Everyone has AIDS from team America Musical Theater Parody of Rent saying everyone has aids white audience upper class Rent o 5th musical to have open gay couples on the stage and 2nd musical with open lesbian o Story told through eyes of white straight protagonist o Mark is the voice of Jonathon Larson o Jonathon Larson died the night before the opening of the show from an aortic Musical theater is America s own form of theater THET110 Notes November 28 2012 characters aneurism The Minstrel Show Stereotypes 3 acts o Act 1 First act o Act 2 The Olio becomes Vaudeville everyone would do a specific act song dance speech jokes o Act 3 Burlesque Act was a play on the existing pieces popular entertainment The First Musical The Black Crook 1866 o William Wheatley and Niblo s Garden Theater Vaudeville Pastor s Fourteenth Street Theater New York 1881 Variety Entertainment Singers and dancers 1880 1920 o Dies out in 1930 o Not because of Great Depression o Replaced by film Shows for the Tired Businessman Stock plots Musical Comedy and Operetta of the 1920 Backstage Musicals with poetic songs or Cinderella stories Interpolated songs Oklahoma Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II composer and lyricist All elements of the musical text song and dance work to push the plot forward First integrated musical West Side Story 1957 Leonard Bernstein composer Stephen Sondheim lyricist Jerome Rogers director and choreographer From Romeo and Juliet Characteristics of Golden Age Musicals Plot centered Elevated importance of lyrics and dance But happy or at least hopeful endings Serious themes If you re not with us you re against us World War II Propaganda Posters Black and white ideas Counter culture The 1960s Vietnam War Fighting for rights Watergate and Nixon Characteristics of Concept Musicals Theme over plot Episodic Dark themes with no easy resolution
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