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Hubris and Punishment?
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Excessive pride followed by punishment from the gods.-Greek Theatre
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Capricious gods?
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"They kill us for their sport"....we are hear for their entertainment-Greek Theatre
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Tragic Flaw?
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Character flaws that bring downfall
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Deus ex Machina
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Plot contrivance and a machine for bringing the gods out.
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Dionysus?
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god of wine, fertility, and theatre
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Humanism
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World view....humanistic man and his achievements
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Nihilism
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World View...Evil Dominates, amoral
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Functions of Greek chorus?
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To provide background of the play, give the audience perspective.
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World View..What is this? How is it formed?
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..environmental values and expierences
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Paradigm Shifts?
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Something that makes us change...example- 911
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Zeitgeist?
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spirit of the times, popular taste of the times, sensibility of the times...Greek
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Domestic Comedy?
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Focuses on home and family...interaction between family members.
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Stock character?...Commedia dell arte'?
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stereotype, still around...influnences on commedia dell arte', servants
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World View of Roman theatre?
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Pragmatic
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Shakespeare's invention?
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Invention of personality...characters that define human personality.
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The Globe?
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Shakespeare's famous theatre..located in london.
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Shakespeare's world views?
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Nationalistic-historical...Humanistic-romantic comedies.
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Shakespeare's wealth?
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he was part of the kingsmen..his theatre in london, the globe.
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Moliere's legacy?
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respectability and nuance in comedy
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Charles II is famous for allowing what on stage?
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Women
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WHo do the commedies of manner mock?
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the upper class
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Last actor to portray a women?
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Ned Kynaston.
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Sentimental Comedies had themes of _____ & in what century?
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Redemption, Reform, 18th
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Melodrama?
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uses theme-music to manipulate the spectator's emotional response and to denote character types, modern theatre
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Realism?
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a general movement in 19th-century theatre that steered theatrical texts and performances toward greater fidelity to real life-Modern Theatre
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Eugene O'Neill's who is he & his legacy?
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First great american playwright, won the nobel and pulitzer prize....Avoidance of melodrama, used stage as a literal medium
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Tennessee Williams' legacy? What play did he wright?
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Lyricism, memory plays, physchological, old south vs new south...Long Day's Journey into the night.
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Arthur Miller's legacy? Which play did he write?
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Led double life, 4th son was retarted...very moral but avoided his son, scandal...Crucible
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Miller & monroe, Huac, Elia Kazan
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Monroe-married to Mariyln Monroe
HUAC-refused to give up names, went to jail, fined, black listed. Elia-named names and ostrisized by parts of hollywood. |
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Edward Albee's plays were? which is his legacy.
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unsympathetic examination of modern conditions
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What was Albee's masterpiece? When? Plot?
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...1962....Four character, long night of drinking.
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George and Martha's child?
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There is no child.
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Who is Paul Robeson and why did he have restrictions?
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Son of runaway slave, All-American, Law degree, cuz he was black.
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Eugene O'Neill gave Paul Robeson roles in what plays? (2)
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Emperor Jones, Hairy Ape
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Greek Theatre Chorus?
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chanting, singing, dancing-ritualistic origins
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How is Greek Theatre like today's Musical Theatre Chorus?
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Exposition, foreshawdowing, reflected audiences emotions.
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Opera influenced what? Where is it from? What did they think they were recreating with it?
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modern musical theatre, Italians, classics of greek times set to music as the greeks had.
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Recitative?
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Sung Dialogue or Spoken on pitch
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Aria?
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Extendented portions of score that are sung.
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The Black Crook...who, what, when?
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French, 1866, first accidental musical....French ballet theatre burned down, so they joined with comedy and made STORY/SONG and STORY/DANCES.
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Operetta? Influence on Sondheim?
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British team writing light-hearted song/story format, called-Patter songs that were funny and had more dialogue.....fusion
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Who was George M. Cohan? Where is he from? What was he good at? What was his style like?
