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Company Creators |
Book by George Furth Lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim |
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Sweeney Todd Creators |
Book by Hugh Wheeler Lyrics and Music by Stephen Sondheim |
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Into the Woods Creators |
Book by James Lapine Lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim |
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West Side Story creators |
Arthur Laurents = librettist Jerome Robbins = choreographer/director Stephen Sondheim = lyricist (before he became the voice of the next generation) |
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A Chorus Line creators |
Intro to the "Superdirector" Michael Bennett as director/choreographer Joseph Papp as producer |
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Chicago creators |
Music by John Kander Lyrics by Fred Ebb Superdirector = Bob Fosse |
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Les Mis creators |
Original Lyrics by Alain Boublil Original music by Claude-Michel Schonberg Cameron Mackintosh = INCREDIBLY important producer English lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer |
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Phantom OTO creators |
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Charles Hart |
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Company source |
Based on 1-act plays by George Furth This show did away with traditional storytelling in musicals-- intro'd the idea of central theme rather than a straight-through plot |
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Sweeney Todd source |
First published as a serial named "A string of pearls" in a Penny Dreadful by George Didbin Pitt. The original play based of the serials was by Thomas Picket Prest. Finally, a 1973 play version was done by Christopher Bond that transformed the previous versions of Todd into sympathetic-- this version inspired Sondheim. |
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Into the Woods source |
Grimms' brothers tales Early in career Sondheim tried to musicalize Mary Poppins but failed. Later he and Lapine used Carl Jung's theories and Bruno Bettelheim's "Uses of Enchantment" which focuses on importance of fairy tales to create an interlocking story. |
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West Side Story source |
Romeo and Juliet Americanized and updated. Originally conceptualized as "East Side Story" about Catholics vs Jews during passover. Eventually changed to reflect contemporary understanding of youth criminality. |
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A Chorus Line source |
Concept of Audition process; creation of a show•Taped conversations about why dancers got into/stayed in the biz; orig concept revolved around the creation of musical, though became about auditioning process mostly about life as a dancing gypsy -used workshop method (ie: creators come together with not much already done and gather performers to try out and things are just kept working on) |
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Chicago source |
-Female murderesses= popular topic -female reporters given their stories="sob sister" -Specifically on the Cook County Acquittals (1924 trials of Beulah Annan and Belva Gaertner) -Maurine Dallas Watkins was a sob sister who reported on the acquittals then wrote the script for the original script in 1926. She refused to sell the rights until her death. |
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Les Mis source |
Based on Victor Hugo's novel that would've been v recognizable tale of French lit. Alain originally created story as concept album. Mackintosh assembled team to transform into English version for West End (had to be adapted seriously for Anglo-audiences not familiar w it. |
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Phantom source |
Based on novel by Gaston Leroux that was originally a serial published in 1910. There are 3 notable stage adaptations and 2 film versions. Webber's was very much an adaptation to the novel itself. |
