Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Incorporating Broadway into your essays
#0Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 1:49am
You know you're procrastinating when.
I'm currently writing an essay on how pornography helped fuel the early commercial growth of the Internet, and I began my introduction with an anecdote about Avenue Q's "The Internet is for Porn."
Has anyone else randomly incorporated Broadway references into their essays? (It doesn't count if your essay is about Broadway.)
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#1re: Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 2:04am
Definitely done it. Many, MANY times. 
Keeps me interested, even in boring essays.
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#2re: Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 2:13am
Ech! Don't say the word Essay! I just finished a paper on WWI. By the way, I titled it "Warn the Duke!" from Ragtime! 
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
gcal
Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#3re: Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 4:02amI made it a point to open every paper during my junior and senior year with a Sondheim quote, and I'm currently using quotes from "Caroline, Or Change" to further along my analysis of "The Shrine at Altamira."
#4re: Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 8:21amOh yeah I try to work shows into essays all the time! Last year I wrote papers for English which I centered around CABARET and RENT. I also just wrote a Psychology paper on ASSASSINS...that was fun :)
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#5re: Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 8:30am
Oh GOODNESS yes!
The best is in those music history courses where they let you choose your own topic.
For first year Music and Society I begged my prof to let me write on Judy Garland.
Romantic and 20th Century.....I wrote a kicka$s paper on the Threepenny Opera (which was pushing it!).
I just finished an essay on the Marriage of Figaro- which isn't quite Broadway, but opera IS just another form of music theatre!
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#6re: Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 9:14amI havent quite been able to do it yet, but I will try to sneak in a reference in my next essay! lol
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#7re: Incorporating Broadway into your essays
Posted: 12/2/04 at 9:48am
I wrote a Sociology essay about breaking a societal norm- mine being going around singing Broadway at the top of my lungs. Quoted both Rent and Ave. Q
And the looks I got were hysterically funny- esp. when I was all, "F*CK! IT SUCKS TO BE ME! IT SUCKS TO BE ME!"
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
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