Exam 4 Flashcards
A Little Night Music (collaborators, known for, song)
Hugh Wheeler (book), Harold Prince (director); Romantic Comedy that uses Counterpoint; Entire musical is in waltz-beat rhythm (Song: Send in the Clowns)
Sweeney Todd (collaborators, known for, songs)
Hugh Wheeler (book), Harold Prince (director), Angela Lansbury (actress); Uses Brechtian Alienation, Counterpoint, Active songs, and Leitmotif; Won 8 Tony Awards (Songs: Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Epiphany, Pretty Women, A Little Priest)
Merrily We Roll Along (collaborators, known for)
Last Sondheim and Prince collaboration; Story told backward, Major Flop
James Lapine (3)
Director/Playwright who co-wrote and directed Sunday in the Park with George (84), Into the Woods (87), and Passion (94)
Sunday in the Park with George
James Lapine (book/director); Based on a Painting, Won a Pulitzer Prize
Andrew Lloyd Weber (style)
Shows on Broadway and London’s West End; Sung through, Catchy, Dramatic musicals that create a Spectacle; Part of the Really Useful Group
Andrew Lloyd Weber (6)
W/ Tim Rice: Joseph and the Amazing, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita. Without: Cats, Phantom of the Opera (Charles Hart), Starlight Express
Cameron Mackintosh (3)
Marketing Genius and Producer who makes a ridiculous amount of money off of visual branding and souvenirs from his shows (Cats, Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors)
Cats (collaborators, based on)
Andrew Lloyd Weber (music), Cameron Mackintosh, Really Useful Group, David Geffen (producers); Based on T.S. Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Les Miserables (collaborators)
Claud-Michel Schonberg (music), Alain Boublil (lyrics), Cameron Mackintosh (producer), NOT written by Weber
Alan Menken
Composer for Disney film scores (basically every Disney movie we talked about)
Howard Ashman (2)
Lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast
Tim Rice (5)
Lyrics for The Lion King, Aida, Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita
Phil Collins
Music and Lyrics for Tarzan
Elton John (2)
Music for Aida, the Lion King
Characteristics of Rock Musicals
Use Pop and Rock Music, Focus more on the “beat” than they do the lyrics; Usually have non-traditional values, non-linear storytelling, and are sung-though
Hair (collaborators, known for, songs)
Galt McDermott (composer), James Rado and Gerome Ragni (book and lyrics); Usually called the first rock musical, very controversial themes (Songs: Let the Sunshine in, Hair, Sodomy)
Rent
Jonathan Larson (composer/lyricist/libretto), Started as a collaboration with Billy Aronson; Based on Puccini opera called La Boheme
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
John Cameron Mitchell (actor/writer), Stephen Trask (songwriter); Initially performed at drag club (Squeeze Box), Structured as a Rock Concert (Song: Tear Me Down)
Spring Awakening
Music by Duncan Sheik, Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater; Based on a 1989 play by Frank Wedekind (Songs: Mama Who Bore Me, Bitch of Living, Totally Fucked)
Next to Normal
Tom Kitt (music), Brian Yorkey (book/lyrics); Pulitzer Prize for drama (Song: I Am the One)
Urinetown
Mark Hollman (music and lyrics), Greg Kotis (book and lyrics); Tony for Best Book, Best Score, Best Direction (Song: Too much Exposition)
Avenue Q
Robert Lopez (music, lyrics), Jeff Marx (book, music, lyrics); Song: The Internet is for Porn
Book of Mormon
Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone; 9 Tony Awards
Mama Mia
Book by Catherine Johnson; Jukebox musical with ABBA songs
In the Heights
Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes; 4 Tony Awards (Song: 96,000)
Hamilton
Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, lyrics); Life & times of Alexander Hamilton (cast with mostly non-white actors)
Archival vs. Revisionist Revivals
Archival is having a revival of the exact original show; Revisionist is when you make adaptations to make the show more appropriate for contemporary audiences (like Porgy & Bess revivals)
Wicked
Music, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin), Book by Winnie Holzman; Blockbuster Mega Musical (Song: Defying Gravity)
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark
Director Julie Taymor; Rock Musical and Blockbuster Mega Musical; Lost $60 million
Musicals that won a Pulitzer Prize
Of Thee I Sing, South Pacific, How to Succeed In Business…, Fiorello, A Chorus Line, Sunday ITPWG, Next to Normal
