The Woodward/Newman Award is an exclusive honor offered by Bloomington Playwrights Project, started through the support of Joanne Woodward, Newman’s Own Foundation, and the Newman family, celebrating Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward’s tremendous history of work on stage and screen. It presents the best unpublished play of the year with a cash prize of $3,000 and a full production as part of BPP’s Mainstage season (soon to be Constellation Stage & Screen, effective July 1, 2022).***Little Fish Theatre is now accepting scripts for our 21st Annual PICK OF THE VINE short play production to be presented in January-February 2023.There will be a $75 flat fee royalty payment to playwrights per play produced. (or $25 royalty if presented virtually)***Eden Prairie Players is accepting submissions of unpublished one act plays for its 2023 Women's One Acts to be produced in May of 2023. Women's One Acts are an annual selection of short plays that are written and directed by women and nonbinary folks.
*** FOR MORE INFORMATION about these and other opportunities see the web site at https://www.nycplaywrights.org ****** MUSICAL TROPES ***BAD GIRL SONGA subtrope of the "I Am" Song, in which a female character establishes her character... and her character is all about living freely, especially sexually. How explicitly that sexuality is addressed mostly depends on how old the musical is."I Cain't Say No" from Oklahoma!."You Can Always Count on Me" from City of Angels."The Real Love of My Life" from Brigadoon."It's All the Same" and "Aldonza" from Man of La Mancha."Special," from Avenue Q."My Body, My Business" from The Life.More...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadGirlSong
***DISNEY ACID SEQUENCEThe musical number in an animated musical in which the animation stops pretending to depict things that are actually happening in the world of the film and becomes a more abstract illustration of the music. This is usually a whacked-out moment of lighting and choreography, sometimes caused by hallucinations. If it is caused by a dream, see Dream Ballet.Jerome Robbins' comic ballet The Concert is All Just a Dream anyway (more precisely, people daydreaming to music), but the end features all of the characters morphing into butterflies and being chased off the stage by the increasingly irritated pianist."Contact", Angel's Death Song in RENT, likely a representation of his Dying Dream."Spooky Mormon Hell Dream" from The Book of Mormon, which features appearances by the spirits of Genghis Khan, Jeffrey Dahmer, Adolf Hitler and Johnnie Cochran, along with Starbucks cups and bizarrely dancing demons.End section of "Expressing Yourself" from Billy Elliot the Musical, which features giant dancing dresses, of Michael's creation.In the stage musical of The Little Mermaid, particularly the post-Broadway production, the "Under the Sea" number has a more psychedelic setting than in the film.More...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DisneyAcidSequence
***"THE HERO SUCKS" SONGThe opposite of "The Villain Sucks" Song where a song describes how cruel the villain is. This trope is about a song that insults a hero. One way to show how cruel and Sinister a villain can be is singing a song to mess with a hero, even so much that the hero will either suffer a Heroic BSoD or it may be a way for the hero to unleash his righteous indignation against the villain.Elisabeth has Kitsch, which Lucheni sings to show how selfish and vain Elisabeth is, and to insult the people who love her — which includes the audience."The Mocking of Hel Helson" from the Benjamin Britten opera Paul Bunyan.
"Biggest Blame Fool (In The Jungle Of Nool)" from Seussical mocks Horton for "talking to a speck of dust."
In the musical Two by Two, when Noah tells his family about God's plans for him to build an Ark and fill it with animals, they sing "Put Him Away."A couple in Hamilton. Most notable is probably "The Reynolds Pamphlet", which combines this with a Crowd Song as everybody (lead by Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and King George III for some reason) gathers to mock Hamilton's political downfall. Others include "Burn", "Washington On Your Side", "You'll Be Back"'s reprises ("You'll Be Back" is written as more of a love song, and outside of a few threats, isn't really George III telling the colonists they suck), the beginning of "A Winter's Ball", "The Adams Administration", and "Your Obedient Servant" (Burr frequently takes the opportunity to tell the audience how Hamilton has screwed up/outdone Burr this time), and the cut song "Congratulations". The cut song "An Open Letter" may also apply; Adams isn't a villain or a hero, as he hasn't really done anything wrong outside of implied incompetence, but the show also takes any opportunity to diss Adams, the longest form being "An Open Letter".More...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHeroSucksSong
