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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American musical theatre"”.
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Subversive aspects of American musical theatre
Critical discourse regarding musical theatre takes, for the most part, the form of a profound silence, due presumably to a dismissal of the genre as simplistic and insubstantial. Not only have the elements of musical theatre been present in the majority of theatrical history, but many of the …
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Making Spaces for Ourselves: Queer Asian American Bodies in Contemporary American Musical Theatre
“Making Spaces for Ourselves: Queer Asian American Bodies in Contemporary American Musical Theatre” examines the queer strategies of space-making within and relation to the musical theatre form, arguing that queer Asian Americans actively create spaces of belonging on the musical stage. I argue …
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Blossom Time: Three Lyricist-Librettists and the Early Twentieth-Century American Musical Theatre
… successes, which included some of the best-loved American operettas and musical comedies of the era, they have yet to achieve the recognition of many of their more famous counterparts. This study examines several of their works in an effort to re-evaluate Caldwell, Donnelly, and Young as writers …
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Getting to Know Rodgers and Hammerstein: Education and Adaptation in 21st-century performance
… Oscar Hammerstein II forever changed the face of American musical theatre when Oklahoma! opened on Broadway in 1943. This collaboration is often cited by historians as the first fully-integrated book musical on the Broadway stage. Their collaboration produced such hits as Carousel, South Pacific, …
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Leonard Bernstein's Works for the Musical Theatre: How the Music Functions Dramatically
This study of Leonard Bernstein's works for the American musical theatre attempts to demonstrate how the composer has explored the dramatic function of music in opera, operetta, musical drama, and musical comedy. The study is limited to his six works which contain a narrative line complete with …
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Broadway Junior : musical theatre for youth performers
This MFA thesis identifies the junior musical as an umbrella term for commercial American musical theatre adapted for youth performers and explores the value of these adaptations in schools. Interviews and survey responses comprise this qualitative study that examines interest in and opportunities …
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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
… with my classmate Patrick John Moran--a new musical entitled A 16 Bar Cut: The History of American Musical Theatre as the capstone project for my Master of Fine Arts in Musical Theatre. A 16 Bar Cut will be a two-man show that tells the entire history of American musical theatre from the …
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An Introduction to the Works of Stephen Sondheim: An Adult Education Enrichment Course
… (b. 1930), the dominant composer/lyricist of American musical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. As such, it is divided into three sections. The first section is an overview of musical theatre in America, beginning with The Black Crook (1866), and ending with a brief …
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Choreographing Cabaret: A Guide to Storytelling through Dance and Movement
American Musical Theatre is one of the unique American methods of storytelling that exists in performance. In a musical, text, song, movement, and dance tell a story. In Music Theatre, when a character can no longer express what they desire in words, they sing. If singing cannot satisfy the need, …
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Anthony Newley: An Actor's Analysis Of A Musical Theatre Legacy
… Newley. The show's book will connect each of the musical numbers through a series of letters written to his mother, Frances "Gracie" Newley. This will serve as the dramatic through-line correlating both his professional and private lives. The actor in this piece will be performing as "Mr. Newley," …
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A 16 Bar Cut: The History Of American Musical Theatrean Original Script And Monograph Document
… decided to conceive, write, and perform a new musical with my classmate Rockford Sansom entitled The History of Musical Theatre: A 16 Bar Cut. The History of Musical Theatre: A 16 Bar Cut will be a two-man musical that will capsulate all of musical theatre history in a single evening. Starting …
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“It’s War That's Cruel”: The Evolution of Wartime Representation and ‘The Other’ in the American Musical
<p>Musical theater has historically been a venue for Americans to come to terms with our past and present on both a national and an individual level as it stages and restages war mythology on the Broadway Stage. As the nation has won, lost, and abandoned foreign conflicts, the connotation, …