Friday, February 6, 2009

Stage production before moved to Boardway.




Angels in America. - Walter Kerr Theatre - theater reviews
Commonweal , July 16, 1993 by Gerald Weales




http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n13_v120/ai_14059934


"I believe we are all created for a specific reason and part of our existence is a responsibility to give back to society. Whether we give through our talents, finances or time our hope is to have sense of relief that our contributions can help change the world.


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A person's work could change the world. Each of us have an obligation to make the world a better place than it was before we lived. It's important and necessary to share and contribute to the world for future generations.




The HBO mini- serious (2003 film version)



"Angels in America" (2003)



Powerful, unsettling, and hilarious, 10 December 2003



Author: Boyd Petrie



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318997/usercomments?start=150



The dialogue is beautiful ("threshold of revelation") and the actors all deliver the lines without making it sound like a theatrical play.


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The dialogue was entertaining and the actors played their parts and recited the lines without making any mistakes. But more importantly, each actor's performance was believable and did not sound unrehearsed or as though they were reading.

A College production

K-College theater hits most notes of 'Angels in America' just right

Posted by Mark Wedel Special to the Gazette May 16, 2008 07:27AM
Categories: Breaking News

Link : http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette/2008/05/kcollege_theater_hits_most_not.html

Quotes : The characters dance a tango of shame and denial, but work towards what "ex-drag queen" Belize (Dwight Trice) calls, "softness, compliance, forgiveness, grace."

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K college play shows more of a unatural acting in the play , it seems to me they have added delusional appearances by Rosenberg , the apperance of a book with huge flames of fire, no type of sound from the chorus, dead family ancestors from long ago, and Joe Pitt dress as a Eskimo and an angel, it seems to me that K- college theatre was trying to make this play into the next general hospital


''A Gay Fantasia On National Themes,''

A National Theme on Gay Fantasia.

A non-NYC based professional production (since 1993)

Only in Alberta? Angels in America and Canada No. 2, 1996

SUSAN BENNETT

http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/TRIC/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol17_2/&filename=BENNETT.html

"what does it mean to "be" gay" and "how does that mean in a 'theme' that is 'America' "?

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To be gay in America means living a life that pleases an individual and maintains their right to chose and live in such a way it does not cause harm or violate the rights of others. The Constitution does not discriminate based on sexual orientation, color or gender. Being gay in America simply means choosing to live a life free from judgement and prejudice.

















The original Broadway production(1993)



A Broadway Godsend
'Angels In America,' An Epic Of Aids And Homosexuality, Is A Big Ticket
NEWSWEEK ( No Author)
From the magazine issue dated May 10, 1993




http://www.newsweek.com/id/119606



"There has been a vast cultural shift that's been happening for years. We've really kicked through a very big barrier. I think we've surprised everybody, including ourselves, by having gotten there. It's going to be very difficult now to be unapologetically homophobic."



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A cultural revolution has occurred in America. The barriers that were created for years have been removed. Everyone was suprised that we broke the big barrier and now it will be difficult to be unapologetic to homophobics.

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