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Happenings

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theatrical event that featured little organization, and audience performer interactions

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Environmental theatre

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blurring of lines between audience space and acting space (ex. site specific, immersive)

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The Living Theatre

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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
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Post Modern Theatre

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  • self-referential, self-conscious
  • ironic, non-linear, theatre of the senses
  • promenade
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Promenade

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audience moves from place to place during performance, physically travel to the different settings

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Theatre of the Oppressed

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Augusto Boal

- largely to do with audience/performer interactions

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Macronic Drama

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dialogue in multiple languages

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The Bechdel Test

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scene must contain two women talking about something other than man

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As far as money in theatre is concerned what are the three big sections it can be divided into?

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Gov’t Supported
Commercial
Not for Profit

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What are some of the origins of the history of musical theatre?

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Greek Chorus

Shakespeare

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What are some formal sources of Musical theatre?

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Opera and Operetta

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What’s the difference between and opera and an operetta?

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opera is more formal and operetta is lighter :)

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What are some informal sources of Musical theatre?

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ZeigFeVariety Acts
Minstrel Shows
Burlesque
Follies

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What is the difference between burlesque and vaudeville?

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Burlesque was dirtier

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Ziegfeld Follies

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“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.

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What were some elements of the earliest Musical Comedies?

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  • thin plots

- had lots to do with immigration

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George M Cohan

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  • wrote pretty much every patriotic song that exists

- symbol of classic American style of performance

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What was so exciting about Showboat?

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  • “integrated” musical
  • featured a Black woman and a White man married
  • songs actually advanced the plot a little bit more
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What were musicals in the 1930s like?

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Pretty much all about rich people

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What was significant about Oklahoma

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  • more developed characters and story
  • about regular rural people
  • Dream Ballet, classical ballet married with storytelling
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What were musicals like in the 1940s and 1950s?

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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)

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Theatre of Images

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use of abstract visual images

  • no catharsis, no concept
  • put stuff together and see what happens
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What were some musical theatre highlights of the 1960s and 70s?

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  • 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)
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What were some musical theater highlights of the 1990s?

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  • Rent!
  • Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk
  • Miss Saigon (helicopter)
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What is broadway like today?

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  • stupid amounts of money involved
  • 80% failure rate of bway shows
  • Revivals everywhere
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What is a revisal?

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A revival where the show is tweaked and revised

ex. Cinderella, Porgy and Bess, The Wiz

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What is a Juke box musical?

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The music featured is usually preexisting (most often pop music) (ex. Rock of Ages, Buddy Holly etc.)

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Theatre in Japan

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  • traditional vs. Shingeki (“new” modern theatre)
    Avant Garde
  • Tadashi Suzuki, director famous for Suzuki technique (features a lot of very specific stomping and other physical techniques)
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Theatre in China

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  • Chinese Opera (“Peking” or “Bejing”)

- Mei Lanfang

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Who is Mei Lanfang?

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Chinese actor famous for playing women

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Theatre in the Middle East

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  • Islamic Prohibition on theatre

- Afghanistan National theatre

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Theatre in Africa

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  • ancient practice

- storytelling and ritual

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Theatre in South Africa

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  • apartheid, institutionalized gov’t enforced racism
  • Athol Fugard: wrote plays that helped wave of attention to apartheid
  • Township Theatre - Woza Albert
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Applied Theatre

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Theatre of Community

  • Bill Rauch - Cornerstone Theatre Co.
  • to go beyond entertaining, telling stories of ppl who don’t think they have a story to tell

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