theather to my life

My life runs very paralell to my life since i was a young kid and i never relized it until i was in this class. As a young kid i was subjected to my mom doing drugs and being a kid that did not understand anything that was going on . Eventhough i was a young man i was very in tune with the situation and i had enough since to tell my self there is a better life out there. So one day after my mom beat me with a broom for no reason I took it upon myself to climb out the window and run to the police station . I had no real plan i didnt know what would happen or if it would help my situation or not. Once i got there my uncle tried to pull me out the police station. The cop told him to let me go and when they did that , that is when everything changed in my life .

The next three years were the best years of my life where i met my foster mom who changed my life. I couldnt read a lick nor right or see . She set the bar very high for our future i am now in college and i give the gratitude to her for believeing in me. Not only did i see a side of life that didnt exist i was apart of activities that i would have never thought i would be a part of. Going to church and believing that i can do more than just see drugs and violence in my life.

With all this said that is why my life to me in a theatrical sense has me feeling like my life can be a autobioagraphy. I always joke and tell people my life is like "Antoine fisher" the movie brought me to tears so i know that it connected with me in such a way that i feel there is no reason that i can't be feeling that this movie is in me and is one with me.

There has been alot of drama in my life and a lot of funny times but in my eyes the movie is not over nor is it at the end once i graduate from college the movie will actually be just begining in my life. I also know for a fact that there is no reason that I will not succeed the way i know i am capable of so when its all said and done my life will be a block buster hit because it will have struggle with an outcome of success and when people watch it . There will be nothing but pure inspiration leaking from the screen or stage where ever it shall be portrayed i want to be there to accept every ones appriciation for the man who struggled overcame and is now here to talk about it with a smile on my face.

write a play!

( joe and lavar was sitting in the living room getting ready to watch lavar play madden on playstation)
Joe- "whats on your mind lavar?"
Lavar- "I want to be the new producer of the show"
Joe- "Well do it "
Lavar-"I need a editor"
Joe -" Let me do it"
Lavar " if you know how?"
Joe-"Do i need to take a class in editing?"
Lavar-"yeah but its complicated theres a mix of classes to take"
Joe- "what if i just want to edit "
Joe-" what could i do on the show that could be like entry level ?"
Lavar-" with our show if we decide to go live but we have amatuers theres the teleprompter. camera etc."
Joe- is there any live shows now?"
Lavar-" yea we like the only ones really who isnt live. the big hit, hawk talk and others are "
(now lavar is playing videogames)
Joe-" What show did you start out on?"
Lavar- " the one im on urban superior"
Lavar -" Now i do two indi rockers as well"
Joe- Do you think it should be a priorty to be on a show next semester?"
lavar-"i mean with you being a comm major i think you should get out there and get involved"
lavar- def get involved no matter if its production , or radio just get it done .
Joe-" you right bro thanks"
Joe-" whats your plans this summer ?"
Lavar-" I am interning for mtv just tryna get my name out there"
Joe-" That sounds fun man when does it start?"
Lavar " In june and it runs til july 1st"
Joe-"well hopefully they offer you a job afterwards
Lavar- " yeah i hope so too it would make my last year of college easier"
Joe-" yeah i hear you man"
lavar " im hungry you want to go eat?"
Joe-" where!?"
Lavar - "at wolfies"
Joe- "they have any specials ?"
Lavar - well tonight is wing night so 25 cent wings all night"
Joe-" sound like a go "
Joe- hows the video game coming whos winning in madden?
Lavar- "im losing but i have about a minute left!"
Joe-Well i got faith i you my man jus run the ball more .
Lavar-This game be cheatingdawg
Joe- yeah you just have to fight through it
lavar-well lets go get this food im hungry dawg
(at wolfies)
lavar- "Hows the wings joe"
Joe-" there delicious its so packed in here but im happy we got them "
Joe' what kind of wings did you get?"
Lavar - Just buffalo that really all i eat '
Joe-" you have to try the spicy italian"
Lavar-" i am with your you i will order six "
Joe-" hands down the best wings they have bro"
Lavar-" I hope you figure out what you want to do my firend as your hobbies in the comm department"
Joe- "I will go to my advisor and see whats the best angle for me to take"
Lavar- "Sounds like your best bet!"
Joe- " well im leaving my dude i catch you later"
Lavar- "yep see you around joe"

Broadway

Right now on broadway they have "promises promises" playing which is a musical featuring sean hayes from will and grace and Kristin Chenoweth from "my funny valentine". This musical piece depicts chuck baxter an employee at consolidated life insurance who's trying to advance through the company. So to get in good with upper management he lends his apartment for there adultery acts . The plot starts to get interesting when his crush Fran Kubelik becomes the mistress of one of his fellow co workers !

