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Greek Theatre Flourishing Dates

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525 BC - 386 BC

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Tragic Dramatist(s)

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Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles

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Comedic Dramatist(s)

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Aristophanes

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Ways to Perform Greek Plays

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Singing, Chanting, and Dancing

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T/F - Greek Theatre Music has survived.

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False

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What was Greek Theatre Music accompanied by?

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Lute, Lyre, or Flute

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Greek Amphitheater Seating Range

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17,000 - 30,000

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How did Greek performers show expression?

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Gestures needed to be clear and Choruses moved in unison.

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What did Greek performers wear?

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Large masks w/ Megaphone Inserts and Platform Shoes

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Who had to attend Greek Theatre out of social, civic, and religious obligation?

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Free Male Citizens

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What Greek God (the God of Grapes) did the competition-presented plays honor?

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Dionysus

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Topics of Greek Tragedies

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Religion and Man’s Place in this world.

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Topics of Greek Comedies

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Genitalia and Flatulence

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Six Elements of Tragedy (Identified by Aristotle)

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Plot, Character, Diction, Thought, Spectacle, and Song

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Roman Theatre Flourishing Dates

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375 BC - 197 AD

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What did Roman Theatre lack?

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Great Dramatists

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What did Roman Theatre do with Greek plays?

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Adapt and Develop them to their needs, becoming rowdy and formulaic comedies.

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Known Roman Playwrights

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Plautus and Terence

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What did Roman Theatre use more than Greeks?

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Music

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Added Elements in Roman Theatre

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Design and Architecture

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The Audlescens (Stock Character)

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The hero who is young, rich, love-struck, and not terribly brave.

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The Senex (Stock Character)

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The Adulescens’ father who is either too strict or too lenient, loves his son, is madly in love with the same woman as his son but never gets the girl, often cheap.

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The Leno (Stock Character)

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Runs the brothel, only interested in money.

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The Miles Gloriosus (Stock Character)

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The braggart soldier very much in love with himself.

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The Servus Callidus (Stock Character)

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The Adulescens’ clever, loyal slave, he usually drives the plot and resolves all in the end.

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The Ancilla (Stock Character)

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Maid or nurse, a good source of exposition.

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The Matrona (Mother) (Stock Character)

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A shrew who loves her children but browbeats her husband.

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The Meretrix (Prostitute) (Stock Character)

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An older woman who has been around the block.

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The Virgo (Young Maiden) (Stock Character)

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The love interest of the Adulescens, beautiful and virtuous with little personality.

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Liturgical Drama Origins

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Christianity demanded that their followers not attend theatre and excommunicated actors and soon realized that theatre was an important way to teach the Bible so began producing its own theatre.

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Three Categories of Liturgical Drama

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Mystery, Morality, and Miracle

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Mystery Plays

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Retold stories from the Bible.

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Morality Plays

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Allegorical, included Sung Passages, and Instrumental Accompaniment

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Miracle Plays

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Celebrated the life of a religious person and included Choreography, Tableaux Usage, and Call-and-Response Songs

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Tableaux

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The theatrical technique in which actors freeze in poses that create a picture of one important moment in the play.

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In Tableaux, actors…

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Remain Still or Frozen, Remain Silent, Pose with Energy, Pose with Expression, Keep their Concentration, Pose at Different Levels, and Choose Poses that Communicate the Tone and Mood of the Text.

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Renaissance and Elizabethean Theatre Flourishing Dates

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15th and 16th Century

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What was the Renaissance the rebirth of?

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Intellectual and Artistic Pursuits

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What became really popular during the Renaissance?

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Greek and Roman Plays

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What did English Playwrights hope to develop during the Renaissance?

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Secular Works

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T/F- the Elizabethan Era was the greatest age of playwriting since the Greeks.

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True

42
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How did Elizabethan Theatre hold audience’s attention?

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Music, Dance, Swordplay, Brawling, Verbal Jokes, and Slapstick

43
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Examples of Shakespeare’s Works that influenced Contemporary Musicals…

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“Hamlet,” “Romeo and Juliet,” “A Comedy of Errors,” “The Taming of the Shrew,” “Twelfth Night,” “The Tempest,” “Two Gentlemen of Verona,” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

44
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When did Court Masques originate?

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1593

45
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When did King Charles II reopen theaters?

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1660

46
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When were Court Masques popular?

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Early 16th and 17th Century

47
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Examples of Court Masque Spectacle

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Declamatory speech. A story using mythological characters alluding to the central figure, Tableaux, Ballet and Music, Opulent costumes, Scenery and strikingly advanced scenic effects and mechanics.

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How did guests participate in Court Masques?

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Wearing Masks and joining in the Final Dance

49
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What places great importance in Court Masques?

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Architecture, Scenic painting, Decoration, and Ballet

50
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Who wrote many Court Masques?

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Ben Johnson

51
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Where did Opera originate?

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Italy

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How is Opera perform?

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Completely sung or played by musicians.

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What did Opera reflect?

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The wealth and free time of upper-middle classes.

54
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Who wrote “The Beggar’s Opera?”

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John Gay

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What languages was Opera performed in?

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Italian, French, and German

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Who followed in the English-speaking world?

