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Position:Home>Performing Arts> "chicago" and "fiddler on the roof" and "guys and dollsQuestion: "chicago" and "fiddler on the roof" and "guys and dolls"!.!.!.!.!? what are they about!? its nott that im being lazy and "not doing my hw" but my drama teacher said we'll do one of them next year, but he only showed us a scene from each!.!.!.!.!.!.so now idk wat any of them are about!.!.!.!.could u explain please!?Www@QuestionHome@Com
Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Guys and Dolls - Is about 2 main stories about a man who is a gambler and woman that is a club who have been together for 14 years and hasn't been married or engaged!. The other story is about a woman who works for this charity and a man stumbles by and they don't get along at first but they fall in love!. (music is great) Chicago- A girl named Roxie Hart who aspires for a singing carreer and is fame hungry has been imprisoned for murdering a man who she was having an affair with!. When she is in jail and going on trial she stumbles through the a famous singer Velma Kelly who is just as fame hungry as she is!. Fiddler on the Roof- A Jewish man who is quite poor has 5 daughters who he wants them to get married to well off husbands and maintain their religion through out the family and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their villageWww@QuestionHome@Com Chicago is a Kander and Ebb musical set in prohibition era Chicago!. The book is by Ebb and Bob Fosse!. The story is a satire on corruption in the administration of criminal justice, and the concept of the "celebrity criminal!." The musical is based on a 1926 play of the same name by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins about actual criminals and crimes she had reported on!. Fiddler on the Roof was originally entitled Tevye!. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Milkman) and other tales by Sholem Aleichem which he wrote in Yiddish and published in 1894!. The story centers on Tevye, the father of five daughters, and his attempts to maintain his family and religious traditions while outside influences encroach upon their lives!. He must cope with both the strong-willed actions of his three older daughters—each daughter's choice of husband moves progressively further away from established customs—and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village!. Guys and Dolls is a musical, with the music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, based on The Idyll Of Miss Sarah Brown, a short story by Damon Runyon!. It also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably "Pick the Winner!."Www@QuestionHome@Com guys and dolls is about a guy who is a gambler and gets in a bet to try to get the most christian goody goody "doll" to go to the carribbean with him, and he does, so he wins, then she finds out that she was just a bet, then she gets mad, then he apologizes and they fall in love!. that one is deff!. my fave of those three plays, its so much fun, i recommend doing that one!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Fiddler on the Roff- is about a guy that has 5 daughters and he wants three of them marrie Chicago- A girl who shoot her husband and it is mostly about that and about her not going to jail!. Guys and dollls - these guys are gambaling and they lose money so they find a girl who has money!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |