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A chorus line

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a large group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines.

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Agnes de Mille

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An important and influential choreographer, director, and dancer, who “helped transform the American musical theater of the ’40s and ’50s.”

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Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg

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Miss Saigon is a stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

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Andrew Lloyd Webber has composed the scores of some of the world’s most famous musicals

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A strange loop

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Usher, a young, Black, and queer writer in New York City who wrestles with the thoughts in his head. As Usher struggles to balance his life and career, he must consider his future.

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A Trip to coontown

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l comedy. It was performed, directed, and produced by African-Americans.

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Aulos

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a Greek woodwind musical instrument that is commonly called a flute but is in fact a reed instrument similar to an oboe.

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The Black Crook

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The Black Crook is a work of musical theatre first produced in New York City with great success in 1866.

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Ballet

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to use movement to express the music and to illuminate human emotion and endeavor.

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Bob Fosse

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sultry jazz hands and black hats, but his range spans a wide array of dance styles.

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Broadway

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it was renamed “Broadway” after the British took over the city, because of its unusual width.

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Circle Jerk

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t’s winter on Gaymen Island, a summer retreat for the homosexual rich and famous. This off-season, two White gay internet trolls hatch a plot to take back what’s wrongfully theirs. Cancelations, meme schemes, and political and erotica flip flops abound as three actors playing nine parts, play out this chaotic live-streamed descent into the high-energy, quick-change,

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Community Theatre

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any theatrical performance made in relation to particular communities

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The cradle will rock

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the Cradle Will Rock was shut down on its opening night by the government in an act of censorship because the pro-union plot was feared to be too radical.

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disney

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The Lion King, Aladdin, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, Frozen, Newsies, Beauty and the Beast, and Tarzan have all been adapted into Broadway musicals. The Lion King and Aladdin are currently running on Broadway.

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enviormental/immersive theatre

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a branch of the New Theatre movement of the 1960s that aimed to heighten audience awareness of theatre by eliminating the distinction between the audience’s and the actors’ space

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evelution of musical theatre

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modern Western musical theatre developed from several lines of antecedents that evolved over several centuries through the 18th century when the Ballad Opera and pantomime emerged in England and its colonies as the most popular forms of …

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Madison Farris

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is an American actress, best known for portraying Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie. She was the first wheelchair user to play a lead on Broadway.[1]

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Global Shakesphere

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This course is a study of the dissemination of Shakespeare’s plays across a range of cultures and sites from the early seventeenth century to the present, with a focus on the development of Shakespeare as a “global” author.

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George and Ira Gershwin

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n 1924, George and Ira Gershwin collaborated on a stage musical comedy Lady Be Good, which included such future standards as “Fascinating Rhythm” and “Oh, Lady Be Good!”. They followed this with Oh, Kay! (1926), Funny Face (1927) and Strike Up the Band (1927 and 1930).

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WS gilbert and arthur sullivan

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Gilbert and Sullivan are perhaps best known for their comic operas which include The Yeomen of the Guard, The Mikado, H.M.S Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.

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Gower Champion

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his work in the Broadway hit musicals Bye Bye Birdie (1960), Carnival! (1961), Hello, Dolly. 8 time tony aware winner

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Hamilton

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Hamilton from his early life as a poor orphan in the Caribbean, to his ascendency as the right-hand man of George Washington, to his death in an infamous duel with Aaron Burr.

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Intergrated Musical

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“a show in which the musical aspects blend in strongly with the dramatic aspects.” first play wasOklahoma!

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Intamicy and Director the 5 Cs

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context, communication, consent, choreography, and closure,

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Ivo Van Hoe

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artistic leader of AKT, Akt-Vertikaal and De Tijd.

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Jerome Kern

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one of the major U.S. composers of musical comedy

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jermone robbins

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emphasized character work, relationships, and emotion in his dances.

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Leonard Bernstien

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the musicals On the Town (1944; filmed 1949), Wonderful Town (1953; filmed 1958), Candide (1956), and the very popular West Side Story (1957; filmed 1961),

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light opera

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a sung dramatic work of a light or comic nature, usually with a happy ending and often including spoken dialogue

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the lion king

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the young lion prince, Simba, who is destined to be king. Black play

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Michael Bennett

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Michael Bennett | Broadway, Musical Theatre, Choreographer …
His major contribution to the dance scene was as a choreographer-director of Broadway musicals, notably in Promises, Promises (1968), Coco (1969), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Chorus Line (1975), and Dreamgirls (1981).

