THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I. General Information on Emerging American DramaII. Eugene O’NeillIII. Long Days Journal Into Light IV. Thornton WilderV. Other VoicesVI. Little TheatersVII. Provincetown PlayersVIII. Washington Square PlayhouseIX. The Group TheaterX. Lee StrasbergOutline of Current Lecture I. Musical RevueII. Tin Pan AlleyIII. JazzIV. Musical ComediesV. Musical Comedy ComposersVI. Show BoatVII. Movie Musical Current LectureI. Musical Revuea. Collection of songs and skits loosely based around a themeb. Filled with spectaclec. George Cohan i. Staged reviewsii. “Yankee Doodle”d. Florence Ziegfeldi. Ziegfeld Folliesii. Popular for 40 years because of follies girls II. Tin Pan Alleya. 28th Street in New Yorkb. Large portion of popular music come from herec. Rain hitting tini. Irving Berlinii. Jewish songwriteriii. Wrote the folliesiv. “Alexander’s Rag Time Band”III. Jazza. Brassy, in your face, base heavy soundb. Worked its way into musical comediesc. Songs written by composersIV. Musical Comediesa. Songs bypopular composers’b. “The Book of the Musica”i. Story line of musical comedyii. Weak grammaticallyiii. Loosely string together songsV. Musical Comedy Composersa. George Gershwini. Known for his strong jazz influence in musicii. Famous Works: “Crazy For You”; “Of Thee I Sing”; “Porgy and Bess” b. Cole Porteri. Songs were known for wit and entendre ii. Famous Works: “Anything Goes”; “Kiss Me Kate”c. Rodgers and Harti. Wrote 29 shows in 24 yearsii. Famous Works: “Bakers in Arms”; “The Boys From Syracuse”; “Pal Joey” VI. Show Boata. Music by Kernb. Lyrics by Oscar Hammersteinc. Show spans for 4 decadesd. Racial discriminatione. First book musical with storyline and songs arise as direct actionf. “The Jazz Singer” is the first movie musical with soundg. Stock market crashesh. Talent moves to West coast VII. Movie Musicala. Arise of Hollywoodb. News stars are bornc. Innovations of filmd. Busby Berkley directed movies with Anel
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