This website is the culmination of a multiple-month-long project for IN314: Documenting Visual Culture, a class at Emerson College with Professor Kathryn Ramey. The project is an exploration of the state of musical theater in America, with focuses on its history, its superstitions and rituals, its position in the larger culture, and the Actor's Equity Association, primarily viewed through the lens of the Wheelock Family Theater's 2007 production of "Beauty and the Beast" in which I had the good fortune of performing this past winter. Use the navigation bar above to explore the site, feel free to leave comments, and have fun!
-David Ballard