THAR 281 1st Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I General Information on Emerging American Drama II Eugene O Neill III Long Days Journal Into Light IV Thornton Wilder V Other Voices VI Little Theaters VII Provincetown Players VIII Washington Square Playhouse IX The Group Theater X Lee Strasberg Outline of Current Lecture I Musical Revue II Tin Pan Alley III Jazz IV Musical Comedies V Musical Comedy Composers VI Show Boat VII Movie Musical Current Lecture I Musical Revue a Collection of songs and skits loosely based around a theme b Filled with spectacle c George Cohan i Staged reviews ii Yankee Doodle d Florence Ziegfeld i Ziegfeld Follies ii Popular for 40 years because of follies girls II Tin Pan Alley a 28th Street in New York III IV V VI VII b Large portion of popular music come from here c Rain hitting tin i Irving Berlin ii Jewish songwriter iii Wrote the follies iv Alexander s Rag Time Band Jazz a Brassy in your face base heavy sound b Worked its way into musical comedies c Songs written by composers Musical Comedies a Songs bypopular composers b The Book of the Musica i Story line of musical comedy ii Weak grammatically iii Loosely string together songs Musical Comedy Composers a George Gershwin i Known for his strong jazz influence in music ii Famous Works Crazy For You Of Thee I Sing Porgy and Bess b Cole Porter i Songs were known for wit and entendre ii Famous Works Anything Goes Kiss Me Kate c Rodgers and Hart i Wrote 29 shows in 24 years ii Famous Works Bakers in Arms The Boys From Syracuse Pal Joey Show Boat a Music by Kern b Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein c Show spans for 4 decades d Racial discrimination e First book musical with storyline and songs arise as direct action f The Jazz Singer is the first movie musical with sound g Stock market crashes h Talent moves to West coast Movie Musical a Arise of Hollywood b News stars are born c Innovations of film d Busby Berkley directed movies with Anel Shot
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