***"I WANT" SONGIn most American musicals, the hero is a little guy (or girl) who doesn't amount to much right now, but dreams of a brighter future. Usually, they do this with an "I Want" Song, where they sing of how this little town is too small and they know there's a great big world out there for them. This is always so the audience can identify with them.The Elton John musical Aida has "Enchantment Passing Through" for Aida and Radames, which gets a Dark Reprise in the second act."In My Dreams" and "Journey to the Past" are about Anya's desire to go to Paris and reconnect with her long-lost family in the stage musical Anastasia.Who could forget "Tomorrow" from Annie? As well as the opening number, "Maybe"."Oh, To Be A Movie Star" from Passionella, part of the musical The Apple Tree.Stephen Sondheim fans might be more familiar with his version, "Truly Content".Assassins features a Deconstruction of this; the opening theme, "Everybody's Got the Right" is a song about how the characters in the play have the right to follow their dreams. Of course, said characters include the likes of John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, and John Hinckley, so it's not quite as inspiring as it might seem at first glance.More...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IWantSong
***LIST SONGUsually a List Song is used for one of three reasons: a series of jokes, giving a sense of something by its details ("the children out of school / the heat is getting boiling / The baseball season is really going / It must be the end of June..."), or Edutainment ("United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama..."), although both of the latter two frequently overlap with "comedy" anyway."The Seven Deadly Virtues" from Camelot."My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.Name-checked by Red Hot Chili Peppers in another list song, "Mellowship Slinky in B-Minus," where Anthony Kiedis concludes, "These are just a few of my favorite things."Cole Porter loved this genre:"You're The Top" from Anything Goes, whose title song also qualifies as a List Song in its original version.Most of Kiss Me, Kate: "I Hate Men," "Were Thine That Special Face," "Always True to You (In My Fashion)," "Brush Up Your Shakespeare," "Where is The Life That Late I Led," "We Open in Venice"... and that's off the top of my head."But In The Morning, No" from DuBarry Was A Lady is one Double Entendre after another.With "You're The Top," Cole Porter started a series of comparison-based love songs, including "A Picture Of Me Without You" (from Jubilee), "From Alpha To Omega" (from You'll Never Know), and the duet "Cherry Pies Ought To Be You" (from Out Of This World).Then there are the List Songs with animal-related Double Entendres: "Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love)," "Where Would You Get Your Coat?", "Nobody's Chasing Me."More...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ListSong
***SANITY SLIPPAGE SONGSome songs are about being in love. Some songs are about angst. Some songs are about being insane. They may be incoherent, psychedelic messes or intricate folk songs, but they're about going insane. Common themes are what drove the singer crazy and what it feels like in the depths of madness."The Ballad of Sara Berry" from 35mm: A Musical Exhibition is about the titular character trying to become the prom queen, growing more and more obsessed with it until she ends up killing all the other candidates to win by default.In classical music this is a stock convention of Bel Canto opera — the heroine is so overcome with grief at the tragic circumstances that she finds herself in that she goes temporarily or permanently insane, and has a "mad scene." Basically just an excuse for the composer to write amazing vocal pyrotechnics. One of the most famous and possibly the Trope Codifier for opera is the mad scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Outside of bel canto, probably the most notable one (and definitely the most famous male mad scene in opera) is the titular character's final aria in Peter Grimes."Lot's Wife" in Caroline, Or Change, in which a broken Caroline screams at God, losing (then regaining) her sanity as she comes to terms with the fact that she'll never escape her circumstances. Also qualifies as The Eleven O'Clock Number and, to a lesser extent, a Grief Song."The Destruction" in both versions of Carrie the Musical, which depicts the title character's mental breakdown after being humiliated at the prom.Though best remembered for being one of musical theatre's most amazing pieces, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," from Dreamgirls, is one of these. Effie, who's singing it, has just been kicked out of the Dreams and abandoned by Curtis, the group's manager and her former lover (and the father of her unborn child). As he starts to leave, she begins to sing the song to him. Though it starts out openly defiant, Effie gradually loses her confidence—and mind—as she has a total mental breakdown from the grief and strain; a (frequently-cut) verse has her outright throwing herself at Curtis and begging him not to go. By the time she gets to the bridge of the song, Curtis isn't even on the stage any more, but Effie is still singing—and even screaming—as if he was in front of her as she goes into denial and rage. This is most apparent when the song is placed in the context of the show; most cover versions play it up as stronger and more confident by removing the heavily painful overtones.More...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SanitySlippageSong
***"SOMEWHERE" SONGA song about an idealized, far-off place, real, imaginary or merely notional, often at a specific time. Often, the title will include the words "Somewhere" or "Out/Up/Over There".Subtrope of Location Song. Often an "I Want" Song. If the "somewhere" in question is just anywhere that isn't home, it's a Wanderlust Song. Compare "Setting Off" Song, "Leaving the Nest" Song. Could overlap with "I Want" Song."Bali Ha'i" from South Pacific."How Are Things In Glocca Morra?" from Finian's Rainbow."Somewhere" from West Side Story."Castle On A Cloud", " In My Life " and "Do You Hear The People Sing?" from Les Misérables."Normandy" from Once Upon a Mattress."Santa Fe" from RENTAnd "Santa Fe" from Newsies, which is also this trope. The two songs are (somehow) otherwise unrelated."Solla Sollew" from Seussical The Musical."Somewhere That's Green" from Little Shop of HorrorsMore...https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SomewhereSong
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