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  2. Ethel Barrymore Theatre - Wikipedia

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    The Ethel Barrymore Theatre is a Broadway theater at 243 West 47th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Opened in 1928, it was designed by Herbert J. Krapp in the Elizabethan, Mediterranean, and Adam styles for the Shubert family. The theater, named in honor of actress Ethel Barrymore, has 1,058 seats and is ...

  3. Theatre of the Grotesque - Wikipedia

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    Theatre of the Grotesque. The Theatre of the Grotesque was a twentieth-century dramatic movement. [1] It is a theatrical style that was developed as a derivative to the late eighteenth-century art movement ' Grotesque ' and thus translates the themes and images of the grotesque art into theatrical practices. [1]

  4. Trifles (play) - Wikipedia

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    Trifles (play) Trifles. (play) Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. In the original performance, Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. The play is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks.

  5. Pepper's ghost - Wikipedia

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    Pepper's ghost is an illusion technique, used in the theatre, cinema, amusement parks, museums, television, and concerts, in which an image of an object off-stage is projected so that it appears to be in front of the audience.

  6. Plain and Fancy - Wikipedia

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    Plain and Fancy is a musical comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague. One of the first depictions of an Amish community in American pop culture, it includes a traditional barn raising and an old-fashioned country wedding. The musical ran on Broadway in 1955–56, and has been ...

  7. The Days of '98 Show - Wikipedia

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    The Days of '98 Show is a Klondike Gold Rush–themed musical theater show performed in Eagles Hall in Skagway, Alaska. It is the longest-running Alaskan theatrical show. Created in the 1920s, the show was put on by the Skagway chapter of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and performed infrequently in the 1930s.

  8. The Near Future - Wikipedia

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    Homebrew Stew used it as a satirical arrangement with the retitled How Dry I Am in Bird-in-Hand which is included in his LP Folk Songs of Lancaster Co., PA. His version was inspired by the Prohibition Party's national convention which was held in Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania for the 2000 election. References

  9. Mystère (Cirque du Soleil) - Wikipedia

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    The theater is a unique theater built in the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino specifically for the show. The design of the theater was created by Michel Crête and that of Montreal-based team of Scéno Plus. This theater seats 1,541 audience members. The stage measures 120 feet by 70 feet deep and covers approximately 10,032 square feet.