Hair

Question 1

Hair

Type of Musical?

Answer 1

American Tribal Love Rock Musical

Question 2

Hair

Began Workshops and where

Answer 2

1965 at Ellen Stewart’s La Mama Experimental Theatre Club

Question 3

Hair

First performance

Answer 3

Joseph Papp’s Public Theatre in 1967

Question 4

Hair

Broadway production

Answer 4

April 1968 at Baltimore

Ran for 175 performances and closed 3 years later

Question 5

Defining Markers for Rock Musicals

Answer 5

• use of rock and roll music
• The rock/band combo (electric guitar, bass, keyboard and drums)
• Declared as a rock musical
• NO orchestra

Question 6

Hair Casting

Answer 6

Found actors front he street - real and raw because they were not all trained

Question 7

Type of Music Style

Answer 7

Rock, Gospel, R and B, Soul

Question 8

Ideological Subversins

Answer 8

Youth counterculture to stage Sexual Revolution
Drugs, civil rights, anti war irreverence for the American Flag
Going against the man and protesting

Question 9

Rent

Opening

Answer 9

Broadway at the Nederlander Theatre in April 1996 and closed in 2008

Question 10

Rent

Element Fusion

Answer 10

Puccini’s opera La Boheme
Larsons first hand observations with AIDS
Larsons poetry and living situation
Considerable amounts of works hoping - had a Dramaturge who made a lot of changes

Question 11

Rent

Sondheim shoutout

Answer 11

he gives a shoutout to Sondheim even though he is doing a rock musical, he is following the trend of Rogers Hammertein to Sondhem to him

Question 12

Reception

Answer 12

VERY well received

4 Tony awards, Pulitzer Prize

Question 13

Meaning of Title - Rent

Answer 13

1. The money that Mark and Rogers owe Benny for their loft
2. The general feeling of being torn apart “rent”
3. That you don’t own anything “What We Own” - nothing is owned by oneself

Question 14

Rent Storyline

Answer 14

Set in Alphabet City in NY - inexpensive area that is starting to get gentrified
Mark and Rogers learn that they are getting kicked out by their friend Benny
- Their friend Collins comes to visit and starts dating their bi sexual cross dressing friend Angel
- Rogers meets Mimi - an exotic dancer
- First play to have rush tickets for 20 dollars so that the people the show was about could afford to watch it “Renthead”

Question 15

Rent Politics

Answer 15

Written in the Rebublican Leadership where they responded very slowly to the AIDS crisis - with little public health support - considered AIDS to be a “gay disease” or “drug addicts disease” therefore no money was spent to reduce this

INTERTEXTUALITY OR QUOTATION (for musicals) - text can be shaped in its meaning by alluding to other texts or people will interpret things different based on readings they have and will do

Question 16

QUOTATION in Rent

Answer 16

melody for “Musetta’s Waltz” from Puccinis La Boheme appear several times during the show but it is played on an electric guitar - it is also about Maureen and Marks relationship in La Bohem but in Rent, it is about Rogers and Mimi