THEA 1030 1st Edition Lecture 28 1960 s New Forms Protest of the draft for the Vietnam Playwright Hair Opened in 1968 and runs for 1 742 performances The first rock musical All about challenging the accepted notion of what theatre is supposed to be There is no formulized plot Aquarius song from the play o Top ten hit from Hair Revived but short lived It felt more like a parody of the original play U of M First university to get permission to perform Hair 1970 s New Development Chicago 1975 o Ran for 898 performances o Women paint themselves as the victims in the media o Longest runningBroadway revival o 7 486 performances so far o Revival started 1996 o Concept musical o Choreographed by Bob Fosse My style of dance is a result of my faults Downward movement towards the earth Lots of hats The Wiz 1975 Brings the black audience to Broadway Believes what he was writing was not for other races Broadway is the great white way A Chorus Line 1975 Ran for 6 137 performances Peak of the concept musical o The choreographer became the director o Brings the dance to for front and we focus on telling the dancer s story The show is structured as a Broadway audition 1980 s British Invasion Andrew Lloyd Webber o Richest man in Britain o Wrote many famous plays CATS 1982 7 485 performances 2nd longest running Broadway show in history The Phantom of the Opera 1988 Longest running Broadway show in theatre history Stephen Sondheim An American Exception Popular because of the artistic content Represents artistry Sweeney Todd o All actors had to be able to play an instrument o High concept show Into the Woods o Not as successful as the original o Scary retelling of fairy tales 1990 s Corporate Musical Disney Beauty and the Beast was their first The Lion King o Greatest artistic achievement for Disney o 3rd longest running Broadway musical o Ticket prices skyrocketed
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