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Musical Thr Flashcards

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Music in Theatre

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  • greece, elizabethan, shakes, scripted songs, molar, asian techniques, big love, godot, brecht, etc.
  • 150 musical theatre years (american art form mainly on Broadway)
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FORMAL ORIGINS

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  • european opera

- operetta (more close to M.T.)=PIRATES OF…1879, gilbert and sullivan

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INFORMAL ORIGINS/SOURCES

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  • variety acts
  • minstrelsy
  • vaudeville
  • burlesque
  • follies/spectacles-20 and 30’s
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Follies/spectacles

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Zigfield Follies 1907-1931

  • amazing sets, grandiose prpdpcutions, like La Cage or MGM
  • Vegas-like, rockets, non-linear, table vivant’s, mainly nude pretty women
  • Bert Williams (black man black face) hired by Ziegfeld
  • Fanny Brice (also hired by him)
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Musica comedy

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  • Irving Berlin, etc.
  • characters romantic or comedic
  • Gerogre m. Cohan, composer: (“Yankee Doodle” “Give My Regards”LITTLE JOHNNY JONES 1904
  • all about personality
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SHOWBOAT

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Jerome Kern 1927

  • “an integrated musical” produced by Zigfield
  • play w/in a play. workers on boat, black girl married to white man
  • racial integration and plot advancement through music
  • Paul Robeson song “old man river”
  • 1927: double the ppl went to Bway shoes
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1930’s

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  • like today, depression and recession
  • jazz on Bway.
  • musicals emulated in movies
  • recording and radio emulated Bway too
  • most musical fun light, no moral dilemma’s, similar to Shakespeare’s comedies
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Three Penny Opera

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Brecht 1935
Kurt Wihel (music)
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Gershwin bros

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OF THEE I SING, patriotic themes
PORGY AND BESS: 1935
-folk opera, tradition with realistic story
all black cast, white producers
-“summertime”
-forwarded folk, African American themes, forwarded opera and classical singing and plot

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ANYTHING GOES

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Cole Porter-1934

Ethel Merman in it

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GOLDEN AGE OF BWAY (1940-50’s)

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OKLAHOMA
CAROSEL
SOUTH PACIFC
KING AND I
SOUND OF MUSIC
GUYS AND DOLLS-1950 Frank Loesser
MY FAIR LADY-1956 Lerner and Lowe
THIS IS THE ARMY
KISS ME KATE
WSS
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OKLAHOMA

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Rodgers and Hammerstein 1943

  • dance informed plot and forwarded story
  • dream ballet=abstract dance creation
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THIS IS THE ARMY

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Irving Berlin
pushed patriotism and buying war bonds
Uncle sam
Gov. Propoganda for WWI

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MY FAIR LADY-

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1956 Lerner and Lowe
-Pygmalian (Shaw)
-Julie Andrews (19)
Bway, pop music
-existing material
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EXISTING MATERIAL

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KISS ME KATE=TAMING OF THE SHREW

Cole Porter, includes shakes scenes and lines too

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WEST SIDE STORY

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1957 Jerome Robbins (director.choreographer)
Leonard Bernsetin music
Sondheim lyrics
R and J traditional musical thr
dance show
-existing material/themes
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CABARET

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1966 Kandera and Ebb

  • Nazi Germany influence
  • abortion/gay
  • fosse did film with Liza Minelli (1972)
  • overtly sexual and dark
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PIPPIN

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director choreo-Fosse 1972

  • Stephen Shwartz (gspell, wicked,etc.)
  • midst of war, a trio appears, Brechtian tale of glory of war
  • Vaudevillian dance
  • about the father for Charlemagne
  • revival done in circus context
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HAIR

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1968
reflected youth culture, rebellion, and Vietnam war protests
1st musical with entirely rock score

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COMPANY

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Sondheim “concept musical” 1970

  • urban, abstract, marriage but not happy ending resulting in marriage, non linear, series of snapshots from birthdays
  • ppl rode working elevator up and down set
  • musc/words commented on characters not meant to further dialogue or plot of come from a need to express
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SONDHEIM

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COMPANY
FOLLIES
SUNDAY...
SWEENEY...
ASSASSINS
INTO THE WOODS...
not the norm of words can't express so I'm going to sing!
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INTO THE WOODS

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-tough themes, symbolism, different topics, no happy ending 1988

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1970’s

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A CHORUS LINE

DREAM GIRLS

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A CHORUS LINE

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“CONCEPT MUSICAL” 1977
Michael Bennet (dir, chor.)
-Marvin Hamlish music
-inside look at dancers and audition process
-1st time workshops were used with Joe Papp, top secret

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DREAM GIRLS

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Michael bennet 1985

all black cast white production team

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1980’s=British Invasion

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-Stagecraft and spectacle huge, design, huge

Andrew Lloyd Webber: JC SUPERSTAR
PHATNOTM
CATS
EVITA

Cameron Mackintosh: producued Les Miz, CAts, Miss SAigon, and Phantom

  • marketing logos
  • lobby sales
  • commercail the
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MISS SAIGON 1991

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-helicopter onstage
-Schoberg and Boubil (les Miz)
bold, loud singing face off
obvious emotion

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BRING IN DA NOISE BRING IN DA FUNK

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1995
-Savion Glover
About tap

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RENT

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JonathonLarson
-based on Puccinni's LA BOHEME
-set int East Village NY, about youth culture and rebellion
Pulitzer prize for show
film 1996
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RAGTIME

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1998
- 3 separate choruses of racial ethnic diversity
50-60 ppl in original

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ASSASSINS

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Sondheim
about attempted assassinations or president
Vaudevillian aspects set in 1962

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