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The rich

57
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When did “The Beggar’s Opera” premiere?

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1728

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What did “The Beggar’s Opera” bring to Opera?

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Satirical response to Italian opera, dialog between short songs centered around the lower classes satirizing the high moral tone of the upper class and government, and references to contemporary figures and events.

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What kind of music was brought with “The Beggar’s Opera?”

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Drinking songs, Folk songs, and Children’s songs with suggestive lyrics set to sweet music.

60
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How many consecutive performances did “The Beggar’s Opera” run for?

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62

61
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The Opera of Flora, or Hob in the Well

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First documented musical theatre performance in America, premiering Feb. 18th, 1735 at the courthouse in Charleston, SC.

62
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The Playhouse on Dock Street

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First professional theatre opened in 1736 in Charleston, SC, destroyed by fire in 1740, and rebuilt twice.

63
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Who founds the first professional Ballad Opera company in NYC in 1753?

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Lewis Hallam

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When did Lewis Hallam move his company to Philadelphia?

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1759

65
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What was the issue with performing Ballad Operas in Pennsylvania?

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They weren’t allowed to be performed on stage, Quakers thought it was immoral

66
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What was the issue with performing ballad operas in Pennsylvania?

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They weren’t allowed to be performed on stage, Quakers thought it was immoral

67
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What did Hallam fight to repeal?

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Blue Laws

68
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How many seats did the Chatham and Bowery Theaters sit?

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2,500 and 4,000

69
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What occurred in playhouses?

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Booing European works, Picnics, Fights breaking out, Refreshments, and Prostitution

70
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What did the playhouse performances encompass?

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Fast-paced Tempo and vocal energy, Gas lighting, Large gestures, Songs, dances, freaks, animals, comedians, and circus acts

71
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Tom and Jerry

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1823 smash hit in London breaking Beggar’s Opera record, running for four months at Park Theatre in NYC.

72
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What did Tom and Jerry represent and incorporate?

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Important structural model for a successful nineteenth century musical, interchanging structure, songs, dances, and scenes, rambling, and plots with no narrative.

73
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Niblo’s Garden

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The greatest entertainment complex of the 1800s, opening 1823, and housing P.T. Barnum’s first exhibition.

74
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Progression of Theaters in NYC

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1820-2 theaters in 1820, 4 theaters in 1830, 8 theaters in 1840, 14 theaters in 1850, 20 theaters in 1870, 26 theaters in 1899

75
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Important Theaters in NYC

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American, Bowery, and Lyceum

76
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American Theater

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Nicknamed the African, presented first African-American stage entertainment in NYC.

77
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Bowery Theater

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First NYC theater lit by gaslight; burned down four times.

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Lyceum Theater

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First theater lit by electricity.

79
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Minstrel Shows

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Beginning in the 1830s, showcasing white actors performing black music and dance styles as a grotesque parody. Blackface was also introduced.

80
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The Virginia Minstrels

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Four white men performing in blackface, performing around the world and inspired other minstrel companies, and 1856, there were 10 minstrel companies in NYC.

81
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Three Acts of Minstrel Shows

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1st: Series of songs, dances, jokes, 2nd: Same as first part but less structured, and 3rd: Skit with songs and dances.

82
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When were Minstrel Shows popular ‘til?

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1950

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The Scottsboro Boys

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Directed by Susan Strohman, opening at the Lyceum Theater in 2010, telling a story of nine black teenagers falsely accused of rape and imprisoned in 1931. Told using the performance traditions of the Minstrel Show, making it a polarizing and controversial show.

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When was Burlesque popular?

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The 1840s

85
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Burlesque

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“A variety show of the type that often included a striptease,” based on selling sex in the form of the display of female bodies and satirizing cultural highlights of their times.

86
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Laura Keene

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A writer, actress, producer, and business woman who leased the Metropolitan Theater and created a Burlesque show from 1856-1863.

87
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What were Laura Keene’s accomplishments overshadowed by?

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Starring in Our American Cousin at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC on the night Lincoln was assassinated (cradling his head in her lap).

88
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Who got their start in Burlesque before it declined?

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Fanny Brice, Mae West, Abbott and Costello, Al Jolson, WC Fields, Sid Caesar, and Danny Kaye.

89
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Purpose of Burlesque

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Training ground for writers, actors, designers who would go on to star in vaudeville and “legitimate” theatre, defined by its nudity when it had to compete with Vaudeville.

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Vaudeville

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Defined by its organizational structure, driven by the manager, who wrote, directed, produced and starred in their own works.

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Tony Pastor: Father of Vaudeville

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Born in NYC in 1837, became enthralled with minstrelsy, a part of a minstrel troupe and toured the country. Saloons hired variety acts to entertain and he was one of them and he produced his own show at age 28.

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Changes to Vaudeville made by Pastor

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Opened doors to women and shows became family-friendly.

93
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Pastor’s Reputation

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Perfectionism, treating his acts well, and performing in the shows himself.

94
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What did Pastor include in his shows?

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Dancing, Singing, Freaks, Jugglers, Acrobats

95
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T/F - All major Musical Theatre Artists in late 19th and early 20th century worked with Pastor

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True

96
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Who did Pastor learn the Art of Management from?

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P.T. Barnum

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