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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"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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Musical theatre education: A case study
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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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Learning From Plot and Characters in Musical Theatre
<p>Musical theatre, from the 1920s to the present, acts as a conscience for the American people and attempts, through the plot and characters, to convey concepts from which all should learn.</p>
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She Loves Me: Synthesizing the Elements of Musical Theatre
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‘Standing in the shadows’?: Reframing homosexuality in musical theatre
… explores how the gay male is represented in musical theatre and considers how musical theatre writing practice can be utilised to create new iterations of the homosexual male character in musicals. The study has three main objectives: to explore the persistent patterns of gay representation …
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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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The Work of Women in Canadian Musical Theatre: Dancing in the Chorus
… of the female chorus member working in Canadian Musical Theatre. Through the body of my choreographic research, I propose to answer the following question: Who is the modern day chorus girl? My research required an investigation into the historical background of the chorus girl, with special …
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The integration of dance as a dramatic element in broadway musical theatre
… effectiveness of choreography in enhancing the musical Theatre libretto. The study surveys the origins and early evolution of stage dance in the United States from 1775 to the introduction of ballet choreography in 1922. It concludes with an examination of Selected scripts which use choreography …
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Leonard Bernstein's Works for the Musical Theatre: How the Music Functions Dramatically
… 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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Making Spaces for Ourselves: Queer Asian American Bodies in Contemporary American Musical Theatre
… 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 that queer Asian Americans respond …
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Blossom Time: Three Lyricist-Librettists and the Early Twentieth-Century American Musical Theatre
… 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 for the musical theatre …
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Generational Theory as a Lens for Approaching Musical Theatre History, 1943-2023, or a Strange Loop
… apply the theory to the development of Broadway musical theatre history. Innovative musicals such as Oklahoma! (1943), Hair (1968), Rent (1996), and Hamilton (2015) and their place in musical theatre history support Strauss and Howe’s generational theory. The theory narrates a sociocultural …
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A critical theory of the musical theatre : with specific reference to shows from the period 1957-1989
Placing the musical theatre in the context of its most recent developments, between 1957 and 1989, the study begins by aiming to define the term, 'musical theatre',and notes the lack of serious critical attention paid to it. In the succeeding four chapters, the author constructs a basic model for …
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Hypertextuality in the diegesis of the megamusical: the aesthetic and cognitive relationship between silent era film and contemporary musical theatre
This research regards the West End/Broadway musical as a hypertextual performance form through which early cinema aesthetics can be seen and felt by spectators. The ‘closed fictional worlds’ (Slugan, 2021: 142) presented by silent fiction films made between 1895 and 1930 echo those of stage …
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Frank Staff and his role in South African ballet and musical theatre from 1955 to 1959, including a pre-1955 biography
… to his choreographic contribution to ballet and musical theatre in South Africa. Appraised throughout in terms of critical opinion and dancers' commentaries, the study is chronologically based with emphasis on individual works created by Staff. There is an overview of Staff's early career, the …
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‘It’s All in The Timing’ – A Research Project that explores the complexities in the relationship of Actor to Audience, in Musical Theatre
… and how this relationship can differ within nonmusical, and musical theatre. In non-musical theatre, for example, there can be a very intimate and immediate “dialogue” between actor and audience, that can alter each moment of a performance, making possible a unique co-creation between the two …
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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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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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An Introduction to the Works of Stephen Sondheim: An Adult Education Enrichment Course
… 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 examination of …
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