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Music Theatre Flashcards

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Period one

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Operetta
Early 1900s
Took opera concept and made it into slapstick comedy

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Patter songs

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So many words it’s hard to sing

“I am the very model of a modern major general”

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Florenz Ziegfeld

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Ziegfeld follies

  • song + dance + comedy (variety show)
  • novelty/circus acts
  • sketches
  • tableau vivant
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Tableau vivant

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Basically almost naked ladies (seen as innocent and pure)

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Tin Pan Alley

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Famous in roots of pop music

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Period 2

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1920s and 30s
American versions of music theatre
Songs and dances interrupt flow of show

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Irving Berlin

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Major songwriter of period 2
Father of American music
Wrote 24 shows
1914-1962

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Jerome Kern

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Some guy

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Ragtime

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First “pop” musical

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Showboat

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Ziegfeld + Kern collab
Worked with Hammerstein
1926
Racism + it's sad
Serious dialogue
Song+dances have nothing to do with story
Story is intense and dramatic

New genre - serious themes integrated into story

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What started happening to Broadway musicals in period 2?

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They became films

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Period 3

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1940s and 50s
More realistic plots
Balanced elements
Some of best musical “standards”

“Golden age”

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Oklahoma

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1942
Oscar Hammerstein II (diff from before) + Rodgers
-explores relationships
-not musical comedy
-from now on main drive is WRITER
-songs related to stories
-dream ballet - dance used to advance plot

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Collaborations in period 3?

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HUGE

Very important

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Guys and Dolls

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1950
Loesser
“Golden time” of Broadway
Crapshooters dance shows influence of Oklahoma (dance used to advance plot)

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The Sound of Music

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1957
Hammerstein II + Rodgers
Operetta
Hammerstein’s last show

17
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Period 4

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1960 to now
Social changes and new attitudes included in plot
Rock musicals popular

18
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West Side Story

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1957

  • lyrics + dance (not ballet, not tradition, ACTION in movement)
  • Jerome Robbins (choreo), Sondheim (story), Bernstein (music)
  • Romeo and Juliet in NYC (modern)
  • it’s ok to die/be raped and stuff in a musical now
  • –darker stories
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Stephen Sondheim

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  • Sweeny Todd
  • -murder + cannibalism in 1800s London
  • –can you scare an audience like movies can? (Thrilling)
  • moved beyond concentration of typical romantic plots to darker grittier sides of life
20
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Modern day musicals

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Much harder for success

If a show doesn’t do well you’re screwed

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9/11/2001

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Resurgence came at the lion King

Disney takes over

22
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The Black Crook

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First musical that resembled modern day
Dance and music helped tell a story
Controversial
Ran 474 times

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Gilbert and Sullivan

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Pirates of Penzance

Popular

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Vaudeville

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Variety show (early musicals)
Music/sketch/etc
Aka minstrel shows

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Great Depression

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Success rate down

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Federal Theatre Project

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Created to allow unknown artists to try out new methods of production
Shows had little or no cost, so audiences could afford to see them

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

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Hammerstein wrote lyrics, Rodgers set the, to music
Worked together for 17 years
Integrated plot with music
Won a loooot of awards together

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Movie Musicals

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  • 20th century fox - gold-played blonde policy (all about profit)
  • Metro Goldwyn Mayer - musicals can be entertainment and art
  • Broadway stars brought into film
  • became popular during the war
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New concepts in period 4

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  • more varied musical genres and styles incorporated
  • pop musicals
  • exploration of darker themes and issues
  • intended messages of racial intolerance
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Mega musicals

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  • pop musicals
  • heavily influenced by pop musicals
  • large cast and sets
  • usually unique identifiable effect (ex falling chandelier in phantom of the opera)
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1980s and early 90s - movie musicals

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Movie musicals went on hiatus
Revived with Moulin Rouge! And then Chicago in early 2000s
Now many are released (ex La La Land)
Some TV shows have musical episodes (The Flash, Once Upon a Time)

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