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Hunton Family
Hunton, as a person, may refer to: *Addie Waites Hunton (1866–1943), American suffragist, race and gender activist, and educator *Emma Hunton (born 1991), American musical theatre actress (''Spring Awakening (musical), Spring Awakening'', ''Next to Normal'', ''Rent (musical), RENT'', ''Witness Uganda'', ''Wicked (musical), Wicked'') *Eppa Hunton (1822-1908), an American politician and general *Eppa Hunton Jr. (1855-1932), American attorney *Eppa Hunton IV (1904-1976), American attorney *Eunice Carter, Eunice Hunton Carter (1899-1970), American lawyer and activist *John C. Hunton (1839-1928), American Confederate veteran, pioneer, and rancher *Philip Hunton (c.1600-1682), English clergyman and political writer *Alphaeus Hunton, W. Alphaeus Hunton, Jr. (1903–1970), American academic, activist, leftist, expatriate Hunton, as a place, may refer to: *Hunton, Hampshire, a small village near Winchester, Hampshire, England *Hunton, Kent, England *Hunton, North Yorkshire, a village in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addie Waites Hunton
Addie Waites Hunton (June 11, 1866 – June 22, 1943) was an African Americans, African-American Women's suffrage in the United States, suffragist, race and gender activist, writer, political organizer, and educator. In 1889, Hunton became the first black woman to graduate from Spencerian College of Commerce. She worked for the YWCA, Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), served as the national organizer for the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, National Association of Colored Women (NACW) from 1906 to 1910, and served in the United States Army, U.S. Army during World War I. Hunton was a regular participant in the work of the Equal Suffrage League (Brooklyn), Equal Suffrage League. Early years and education Addie D. Waites was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on June 11, 1866, to Jesse and Adeline Waites. Her mother died when she was very young, and Hunton then moved to Boston to be raised by her maternal aunt. In Boston, Hunton attended the Boston Latin School and gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spring Awakening (musical)
''Spring Awakening'' is a Coming-of-age story, coming-of-age rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. It is based on the 1891 German play ''Spring Awakening (play), Spring Awakening'' by Frank Wedekind. Set in late 19th-century Germany, the musical tells the story of teenagers discovering the inner and outer tumult of adolescent sexuality. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score. Following its conception in the late 1990s and various workshops, concerts, rewrites and its Off-Broadway debut, the original Broadway theatre, Broadway production of ''Spring Awakening'' opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre on December 10, 2006. Its cast included Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, and John Gallagher Jr. while its creative team comprised director Michael Mayer (director), Michael Mayer and choreographer Bill T. Jones. The original Broadway production won eight Tony Awards, including Tonys for Best Musical, Directi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Next To Normal
''Next to Normal'' is a 2008 American rock musical with book and lyrics by Brian Yorkey and music by Tom Kitt. The story centers on a mother who struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family. The musical addresses grief, depression, suicide, drug abuse, ethics in modern psychiatry, and the underbelly of suburban life. Before its Off-Broadway debut, ''Next to Normal'' received several workshop performances and won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score and received Drama Desk Awards nominations for Outstanding Actress ( Alice Ripley) and Outstanding Score. After its Off-Broadway run, the show played from November 2008 to January 2009 at the Arena Stage while the theater was in its temporary venue in Virginia. The musical opened on Broadway in April 2009. It was nominated for eleven Tony Awards that year and won three: Best Original Score, Best Orchestration, and Best Performance by a Leading Actre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rent (musical)
''Rent'' (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. Loosely based on the 1896 opera ''La bohème'' by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in 1993 in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop, the off-Broadway theatre which was also where the musical began performances on January 26, 1996. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, had died suddenly of an aortic dissection the night before. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. On Broadway, ''Rent'' gained critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical. The Broadway production closed on Septem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Witness Uganda
''Witness Uganda'' (previously titled ''Invisible Thread'') is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Matt Gould and Griffin Matthews. It was based on the true story of Matthews' humanitarian trips to Uganda, and his work to fund his nonprofit organization, Uganda Project. The musical premiered under the title ''Witness Uganda'' on February 4, 2014 at Cambridge's American Repertory Theater, and ran through March 16, 2014. Under the title ''Invisible Thread'', the show transferred to off-Broadway's Second Stage Theatre in a production which ran during December 2015. The show returned to its original title of ''Witness Uganda'' for a February 2019 run at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Synopsis The American Repertory Theatre wrote: The story was based on Matthews' experience in Uganda, as well as Gould's Peace Corps experience in Mauritania and other similar experiences. Production history The idea and creation for the musical began in 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicked (musical)
