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Why is audience important to theatre? |
1. Directly impacts through actions 2. Can change performance 3. Without it is not live theatre |
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Participatory theatre |
Emphasis on education, personal development, or therapy |
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Anachronism |
Placing a character or event outside it's proper time period |
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Four key elements of live theatre |
1. Actors 2. Audience 3. Space 4. Story |
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Operettas: who? Why? |
Gilbert and Sullivan Precursors to American musical |
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Arias |
Strong melodic solos |
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Opera Buffa: Who? What? |
Mozart Comic opera |
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Revue |
Comic sketches alternated with musical numbers. No single story. |
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Book musical |
Show with story |
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Yankee Doodle Dandy |
George Cohan |
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Standard |
Songs from musicals that became popular |
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The accidental musical |
The black crook 1866 |
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Showboat: When? Who? |
1927 Joseph Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II |
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Of thee I sing: Who? When? Why? |
George and Ira Gershwin 1931 Pulitzer prize |
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Porgy and Bess: When? Who? Why? |
1935 Gershwin Finest composition |
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On your toes: When? Why? |
1936 Introduced serious dance |
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Oklahoma: When? Why? |
1943 Golden age of musicals |
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Rodgers and Hammerstein |
Oklahoma (1943), South Pacific (1945), the sound of music (1959) |
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Stephen Sondheim |
Sweeney Todd (1979) Into the woods (1988) |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Cats (1981) Jesus Christ Superstar (1971) Phantom of the Opera (1986) |
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Fiddlers on the roof |
1964 End of golden age |
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Hair |
1967 No story line |
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Claude-Michael Schonberg |
Les miserables (1987) Miss Saigon (1988) |
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Jonathan Larson |
Rent (1996) |
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Four trends |
1. Major revivals 2. Fresh off beat musicals 3. Musicals off films 4. Jukebox musicals |
