"Hancock, Henry, Morris, Marshall, Rush, and Paine). Founding Fathers of the United States The Founding Fathers of the United States were a group of philosophers, politicians, and writers who led the American Revolution against the Kingdom of Great Britain. Most were descendants of colonists settled in the Thirteen Colonies in North America. Historian Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as the key Founding Fathers: Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin were members of the Committee of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence."
"Hamilton (musical) Hamilton: An American Musical is a sung- and rapped-through musical about the life of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, with music, lyrics, and book by Lin-Manuel Miranda, inspired by the 2004 biography ""Alexander Hamilton"" by historian Ron Chernow. Incorporating hip hop, R&B, pop, soul, traditional-style show tunes, and color-conscious casting of non-white actors as the Founding Fathers and other historical figures, the musical achieved both critical acclaim and box office success. The musical made its Off-Broadway debut at The Public Theater in February 2015, where its engagement was sold out. The show transferred to Broadway in August 2015"
"Alexander Hamilton (song) ""Alexander Hamilton"" is the opening number for the 2015 musical ""Hamilton"", a musical biography of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote both the music and lyrics to the song. This song features ""alternately rapped and sung exposition"". This song was originally part of a group of songs entitled ""The Hamilton Mixtape"" and created by Lin-Manuel Miranda as he started interpreting and adapting Ron Chernow's ""Hamilton"" biography for the stage. He performed this number live at a White House poetry jam in 2009. The ""National Review"" noted ""The Obamas and"
"In 2016, Gerard Alessandrini, creator of ""Forbidden Broadway"", wrote the revue ""Spamilton"", which premiered at the Triad Theater in New York and also played at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. It parodies ""Hamilton"" and other Broadway shows and caricatures various Broadway stars. On October 12, 2016, the American sitcom ""Modern Family"" released the episode ""Weathering Heights"". The episode features a scene where Manny applies for college. To do so he records a parody of ""Alexander Hamilton"" as part of his application, complete with rewritten lyrics to accompany to his own life. It is revealed that most of the other"
"work is the autobiographical ""Life with Father"" (1935), which detailed humorous episodes in his family's life, centering on his domineering father, during the 1890s in New York City. Scenes from the book, along with its 1932 predecessor, ""God and My Father"", and its 1937 sequel, ""Life with Mother"", published posthumously, were the basis for the 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, which became one of Broadway's longest-running non-musical hits. In 1947—the year the play ended on Broadway—William Powell and Irene Dunne portrayed Day's parents in the film of the same name, which received Oscar nominations for cinematography, art"
"at the Theater@Boston Court from October 14, 2006, to November 19, 2006. The play was directed by Nancy Keystone and featured Harold Surratt as The Foundling Father. The protagonist of Act One, the foundling father is a black grave digger who bears a strong resemblance to Abraham Lincoln. He is ""tall and thinly built just like the Great Man"". He is known to ""dig his graves quickly and neatly"". He is frequently referred to as the Lesser Known as opposed to the Great Man Abraham Lincoln. He is married to Lucy and is the father of Brazil. His experience at"
"this heartbreaker, I'm sure it would hit top ten."" ""The Hollywood Reporter"" deemed it a ""heartbreaker"", too. Yahoo.com declared this the ""track of the day"" for January 3, 2016, due to a recommendation by a reader who said ""I love the way this song tenderly expresses the humbling experience of parenthood shared by two men—both quite roughened to the ways of the world and otherwise vehemently opposed. The common ground of our humanity."" Dear Theodosia ""Dear Theodosia"" is a 3-minute song from Act 1 of the musical ""Hamilton"", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in"
"dead white men but we're using actors of color, and that makes the story more immediate and more accessible to a contemporary audience."" The pro-immigration message of Hamilton is at the forefront, as the show revolves around the life of one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Alexander Hamilton, and how he made his mark in American politics as an immigrant. Instead of being characterized as a white person, Alexander Hamilton's immigrant status would be referenced throughout the whole show, alongside with the virtue and prowess of Hamilton (""by working a lot harder, by being a lot smarter,"
"is one of the founders of Uber. Guy Kawasaki (MBA '79) is one of the earliest employees at Apple. Nathan Myhrvold is the founder of Microsoft Research. Venture capitalist, author and futurist Donald Prell (BA '48) founder of Datamation magazine. UCLA alumni have also achieved prominence in the arts and entertainment. John Williams is laureate conductor at the Boston Pops Orchestra and Academy Award-winning composer of the ""Star Wars"" film score. Martin Sherwin ('71) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for ""American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer"". Actors Ben Stiller, Tim Robbins, James Franco, George Takei, Mayim"
"in Broadway history up until that time and the first Broadway show to run for at least 500 performances. At its peak, Adonis earned approximately $7,000 per week in box office sales (the equivalent of over $250,000 in 2011 dollars). William B. Gill William Bain Gill (1842–1919) was an American actor and playwright, most famous for authoring Broadway's first hit musical, ""Adonis"" Born in Newfoundland in 1842, Gill spent the early part of his career as an actor in Australia and India. Gill ultimately moved to the United States with his wife and children where he again took up acting."
