocean Blvd , Manalapan , FL 33462
Website: www.floridastage.org
Email: info@floridastage.org
LORT Categories C
Literary Associate: Jonathan Wemette
Founded 1987
Founder(s) Louis Tyrrell

6. Asolo Repertory Theatre
Previously known as: Asolo Theatre Company
Contact Information
5555 N Tamiami Trail , Sarasota , FL 34243
Website: www.asolo.org
Email: asolo@asolo.org
Literary Manager/Assistant to
the Producing Artistic Director- Lauryn Sasso
Founded 1960
Founder(s) Eberle Thomas , Robert Strane , Richard G. Fallon

7. Alley Theatre
Contact Information
615 Texas Ave , Houston , TX 77002
Website: www.alleytheatre.org
Email: webmaster@alleytheatre.org
Senior Dramaturg and Director of New Play Development- Mark Bly
LORT Categories B, C
Founded 1947
Founder(s) Nina Vance

8. Northlight Theatre
Contact Information
North Shore Center , 9501 Skokie Blvd , Skokie , IL 60077
Website: www.northlight.org
Email: postmaster@northlight.org
Dramaturg/Literary Manager- Meghan Beals McCarthy
LORT Categories C
Founded 1974

9. Geva Theatre Center
Previously known as: Geva Theatre, Inc.
Contact Information
75 Woodbury Blvd , Rochester , NY 14607
Website: www.gevatheatre.org
Email: gevatalk@gevatheatre.org
Literary Manager/Resident Dramaturg- Marge Betley
LORT Categories B,D
Founded 1972

10. The Wilma Theater
Contact Information
265 S Broad St , Philadelphia , PA 19107
Website: www.wilmatheater.org
Email: info@wilmatheater.org
Dramaturg/Literary Manager- Walter Bilderback
LORT Categories C
Founded 1973