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1. Vaudeville
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Genre of variety entertainment shown on the stage. Genre of popular entertainment 1880s through 1930s. Each evening made up of series of separate unrelated acts. Singer dancers, magicians etc….
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2. Jack Robin
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The main character in the Jazz Singer. Jakie changes his name after he runs away from his parents house to show the transformation of himself and musical styles.
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3. Jakie Rabinowitz
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Jack Robin as a kid before he has run away. His father’s stubborn and controlling ways lead to him escaping and becoming Jack Robin
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4. Cantor
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Is a head of a jewish church that leads the crowd in prayer. Jack’s father is the cantor and tries to force the stlyle of music upon him instead of his jazz.
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5. Kol Nidre
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is a Jewish prayer recited in the synagogue at the beginning of the evening service on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Jack Robin returns home to sing this song for his father on his deathbed.
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6. Yom Kippur
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- known in English as the Day of Atonement, is the most solemn and important of the Jewish holidays. It is the only time the cantor cannot sing for it in the Jazz Singer, so Jack returns to take his father’s place.
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7. Blackface
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style of theatrical makeup that originated in the United States, used to take on the appearance of certain archetypes of American racism. Jack uses blackface on his vaudeville performances. It distorted black culture for white entertainment and limited possibilities for black entertainers on stage. Once he takes it off it transforms Jack from Jewish to American.
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8. “My Mammy”
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A popular song that Johlson performs in the Jazz Singer to his mother in blackface.
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9. Al Jolson
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The actor who plays Jack Roin in the Jazz Singer. The movie the Jazz Singer was based on Johlson’s life and he already had a connection with the film before he was cast.
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10. “You ain’t heard nothing’ yet!”
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The first spoken line of dialogue ever in a film and is heard in the Jazz Singer when Jack Robin is first on stage and is transititioning between the Dirty Hands Dirty Face and Toot Toot Tootsie. The line offers a transititional change that reflects the stlye change of change from more ragtime to jazz as we now know it.
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11. “Dirty Hands, Dirty Face”
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– The first song Jack sings on stage, is a slower tempo song and represents early change before it transforms into Toot Toot Tootsie
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12. Queenie
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From March’s Wild Party Queenie is the main character who throws the party to seek revenge on Burrs.
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13. Burrs
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The anagonist in March’s Wild Party, he is a clown, relates to his violent nature toward Queenie and a creepy freak.
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14. Kate
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Queenie’s best friend who attends the party, Kate tries to seduce Burrs and brings Black to the party whom Queenie set her eye on.
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15. Joseph Moncure March
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Wrote the wild party and wanted to get across the social functions of parties and the space they provide.
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16. Parties
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Parties are a social formation that produce a certain kind of sociability where individuals can come together for pleasure, togetherness, availability to each other in specific ways, persons uniquely accessible, allow for kinds of trespass.
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17. Decency
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In the wild party the angry neighbors yell at them and call them not decent. Wild Party’s separate those who are decent from undecent with their uncontrollable nature and open social space unhindered by everyday restrictions. Behavior that conforms to a standard of morality or respectability.
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18. The Harlem Renaissance
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A movement involving the emerging of Black writers they found new ways to display black experiences and black life. Ultimately wanted to challenge racism.
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19. Langston Hughes
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– Lived through the Harlem Rennaisance and was a black writer who emerged from it. 2 americas and public politics of dreaming
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20. Eugene O’Neill
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Author of the Iceman Cometh his plays were among the first to introduce America to realism.
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21. Vernacular
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everyday common lanuage “lyrical ballads”. African American different genres. Gives way to more realism forms.
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22. Cultural assimilation
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when an individual or individuals adopts aspects of the characteristics of a dominant culture (such as its religion, language, manners etc.). It sometimes is the result of cultural imperialism or forced assimilation but it can be and often is voluntary.
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23. Lower East Side
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Where they lived in the Jazz Singer. Is the ghetto area of new York and home to many immigrants, shows how Jack’s family is of Jewish immigration.