"Opera America (A.R.T./New York). Michael Presser Michael Presser, born in Philadelphia, USA, is the founder and executive director of Inside Broadway, a New York City educational theatre company for young audiences. Inside Broadway was founded by Presser in 1982, at the request of the late president of the Shubert Organization, Bernard B. Jacobs, to create a student ticket program for the Broadway musical ""Cats"". The company now develops touring musical productions and educational programs that allow students in New York to experience theatre firsthand and learn from performing arts professionals. Over 50,000 students in 90 schools in all five boroughs"
"As a composer, he was one of the early members of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He displayed remarkable theatrical longevity, appearing in films until the 1930s, and continuing to perform as a headline artist until 1940. Known in the decade before World War I as ""the man who owned Broadway"", he is considered the father of American musical comedy. His life and music were depicted in the Academy Award-winning film ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" (1942) and the 1968 musical ""George M!"". A statue of Cohan in Times Square New York City commemorates his contributions to American"
"""The World Was Wide Enough"", when, having been wounded in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey, Hamilton's final words in his final soliloquy is ""Raise a glass to freedom"". The Young Folks considered the original song to be the musical's 28th best, and its first reprise to be the 44th. We the Kings, an American rock band, performed a cover version of ""The Story of Tonight"" in 2016. The Story of Tonight ""The Story of Tonight"" is the fourth song from Act 1 of the musical ""Hamilton"", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015."
"the authors of the musical. In the song ""But, Mr. Adams"", John Adams tells Thomas Jefferson that Adams is 41 years old. Adams (born in October, 1735) was actually 40 years old at the time of the events depicted in the musical. In his review of the original 1969 production, Clive Barnes of ""The New York Times"" wrote, On the face of it, few historical incidents seem more unlikely to spawn a Broadway musical than that solemn moment in the history of mankind, the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Yet ""1776""... most handsomely demonstrated that people who merely go"
"musical itself and relate them to current events. In 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced a redesign to the $10 bill, with plans to replace Hamilton with a then-undecided woman from American history. Because of Hamilton's surging popularity, almost exclusively due to the musical, United States Treasury Secretary Jack Lew reversed the plans to replace Hamilton's portrait, instead deciding to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. On April 12, 2016, Miranda and Jeremy McCarter's book, ""Hamilton: The Revolution"", was released, detailing ""Hamilton""s journey from an idea to a successful Broadway musical. It includes an"
"The following were among contemporary releases: Jubilee (musical) Jubilee is a musical comedy with a book by Moss Hart and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It premiered on Broadway in 1935 to rapturous reviews. Inspired by the recent silver jubilee of King George V of Great Britain, the story is of the royal family of a fictional European country. Several of its songs, especially ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""Just One of Those Things"", became independently popular and have become part of the American Songbook. The musical opened on Broadway in October 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression."
