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===Needed Articles=== | ===Needed Articles=== | ||
{{ | {{rpl|American Museum of Natural History}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|John James Audubon}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Henry Burgh}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Thomas Mayne Reid}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Robert B. Roosevelt}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|John Burroughs}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Frank Chapman}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|George Bird Grinnell}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|National Wildlife Refuge System}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|U.S. Forest Service}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Hetch Hetchy Valley}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Yosemite Valley}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Yosemite National Park}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Mariposa Grove}} | ||
{{rpl|Street}} | |||
{{ | {{rpl|Arrondissement}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Lionel Trilling}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|David Riesman}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|The New Freeman}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Commentary}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|The Menorah Journal}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|International Herald Tribune}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Nicholas Murray Butler}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|American Jewish Committee}} | ||
{{ | {{rpl|Paris Review}} | ||
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===Theater=== | ===Theater=== |
Revision as of 20:40, 7 March 2010
"When there isn't anything else fun to do, I go outside and play in my sandbox."
- Anon. (Age 8)
Article Ideas, Fragments, etc
The following list are for articles that need to be written by someone:
Needed Articles
- American Museum of Natural History: Large museum located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1869. The museum consists of 25 connected buildings and 46 exhibition halls for display of its large collection of diaramas, artifacts and scientific evidence of natural history. [e]
- John James Audubon: West Indian-American illustrator and animalier, known for his illustrations of birds. The father of wildlife artist James Woodhouse Audubon [e]
- Henry Burgh: Animal activist, eccentric, and creator of the A.S.P.C.A., the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty against Animals [e]
- Thomas Mayne Reid: Popular Irish-American author of action-adventure books (1818-1883) born in County Down in northern Ireland, "Captain" Reid was a drinking companion of Edgar Allen Poe before fighting in the Mexican-American War of 1846 and was wounded at the Battle of Chapultepec. His books on the American West were popular with young boys in Europe and elsewhere. [e]
- Robert B. Roosevelt: An uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt who was a pioneering ichthyologist, crusader against over-fishing and eccentric. [e]
- John Burroughs: Add brief definition or description
- Frank Chapman: Add brief definition or description
- George Bird Grinnell: Add brief definition or description
- National Wildlife Refuge System: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. Forest Service: Add brief definition or description
- Hetch Hetchy Valley: A glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in California flooded in the 1920s by O'Shaughnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, part of the water supply for the city of San Francisco, California, California (U.S. state). Damming the Tuolumne and flooding the valley was protested by John Muir and the Sierra Club [e]
- Yosemite Valley: Mountain valley on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada range in Mariposa County, California. The valley is the point of entry and a major attraction of Yosemite National Park. [e]
- Yosemite National Park: A national park, established in 1890, located in the Yosemite Valley in the Sierra Nevada range of central California. [e]
- Mariposa Grove: A grove of giant sequoia trees located in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park near Wawona, California. [e]
- Street: Add brief definition or description
- Arrondissement: An administrative district in France and most of its former colonies. The City of Paris is divided into twenty arrondissements municipaux each of which have their own character and which constitute distinct spatial, cultural, social and political districts. [e]
- Lionel Trilling: American literary critic, author, and teacher (born Lionel Mordecai Trilling), 1905-1975. A member of the New York Intellectuals and contributor to the Partisan Review. [e]
- David Riesman: American sociologist, lawyer, professor and public intellectual. 1909-2002. His 1950 book, The Lonely Crowd distinguished inner-directed and outer-directed personalities. [e]
- The New Freeman: A name taken by several different publications representing the radical left, libertarian and other outlooks. [e]
- Commentary: Add brief definition or description
- The Menorah Journal: A Jewish leftist publication that was during the 1930s edited by Herbert Solow and Elliott E. Cohen. [e]
- International Herald Tribune: A widely read and influential English-language daily newspaper currently owned by the The New York Times Company and printed at three dozen sites throughout the world and sold in more than 180 countries. [e]
- Nicholas Murray Butler: (1862–1947) American philosopher, diplomat, and educator who was president of Columbia University, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. [e]
- American Jewish Committee: Add brief definition or description
- Paris Review: English-language literary magazine founded in Paris in 1953 and currently based in New York City. It's original mission statement said it sought to publish "the good writers and good poets, the non-drumbeaters and non-axe grinders. So long as they're good." [e]
Theater
- Musical Theater [r]: Performing arts presentations combining song, dance, and [[orchesta]l music with spoken dialogue. Types of musical theater include, among others, Broadway musicals, revues, musical comedy, operetta, and light opera. [e]
Title | Composer/Librettist | Setting | Main Characters | Date First Produced |
Date Movie |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Annie Get Your Gun | Irving Berlin | Annie Oakley, "Wild Bill" Cody | 1946 | 1950 | |
Aspects of Love | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1948 | 1948 | 1948 | |
Cats | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Evita | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Argentina | 1900 | ||
Meet Me In St. Louis | Irving Brecker/Fred Finklehoffe | Worlds Fair of 1904 | The Smith family | 1944 | |
My Fair Lady | Edwardian London | 1900 | |||
New York, New York | 1900 | 1900 | |||
Oklahoma | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Oklahoma Territory | Curley McLain, Laurey Williams | 1941 | 1955 |
Oliver | |||||
Pal Joey | 1900 | ||||
Private Lives | Noël Coward | London | 1930 | ||
Phantom of the Opera | Andrew Lloyd Webber | Paris Opera, Paris Sewer | 1941 | 1943 | |
The Sound of Music | Austria | 1900 | 1900 | ||
South Pacific | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | WWII in Pacific | 1949 | 1958 | |
State Fair | Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein Jr. | Iowa State Fair | The Frake family | 1996 | 1945 |
West Side Story | Leonard Bernstein | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Wonderful Town | NYC | 1900 | 1900 | ||
Where’s Charley? | 1900 | ||||
The King and I | Siam | 1900 | |||
Guys and Dolls | Broadway | 1900 | |||
London Calling | Noel Coward | London | Willy & George Craft | 1923 | |
Kiss Me Kate | |||||
A Chorus Line | |||||
Hair | |||||
No No Nanette | |||||
Jesus Christ, Superstar | Tom Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber | ||||
Max and | |||||
Gypsy | Steven Sondheim | 1971 | |||
Rent | |||||
Les Miserables | |||||
No No Nanette | |||||
Porgy and Bess | |||||
Starlight Express | |||||
Follies | |||||
Billy Elliot | |||||
Funny Girl | |||||
On the Town | |||||
42nd Street | |||||
Auntie Mame | |||||
The Wiz | |||||
Sunset Boulevard | |||||
Sweet Charity |
- [[]] [r]: Add brief definition or description
Max and
- Follies [r]: Add brief definition or description
- F [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sound of Music [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bye Bye, Birdie [r]: Add brief definition or description
- 1776 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Cinderella [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Into the Woods [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Wonderful Town [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Applause [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Pajama Game [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Guys and Dolls [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Young Frankenstein [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Scarlet Pimpernel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Music Man [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Music Man [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Billy Elliot [r]: Add brief definition or description
- On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Brigadoon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Finian's Rainbow [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Aida [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hello Dolly [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Seesaw [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Ragtime [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Annie Get Your Gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Porgy and Bess [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Desert Song [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Show Boat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mame [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mama Mia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Assassins [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Bells are Ringing [r]: Add brief definition or description
Grey Gardens
- Grand opera [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Operetta [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alan Furst [r]: Add brief definition or description
References
(No workgroup is going to want to claim this!)