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Cabaret

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1966 - Kander & Ebb
Emcee inspired by nightclub host
Boris Aronson set design

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Hair

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1968 - MacDermot
First significant pop/rock musical
Elements of band were amplified
First to have full frontal nudity
Youth protest against the establishment and war
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Promises, Promises

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1968 - Simon, Bacharach & David
First show to fully employ an entire sound system as the writers wanted to create the full rock experience in the theatre and use electronic instruments
All vocalists wore a microphone

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1970s show split into three different categories:

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Contemporary pop/rock musical
Concept musical
Traditional musical

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Concept musical

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A concept musical is a musical where he show’s metaphor or statement is more important than the actual narrative
Songs punctuate rather than flow out from the story, serving as a means of self-reflection for the character and acting as commentary upon the theme
For example Company

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Company

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1970 - Sondheim & Furth

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Godspell

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1971 - Schwartz & Tebelak

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Jesus Christ Superstar

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1971 - Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice
Rock/opera
Controversy helped with promotion
Start Lloyd Webber formula to release the music to make it popular

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Follies

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1971 - Sondheim
The libretto centred on two former showgirls and their spouses assessing embittered marriages while attending a reunion of performers from a Ziegfeld era Broadway revue
Frank depiction of painful realities of growing older and abandoning one’s dreams

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Grease

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1972 - Jacobs & Casey
Named after 1950s US youth subculture known as greasers
Eclipsed Fiddler On the Roof as the longest running show in Broadway history
Simple story - catchy tunes
Early 50s Rock N roll

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Pippin

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1972 - Schwartz

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A Little Night Music

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1973 - Sondheim & Wheeler

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Rocky Horror Picture Show

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1973 - O’Brien

Tribute to science fiction and horror B films

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A Chorus Line

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1975 - Marvin Hamlisch
Michael Bennett - created this project that was work-shopped and lead by the actual stories of auditionees
Eclipsed Grease
Concept musical - the audition
Schubert Theatre
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Chicago

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1975 - Kander & Ebb
Bob Fosse style musical - gotten darker after heart attack that nearly killed him
Satire of fame, celebrity, show business and how society makes celebrities of villains/criminals
Overflowing with raw sexuality, creating a world that is shocking, frightening, dangerous

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The Wiz

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1976 - Brown

All-black wizard of oz

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Annie

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1977 - Strouse & Charnin

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Sweeney Todd

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1979 - Sondheim

  • Often referred to as a modern opera, Sweeney Todd, features music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
  • With an ensemble functioning as a Greek chorus and one of the densest, wordiest librettos ever written
  • The historical Sweeney Todd, hanged for murder in 1801, may have been the most successful serial killer of all time, some accounts attributing 160 unfortunate customer to his victim list
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Evita

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1979 - Lloyd Webber
- Don't cry for me Argentina 
- Hal Prince directed 
- Eva as a whore with flair and ruthless ambition, but gave no clue as to what made her complex character tick - ran three times longer than Sweeney Todd
- Patti Lupone as Eva
ICONIC IMAGE - powerful marketing
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Michael Bennet

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Reinvigorated dance on Broadway
Co-directed follies
Director, producer, writer, choreographer and a dancer
HIV positive - died of AIDS related illness in late 30s
Inspired by street dance - self-taught dancer who was surrounded by the arts and fed off the energy of the city but seemed to be a natural at all genres of dance and had an unavoidable gift

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Bob Fosse musicals

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  • Damn Yankees
  • The Pajama Game
  • Sweet Charity
  • Pippin
  • Liza
  • Chicago
  • Dancin’
  • 1972 movie production of Cabaret won the Academy Award for Best Director
  • 1973 he also won a Tony for his work on Pippin
  • Emmy for his direction of the Liza Minnelli special Liza with a Z
    Making him the only director to win all three of these entertainment industry prizes in the same year.
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Bob Fosse dance style

