Notes (Final) Flashcards
Happenings
theatrical event that featured little organization, and audience performer interactions
Environmental theatre
blurring of lines between audience space and acting space (ex. site specific, immersive)
The Living Theatre
Julian Beck and Judith Malina
- connected with ideas of Artaud
- Paradise Now production where audience was invited to march naked in the streets and start a revolution
Post Modern Theatre
- self-referential, self-conscious
- ironic, non-linear, theatre of the senses
- promenade
Promenade
audience moves from place to place during performance, physically travel to the different settings
Theatre of the Oppressed
Augusto Boal
- largely to do with audience/performer interactions
Macronic Drama
dialogue in multiple languages
The Bechdel Test
scene must contain two women talking about something other than man
As far as money in theatre is concerned what are the three big sections it can be divided into?
Gov’t Supported
Commercial
Not for Profit
What are some of the origins of the history of musical theatre?
Greek Chorus
Shakespeare
What are some formal sources of Musical theatre?
Opera and Operetta
What’s the difference between and opera and an operetta?
opera is more formal and operetta is lighter :)
What are some informal sources of Musical theatre?
ZeigFeVariety Acts
Minstrel Shows
Burlesque
Follies
What is the difference between burlesque and vaudeville?
Burlesque was dirtier
Ziegfeld Follies
“Vegas”-like spectacular show that featured gorgeous women, intensely beautiful and expensive sets, and some dancing stuff. Early embrace of the idea that sex sells.
What were some elements of the earliest Musical Comedies?
- thin plots
- had lots to do with immigration
George M Cohan
- wrote pretty much every patriotic song that exists
- symbol of classic American style of performance
What was so exciting about Showboat?
- “integrated” musical
- featured a Black woman and a White man married
- songs actually advanced the plot a little bit more
What were musicals in the 1930s like?
Pretty much all about rich people
What was significant about Oklahoma
- more developed characters and story
- about regular rural people
- Dream Ballet, classical ballet married with storytelling
What were musicals like in the 1940s and 1950s?
It was the Golden Age of Broadway so they were basically all the classics we know and love. (see the actual play/musical deck for more specifics)
Theatre of Images
use of abstract visual images
- no catharsis, no concept
- put stuff together and see what happens
What were some musical theatre highlights of the 1960s and 70s?
- Cabaret featuring Bob Fosse’s choreo
- Pippin talking about war in a Fosse-esque way
- Hair and youth culture
- “concept musicals” such as Company and A Chorus Line
- also Cats (escapist theatre)
What were some musical theater highlights of the 1990s?
- Rent!
- Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk
- Miss Saigon (helicopter)
