Revues
1890’s - 1930’s
Elements loosely related to overarching theme
elements of everything and fantasy and choruses
Video: Pioneer work (about a guy in a minstrel show)
Bert Williams
•1st popular black performer
•Ziegfeld- ‘I can fire anyone except him’
•Integrated broadway
•Cofounder of an education program
Video: Ziegfeld Follies
Nothing written in notes
Video: “Funny Girl”
•Fanny Brice- girl that’s funny, didn’t be beautiful
•romantic guru singing girl
•not graceful
•”it’s gorgeous to be graceful”
•funny ironic
Variety
•basic skits
•highly disreputable
•in bars or “saloons”
Video: vaudeville
•monkey doing circus like things
•many animals
•horse, elegant
•body building segment
Video: modern major general song
•operetta
•Gilbert(lyricist) and Sullivan (composer)
The first musical to be published as a book
“Of Thee I Sing”
The best known of 1920s and 1930s musical comedies
•Show Boat (1927)
•isn’t a comedy
•didn’t catch on and make a trend in its time
Video: Anything Goes
•originally written by Cole Porter
•2011 Tony Awards
•tap and singing on stage
•I remember a girl in the back of one part who wasn’t doing the tap choreo right, and was sluggish throughout the rest, not having sharp defined tapping
•the lead girl singing took a break to catch her breath before the final part she had
what decades dominated by book musical
40s&50s
•lighthearted and comic elements
• started being made into movies
Video: Finale of Oklahoma
• Richard Roger’s and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote it
• old timey
• crowded on porch
• bride and guy sings
Video: Music man
“Ya got trouble”
•on the street
•old timey
•quick speaking
•upbeat
•talking bad about a pool table, something about causing kids to misbehave and stuff like that
Video: Guys and Dolls
“Sit down, you’re gonna rock the boat”
•Frank Sinatra
•room full of chairs,
•full of men, few woman in one area
Video: West Side Story
“America”
•puerto ricans
• rooftop
• singing and dancing
Video: Fiddler on the roof
Tradition!
•poor, outside
•horse wagon
•not songs at first, then village singing and working
Video: cell block tango
•girl in prison cell then goes to watch
•talks about murdering husband
•some sort of dream life
Video: One
•all gold costumes
•choreo with hat
Video: Sunday in the park with george
•starting with empty stage
• colored clothes
• still
• set drops in piece by piece
•guy making them into a painting
•slowly move
Video: phantom of the opera
I think the costumes were elegant and elaborately extravagant
Video: Jesus Christ music star
•Judas singing
•rock and roll
Video: Hamilton
The battle of Yorktown
•original cast
Extra things
•doing godspell in April, we’ve done it before
•Correll played Dot in Sunday in the Park
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film had a huge impact
Disney films became musicals