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MeToo

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Americans’ Views of the #MeToo Movement | Pew Research Center
The movement was founded by activist Tarana Burke, who coined the term “MeToo” in 2006, but it gained widespread attention in 2017 when actress Alyssa Milano urged victims of sexual harassment and assault to share their stories on social media.

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Minstrel Shows

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an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.

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music hall

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auditorium, ballroom, concert hall, dance hall, opera house, and amphitheater.Nov 29, 2023

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musical comedies

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A play in which *music, usually in the form of songs, is essential to the narrative.

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musical drama

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opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important;

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off and off off broadway

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Theatres with up to 99 seats generally are considered Off-Off-Broadway; 99-499 seats generally denote Off-Broadway; and 500 and larger generally denote Broadway.

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on the town

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Bernstein was the first symphonic composer to collaborate on an American musical

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Oklahoma!

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farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry.

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Opera Bouffe

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a French comic opera, with dialogue in recitative and characters drawn from everyday life.

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Passover

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Emotional and lyrical, Pass Over crafts everyday profanities into poetic and humorous riffs, exposing the unquestionable human spirit of young men stuck in a cycle just looking for a way out.

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Pal Joey

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In 1939, while out of town with their musical Too Many Girls, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart received a letter from writer John O’Hara, asking if they would like to write a musical based on his series of short stories written for The New Yorker about a fast-talking Chicago cad whose adventures were told in the form of .

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Planet Nine

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experimental theatre that centers people of color, women, queer and trans* people in Philadelphia.

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the producers

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The Producers (musical) - Wikipedia
The production opened on Broadway with the same cast at the St. James Theatre on April 19, 2001. It ran for 2,502 performances, closing on April 22, 2007. The director and choreographer was Susan Stroman.

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regional theatre

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a professional or semi-professional theater company that produces its own seasons.

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Rodgers and hart

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With Hart’s decline and untimely death in 1943, Rodgers commenced the collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960) that produced five landmark Broadway musicals and an Oscar-winning Hollywood movie. Working with Hart, Rodgers had written the music first. With Hammerstein, the order was reversed.

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royal national theatre

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a theatre funded by the national or federal government,

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the scottsboro boys

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each of the eight teens—now men—was released from prison, but that false rape accusation effectively derailed their lives. Some returned to prison.

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Show Boat

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…the production in 1927 of Show Boat (music by Kern, book and lyrics by Hammerstein); it was the first musical to provide a cohesive plot and initiate the use of music that was integral to the narrative, a practice that did not fully take hold until the 1940s.

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Site Specific

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site location, architecture, spatial layout, audience placement, and degree of audience participation

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Stephen Sodenheim

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Stephen Sondheim was an American composer and lyricist whose most famous work includes A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962), Company (1970), Follies (1971), A Little Night Music (1973), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Sunday in the Park with George (1984), and Into the Woods ( …

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sung-through musicals

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folk operas or rock operas.

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Susan Stroman

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one of Broadway’s most acclaimed and prolific choreographer/directors

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Teatro Camoesino

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raise funds for the striking farm workers

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theatre breaking through barriers

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TBTB is the only professional Off-Broadway theatre organization dedicated to advancing artists …

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Themes of musical theatre

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the inferred stance taken on the central topic or message of a story. Beauty.
Good vs. evil.
Coming-of-age.
Loyalty.
Betrayal.
Life and Death.
Justice.
Family.

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variety shows

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Variety show - Wikipedia
American sketch comedy series such as Saturday Night Live, In Living Color, Almost Live! (and its successor Up Late NW), MADtv, and SCTV

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victor herbert

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A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of …

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Viennese operetta

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An operetta falls somewhere between an opera and a musical

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we see you white American theatre

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the demands include that every department, sector, or independent company affiliated with any one commercial theatre or Broadway show be made up of at least 50 percent BIPOC staff and artists across all levels and positions; increased and more equitable funding for BIPOC organizations, especially post-COVID; a

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west side story

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a societal war between Jews and Gentiles,

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Kimberly Anne Coles, Kim F hall and Ananya Thompson

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Shakespeare directors

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