Golden age

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Golden age

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A time where there were high achievements of literature and music on Broadway. Writers would collaborate together to make some of the greatest musicals known today, and influence generations to come.

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Oklahoma!

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Rodgers and Hammerstein
1943
Oh what a beautiful mornin
Huge success
Golden Age started

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Agnes de Mille

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Made dance big in the Broadway world
made the dream ballet in Oklahoma!
1905-1993

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Oscar Hammerstein

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1895-1960
Made the conception of conditional love ballads
Known for his works with Richard Rodgers

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Book Musical

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Musicals that are inspired by a book, or are the story from the book turned into a musical

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Conditional love ballad

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A song suggesting that two characters or one character is in love
“If I love you”-Carousel

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On The Town

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1944
Music by Bernstein
Written by Comden and Green
Strong female roles for a change
A reaction to the war

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Comden and Green

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Adolph Green was a composer
Betty Green was a lyricist
Most famous for singing in the rain

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Carousel

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Rodgers and Hammerstein
Similar characters to Oklahoma!
“If I love you”
Based on the play “Liliom”

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Annie Get Your Gun

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1946
Music by Irving Berlin but originally by Jerome Kern
Starred Ethel Merman
“There’s no business like show business”

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Kiss Me Kate

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Cole Porter
1948
Based on “Taming of the Shrew”

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South Pacific

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1949
Based on feelings about WWII
Love affairs during war time
Starred Mary Martin

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Guys and Dolls

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1950
Music by Frank Loesser
Musical comedy
Made a movie in 1955

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Vernacular language

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Common words used at the time such as, “doll”, “wet rag”, “peepers”

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Ed Sullivan

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Talk show host
Based on his reviews, he could turn a show into a flop or a hit

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King and I

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1951
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Started Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Byrnner
Most expensive Rodgers and Hammerstein show
Turned into a movie in 1956

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Alan Lerner

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1918-1989
Lyricist
Worked with Frederick Loewe
Wrote radio scripts during WWII instead of fighting

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Frederick Loewe

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Worked with Alan Lerner
1901-1988
Classical pianist growing up
First hit with Lerner was Brigadoon

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My Fair Lady

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1956
Written by Alan Lerner
Starred Julie Andrews at 19 years old
British accents
Became a movie in 1964

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Sound of music

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1959
Based on Maria von trapp
Originally starred Mary Martin
Became a movie in 1965 starring Julie Andrews
Last Rodgers and Hammerstein show

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

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Biggest composers in the era
Produced Annie Get Your Gun
Inspired Sondheim

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Rodgers and Hart

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Larry Hart was Rodger’s first lyricist
wrote revues in 1925
Wrote for Hollywood in the early 1930s but wrote for Broadway in the late 1930s

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Soliloquy

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A character saying their thoughts out loud

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Brigadoon

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Book and lyrics by Alan Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe
581 performances
US’s growing isolation and fear of foreigners

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Finian’s rainbow

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Reflects on racial tension
Music by Burton Lane and lyrics by Yip Harburg
725 performances