I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about art: how art can be defined, what its possible purposes are, what I am trying to accomplish personally as an artist. This exploration began many years ago when I was a student musician: a singer, a songwriter, and a composer. In my music program, we spent a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘musicals’
Can Blogs Be Art?
Posted in Arts, Music, Writing, tagged Amy Sundberg, art, blog, blogging, communication, musicals on August 9, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Favorite Musical (4/4): Passion, by Stephen Sondheim
Posted in Arts, Life, Music, Theater, tagged Amy Sundberg, crazy from love, love, manipulation, musical theater, musicals, Passion, Sondheim on February 1, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I have saved Passion for last not only because it is the most recent addition to my list of favorites, but also because it is a difficult musical to explain. It is a difficult musical, period. It challenges its audience to the extent that for some, it is an alienating experience. I know this firsthand [...]
Theatrical Trends on a Small Scale
Posted in Arts, Music, Theater, tagged Madam C.J. Walker, musical theater, musicals, new works, theatreworks on January 28, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last weekend I had the privilege of attending the Songwriters’ Showcase at Theatreworks, a theater company in Mountain View. One of the reasons I adore Theatreworks is because of their dedicated commitment to supporting new works in both straight plays and musical theater. They put on a New Works Festival every spring and often stage [...]
Favorite Musical (2/4): The Light in the Piazza, by Adam Guettel
Posted in Arts, Music, Theater, tagged Adam Guettel, Amy Sundberg, art, light in the piazza, musicals, theater on January 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Not enough people have heard of this little gem, even though it won the Tony Award for best original score in 2005 (Spamalot won the Tony for best musical that year, but let’s not even go there). The music is so beautiful, it makes me feel like there’s something inside me stretching towards the sky, [...]
Favorite Musical (1/4): Rent, by Jonathan Larson
Posted in Arts, Music, Theater, tagged artist, musicals, Rent on January 11, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Rent has been on my current list of favorite musicals for the longest amount of time. It came bursting on the scene both off and on Broadway in 1996, and I discovered it by late 1997. In fact, it is possibly the first CD I ever bought after I received my first CD player in [...]
Musical Theater: not just a Spectacle
Posted in Arts, Music, Theater, tagged art, creativity, musicals on January 4, 2011 | 18 Comments »
I have loved musical theater since I was a little girl obsessed with watching movies such as The Wizard of Oz, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, and Annie over and over. I watched those movies so often that I memorized the accompanying commercials. I’ve studied musicals seriously over the intervening years, as a vocalist [...]
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