''Wicked: The Untold Story of the Witches of Oz'', or simply ''Wicked'', is a Musical theatre, musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman. It is loosely adapted from Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel ''Wicked (Maguire novel), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'', which in turn is based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and its The Wizard of Oz (1939 film), 1939 film adaptation. The musical is told from the perspective of two witches, Elphaba and Glinda, Galinda, before and after Dorothy Gale's arrival in Land of Oz, Oz. The story explores the complex friendship between Elphaba (who becomes the Wicked Witch of the West) and Galinda (who becomes Glinda the Good). Their relationship is tested by their contrasting personalities, conflicting viewpoints, shared love interest, reactions to the corrupt rule of the Wizard of Oz (character), Wizard of Oz, and ultimately, Elphaba's tragic fall. Produced by Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eppa Hunton
Eppa Hunton II (September 24, 1822October 11, 1908) was a Virginia lawyer and soldier who rose to become a Brigadier general (United States), brigadier general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. After the war, he served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate from Virginia. Early years Hunton was born on September 24, 1822 near Warrenton, Virginia, to Eppa Hunton I (1789–1830) and the former Elizabeth Marye Brent (1789–1866), who had married on June 22, 1811, in Fauquier County, Virginia, Fauquier County. He was their third son, after the twins John Heath Hunton and George William Hunton, who were born in 1826. Both families had emigrated from England in the 17th century. The Brent family had moved across the Potomac River from Maryland before Bacon's Rebellion and by the time of the Revolutionary War were important planters and lawyers in Stafford County, Virginia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eppa Hunton Jr
Eppa Hunton III (April 14, 1855 – March 5, 1932), known as Eppa Hunton Jr., was an American lawyer, railroad executive, and politician. The son of Confederate general Eppa Hunton, he experienced a turbulent childhood with the American Civil War and Reconstruction as its backdrop. After graduating from the University of Virginia School of Law, he practiced law with his father in Warrenton, Virginia, for a number of years before moving south to Richmond, Virginia, Richmond in 1901 to help found the law firm Munford, Hunton, Williams & Anderson (later Hunton Andrews Kurth). He served as List of presidents of the Virginia Bar Association, president of the Virginia State Bar Association from 1915 to 1916, and, in 1920, he resigned from his firm to accept the presidency of the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, a position he held until his death in 1932. Like his father, he was active in politics, winning election to a term in the Virginia House of Delegates and as a de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eppa Hunton IV
Eppa Hunton IV (July 31, 1904 – November 23, 1976) was an American lawyer. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he graduated from the University of Virginia and its law school before returning to his hometown, where, excepting his overseas military service in World War II, he resided the remainder of his life. The only son of Eppa Hunton Jr., in 1927 he joined the firm his father co-founded—Hunton, Williams, Anderson & Gay (now Hunton Andrews Kurth)—and practiced corporate law, eventually becoming a senior partner. Hunton was an influential figure in Richmond society for nearly half a century. He was a longtime director of the First & Merchants Bank, was active in Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politics, served for many years on the Board of visitors, boards of visitors of the Medical College of Virginia and Virginia Commonwealth University, including a period as Rector (academia), rector of the latter, and held membership in a multitude of civic and cultural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eunice Carter
Eunice Roberta Hunton Carter (July 16, 1897 – January 25, 1970) was an American lawyer. She was one of New York's first female African-American lawyers and one of the first African-American prosecutors in the United States. She was active in the Pan-African Congress and in United Nations committees to advance the status of women in the world. She led a massive prostitution racketeering investigation, building the case and strategy that allowed New York District Attorney Thomas Dewey to successfully charge Mafioso kingpin Charles "Lucky" Luciano with compulsory prostitution. Early life and education Carter was born in Atlanta in 1897, the daughter of William Alphaeus Hunton Sr. (founder of the black division of the Y.M.C.A.) and Addie Waites Hunton (a social worker); both were college educated. Her paternal grandfather Stanton Hunton purchased his freedom from slavery before the American Civil War. Her brother, W. Alphaeus Hunton Jr., was an author, academic and activist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John C
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Hunton
Philip Hunton ( 1600–1682) was an English clergyman and political writer, known for his May 1643 anti-absolutist work ''A Treatise of Monarchy''. It became a banned book under the Restoration. A Treatise of Monarchie (1643) At the time of publication, it provoked a much better-known rebuttal, the 1648 ''Anarchy of a Limited and Mixed Monarchy'' by Robert Filmer. It was part of a pamphleteering exchange initiated by the royal chaplain Henry Ferne. Hunton was among the few who attempted to chart a 'middle course' between the Royalists and the Parliamentarians. In his ''Treatise'', he cites both Charles Herle (a Parliamentary supporter) and royalist Henry Ferne (against whom much of the ''Treatise'' was directed). This was though only to contradict both, and chart a new position. He outlined a theory of active/passive obedience, and active/passive resistance, arguing that, unless the defense of the ''whole'' community is at stake, it is unlawful to actively/violently resist the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