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  • turned-in knees as he had bad turn out
  • sideways shuffling
  • jazz hands
  • HATS as he started to lose hair
  • curved shoulders as he had natural slump
    Stylish, sexy and easily recognised
    Gwen Verdon his wife and muse
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1970s - two sides

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Lloyd Webber (UK) vs Sondheim (USA)

  • Most Americans were not paying attention to the musical theatre anymore
  • Rock and disco were the predominant sounds in popular music and neither genre had more than a token presence in most Broadway scares
  • Inflation was out of control in the 70s
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1980s - Broadway in decline

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  • Marketplace was narrowing rapidly and squeezing out all but the safest productions
  • AIDS epidemic, which created panic and paranoia, and saw the deaths of many musical theatre artists
  • Decline of Times Square - theatres sold off to become Nightclubs, sex clubs
  • The defection of musical theatre artists to television
  • Loss of audience to the growing number of television/cable channels
  • Availability of video-cassettes
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42nd Street

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1980 - Bramble & Stewart
Nased off Busby Berkeley film
Updated/reworked version
Champion passed away opening night

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Cats

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1981 - Lloyd Webber
Cameron Mackintosh produced
Applied to all ages
Ran for 18 years

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Dreamgirls

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1981- Krieger & Even
Jennifer Holladay as Effie
One night only

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Little Shop of Horrors

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1982 - Menken & Ashman

Should have been success but remained off-broadway

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Nine

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1982 - Yeston

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La Cage Aux Follies

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1983 - Herman
Glitzy drag show
Loving married couple - homosexuals
Threw shade at Sondheim

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Sunday In the Park with George

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1984 - Sondheim
Won Pulitzer prize
Lapine and Sondheim
Inspired by french painter Georges Seurat’s painting

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Big River

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1985 - Hauptman
Huckleberry Finn
Ron Richardson as Jim - Tony winning

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Les Miserables

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1985 (West End) 1987 (Broadway) - Boubil & Schonberg

Based on novel by Victor Hugo

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The Mystery of Edwin Drood

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1985 - Holmes
Unfinished Charles Dickens novel
Audience votes on the ending

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Phantom of the Opera

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1986 - Lloyd Webber

Iconic mask image

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Into The Woods

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1987 - Sondheim

Based on fairy tales all woven together

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Carrie

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1988 - Cohen & Pitchford
$8 million budget
closed after 5 performances

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Chess

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1988 - Rice, Andersson & Ulvaeus

Not all mega-musicals successful

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Miss Saigon

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1989 (West End) 1991 (Broadway) - Schonberg & Boubil
Vietnam setting
controversial with Jonothan Price (white) playing the Engineer

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Mega-musical

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  • West End thrived
  • First mega-musical was CATS
  • These musicals were designed to be exportable
  • Productions in different locations were simply clones of the original
  • No matter where you saw the show it was the same
  • Simple stories with emotional pull
  • Are thematically sentimental and romantic + simple
  • Plots that merge aspects of social consciousness and thus evoke strong emotional reactions
  • Large sets, elaborate costumes, special effects, significant lighting
  • Marketing was extremely important and substantial - cat’s eyes + phantom mask
  • Logos became icons
  • Songs were released in advance
  • Investment was high, so were the returns
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1990s - Corportations

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  • 1990s the mega-musical had really run its course
  • The Disney corporation wanted to clean Broadway
  • Wanted to buy the New Amsterdam theatre on 42nd Street
  • Renovate the surrounding areas if the Mayor cleans up all the sex shops
  • Repurchased all theatres
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Corporate musicals

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  • Multi-functional entertainment
  • Project development is corporate sponsored and controlled
  • While the staging of these shows may reflect the stamp of creative individuals, corporate musical exude efficiency
    ○ They look impressive
    ○ Flow with ease and are easy to understand
    ○ Provide many pop ballads and memorable tunes
    They can also be reproduced for foreign or touring productions
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Beauty and the Beast

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1994 - Menken, Ashman, Rice & Woolverton

First Disney success

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The Lion King

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1997 - Elton John, Tim Rice, Allers & Mecchi

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