I remember when I was a little boy in the last century, there was a generalized panic that the machines would take people’s jobs. The big car manufacturers were installing new machines that would do the work of the equivalent of ten people for a fraction of the cost. In a time when economic models were a reason […]
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If you get a bad review, could you say that the critic’s opinion is unfair or that he just didn’t get what you are trying to do? Can you say he’s mistaken? Can a critic be wrong? You’ve worked a lot, rehearsed, given your heart and soul and on the following morning after the premiere, the […]
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Music is everywhere. On your radio, on your iPod, on screen or on stage. Music permeates our life. It’s universal. But does it matter if this music is presented in a concert, a screen or a theater stage? Let’s use movies as an example. One of the most memorable scenes in cinema history is Gene Kelly […]
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For centuries, opera singers and more recently musical theater actors have had the hard task of expressing all the passion and conflict of the heart to the exact measurement, like a small ingredient in a big cake recipe, to entertain audiences around the world through song. It’s not an easy task. But are operas and musicals the same? […]
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When we think about musical theater we usually think about UK and US and the big budget productions they manage to make, but around the world there are countries that built a solid musical theater tradition from scratch and today have a loyal audience that celebrates whenever there’s a new musical in town. For this […]
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What are the requisites to classify a dream as an impossible one? Is there a list somewhere? How do we know a dream is achievable, possible or impossible? There’s an old saying attributed to Mark Twain that says: “They did not know it was impossible, so they did it,” implying that your limitation lives in […]
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