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Exam 4 Flashcards

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A Little Night Music (collaborators, known for, song)

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Hugh Wheeler (book), Harold Prince (director); Romantic Comedy that uses Counterpoint; Entire musical is in waltz-beat rhythm (Song: Send in the Clowns)

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Sweeney Todd (collaborators, known for, songs)

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Hugh Wheeler (book), Harold Prince (director), Angela Lansbury (actress); Uses Brechtian Alienation, Counterpoint, Active songs, and Leitmotif; Won 8 Tony Awards (Songs: Ballad of Sweeney Todd, Epiphany, Pretty Women, A Little Priest)

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Merrily We Roll Along (collaborators, known for)

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Last Sondheim and Prince collaboration; Story told backward, Major Flop

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James Lapine (3)

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Director/Playwright who co-wrote and directed Sunday in the Park with George (84), Into the Woods (87), and Passion (94)

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Sunday in the Park with George

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James Lapine (book/director); Based on a Painting, Won a Pulitzer Prize

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Andrew Lloyd Weber (style)

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Shows on Broadway and London’s West End; Sung through, Catchy, Dramatic musicals that create a Spectacle; Part of the Really Useful Group

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Andrew Lloyd Weber (6)

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W/ Tim Rice: Joseph and the Amazing, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita. Without: Cats, Phantom of the Opera (Charles Hart), Starlight Express

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Cameron Mackintosh (3)

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Marketing Genius and Producer who makes a ridiculous amount of money off of visual branding and souvenirs from his shows (Cats, Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors)

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Cats (collaborators, based on)

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Andrew Lloyd Weber (music), Cameron Mackintosh, Really Useful Group, David Geffen (producers); Based on T.S. Elliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats

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Les Miserables (collaborators)

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Claud-Michel Schonberg (music), Alain Boublil (lyrics), Cameron Mackintosh (producer), NOT written by Weber

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Alan Menken

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Composer for Disney film scores (basically every Disney movie we talked about)

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Howard Ashman (2)

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Lyrics for Little Shop of Horrors, Beauty and the Beast

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Tim Rice (5)

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Lyrics for The Lion King, Aida, Joseph, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita

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Phil Collins

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Music and Lyrics for Tarzan

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Elton John (2)

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Music for Aida, the Lion King

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Characteristics of Rock Musicals

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Use Pop and Rock Music, Focus more on the “beat” than they do the lyrics; Usually have non-traditional values, non-linear storytelling, and are sung-though

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Hair (collaborators, known for, songs)

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Galt McDermott (composer), James Rado and Gerome Ragni (book and lyrics); Usually called the first rock musical, very controversial themes (Songs: Let the Sunshine in, Hair, Sodomy)

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Rent

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Jonathan Larson (composer/lyricist/libretto), Started as a collaboration with Billy Aronson; Based on Puccini opera called La Boheme

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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John Cameron Mitchell (actor/writer), Stephen Trask (songwriter); Initially performed at drag club (Squeeze Box), Structured as a Rock Concert (Song: Tear Me Down)

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Spring Awakening

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Music by Duncan Sheik, Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater; Based on a 1989 play by Frank Wedekind (Songs: Mama Who Bore Me, Bitch of Living, Totally Fucked)

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Next to Normal

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Tom Kitt (music), Brian Yorkey (book/lyrics); Pulitzer Prize for drama (Song: I Am the One)

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Urinetown

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Mark Hollman (music and lyrics), Greg Kotis (book and lyrics); Tony for Best Book, Best Score, Best Direction (Song: Too much Exposition)

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Avenue Q

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Robert Lopez (music, lyrics), Jeff Marx (book, music, lyrics); Song: The Internet is for Porn

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Book of Mormon

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Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, Matt Stone; 9 Tony Awards

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Mama Mia

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Book by Catherine Johnson; Jukebox musical with ABBA songs

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In the Heights

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Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes; 4 Tony Awards (Song: 96,000)

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Hamilton

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Lin-Manuel Miranda (book, music, lyrics); Life & times of Alexander Hamilton (cast with mostly non-white actors)

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Archival vs. Revisionist Revivals

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Archival is having a revival of the exact original show; Revisionist is when you make adaptations to make the show more appropriate for contemporary audiences (like Porgy & Bess revivals)

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Wicked

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Music, lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin), Book by Winnie Holzman; Blockbuster Mega Musical (Song: Defying Gravity)

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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark

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Director Julie Taymor; Rock Musical and Blockbuster Mega Musical; Lost $60 million

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Musicals that won a Pulitzer Prize

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Of Thee I Sing, South Pacific, How to Succeed In Business…, Fiorello, A Chorus Line, Sunday ITPWG, Next to Normal

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