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Princess Theater
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Musicals done between 1915-1918
small, 242 seats didn't have a lot money to put things together small scale shows about young people introduced young performers intimate musical cmedies |
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Movie Musicals
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movies were silent until 1920s
replaces theater in terms of being a mass marketed community movies raid Broadway for talent pool dancing stands for sex directors show off everything they can |
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Production Number
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starts with a song and builds to dancing spectacle
a chance for movies to show what they can do |
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WPA Federal Theater
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FDR funded programs that were designed to generate work
WPA - work process administration first federally financed theater |
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Talkies
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movies with sound
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Diagetic Number
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a song where a character knows they are singing
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Metatheatricality
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aware you're watching something theatrical
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Torch Song
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broken hearted song
a victimized feeling loving someone who repeatedly abuses them |
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Depression Era
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development of thinking about musicals as a social commentary
musicals are a part of history entertainment win in two different direction |
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escapism
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takes people out of the moment; doesn;t acknowledge problems
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social commentary
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the arts in a dialogue with things going on in the world
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Great American Songbook
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most important and influencial American popular songs of the 20th century
primarily came from the stage and movies |
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Schtick
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a certain kind of joke
exaggerated low rent performance a signature |
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revue
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a collection of material
some are tiny and intimate some are lavish (Zigfields Follies: Spectacular) can include musical numbers, animal acts, monologues & scenes a series of disconnected sequences Kaleidescope of songs, dance, and dialogue sketches |
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cultural appropriation
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idea of borrowing from one culture and synthesizing into your own
Porgy and Bess: White Jewish men writing about African American experience |
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Trunk Songs
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pieces that were written for musical theater, but then were not used
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Tin Pan Alley
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A couple of blocks in the 20s where song publishers shop
headquarters fo music publishing |
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song plugger/pusher
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took place on tin pan alley
would play piano and sing songs at publishing companies to sell the songs good career for composers |
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list songs
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endless stream of ideas
"You're the Top" by Cole Porter from Anything Goes |
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Cafe Society
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part of a community in NYC that had not been tainted by the depression
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shouting
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complicated rhythmic pattern with hands and feet, used lots of drumming and percussion
done by Gullahs: black african decendant that created a community in South Carolina |
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Coon shouters
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white singers who wore blackface and sang specialty songs that traded on black stories and black dialects
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Black Musicals
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a show whose creation, performance or incpetion pertains to any aspect of black life or culture
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circuit
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a collection of theaters across the country under one management
outside NYC |
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Minstrelsy
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used blackface
stereotyped African Americans grew in popularity before after civil war |
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impressario
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a presenter, a producer
ex: Ziegfeld |
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Vaudeville
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revues major part of Vaudeville
toured around the country represents mass marketed entertainment lower end of revue spectrum depression and movies killed vaudeville pieces are moveable low brow medium |
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book shows
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has a libretto, script, a story where there s a single idea building of characters, and music that supports this
takes more rehearsal more cohesive 90% of AMerican musicals are book shows |
