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Musical Extravaganza
The ultimate entertainment and leisure destination, sprawling across acres of land, ideally located at the apex of the golden triangle of Jaipur, Agra and Delhi is the magnificent Kingdom Of Dreams. Here, the carnival that is India is distilled into one iconic destination. This fabulous Kingdom brings to life a merge of India’s art, culture, heritage, craft, cuisine and performing art. All with the technological wizardry of today. Nautanki Mahal: showcasing an excessive cinematic and theatrical musical. Culture Galli: an elaborate culture, arts, crafts and food road. Showshaa Theatre: a fabulous, colourful drama tent spotlighting Indian folklore productions, a mock wedding show and the great Indian talent circus. Iifa Buzz: a glamorous Bollywood themed cafe. This is a destination in itself which is capturing the imagination of the world.
Get ready for this century’s most novel tourist destination: Kingdom Of Dreams.
The main draw and jewel of Kingdom of Dreams is Nautanki Mahal, which is built like a palace and is India’s primary 835 seat auditorium. It is a place where you can enjoy the magic of Indian Cinema alive in a dramatic and electrifying on-stage show. Every bit of the outside wall is carved with designs of some arithmetic filigree and some Khajurahi inspired. It comes alive in an enticing on-stage drama. The drama is scripted, designed, composed and produced using the best Indian and International talent. Culture Gully, on the other hand is an imposing, rich and air conditioned boulevard that includes street performances, artisans and handicraft stores from the four corners of India.
Musical magic
If you’re a musical lover, Sydney is a good place to be this winter and spring season. With everything from the classic Mary Poppins to modern day Hairspray, you will have your pick of shows to dazzle you while you sit fighting to need to sing and dance in your theatre seat.
For those Sydney bound, here’s the must-see list.
Hairspray – Lyric theatre
This is without a doubt the feel good musical of the Sydney season. Wouldn’t it be terrible if we were all the same? Here’s a production with a message. Everyone’s different. Everyone has something to offer. Let this show lift your spirits – perfect for the young theatre-goer or anyone who loves big and colourful energetic displays.
Mary Poppins – Capitol theatre
Who hasn’t seen Mary Poppins as a child? Who hasn’t uttered the word, ‘supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’? There wouldn’t be many.
This is the multi-generation childhood classic which has made its way from book, to the big screen and now, to the stage. Sit back and enjoy the dance scenes, spectacular sets, ‘lift offs’ and the overall imaginative magical world of Mary Poppins.
Jersey Boys – Theatre Royal
Musical Tickets
Come holiday season, all the musical theatre fans are excited. After all, they have a chance to catch up on all the new musicals at the various venues across London, and enjoy late night theatre performances or take pleasure in a late night stroll at the West End theatre district, after having watched a wonderful musical play. Of course, there is that one issue to be tackled first; how are you going to find affordable musical tickets for such favoured shows? The answer is simple. Just buy them online.
You can find a host of different official ticketing websites that boast of selling discounted tickets of all theatre genres from operas to musicals, in addition to meal packages, theatre gift vouchers and London attractions like the London Eye, cruises on the river, London Dungeon, Madame Tussauds, etc., which are ideal for an wonderful evening out.
All you need to do is find a reliable ticketing agent web portal and book your shows online. The process takes only a few minutes of your time, while giving you the advantages such as convenience of procurement from the comforts of your home, affordability in the form of discounts and most websites even let you choose your own seats in advance to save you from disappointment from having a partial view of the stage.
Jazz Music
Jazz music is believed to have originated from America, and reflected individualism and cultural diversity of the country. In its history, it straddled the universe of pop music and other music, and has expanded to variety of styles which sounded unrelated. The jazz music was first performed in bars but today the music is being performed in the large festivals, universities, concerts and clubs all over the world. The New Orleans is frequently credited for being the birth place and the origin of jazz music, the city at the port in later 19th century had incredible diversity of cultures thus people coming along with their musical cultures and traditions. From the origin of this music African American musicians remained the prime and core innovators of jazz music, as they began to combine and fuse the blues music, popular marching of tunes, traditions and the spirit of collective creativity brought the early era of the famous jazz music to the limelight of music fanatics. Louis Armstrong emerged from the New Orleans style of jazz music, and became one of the most influential innovators in the modern jazz and therefore acquiring the name of ; the father of modern jazz (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Biography on a Jazz Innovator
Kenyan Music
Kenyan music has switched through big phases of mutation and the mutations are so varied, you wouldn’t know what to await. There is huge pressure from first world countries and music artists are always trying to emulate what the rest of the world is doing. Africans have lost their original bravado that was our way and with this vanishing nature we can only stay idle and wait to see what the future has in store for our industry
Most of this music is in the favor of the youth and the older generation can is left with very little to choose from. We need to embrace the oldies and get back to the soft tunes that used to grace our radio stations. This will give us an identity which we have lacked and get us back on track in gracing the entertainment trends of the world.
The oldies were not as bad or boring as people may think and it only takes a little love for our culture and the rest will take its course.
The onset of the westernized way of doing music has indeed been a drawback to our original music and the campaign to have it back is going to take time to pick up but it can be done, only if we have willing artists who are brave enough to take the challenge and direct their music to the older version which will bring us to a situation where we can have something to identify with in terms of Kenyan music.