"was not in preserving traditional musical theater. It just so happens that my culture has a lot of music and dance in it."" It was Bagneris's father, who, after seeing ""One Mo' Time,"" encouraged Bagneris to work on Creole themes. ""I'm always being asked what I am. Even Allen Toussaint asked me once, 'Where do you come from — Mars?' No, Allen, I'm from the 7th Ward."" After the success of ""One Mo'Time,"" Bagneris continued stage explorations with ""Staggerlee"" in 1985; ""Further Mo',"" the sequel to ""One Mo' Time,"" in 1990; and Cy Coleman's ""The Life"" on Broadway in 1998."
"Life With Father Life With Father is a 1939 play by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, adapted from a humorous autobiographical book of stories compiled in 1935 by Clarence Day. The Broadway production ran for more than seven years to become the longest-running non-musical play on Broadway, a record that it still holds. The play was adapted into a 1947 feature film and a television series. Clarence Day wrote humorously about his family and life. The stories of his father, Clarence ""Clare"" Day, Senior, were first printed in the ""New Yorker"" magazine. They portray a rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker"
"mistaken identity (frequently involving characters disguising themselves as one another), and satirical comments on social class. The title derives from a line often used by vaudeville comedians to begin a story: ""A funny thing happened on the way to the theater"". The musical's original 1962 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Author (Musical). ""A Funny Thing"" has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the stage musical, Zero Mostel. ""A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"" opened on Broadway on"
"the musical called ""The Whirl of New York"" premiered on Broadway. Ichabod Bronson is a wealthy hypocrite who preaches virtue to the young, so as to leave more scope for dissipation among the old. His son, Harry, is a feather-brained spendthrift, engaged to Cora Angelique, the Queen of Comic Opera. After a riotous stag night, Harry ends up with Fifi, the daughter of Fricot the confectioner. Ichabod discovers them together and disinherits Harry. Deserted by all but Fifi, Harry wanders into Chinatown in New York, where his fickle fancy is taken by a young Salvation Army woman, Violet Gray. She"
"other actor to date. The production won nine Tony Awards and was one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. Bikel was president of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America until 2014, and was president of Actors' Equity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Partners for Progressive Israel, where he also lectured. Theodore Bikel was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, the son of Miriam (née Riegler) and Josef Bikel, from Bukovina. As an active Zionist, his father named him after Theodor Herzl, the founder"
"Broadway Bound Broadway Bound is a semi-autobiographical play by Neil Simon. It is the last chapter in his Eugene trilogy, following ""Brighton Beach Memoirs"" and ""Biloxi Blues"". The play is about Eugene and his older brother, Stanley, dealing with their parents' relationship falling apart as the brothers work together toward being comedy writers for the radio, and, eventually, television. They discover that their father, Jack, has been cheating on their mother, Kate. It is obvious to the family before Jack even admits it, and they try to find ways for Kate to cope with the loss when Jack may eventually"
"month, and that Stark Sands and Billy Porter had been cast in the starring roles. In August 2012, the producers announced the Broadway opening date of April 4, 2013. Charlie Price grows up as the fourth-generation ""son"" in his family business, Price & Son, a shoe factory in Northampton. Another young boy, growing up in London, is as fascinated by shoes as Charlie is bored by them, but in this case, it is a pair of red women's heels that have attracted his attention, aggravating his strict father. Years pass. Charlie's father is aging and hopes that Charlie will take"
"murder of his parents, Bruce Wayne commits his life to waging a one-man war on crime. But when he realizes that life isn't fun when you're alone, he sets out to find a super friend. The musical was performed March 22–25, 2012, at the Hoover-Leppen Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. It was produced by StarKid Productions and directed by Matt Lang. The musical stars an ensemble cast featuring Joe Walker as the Batman, and Nick Lang as his sidekick Robin. The group put the entire musical up on YouTube on April 13, 2012. The show opens with young billionaire Bruce Wayne"
"nine. In 1926, he graduated from DePaul University in Chicago, where he played football. ""Life With Father"" was far and away his most successful production (a few of his productions ran only a short time), and Serlin retired from producing in 1951. He died in New York City on February 27, 1971 after a long illness. Oscar Serlin Oscar Serlin (January 30, 1901 – February 27, 1971) was a Broadway producer, best known for producing ""Life with Father"", which opened in 1939 and became the longest running Broadway show of all time, at the time; it still holds the record"
