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Will Aronson
William Landry Aronson (born 1981, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American composer and writer for musical theater, whose work includes the scores for ''Pete the Cat, Mother, Me & the Monsters,'' and ''My Scary Girl.'' He also composed and co-wrote the book for the late 21st-century romance ''Maybe Happy Ending'' (2017), ''The Trouble with The Dog,'' and ''Bungee Jump'', cited by the NY Times in 2013 as Korea’s “most popular original musical,” and winner of Best Score at the Korean Musical Awards. Current projects include ''Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Günter'' and ''Wind-Up Girl.'' Aronson is the recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award, a Fulbright grant, the ASCAP Frederick Loewe Award, an EST/Sloan grant, and three Korean Musical Awards. In addition to his theatrical work, Aronson has composed and produced over 200 tracks for the ESL children's book/DVD series, ''English Egg''. Education Aronson holds a B.A. in music from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, Aronson was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 as determined by the 2020 U.S. census, New Haven is the third largest city in Connecticut after Bridgeport and Stamford and the principal municipality of Greater New Haven, which had a total 2020 population of 864,835. New Haven was one of the first planned cities in the U.S. A year after its founding by English Puritans in 1638, eight streets were laid out in a four-by-four grid, creating the "Nine Square Plan". The central common block is the New Haven Green, a square at the center of Downtown New Haven. The Green is now a National Historic Landmark, and the "Nine Square Plan" is recognized by the American Planning Association as a National Planning Landmark. New Haven is the home of Yale University, New Haven's biggest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
080520-9
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9. In mathematics 8 is: * a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2. * a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of the form , being an integer greater than 1. * the first number which is neither prime nor semiprime. * the base of the octal number system, which is mostly used with computers. In octal, one digit represents three bits. In modern computers, a byte is a grouping of eight bits, also called an octet. * a Fibonacci number, being plus . The next Fibonacci number is . 8 is the only positive Fibonacci number, aside from 1, that is a perfect cube. * the only nonzero perfect power that is one less than another perfect power, by Mihăilescu's Theorem. * the order of the smallest non-abelian group all of whose subgroups are normal. * the dimension of the octonions and is the highest possible dimension of a normed division algebra. * the first number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Musical Theatre Composers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tisch School Of The Arts Alumni
Tisch may refer to: *Tisch School of the Arts at New York University * Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University * Tisch Library, the main library of Tufts University *''Tisch'', a novel by Stephen Dixon People ;Tisch family of American businesspeople *Andrew Tisch, son of Laurence Tisch; co-chair of Loews Corporation * James S. Tisch (born 1953), son of Laurence Tisch; CEO of Loews Corporation * Jamie Tisch, wife of Steve Tisch *Joan Tisch, widow of Preston Robert Tisch *Jonathan Tisch (born 1953), son of Preston Robert Tisch; chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels * Merryl Tisch, Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents * Laurence Tisch (1923–2003), brother of Preston Robert Tisch; part owner of Loews Corporation *Preston Robert Tisch (1926–2005), brother of Laurence Tisch; part owner of Loews Corporation *Steve Tisch (born 1949), son of Preston Robert Tisch; chairman of the New York Giants NFL football team * David Tisch (born 1981), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Births
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Alliance Theatre
The Alliance Theatre is a theater company in Atlanta, Georgia, based at the Alliance Theatre, part of the Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, and is the winner of the 2007 Regional Theatre Tony Award. The company, originally the Atlanta Municipal Theatre, staged its first production (''King Arthur'') at the Alliance in 1968. The following year the company became the Alliance Theatre Company. Within a decade, the company had grown tremendously and staged the world premiere of Tennessee Williams' '' Tiger Tail'' and was casting such well-known actors as Richard Dreyfuss, Morgan Freeman, Jane Alexander, Paul Winfield, Robert Foxworth, Jo Van Fleet and Cybill Shepherd. Other world premieres included Ed Graczyk's '' Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean''. With the arrival of Kenny Leon as artistic director in 1988, the company began a period of diversification and growth. Leon's work attracted a larger African-American audience by staging a more diverse selection of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Dong-yeon (director)