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24. Jazz
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Early Jazz swing, inclusive American, bold, mad, lewd, prayerful. Rythmic feel – merges unrelated traditions, fully realized, formed. Mature form of ragitme
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25. Ragtime
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Pre Jazz era. Dance beat, modification process. There to have a good time. When Jackie is a young boy. The lyrics connect to slavery.
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26. Fascism
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Totalitarian nationalist idealogy. Social conrtrol and idealogical unity curtailing of free speech and political dissent. Violent elimination of difference.
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27. Anti-fascist aesthetics
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The nightlife wardrobe on the cabaret. The songs they perform. Value order, classic standards of beauty, Cabaret stuff is anti. Fascist are Olympia. Aesthetics how things appear and affect us. They can either mock or go against the fascist ideals.
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28. Emcee
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The leader of the Cabaret who reflects the outside world events with the inside performances. Near the end of the film arrises a question if he had relations with Sally. Acts as the ring leader of sorts. Has a question of uncertaintity when viewing his acts.
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29. Sally Bowles
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The girl in Cabaret who is the main character, is the star at the Cabaret and meets Brian. Through many events she realizes her true life is at the cabaret where there is a question of uncertainty.
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30. Brian Roberts
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In Cabaret. There to get his masters, culture interests. Middle classes values, apprehensive to daytime sex, unearned gift giving. He’s vulnerable, articulates an Anti Nazi stand.
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31. Maximilian von Heune
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The bisexual character who seduces Sally and Brian. He later leaves the two and leaves them money. He causes a question of who the baby’s father is with Sally and Brian.
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32. Kit Kat Klub
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Where the cabaret performances are held. It is a place of uncertainty and holds aesthetics against fascism as fascist aesthetics require a certainty. However could argue it is fascist as well
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33. Natalia Landauer
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a wealthy jewish heress who the character Fitz falls for. Although he passes as a Christian he reveals himself as a Jew to fall for her. She reveals the question of identity
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34. “Tomorrow Belongs to Me”
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Nazi propoganda. Song the Nazi boy sings in Cabaret. Displays the fascist view of something looking good initially and making Naziism look appealing by the boy with the beautiful voice when the crowd doesn’t realize what they are doing.
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35. “Life is a Cabaret”
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Song in Cabaret that offers the cabaret as togetherness and bringing together of individuals. Says Sally does want to go with Brian and live a Cabaret life instead.
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36. “If You Could See Her through My Eyes”
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Song the Emcee sings with the Monkey. It makes fun of Jews. Emcee would rather be with a monkey then a Jew. She wouldn’t look Jewish at all saying he would rather be with monkey.
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“In here life is beautiful”
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An example of Anti-fascism in Cabaret. Blurs the distinctions from beautiful and not beautiful. Multiple images instead of one.
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38. Olympia
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Documentary about Olympics in Berlin, personal film maker to Hitler directed it. Celebration of german power. Massing of groups, turns people into things. Shows Jews and then a camel. Shows fascist aesthetics.
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39. Leni Riefenstahl
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German film maker under the command of Hitler who was noted for her aesthetics as a film maker. Filmed the Movie Olympia.
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40. Gedachtniskirche
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The church in Berlin is beautiful the author mourns because it is surrounded by corruption, for the Nazi party and blames it on the Jews.
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41. Joseph Goebbels
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The author of Gedachtniskirche and blames the Jews for all the corruption in Germany.
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42. Friedrich Hollaender
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German composer who wrote the song tomorrow belongs to me which employs several of the nazi aethetics and views.
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43. “Poison Cookie”
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Cabaret essay by Hollander. A metaphor for the cabaret looks like a beautiful cookie, yet it still has long lasting effects. The events on the spectator, is an irrestable treat you consume quickly. Later it has altering effects that could be negative. Destructive to the notions you had when first enter the cabaret.
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44. Syncopation
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Jazz Singer used in ragtime puts emphasis before or after the beat.
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45. Josef (Yossele) Rosenblatt
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The father of Jack Robin and the cantor of the Jewish church. Is controlling on Jack’s musical style
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46. Exposition
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technique by which background info about the character is given through dialogue description. In the opening of the Iceman Cometh act I we can much
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47. Tragedy
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In the Iceman Cometh. Concerned with noble individuals. Explore fate and determinism, pessimistic and somber. Shows the competition between 2 different goods with Perrit making his decision of giving his mother away.