"Yorkers. When Columbus returns to Spain, the royal family is living in poverty, doing their own washing. The royal family is amazed and amused by the explorers' stories of the New World. All ends happily. Many of the original performance materials are housed in the library of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. 1492 Up To Date 1492 Up To Date or Very Near It (sometimes titled 1492) is a burlesque extravaganza created in observance of the quadricentennial of Columbus's finding the New World. The libretto is by R. A. Barnet, with music by Carl Pflueger. Its Broadway production was presented by"
"Broadway cast recording became the highest-charting Broadway cast album in over four decades, reaching number three on the ""Billboard"" charts. In 2013, the musical premiered in the West End, followed by two US national tours. A production in Melbourne and the first non-English version, in Stockholm, both opened in January 2017. Productions in Oslo and Copenhagen followed. ""The Book of Mormon"" has grossed over $500 million, making it one of the most successful musicals of all time. ""The Book of Mormon"" was conceived by Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Robert Lopez. Parker and Stone grew up in Colorado, and were"
"play tells the vicissitude of American capitalism through the 164-year-history of Lehman Brothers, from when Henry Lehman, a German-Jew, first migrated to the US and opened his store in Alabama, to the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. that triggered the 2008 financial crisis. The three actors not only play the three Lehman brothers that founded the business, but also multi-roled their children and grandchildren, including Philip Lehman (son of Emanuel, played by Simon Russell Beale), Herbert Lehman(son of Mayer, played by Ben Miles), and Robert Lehman (son of Philip, played by Adam Godley), as well as various minor characters"
"obstacles along the way. Frank Rich in his review for ""The New York Times"" wrote: """"Big Deal,"" the new Fosse musical at the Broadway, contains exactly one of those show stoppers, and attention must be paid. If only for 10 minutes or so just before the end of Act I, Mr. Fosse makes an audience remember what is (and has been) missing from virtually every other musical in town. The number is set to the old song ""Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar,"" and it unfolds in a Chicago ballroom of the 1930s called (need I tell you?) Paradise...The"
"The Story of Tonight ""The Story of Tonight"" is the fourth song from Act 1 of the musical ""Hamilton"", based on the life of Alexander Hamilton, which premiered on Broadway in 2015. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote both the music and lyrics to the song. The song recounts a meeting which occurred in 1776 between Alexander Hamilton, John Laurens, Hercules Mulligan and Marquis de Lafayette. In the song, the four young revolutionaries declare their loyalty and fealty to the newly-started revolution, and consume alcohol in a bar. They state that their liberty and freedom can never be taken from them, and that"
"later years, the Viet Cong flag of the ""enemy"" was even adopted as a symbol by more radical anti-war protesters. However, the core ""hippie"" philosophy remained staunchly aloof to politics, and politicians, throughout this time. The new ""hippie"" values, e.g. natural childbirth, made an early Broadway appearance October 6, 1965, with the opening of a popular new play, ""Generation"" by US playwright William Goodhart, starring Henry Fonda (as Jim Bolton), which, according to one of its reviews in ""Time"", ""converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hippie, the parent and the child."" Owing"
"of his own life. This was a continuing theme in his work. As of September 2007, author Gore Vidal was completing the play, and Peter Bogdanovich was slated to direct its Broadway debut. The play received its world premiere in New York City in April 2012, directed by David Schweizer and starring Shirley Knight as Babe. The rectory of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Columbus, Mississippi, where Williams's grandfather Dakin was rector at the time of Williams's birth, was moved to another location in 1993 for preservation. It was newly renovated in 2010 for use by the City of Columbus"
"Michael Presser Michael Presser, born in Philadelphia, USA, is the founder and executive director of Inside Broadway, a New York City educational theatre company for young audiences. Inside Broadway was founded by Presser in 1982, at the request of the late president of the Shubert Organization, Bernard B. Jacobs, to create a student ticket program for the Broadway musical ""Cats"". The company now develops touring musical productions and educational programs that allow students in New York to experience theatre firsthand and learn from performing arts professionals. Over 50,000 students in 90 schools in all five boroughs participate annually. The repertory"