Then theres always the classic " The addams family ". Now if your not familliar with this all you need to know is these are characters created by charles addams. the story takes a turn when they have outsiders over for dinner . I really wouldnt mind seeing this on broadway not only was this a great movie with a subliminal message of striving to explain to people that we must be accepting of others up bringing .

next theres chicago a musical based on murder ,greed and corruption . there 's also violence, exploitation and adultery. all these things paint our town red and causes this to be a very enlightful play . I would love to see this one as well because i dont know how something so nice and wholesome like a musical can have all these undelightful terms expressed in it so i would love to see that brought to life in that aspect .

If you want a different view into the world of musicals why not try avenue Q which is a show with vantriliquist in it . depicts a tale of a man with big dreams and aspirations in new york city but when he arrives the only place he could live is on avenue q. shortly after he finds out that he has some very intresting friends waiting for him in the wing .

Then theres "memphis" a show taken place in the 1950's when a white radio dj uses his love for music to intergrate all the racial communities . The true test is when huey(the radio dj) meet a nice black girl and no longer is his music under pressure but now he is , So he has to decide if the world is truely ready for such a change.

There are multiple ways to get tickets for broadway theres a http://www.broadway.com/ . Theres also phone numbers you can call (800-broadway) to get more ticket info.

lighting for my play !

Lighting is very important to a wrestling prooduction espicially with the addition of fire works it adds a new dynamic that makes it even more and estravaganza . Espcially with wrestlers entrances the lighting is constantly changing one minute they can be off but in the next frame they can be bright red it just depends on the wrestler .Turning the lights down gives the wrestler all the attention so that there is nothing taking away from his arrival .Its so important that you know by the lighting who is getting ready to enter the arena. but no matter what color the lights change it always goes back to regular you know its time to begin the event .

If I had to make an entrance for myself in my play i would try to mimic it from sting of wcw it would be cold and grim the lights would go dark and i would have slow almost mysterious theme music and i wouldnt need any fireworks i would just have on all black with just a spot light on me and walk to the ring at a slow pace with not much excitement with a cold look on my face and once i got in the ring i would i would just sit on top of the turnbuckle opposite of my opponent and once i sat in the corner the lights would come back on .

Relating theather to my major !

With me being a communications major this is great for business the better and more popular wrestling gets the more there jobs that will become available . If your were to break it down though this wrestling world would not exist without communication graduates . From a marketing stand point you need these people to promote events but what people dont relize is that this is a joint effort from the wrestlers to the commentators . when ever you would see stone cold steve austin in the ring he would most likly have on a stone cold steve austin shirt . I mean they could put it in a commercial but why not just save money and have the superstars wear there own apparel , So when us the fans see them wearing it reinforces the fact that if we want to show how much we like or appreciate the wrestlers why not go buy one of his shirts . Its just not the wrestlers who are benefiting from this major companies get there hand in on it as well snickers, pepsi , Kfc Just to name a few have at one time or another had there name on an event to help reach a new demographic .

You also cant forget the journalist and script writers . These are your real life Gps for our imigination , This is what gives us our direction they let us know when to love a superstar or when to hate a superstar depending on what they choose to write out for a particular wrestler. they keep us on the edge of our seat . They allow us to see into a world that not only depicts athletsicm and body building but they give is a since of passion mixed in with a mix a controversy , followed by a continuing them of victory and defeat. They make up and enhance these identities we build for our favorite wrestlers. They keep the plot and the legacy of a wrestler alive through the way that they manipulate our brains . Ive notices as of late that the wrestling world has also picked up on the recent change of the televison world . recognizing that reality tv is the wave of the present and future so they themselves have added a reality based wrestling show right in the middle of a wrestling broadcast its very neat! its called next where they take eight amatuer wrestlers give them mentors veteran wrestlers. They take these young wrestlers under there wing teach them the ropes of the wwe and they wrestle each other till one emerges as the best and earns a wwe contract . The whole idea of it is that we get to almost watch these wrestlers grow into there potential , Then we have no choice but to accept him into the world of wrestling from watching him claw his way into stardom.

The biggest reason it relates is the fact that wrestling is related to communicaton is the fact that its on television. Tv production is the reason we see the ads on tv someone has to put them up . There has to be someone holding a camera . We need someone directing the event how would they know to cut to commercial how would they know to come back . How would we know when to Cue a certain wrestlers theme music? This is all played in part by a televison production person . The whole world cant fit into the arena to see the live show . This is why we have a production crew so that the wwe or tna whoever it is can reach there majority audience and it is through the television . The bigger your audience gets the more people you need to help reach those people so it is an continous effort of everyone working together to communicate to the world .