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48. The American Dream
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– The opposite of a tragedy. Lives of everyday men, self determinism, optimistic. Is positive and reaching the goal no matter what.
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49. Theodore Hickey
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Comes to the bar to tell them to give up on their pipe dreams. States he has killed his wife
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50. Don Parritt
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Younger character who connects with Larry with him had dated his mother. He betrayed his mother and the movement by giving her away to the authorities.
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51. Rocky
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Cleans up Harry’s Bar and is his right hand man. Acts as a pimp with his prostitutes.
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52. Evelyn
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Iceman Cometh Hickey’s wife. He ends up murdering her to put her at peace.
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53. Cora
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Streetwalker who is Chuck’s girlfriend. Chuck always says they will get married tomorrow. One of Rocky’s prostitutes.
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54. Larry Slade
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Former anarchist who dated Perrits mom. After the walk on Harry’s birthday gets in a fight with Peritt.
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55. Harry Hope
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Owner of the bar, hasn’t left since his wife’s death. Keeps saying he loved his love and praised her, at the end however he reveals how he hates her.
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56. Jimmy Tomorrow
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– Former british correspondant, procrastinates getting his job at the newspaper back.
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57. Pipe Dream
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Dream you cling to and hang on to. The characters in Iceman cometh are fueled by their pipe dreams and need them to keep going.
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58. Illusions vs. delusions
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Illusions are misleading perceptions and are usual visual like magicians. Delusions are deeply held false beliefs that are maintained even when information contradicts the belief. Pipe dreams uses a combination of both.
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59. Resistance
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Refusal to akwnkowledge painful knowledge, characters need pipe dreams to give them meaning, Hickey can’t aknowledge he resented his wife.
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60. Prop Sandwich
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Iceman Cometh put a fake sandwich on the bar to serve alcohol. It would be illegal if it wasn’t a resturaunt.
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61. Tomorrow
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Iceman Commeth, always looking to the future and never acting on what you want to do with your life.
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62. Montage of a Dream Deferred
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Graduating, French studies, buing suits, examples from Hughes’ poem. Future will be put off, always deferred by poor/black or dangerous. Gross verbs, extreme nouns in “Harlem”
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63. Dream deferred
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Dreams that keep getting put off and never happen. A bunch of rhetorical more questions ultimately leads to their destruction.
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64. “Boogie-woogie rumble”
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Musical expression of a dreams repeated a lot.
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65. Maurice Sendak
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The author of Where the wild things are
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66. The Man in the Black Suit
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Short story by Steven King, relates to Young Goodman Brown where Gary goes into the woods and meets the devil. The story feels more real however with the connection through Gary’s father.
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67. Middlebrow
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Man in the black suit uses a middlebrow culture. Basically middle culture, not low or high literature, but in the middle. Raises questions as to what high literature actually is.
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68. Max
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The kid in where the wild things are. He changes his world from a room to a wild place, he’s put to bed with energy instead of stillness. He relates to his mother when he tries to put the Wild things in their place.
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69. Goodnight Moon
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Another Children’s book that contrasts with where the wild things are. Saying goodnight is used as a ritual and the nighttime is seen as still and quiet.
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70. Vitaphone
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The sound company the syncopated the very first recorded dialogue sequence in the Jazz Singer.
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71. The Movement
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Iceman Cometh. An anarchist movement that both Larry and Perrit’s mother participated in. Throughout the play Perritt tries to rid his guilt of turning in his mother and others involved in it to Larry but Larry doesn’t want to be bothered. Perrit says Larry is the only one who will understand because he’s been in the movement and Perrit’s guilt drives him to suicide.
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72. Colorblind casting
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Wild Party, where production casts without regards to race. Queenie and Black can be either black or white in the casting interpretations.
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73. “The door sprang open / And the cops rushed in”
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Where the poem ends, party ends space brought to a halt. Party is shut down. Acts as a threshold
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74. Nightlife
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Leisure activity, space for social identity and community. A space of labor, the manifestation of unconscious fears anad desires. A Pyschic frontier, sexual and social threshold.
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