Kim Dong-yeon () is a South Korean playwright and theater director. Kim, is nicknamed Blue Chip Director of Daehak-ro, made his directorial debut in 2003 through the play ''Fantasy Fairy Tale'' (2003). South Korean Musical ''Maybe Happy Ending'' that was premiered in 2017 is his most famous work as director. He is known for his two military musicals, ''The Shinheung Military Academy'' (2018) and ''Return'' (2019). He is also known as director of South Korean adaptation of stage play ''Human'' (2010), '' The Pride'' (2014), '' M. Butterfly'' (2017), and ''Shakespeare R&J'' (2018). Career Early career Kim Dong-yeon joined theater club in high school to achieve his dream to be an actor. He worked hard practicing his vocalization in the backyard near his high school. Then enrolled in theater department at Chung-Ang University. He performed on stage as an actor throughout his college days. However, he found that he's more suitable to be a theatre director. After graduating, K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maybe Happy Ending
''Maybe Happy Ending'' (; lit. "Maybe Happy Ending) is an original South Korean musical with music composed by Will Aronson and lyrics written by Hue Park, and book written by both Aronson and Park. It is their first original musical and second work together after Musical ''Bungee Jumping''. Directed by Kim Dong-yeon, ''Maybe Happy Ending'' opened in Seoul at Lifeway Hall in DCF Daemyung Cultural Factory on December 20, 2016, where it played for 51 performances. It was nominated as best musical at The 6th Yegreen Musical Awards, and won four awards including Musical of the Year Award, Music Award (Will Aronson), Directing Award (Kim Dong-yeon)and Female Popularity Award (Jeon Mi-do). It was also nominated for six awards at The 2nd Korean Musical Award and won six awards, including Best Musical, Best Director, Best Music, Lyrics and Book. Local tours and international productions have followed. Background In 2014 Hue Park was sitting in a coffee shop in Brooklyn. He heard th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital media, digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as ''The Daily (podcast), The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones (publisher), George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The New York Times, 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked List of newspapers by circulation, 18th in the world by circulation and List of newspapers in the United States, 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is Public company, publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 189 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Korea Times
''The Korea Times'' is the oldest of three English-language newspapers published daily in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the ''Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language daily; both are owned by Dongwha Enterprise, a wood-based manufacturer. Since the late 1950s, it had been published by the Hankook Ilbo Media Group, but following an embezzlement scandal in 2013–2014 it was sold to Dongwha Group, which also acquired ''Hankook Ilbo''. The president-publisher of ''The Korea Times'' is Oh Young-jin. Former Korean President Kim Dae-jung famously taught himself English by reading ''The Korea Times''. Newspaper headquarters The newspaper's headquarters is located in the same building with ''Hankook Ilbo'' on Sejong-daero between Sungnyemun and Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea. The publication also hosts major operations in New York City and Los Angeles. History ''The Korea Times'' was founded by Helen Kim five months into the 1950-53 Korean War. The first issue on Novemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungee Jumping Of Their Own
''Bungee Jumping of Their Own'' () is a 2001 South Korean film starring Lee Byung-hun and Lee Eun-ju. The film had 947,000 admissions, making it the 10th most attended film of the year."The Best Selling Films of 2001" ''Koreanfilm.org''. Retrieved 2013-08-31. Plot Seo In-woo (Lee Byung-hun) unexpectedly falls in love with In Tae-hee (Lee Eun-ju), a fellow student at the same university, when she asks to share his umbrella in a rainstorm. It is love at first sight for In-woo, and they start dating after only a couple of weeks. Tae-hee dies suddenly when she is hit by a car. 17 years later, In-woo is a high school teacher, married with a child. He starts to notice similarities between a new student of his, Hyun-bin, and Tae-hee. In-woo struggles with the concept of falling in love with another man, and t ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hue Park
Hue Park (born Park Chun-hyu, ) is a South Korean lyricist and musical theatre writer. Early career as lyricist Park started working as an in-house lyricist for Music Cube while he was still attending Dongguk University for creative writingnow merged with the Korean Literature program. He debuted as a lyricist with works such as the singer Evan's Pain Reliever, Park Sang-min's Tough Life. Park then moved to New York City to study visual art at New York University, where he met and collaborated with composer Will Aronson, thus beginning his career in musical theatre. Works in musical theatre In July 2012, Park wrote lyrics for the '' musical Bungee Jump'' (music by Will Aronson). The show was successful, and Aronson and Park gained considerable recognition. For the second production of Bungee Jump in 2013, Park joined Aronson in the script's adaptation. Park also adapted, translated, and wrote Korean lyrics for the ''Musical Carmen'' in December 2013, which opened aLG Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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