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THTR 3011 1nd Edition The 1950s Exam 2 Study Guide Frank Loesser Broadway composer lyricist librettist score book did it all Guys and Dolls 1950 How To Succeed In Business 4th musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama Spectacle Alan Jay Lerner My Fair Lady Camelot Brigadoon wild card vocal married 8 times The words book librettist Frederick Loewe Reserved disciplined Austrian Germany Loewe approached Lerner My Fair Lady Camelot Brigadoon Composer of music Gypsy 1959 A Tony for Best Revival Loosely based off the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee Jule Styne music Stephen Sondheim lyrics Arthur Lawrents book Why is it significant the most well integrated book musical during the golden age this idea of music story movement dialog characters comes together well Post War Immigration Integreated racial casts West Side Story The Music Man 1957 Won Tony for Best Musical came up against West Side Story because TMM was a normal musical whereas WST was a musical people were not prepared for in terms of subject matter Typical musical End of 50 s Gesamtkunstwerk A total holistic work of art Jerome Robbins Integration and bringing all these elements together Doing it in the best way possible Perfect Integration Brigadoon Lerner and Loewe Auteur Director author the director has control over the creation of the plot musical play it is their creation their vision their words and ideas Jerome Robbins Triple Threat Actor Sing Dance Act Being able to do all things very well Jerome Robbins created this idea Bob Fosse Main choreographer of the time period Musical most well known for Chicago Revolutionary figure in dance style and theatre Characteristics of Fosse s Dance Style Subtext things to think about while dancing what s going on in the mind of the performer Use of hats and gloves Focus on hands and feet Turned In Knees Jazz Hands Flexed Feet Isolation to move your body one part at a time The King and I 1951 Rogers and Hammerstein Desire to take influence from other cultures and represent them in as truthful a way as they knew them at the time Choreographer Jerome Robbins My Fair Lady Julie Andrews Lerner and Loewe House on Un American Activities Committee HUAC Contain communism in America Jerome Robbins part of the communist party and eventually left informed HUAC of other performers in Hollywood and musical industry who were rumored to be a part of the communist party Finding and rutting out any sniff of communism in the US Civil Rights Movement Started in 1954 Who is allowed to see performances Started by Brown v Board of Education East Side Story The original name of what West Side Story was to become Jerome Robbins Theatre director and choreographer Classically trained in ballet Changed his last name b c he felt it was too Jewish Won Best Director for West Side Story Homosexual Introduce triple threat actor Choreographer for King and I An auteur director He was difficult to work with a lot of it had to do with that his creations belonged to him and he had a specific idea how his choreography and direction should look on stage Original director of the Film for West Side Story got fired for taking too long on specifics Leonard Bernstein An American composer who was music director for the NY Philharmonic West Side Story Brown v Board of Education was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional The decision overturned the Plessy v Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state sponsored segregation insofar as it applied to public education The Little Rock Nine A group of African American students enrolled in Little Rock High School Their enrollment followed the Little Rock Crisis in which students were permitted from entering the racially segregated school There attended an intervention of President Eisenhower After the Brown v Board of Education case Escorted in by military 1957 How To Succeed In Business Broadway Premiere 1961 Based on the 1952 book by Shepherd Mead Music and Lyrics Frank Loesser Book Abe Burrows Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert Winner of 7 Tony Awards including Best Musical for the 1961 1962 season 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama 4th Musical What is looked for in a Pulitzer awarded to a piece of theatre they feel like is a significant contribution to American Drama and Theatre Revived in 1995 and 2011 Characters o Finch window washer o Rosemarie secretary o Bud Frump Briggley s lazy nephew o J B Biggley the boss at World Wide Wicket o Hedy LaRue mistress to Biggley o Smitty Rosemary s best friend o Mrs Jones Biggley s secretary o Mr Bratt personnel manager o Mr Twimble head of mailroom for 25 years o Mr Wally Womper Chairman of World Wide Wicket Themes o Misogyny o Sexism all about women in their secretary role incompetent hair and makeup during the work day o Hedy LaRue a pawn in Ponte s game used and abused by all men at World Wide Wicket o NO women in any position of authority o Satire The use of humor irony exaggeration and ridicule to expose and criticize peoples stupidity or vices particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues West Side Story 1957 Broadway 1961 Film Music Leonard Bernstein Lyrics Stephen Sondheim Book Arthur Laurents Director and Choreographer Jerome Robins Director and choreographer for film although he was fired half way through o Employed method techniques segregated casts members posted clippings of real life gang violence had each character provide backstory o triple threat performer Originally East Side Story tale of ill fated Catholic Jewish love affair in lower east side Source material Romeo and Juliet Gang violence served as real life inspiration Hard to produce initially b c of serious subject material Not everyone was on board Combined multiple styles arias jazz Latin symphonic ballet Heavily relies on dance to tell story Lost most major Tony awards to The Music Man Initial audiences weren t sure what to do with the subject material tragedy youth angst counter culture prejudice discrimination violence o Had not been discussed or shown on Broadway in a way that was so serious in terms of issues o The reason that people sat in dead silence b c this subject material was portrayed in a way that was never seen on stage before super heavy topics of the time Officer Krupke song about very real issues of the time drunks mental stability PTSD Representing the Other anything that is other to you and your


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