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27 Cards in this Set
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Leonard Bernstein on TV in 1956 |
-narrator in TV program called Omnibus (very educational) |
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Annie Get Your Gun |
-music, lyrics, book by Irving Berlin -made it past the 1,000 performance mark -Ethel Merman was the star |
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My Fair Lady |
-Alan Jay Lerner and Fredrick Loewe -would take over title of longest running musical from Oklahoma! |
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The Most Happy Fella |
music, lyrics, book by Frank Loesser |
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Candide |
-Leonard Bernstein -operetta |
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West Side Story 1957 |
-Jerome Robbins most obvious name on playbill -often performed in opera houses -Bernstein emphasized it wasn't an opera opening characteristics: -Opening of Maria - recitative -a boy like that - requires an operatic voice -quintet tonight- 5 voices |
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West Side Story Billing |
Composer: Leonard Bernstein Lyricist: Stehen Sondheim Source: Romeo and Juliet play by Shakespeare Producer: Robert Griffith and Harold Prince Director/choreo: Jerome Robbins (won Tony award for choreo) Co-choreo: Peter Gennaro Scenic Designer: Oliver Smith (won Tony for Scenic Design) Ran: Sept. 26, 1957 Main stars: Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert 732 performances |
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2 veterans |
-Bernstein and Robbins |
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2 novices |
Sondheim and Laurents |
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2 producers |
-Griffith and Prince (mentored by George Abbot |
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Jerome Robbins |
-choreo, director, producer, dancer -classical ballet to contemporary musical theatre -On the Town, West Side Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof -triple threat performers trademark of Robbins |
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Leonard Bernstein |
-composer, conductor, pianist, educator -music at Harvard -first american-born musician to lead major symphony orchestra (NY philharmonic) -wrote ballets, operas, choral works, chamber, piano pieces -On the Town, wonderful town, and west side |
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Stephen Sondheim |
-composer and lyricist -mentored by Hammerstein -music at williams college -studied composition with Milton Babbit -Company, Sunday in park w/George, Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Gypsy (lyrics only) |
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Arthur Laurents |
-playwright, bookwriter, screenwriter, director -studied at Cornell and NYU -West Side and Gypsy |
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Characters |
-Jets (montagues) -sharks (capulets) -tony (romeo) -maria (juliet) -riff (mercutio) -bernardo (tybalt) -anita (nurse) -chino (paris) -krupke (prince escalus) -doc (friar lawrence) |
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"Prologue" |
-instrumental and very danced -establishing number |
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"Dance at the Gym" |
-instrumental -tony meets maria |
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"Maria" |
-"I want" song -ballad |
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"Tonight" |
-musical scene |
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"Tonight quintet" |
-from 2009 revival |
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Critical Reception |
-dance was highly a noted point -everything seemed to piece together |
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Reception history |
-won 2 Tony's -1960, 1980, and 2009 broadway revival |
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Firsts |
-first broadway show where choreo became co-author -first for which laurents authored thebook -first for which sondheim crafted the lyrics -first to have so short a book -first for which there were 8 weeks of rehearsals instead of standard 4 |
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Lasts |
-Bernstein's last successful broadway musical -last show of the Golden Age of the musical |
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Why a landmark musical? |
-director-choreo as foremost creator -quality of music, lyrics, and book -role of dance as a means of storytelling -calibre and seriousness of source -hybrid from part serious play, part ballet, part musical comedy, part opera -calibre of creative circle |
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"A Boy like That" |
-has assonance and anaphora -rhyme in almost every line -consonance -antitheses/opposites |
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"I Feel Pretty" |
-problem: internal rhyming (words that rhyme in same line) |
