Stage door

     Broadway is my favorite type of play. With the goofy upbeat music and dialogue interlaced with musical numbers makes this genre of entertainment pretty interesting, Unlike Operas, Broadway does not rely on only musical numbers to move the plot along, The musical numbers are played at certain times and does not continue right afterward. It only has music when it is needed. This is why I love Broadway—the music and the performers playing interesting character. We are going to look at a blog that has many videos of Broadway performance. This blog is called “Stage door” written by Angel de Quinta.

            As one enters the blog site you would see that it is in the authors native language. If you have google chrome you can translate the blog. It is not essential for what I want to discuss about in this blog. I want to discuss about two of my favorite video performances that are listed within his blog. I want to discuss the performances of Judy Garland in “Have yourself a Merry little Christmas”,  Gwen Verdon singing “If They Could See Me Now”, 

            To start off, we are going to discuss Gardland’s performance. In this video Judy Gardland is presented in a girl’s room holding a monkey music box. The lighting in the shot makes a soft glow in her face. The soft glow brings out her face, makeup, trinkerling eyes. The background is faded out to bring to center Gardland’s character. He r hair is pulled back and made into a bun I believe. She was wearin a head scarf that rapped around her neck. She’s wearing a long red dress which makes her so beautiful. The girl that she I singing to looks shy and upset. There is a pink bow in her black hair. This video is from the movie “Meet me in St. Louis” which debuted in 1944 and takes place in 1902 in St. Louis.

            Gwen Verdon  performs “If They Could See Me Now”. It was a beautiful performance about a girl who got in the part of performer. I think that she was poor based on the fact that she wanted to tell them what she is doing. She is amazed at all the props and dresses. In the later point in the performance she put on a top hat and was brought a dancing stick. That part of it sounded cheesy because that is what I pictured a circus performer having as their outfit. Verdon wears a black laced dress with a black headband. Her hair is blond and is put in a bun. She dances with the hat and stick. This performance was from the play Sweet Charity. Sweet Charity came out in 1966 and is a very funny show.