Theatre Journalist Guest Blogger: Paisley Haddad has written 12 articles for BroadwayWorld since 2016, covering Broadway.
My name is Paisley Haddad. As well as being a Broadway enthusiast, I’m also an active member of my school’s and my community’s productions. I love a good musical, because that means I get to combine my two loves of dance and theatre together. From “picking them up and laying them down” in the audition scene of 42nd Street to being in the human tornado in The Wizard of Oz, I am no stranger to the stage and “All That Jazz”. “All the world’s a stage..”, I love Shakespeare too, could you guess? My most difficult play that I have been in was “Amor Omnia Vincit”, which was mostly in Latin. But even more rewarding was when my theatre group and I went on a mini tour of our area’s elementary and middle schools sharing a production of “Folktales For Fun” . My main goal as an actress is to keep the future generations interested in joining into theatre and keeping it alive. From being in Cinderella I know that nothing is “Impossible” and Joseph taught me that “Any Dream Will Do”. Finally, I’m living my theatre fanatic dream of being a blogger on BroadwayWorld.com!
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At my high school, we have a Senior Arts project where we have to read a short story by a chosen author, write a paper, pick a theme, and perform an art piece in either theatre, dance, music, or visual art.
This past fall my high school's theatre group travelled to local elementary schools to perform "Folktales For Fun", which connected folktales to different countries to teach kids all about different cultures.
With school ending and spring theatre productions just coming to an end, probably not the first thing on anybody's mind is starting up another 3 month schedule of rehearsals.
Boston is really the only city where you can be leaving the Boston Symphony Hall after seeing the Boston Pops and be walking alongside Boston Red Sox fans leaving Fenway Park.
Instead of a written final, our teacher has made a compilation of monologues, raps, and a play that brings Shakespeare's Hamlet to a modern day understanding.