Musicals and plays are Broadway are such a great escape. I remember the first time I saw"Wicked" with the notorious Idina Menzel and ever so peppy Kristin Chenoweth. My butt practically fell on the floor because I was in such awe of the entire performance. There is a rumor that a movie is to made, it definitely will not be anything like the musical.
It's weird how history also repeats itself. In the beginning of World War I, entertainers were sent to the front line to remind the army of the support from the US. Today, plenty of artists have performed for the soldiers. Jessica Simpson even went to Kuwait to sing for the troops. Hmm....I wonder how that went.
After World War II, Broadway was on fire. In 1943, the first play to sing songs and tell a story gave Broadway an entire new spin. It was called Oklahoma. That song "Oh what a beautiful morning," will forever remind me of my father because he blasted that song every time he could. Broadway would also make a come back after 9/11. People needed to remember that we must support artists of today. They needed to go somewhere where they could forget about the war.
In the documentary about Broadway, the term Gullah was used. Gullah is a creole language that African Americans used who lived on the regions of South Carolina, and the north of Georgia. Since many African Americans who came to America all spoke different dialects (from West Africa) they combined their different languages from Africa with English (they heard spoken from their owners).
Gullah is still spoken today, but only in "Gullah" areas of South Carolina and Georgia. In 1979 there was a study to see how many people still spoke the language. Representatives from Summer Institute of Linguistics concluded more than 100,000 still practiced it. 10,000 of those people did not even know English.
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