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Study Guide: Exam 3
Edward Albee
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won Pulitzer 3 times
"Zeus Story" "Who's afraid of Virginia Volt?" "The Goat or Who is Sylvia?" |
Harold Pinter
|
Comedy of Menice
The Pinter pause
"The Homecoming" "The Dumb Waiter" "Betrayal" |
Samuel Beckett |
"End Game" "Waiting for Godot" |
Absurdism
|
Operates in non-traditional sequence
nonsense dialogue
contains little or no plot
might contain non-realistic characters or actions |
Oklahoma Musical
|
1943
everyone loved this play
first unified musical |
Rodgers and Hammerstein
|
most successful musical playwrights in theater
"Oklahoma" "South Pacific" "The King and I" "The Sound of Music"
collaborated 11 shows |
West Side Story
|
1957
places dramatic action within songs and action |
Gypsy
|
1959
story of famed burlesque
one of the greatest american musicals
music by Jule Styne |
Arthur Miller
|
works addressed post war politics
was married to marilyn monroe
"Death of a Salesman" "The Crucible" "All my Sons" |
"Death of a Salesman"
|
1949
selective realism
directed by Kazan |
Tennessee Williams
|
most lyrical, most poetic
"Cat on a Hot tin Roof"
"Glass Menageriae"
"A Street Car Named Desired" |
Broadway in the 60's |
musicals and comedies |
Neil Simon
|
known for comedies
wrote comedies about living in new york
"Star Spangled Girl"
"Bearfoot in the Park"
"The Odd Couple" |
Jerry Herman
|
humable for his music
"Hello Dolly"
"Maine"
"La Cage Aux Folles" |
Off Broadway
|
smaller than 500 seats
developed after WW2
anti-realistic theatre |
Off Off Broadway
|
anywhere in the city
50 chairs
found spaces
new and exciting |
Avant Garde
|
anti-realistic forms
experimental
different ways of performance
performance art |
The Living Theatre
|
goal to move society to communal idea of existence
show audience of working together
still continues today |
Joseph Papp
|
Founded 1954 Shakespeare festival
founds 1967 public theatre
pioneers ethnically diverse casting
fostered off broadway movement |
The Fantasticks
|
Show is simple
no set
8 characters
sullivan street house
longest running musical ever for 42 years |
Regional Theatres
|
1960s due to creating of NEA(National Endowed of the Arts)
gov. tax money goes towards the arts |
Hair
|
1967 to Broadway in 1968
American Tribal Musical
First rock and roll show
political piece about war in vietnam
loosely constructed story wise |
Broadway's Decline
|
audience was getting older, less atendance
fewer plays and musicals
Times Squares is being over runned by adult entertainment |
White Flight
|
Upperclass white people moving to the suburbs
non-white, poor people moving into urban areas
broadway becomes place for drugs and prostitutes |
African American Theatres
|
"Raising of the Sun"
"Amiri Baraka"
provided opportunities for african americans |
August Wilson
|
Poetic Realism in his works
"Pittsburgh Cycle" is 10 plays, each addressing a different decade from a black experience
Famous works:
"Joe Turner Come and Gone"
"Piano Lesson"
"Fences" |
Latino Theatres
|
Chicano: started in southern California
Cuban-American Theatre: In Miami
Nilo Cruz-contemporary playwright
Puerto Rican: centered in New York
combining and clashing of culture |
Asian American Theatres
|
New York, Seattle, San Francisco, L.A.
