THTR 3011: EXAM 4
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Michael Bennett
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- Choreographer
- Died of AIDS
- 18 month workshop
- A Chorus Line, Dreamgirls
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A Chorus Line (1975)
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- A reality based musical (interviews as source material)
- Chorus dancers = blue collar workers
- "The line"
- Pulitzer Prize
- Longest running musical at the time
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Edward Kleban
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Wrote lyrics for A Chorus Line
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Marvin Hamlisch
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Wrote music for A Chorus Line
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Joseph Papp
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Established the Public Theater
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Dreamgirls (1981)
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- Director/choregrapher Michael Bennett
- "And I Am Telling You"
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Jerry Herman
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- Composer/Lyricist
- Only American composer with 3 musicals over 1,500 performances
- "Commercial is my middle name"
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La Cage Aux Folles (1983)
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- Based on a French film of the same title
- Music/lyrics Jerry Herman
- Directed by Arthur Laurents
- "I Am What I Am"
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Bock & Harnick
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- Jerry Bock composer
- Sheldon Harnick lyricist
- Dominant team of 1960's
- Fiorello, She Loves Me, Fiddler on the Roof
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Fiorello! (1959)
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- C&L Bock and Harnick, Producer Hal Prince, Director Mr. Abbott
- Pulitzer Prize
- Musical satire based on the life of NYC mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia
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She Loves Me (1963)
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- C&L Bock and Harnick
- You've Got Mail modern version
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Fiddler on the Roof crew
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- M&L Bock and Harnick
- Book Joseph Stein
- Director/Chor. Jerome Robbins
- Based on short stories Tevye's Daughters by Shalom Alechem
- Title from a painting The Dead Man by Chagall
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Fiddler on the Roof
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- End of the Golden Age
- End of Broadway on pop charts
- Over 30 international productions
- Hugely popular in Japan
- Leitmotif "Tradition"
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Pogrom
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Forced evacuation based on race/religion/etc.
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1776 (1969)
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- M&L Sherman Edwards
- Book Peter Stone
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Annie (1977)
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- Lyrics/Creator Martin Charnin, composer Charles Strauss, Book Thomas Meehan
- A family show on Broadway
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Hair (1968)
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- Galt McDermott jazz composer, B&L Ragni and Rado
- A counterculture for a mainstream audience
- Environmental theater- breaking 4th wall
- First Rock musical, could meet dramatic demands
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Concept musical
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Theme/idea more important than plot (i.e. A Chorus Line)
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Sung-through musical
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All song, no dialogue
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Dance musical (dancical)
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All dance, little or no dialogue or singing (i.e. Contact, Moving Out)
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Contact (2000)
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- Dir/Chor. Susan Stroman
- Used prerecorded music
- Won Tony for Best Musical
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Movin' Out (2002)
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- Jukebox musical Billy Joel
- Conceived/Dir./Chor. Twyla Tharp
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Reflective musical
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Celebrates and mocks musical theater, self referential (i.e. Urine Town)
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Urine Town (2001)
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- Satire
- Reflective musical
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Movie musical
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Using book of an already produced musical (i.e. The Producers)
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The Producers (2001)
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- Adapted from 1968 film
- Dir./Chor. Susan Stroman
- Reflective musical
- 12 Tony awards, record
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Revival
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Restating of a musical after its initial run on Broadway
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Archival revival
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Exactly the same
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Traditional revival
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Reminiscent of original, most common
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Revisionist revival
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Significant changes
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Hal Prince
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- Start career as an assistant stage manager for George Abbott musicals
- Because producer so he could direct
- "The Prince of Broadway"
- 21 Tony awards, more than any other individual
- Guru of the concept musical
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Bob Fosse
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- Fosse style
- Anticlassical, anti-de Mille and Robbins
- "Making strange"
- Depersonalized, amoeba, androgyny
- Tony for Pippin, Oscar for Cabaret, Emmy for Liza with a Z
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Fosse style
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- Isolated movement of body parts
- Jazz hands, inverted feet, rounded shoulders
- Use of props, hats, body percussion
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Sweet Charity (1966)
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- Dir./Chor. Fosse
- Music Cy Coleman
- Lyrics Dorothy Fields
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Kander and Ebb
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- Kander composer, Ebb lyricist
- Music and lyrics written together
- Song associated with the theme
- Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Curtains, Scottsboro Boys
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Cabaret (1966)
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- M&L Kander and Ebb, Prod./Dir. Hal Prince
- From Christopher Isherwood novel, Berlin Stories, and 1951 play, I Am A Camera
- Two worlds in the play
- Successful revival in 1988, revisionist
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Chicago (1975)
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- M&L Kander and Ebb, Book Fosse and Ebb, Chor. Fosse
- SM Play by Maurine Dallas Watkins
- Conceptual musical
- 1996 revival, Barry and Fran Weissler
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Kiss of the Spiderwoman (1993)
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- M&L Kander and Ebb, Dir. Hal Prince
- Based on novel by Manuel Puig
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Curtains (2007)
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- M&L Kander and Ebb (additional lyrics by Holmes)
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Scottsboro Boys (2010)
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- M&L Kander and Ebb, Dir./Chor. Susan Stroman
- Based on a true story, framed as a minstrel show, protests
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THTR 3011: EXAM 4