This last Thursday June 26th, we celebrated our New Continent Assembly; the location of this outstanding event was the Auditorio Tresguerras, were all the NC Celaya Family was joyfully gathered again. The purpose was to give a perfect closure to this school year; a year filled with joy, excitement, hard work, new experiences, and a lot of knowledge. And which better way than showing the big talent of our superb students.
Our students skillfully performed 12 Broadway Musicals and for the first time ever our Cheerleading Squad charmed us with their energy, strength and excitement.
The program was the following:
It was a pleasure to see the commitment of our students in this special event. We want to give an special gratitude to the parents and all family members that were in this event to support their children.
To recall the event we want to share a brief description of each Musical presented on the NC Assembly, we hope you enjoy it.
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Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by the Academy Award-winning Sherman Brothers (with additional
music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe) and a book by Julian Fellowes. The musical is based on the similarly titled series of
children's books by P. L. Travers and the 1964 Disney film, and is a fusion of various elements from the two.
Produced by Walt Disney Theatrical and directed by Richard Eyre with co-direction
from Matthew
Bourne who also acted as co-choreographer with Stephen Mear, the original West End production opened in
December 2004 and received two Olivier Awards, one for Best Actress in a Musical and the other for Best Theatre
Choreography. A Broadway production with a near-identical creative team opened
in November 2006, with only minor changes from the West End version. It received
seven Tony Award nominations,
including Best Musical, winning for Best Scenic Design.
Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, and a book by Linda Woolverton. Based on the 1991 film of the same name, which was in turn adapted from the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de
Beaumont, Beauty
and the Beast tells the story
of a prince who is transformed into a hideous beast as punishment for his
cruel and selfish ways, and an adventurous young woman named Belle whom he imprisons in
his castle. In order to become human again, the Beast must earn Belle's love
before it's too late. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical. Beauty ran on Broadway for 5,461
performances between 1994 and 2007, becoming Broadway's eighth longest-running production in history.
Cats is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on Old Possum's
Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, and produced by Cameron Mackintosh. The musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles
and the night they make what is known as "the Jellicle choice" and
decide which cat will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a
new life.
Directed by Trevor Nunn and choreographed by Gillian Lynne, Cats first opened in the West End in 1981 and then with
the same creative team on Broadway in 1982. It won numerous awards, including
Best Musical at both the Laurence Olivier Awards and the Tony Awards. The London production ran for twenty-one years and the Broadway
production ran for eighteen years, both setting new records.
As of 2014, Cats is the second
longest-running show in Broadway history, and was the longest
running Broadway show in history from 1997-2006, surpassed by The Phantom
of the Opera. Cats is the fourth longest-running West End musical. It has been
performed around the world many times and has been translated into more than 20
languages. In 1998, Cats was turned into a made-for-television
film.
The Phantom of the
Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard
Stilgoe. Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe also wrote the musical's
book together. Based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra byGaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine
Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious,
disfigured musical genius.
The musical opened in
London's West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. It won the
1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role)
won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical It is one of the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11
February 2012, the first production ever to do so.] It is the second
longest-running West End musical, after Les Misérables, and the third
longest-running West End show overall, after The Mousetrap.
The Lion King is a musical based on the 1994 Disney animated film
of the same name with music by Elton John and lyrics by Tim Rice along with the
musical score created by Hans Zimmer with choral arrangements by Lebo M. Directed by Julie Taymor, the musical features actors in
animal costumes as well as giant, hollow puppets. The show is produced by Disney Theatrical.
The musical debuted
July 8, 1997, in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Orpheum Theatre,
and was an instant success before premiering on Broadway at the New Amsterdam Theater on October 15, 1997
in previews with the official opening on November 13, 1997. On June 13, 2006,
the Broadway production moved to the Minskoff Theatre to make way for the
musical version of Mary Poppins, where it is still running after more than 6,700 performances. It is Broadway's fourth
longest-running show in history and the highest grossing Broadway
production of all time, having grossed more than $1 billion.
The show debuted in
the West End's Lyceum Theatre on October 19, 1999
and is still running. The cast of the West End production were invited to
perform at the Royal Variety Performance 2008 at the London
Palladium on December 11, in the presence of senior members of
the British Royal Family.
A Chorus Line is a musical with music by Marvin
Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood, Jr. and Nicholas
Dante. Centred on
seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line, the musical is set on the bare stage of a Broadway theatre during an audition
for a musical. A Chorus Line provides a glimpse into the
personalities of the performers and the choreographer as they describe the
events that have shaped their lives and their decisions to become dancers.
Following several
workshops and an Off-Broadway production, A
Chorus Line opened at the
Shubert Theatre on Broadway on July 25, 1975, directed and choreographed by Michael
Bennett. An unprecedented box office and critical hit, the
musical received 12Tony Award nominations and won 9
of them, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The original Broadway
production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running
production in Broadway history until surpassed by Cats in 1997, and the
longest-running Broadway musical originally produced in the US, until surpassed
in 2011 by Chicago. It remains the sixth longest-running
Broadway show ever. Its success has spawned many successful
productions worldwide. It began a lengthy run in the West End in 1976 and was
revived on Broadway in 2006, and in the West End in 2013.