The set for my play

Traditionally wrestling starts out in what they call the squared circle which is just a big mat with four corners and padded turnbuckles . As the years progressed the wrestling world started to evolve into a more risky entertainment function, adding more breathtaking matches like the infamous cage match . There is also a match made popular by kane and the undertaker called "inferno match " when the ring is ingulfed with fire and u have to set a part of your opponents body on fire to win. Later came the "ladder match " where you hang the championship title from the rafters and the object is to beat your opponent up enough so that he lays down long enough so you can climb to the top and snatch the title from the top of the rafters. With the emergence of tna wrestling they have changed the squared circle into an octagon. Now having six corners nothing really special about just a new look to the wrestling world!

When i design my set aka ring i would stick to the traditional for corners match I would take it back tho and instead of having a ramp that the wrestlers would walk down i would just have almost like a hover device that glides them down to the ring like in the old wreslemania days I.E hulk hogan , andre the giant . i would also have a special match they use to have barb wire matches where they substitue the ring ropes for barb wire i would have ropes with a small electric current going through it just enough that they feel it not enough to hurt them . The winner would be decided by pinfall so the electric pulses would just be an addition to the pain. It wouldnt really be a deciding factor in the match .

customes for my my play

in wrestling costumes are something that is parrellel to there personalities or a group they are affiliated with. The costume has to appeal to the audience tho never the less one of the most memorable groups were degeneration x which the core of the group was Shawn Micheal's and Triple h and they wore the color lime green which spelled out DX some where on there apparel
or the legion of doom who chose to wear shoulder pads as part of the entrance apparel it almost brought like an intimidation factor to the persona of them . Then there's Bret "The hitman" Hart who had a gimmick for years that never changed that when he came to the ring he would give his sunglasses to a small child at ringside .


A wrestlers ring attire can be very versatile some wrestlers come ready to wrestle in jean shorts or blue jeans . It all just depends on what type of image they are seeking to bring out of the character . You can never go wrong with just making some wrestling underwear and putting your name on them as many wrestlers choose to do. As we tend to move into the future tattoos play a huge role in your appearance as well. It brings a commercial use and advertisement to the sport. Now if you like a character in wrestling to bring yourself closer you can go out and get a similar tattoo if thats what you choose to.

passion piece the vince mcmahon stone cold fued

Since I have the ability to express my life as theater i choose to use something that i have been deeply attached to for a long time. Wrestling is very parallel to theater that is the driving force behind the whole idea of it . Of course we all like to see a good wrestling match every now and then , but its the storyline behind it . its the build up also known as the plot . what most impresses me is that is live . It is in every word "ephemeral " it cannot be duplicated in anyway !





As far back as i can remember no fued has left us on the edge of our seats like stone cold steve austin and vince mcmahon . It all began on september 22, 1997 when stonecold assualted owen hart and when vince came down to be an authority figure to austin, he gave vince a stone cold stunner! This marked the begining of there fued !



From a theatrical since you have a good guy and a heel . Vince was your heel and stone cold was your good guy . I take that back he was more like a super hero . How many people you know can say they get to defy there boss , give him a stunner and a middle finger all in a days work . He also got to drink beer at his leisure. People looked up to him because he was doing what the average american wanted to do every day when they went in to work .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoHzfIVTCPo( how the fued began )





This fued is considered my passion piece for the simple fact that i was so in love with wrestling as a child . This was one of the first times I have seen authority defyed that way before . I mean this was the boss of the whole organization and this one man ( stone cold steve austin) comes into the scene not taking any lip from anybody. One of the more memorable times between vince and stone cold steve austin would be when stone cold made vince mcmahon urinate on himself .





Stone cold steve austin was in the mist of looking for owen hart and vince mcmahon interveined to calm him down but in the moddle of this madness stone cold ran in to the boss who did nothing but add fuel to the fire by trying to put austin in his place. The whole thing with authority is that austin does not go for that and he made it known . So he sparked it by giving him a stone cold stunner.



For almost two years he raised hell in the whole wwf from driving a monster truck to ringside and also a beer truck to ring side and spraying vince with beer in defiance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elf9cuO0S-c
even through it all stone cold eventually made it possible to be the world championship multiple times. and caused vince mcmahon to pull his hair out. In the end this fued gave you the feeling that you shouldnt take no mess from any body and be the best man you can be , dont let anyone stand in the way of your goals.