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First great american song/dance man, Vaudeville, Tap dancing. Athletic, patriotic...examples-Yankee Doodle Dandy&Give my Regards to Broadway
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AABA song structure?
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first chorus...first chorus...bridge....refrain
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What was Showboat? When was it? Who wrote it?
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First American book musical, 1927, Jrome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein
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Vaudeville?
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Family variety entertainment
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Burlesque?
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Sexual in nature, variety entertainment
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What was the Tin Pan Alley? Where?
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Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century....Manhattan
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Differences b/t Book and Concept Musical?
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Book-narrative and plot driven
Concept-not plot drive, driven by theme and atmosphere |
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Who was Florenze Zeigfeld and what was the Ziegfeld follies?
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Type of Vaudville but new themes for each season of follies, employed stars and dancers..known for spectacle and musical revues...slavish & ornate
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Bert Williams? What was his character name?
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5 martinis guy, "nobody"
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Eugene Sandow? What did he eat?
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Strong man, man eating tiger(really was a drugged out lion.
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What was Ziegfeld's legacy? What did he invest in?
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Spectacle and musical revues, first entrepenural investment-School of invisible fish.
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Legacy of Cole Porter?
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Made theatre safe for sex and lot of enuendos.
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The Golden Age of Broadway Musicals...when? Era of what?
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1940's-1960's Book Musicals, Narrative driven heavy on story, plot, characters, songs and dances.
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Rodgers and HAmmeristein did what together?
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Greatest composing duo in US history
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Hammerstein was a great _______.
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Moralist
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OKlahoma, Carousel, Sound of Music....
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all are book musicals
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Stephen Sondheim had an apprenticeship with who? How did they meet?
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Oscar Hammerstein.....neighbors
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Through-Composed means what?
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music is relatively continuous, non-sectional, and/or non-repetitive.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alain Boublil's plays were all produced by ______? What was one of each?
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Mackintosh
Webber-Cats, Phantom of the Opera Boubill-Les Miserables, Miss Saigon |
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Cameron Mackintosh used what in his marketing? What did he do with broadway?
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Single logo...globalized it, tours with main actors
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Emphasis of spectacle over substance was used by who and is about what?
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Mac.....all about visuals
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Who was Konstanstin Stanislavski? What did he write? He had a partnership in what?
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Russian Actor-Director....the method....Moscow Art Theatre
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What are Psychophysical Actions? Who used them?
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actions proceed emotion, emotion follows....Stanislavski.
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What are two techniques of Method?
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Though lines of the character or the super-objective....Actions/Intervention/Circumstances
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Super-Objective?
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big goal, what character wants above all else.
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Beats change with what?
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Actions snd emotions?
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Actions lead to _______.
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Emotions...ex. "spine" "super-objective"
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Directors must _______ and _________.
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Visualize and Orchestrate
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Chroregus?
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Greek-Early producers
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Dominus?
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Roman-Early producers
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Actors and Managers where from who's time?
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Shakespeare's
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Who was David Garrick? What did he do?
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Actor-Manager of Drury Lane Theatrein 1780's....banished spectators from the stage and abolished the star system.
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David Garrick was more like a _______.
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Director
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The Duke of Saxe Meiningen had what type of vision, when?
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Single controlling artistic vision...must have historical accuracy....1874
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Greek theatre gave us? (5 things)
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Dionysian rituals, tragedy, comedy, satire, tragic flaws
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Roman theatre gave us? (3 things)
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domestic comedy, bloody tragedies, stock characters
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Commedia dell' Arte gace us? (2 things)
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stock characters, comic scenarios
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Shakespearean theater gave us? (4 or 5 things)
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human personality in real people, psychological motivations, exalted humanism and nihilism, poetic dialogue that transcended human emotion
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18th century theater gave us? (2 things)
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comedy of manners and sentimental comedy.
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19th century theater gave us? (1 or 3)
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New forms of drama
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Long Day's Journey Into the Night was a _______.
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Autobiography
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