Mamma Mia! is a stage musical written by British playwright Catherine
Johnson, based on the songs of ABBA, composed by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, former members of the band. The title of the musical is taken from the
group's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia". Ulvaeus and Andersson, who composed the original music for ABBA,
were involved in the development of the show from the beginning. Anni-Frid Lyngstad has been involved
financially in the production and she has also been present at many of the
premieres around the world.
The musical includes
such hits as "Super Trouper", "Lay All Your Love on Me", "Dancing Queen", "Knowing Me, Knowing You", "Take a Chance on Me", "Thank You for the Music", "Money, Money, Money", "The Winner Takes It All", "Voulez Vous", "SOS" and the title track. Over 54 million people have seen the show,
which has grossed $2 billion worldwide since its 1999 debut. A film
adaptationstarring Meryl Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce
Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski, Stellan Skarsgård and Julie Walters was released in July
2008.
Wicked (full title: Wicked: The Untold Story of the
Witches of Oz) is a musical with music and lyrics
by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie
Holzman. It is based on the 1995 Gregory
Maguire novel Wicked: The
Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, aparallel
novel of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz and L. Frank Baum's 1900 classic story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The musical is told from the perspective of the witches of the Land of Oz; its plot begins before and continues after Dorothy's arrival in Oz from Kansas and includes several
references to the 1939 film and Baum's novel. Wicked tells the story of two unlikely
friends, Elphaba(the Wicked Witch of the West) and Glinda (the Good Witch of the North), who struggle through opposing personalities and viewpoints, rivalry
over the same love-interest, reactions to the Wizard's corrupt government, and, ultimately, Elphaba's public fall from
grace.
The success of the
Broadway production has spawned several other productions worldwide, including
various North American productions, a long-running Laurence Olivier Award–nominated West End production and a
series of international productions. Since its 2003 debut, Wicked has broken box office records around
the world, currently holding weekly-gross-takings records in Los Angeles,
Chicago, St. Louis, and London. In the week ending January 2, 2011, the London,
Broadway, and both North American touring productions simultaneously broke
their respective records for the highest weekly gross.[4][5] In the final week of
2013, the Broadway production broke this record again, earning $3.2 million.[6] The West End
production and the North American tour have each been seen by over two million
patrons.
Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics
by Jonathan
Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and
musicians struggling to survive and create in New York City's Lower East Side in the thriving days
of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
The musical was first
seen in a limited three-week workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. This same off-Broadway theatre was also the
musical's initial home following its official January 25, 1996 opening. The
show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly the night before the
off-Broadway premiere. The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.
On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical among other awards.
The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008 after a 12-year run of
5,123 performances, the tenth
longest-running Broadway show at the time. The
production grossed over $280 million.[3]
The success of the
show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions. In 2005 it
was adapted into a motion picture featuring most of the original
cast members.
Chicago is a musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, the musical is based on a 1926 play of
the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual
criminals and crimes she reported on. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration
of criminal
justice and the concept of the "celebrity criminal."
The original Broadway production opened in
1975 at the 46th Street Theatre] and ran for 936
performances until 1977. Bob Fosse also choreographed the original production,
and his style is strongly identified with the show. Following a West End debut in 1979 which
ran for 600 performances, Chicago was revived on Broadway in 1996, and a
year later in the West End.
The Broadway revival
holds the record for the longest-running musical revival and the
longest-running American musical in Broadway history, and is the second
longest-running show in Broadway history having played more than 7,300
performances. The West End
revival ran for nearly 15 years, becoming the longest-running American musical
in West End history, and it has enjoyed several tours and international
productions.
Grease is a 1971 musical by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. The musical is named for the
1950s United States working-class youth
subculture known as greasers. The musical, set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School (based on
Chicago, Illinois (William
Howard Taft School)), follows ten working-class
teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love. The score attempts to
recreate the sounds of early 1950's rock and roll. In its record-breaking original Broadway production.
Grease was first performed
in 1971 in the original Kingston Mines Theater in Chicago (which was co-founded
by Harry Hoch and June Pyskacek, and included the Kingston Mines Cafe), located
in an old trolley barn (now the site of a hospital parking garage). From there,
it has been successful on both stage and screen, but the content has been
diluted and its teenage characters have become less Chicago habitués and more
generic. At the time that it closed in 1980, Grease's
3,388-performance run was the longest yet
in Broadway history, although it was surpassed by A Chorus Line a few years later. It
went on to become a West End hit, a hugely
successful film, two popular Broadway revivals in 1994 and
2007, and a staple of regional
theatre, summer stock, community
theatre, and high school and middle school drama groups. It remains Broadway's 15th
longest-running show.
Hercules is a 1997 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The 35th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was
directed by Ron Clements andJohn Musker. The film and the play are based on the legendary Greek mythology hero Heracles (known in the film by
his Roman name, Hercules), the son of Zeus, in Greek mythology.
Though Hercules did not match the financial success of
Disney's early-1990s releases, the film received positive reviews, and
made $99 million in revenue in the United States during its theatrical release
and $252,712,101 worldwide.[1]
Hercules was later followed by
the direct-to-video prequel Hercules: Zero to Hero, which served as the pilot to Hercules: The Animated Series, a syndicated Disney TV series focusing on Hercules during his time at
the Prometheus academy.
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