Now 30 across the nation |
Stephen Sondheim
|
Writes both lyrics and music
his music is complex
his lyrics are intelligent
"Company"
"Sweenie Todd"
"Into the Woods" |
"Company"
|
Broadway in 1970
concept musical |
Andrew Lloyd Webber
|
most famous musical composer
Rock Opera- no dialoque, only singing
"Phantom of the Opera" "Jesus Christ Superstar" "Evita" "Catz" |
A Chorus Line
|
1975, show about an audition
concept musical, was very popular
iconic numbers "God I hope I get it" |
Sweeney Todd |
story of barber who kills people |
Chicago Theatre
|
"Steppen Wolf" 1974 started in church basement
1959 "The Second City" theatre school and improv |
David Mamet
|
outspoken about everything
very masculine in his writing
dialogue "mamet speak" rapid, precise, multiple lines
"Speed the Plow" "Holeana" "Glen Gary Glen Ross" |
Wendy Wasserstein
|
explores pressures and challenges of women
"Uncommon women and others"
"The Heidy Chronicles" |
Phantom of the Opera
|
1988 directed by Hal Prints(same from Company and Sweeney Todd"
love triangle, Christine, Raul, and mysterious operaman |
AIDS Crisis
|
crisis began in 1981
profound impact on arts communities, many artists died
a lot of theatre goers diers |
Angels in America
|
a gay fantasia on national fleet
its in two parts
real and fictional characters, actors double rolls
most important work in last 1/4 of 20th century |
The Return of Broadway
|
mayor of N.Y. cleaned up Times Squares
golden age of Disney 1994
1994 beauty and the beast on broadway
neighborhoods build their property value |
Julie Taymor
|
stage and film director
colorful, bold and unusual works
"Frida" "Across the Universe" "The Tempest"
in theatre, her direction of "The Lion King" |
Lynn Nottage
|
"Ruined"
"Intimate Apparel" |
Rajiv Joseph
|
"Bangle Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo"
"Gruesome Playground Injuries" |
Tracy Letts
|
member of Steppn Wolf (Chicago)
works focus on Lives of Midwesterners
"The man from Nebraska"
"August: Osage County" |
"August: Osage County"
|
3 act drama
non musical play
648 performances in broadway
follows family on road of self destruction |
Jukebox Musicals
|
already pre-existing songs
story based on a character
ex.) Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys |
Self-Referential Musicals
|
rooted in sillyness
makes fun of musicals
"Urine Town"
"Spamalot"
"The Producers" |
Wicked
|
Written by Stephen Schwartz
based on novel by Gregory
very famous
still continues today in Broadway |
In the Heights
|
broadway in 2008, successful
Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote lyrics and music
pulitzer finalist 2009 |
Antoinette Perry(Tony Awards)
|
started in 1947
yearly awards to recognize work on Broadway
to be eligible, have to be operated on Broadway
under the Pulitzer, it's the Tony awards |
Ethel Merman
|
considered the queen of Broadway.
performer with the voice unlike any other. |
Jerome Robbins
|
director and choreographer
choreographed West Side Story and directed Gypsy. |
Zeus Story |
Albee |
Who's afraid of Virginia Volt? |
Albee |
The Goat of who is Sylvia? |
Albee |
The Homecoming |
Pinter |
The Dumb Waiter |
Pinter |
Betrayal |
Pinter |
End Game |
Samuel Beckett |
Oklahoma |
Rodger and Hammerstein |
South Pacific |
Rodger and Hammerstein |
The King and I |
Rodger and Hammerstein |
The Sound of Music |
Rodger and Hammerstein |
Death of a Salesman |
Arthur Miller |
The Crucible |
Arthur Miller |
All my sons |
Arthur Miller |
Cat on a hot tin Roof |
Tennessee Wiliams |
Glass Menageriae |
Tennessee Wiliams |
A street car named Desired |
Tennessee Wiliams |
Star Spangled Girl |
Neil Simon |
Bearfoot in the park |
Neil Simon |
The odd Couple |
Neil Simon |
Hello Dolly |
Jerry Herman |
Maine |
Jerry Herman |
La Cage Aux Folles |
Jerry Herman |
Pittsburgh Cycle |
August Wilson |
Joe Turner Come and Gone |
August Wilson |
Piano Lesson |
August Wilson |
Fences |
August Wilson |
Company |
Stephen Sondheim |
Sweenie Todd |
Stephen Sondheim |
Into the Woods |
Stephen Sondheim |
Phantom of the Opera |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Jesus Christ Superstar |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Evita |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Catz |
Andrew Lloyd Webber |
Speed the Plow |
David Mamet |
Holeana |
David Mamet |
Glen Gary Glen Ross |
David Mamet |
Uncommon Women and Others |
Wendy Wasserstein |
The Heidy Chronicles |
Wendy Wasserstein |
Frida |
Julie Taymor |
Across the Universe |
Julie Taymor |
The Tempest |
Julie Taymor |
The Lion King |
Julie Taymor |
Ruined |
Lynn Nottage |
Intimate Apparel |
Lynn Nottage |
Bangle Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo |
Rajiv Joseph |
Gruesome Playground Injuries |
Rajiv Joseph |
The man from Nebraska |
Tracy Letts |
August: Osage County |
Tracy Letts |