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Oscar Hamerstein&Richard Rodgers
based on green glow the lilacs 1943
Turning point due to the amount of unification in the song and dance
First dream ballet
About 2 groups of ppl in Indian territiory in early 20th century the Farmers and Ranchers |
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most famous songwriting duo
only wrote 11 shows
Oklahoma
The king and I
The south pacific
The sound of music |
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1957
Book-Arthur Laurents
Choreographing-Jerome Robbins
Music-Leonard Burnstein
Lyrics-Steven Sondheim
Contemporary retelling of romeo and juliet in upper east side
2 gangs Jets(americans) and sharks(puertoricans)
Turning point: plot is told during song and dance
dance then fight during
drama happening in song and dance |
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1915-2005
Pulitzer in 1949 for Death of a salesman
Most known for taking greek ideas and transfering to american lives
higly critical of politics
Married to marlyn monroe
*Death of a salesman
The crucible
After the fall
All my sons* |
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1911-1983
2 Politzer 1948, 1955
Known for racism characters speak poetry
Shocking subject matter
*The glass men a gerie
Cat on a hot tin rouf
Street car named desire* |
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1928-
Lives in Houston
Won the politzer 3 times
1967, 1975, 1994
obsurdist movement
wit heightned language sneedy
*The Zoo Story
Who's afraid of virginia wolf
The goat or who is silvia* |
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1940-2008
Noble Prize for literature in 2006
Fairly politicial playwright-also directed/acted
Comedy of menace-bread no I dont want to get bread
Pinter Pause-dialogue stopped but action has not
*Dumb Waiter
The homecoming
Betrayal* |
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1906-1989
Nobel Prize literature 1969
One of greatest writers of 20th century
*Monotomy
Failures in communication
End game
Waiting for godoth* |
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1927 40 year career as playright
politzer in 1991
Known for comedies, comedies about ppl who live in new york
*Star spangled girl
Barefoot in the dark
The odd couple* |
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1931 composer lyracist/known for hummable quality of music
simple easy to remember
Hello Dolly-Loui Armstrong
Mame- Busom Buddys
La cage aux pholless~I am what I am |
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Movement that began as an anti comercial thar
In late 1940's
Farther south and smaller
Could be different types of spaces
Rent opened on broadway is now off
smaller shows play off broadway |
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All over New York City
Fairly Anti Commercial
even smaller
where innovations come from
Very Experimental |
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1921-1991
new york shakespear festival in 1954 |
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1967
One of first to high profile cast in color blind way
Fostered off boradway movement in general
The Fantasticks-1960 written by harvey schmidt and Tom Jones
Sullivan street playhouse
Small before stage props /adden/ matt and luisa fall in love and find truths about life |
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Due to creation of NEA
Cities across America had access to topical professional theatre as a result
Regional thars became proving grounds for shows that might eventually go to Bway
Have run into increasing trouble as result of cuts to funding of the national and state levels
Notable regional thars founded by women
The Guthrie-Minneapolis
The Alley-Houston
Arena Stage-Washington D.C
Actors theatre of Louisville-Louisville |
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moving further from golden age-shows less attended
white flight-wealthy white families moved to suburbs
Time square became dangerous/television lowered broadwayattendance |
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U.K
Femanist Playwright
Epic thar-Brecht-Critique gender roles sexuality
*Cloud 9* Top Girls |
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1930
Politzer 1984 sunday in park with george
Complex intelligent music and lyrics
unsuspected subject matter
concept musical-may not have plot
Bicentennial-Colonization of Japan
*sweeney Todd
Company
Into the woods* |
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1948 Extravagent sweeping musicals
*Jesus Christ superstars
Evita
Phantom of the opera
cats* |
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1970 Landmak
George Furth Book
Sondheim music
Directed Hall prince |
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1945-2005
Playwright
Pulitzer award in 1987&1990
known for the poetic realism in his works; The Pittsburgh Cycle
Famous Works: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The piano Lesson Fences, |
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1943
Actor and playwright
pulitzer prize in 1989
Play deal with topics such as family the american west and nostalgia
*True West, Buried Child, Fool for love* |
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1947
Playwright
Pulitzer in 1984
known for his outspoken views on everything
Mamet dialogue
*Glengarry, Glenn Ross, Speed the plow, Oleanna, American Buffalo* |
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1950-2006
Pulitzer Prize in 1989
intelligent women in her worlds, exploring the pressures and frustrations of modern womanhood
*Uncommon women and others, The sisters Rosenweig, The Heidi Chronicles |
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1939
Playwright
Career spanning 5 decades
*Love! Valor! Compassion!
Corpus Christi
The full Monty
Ragtime* |
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1952
Composer&lyricist
Known for highly idiosyncratic works often about loss and familial struggle
*Falsettos, A new Brain, The 25th Annual putnam county Spelling bee* |
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A trend in broadway musicals in the late 1980's
-Andrew Lloyd Webber
-Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain boublil |
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1956
Playwright
Pulitzer in 1993
Works characterized by complex
*angels in america both parts* |
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Part 1 Millennium Approaches
Part 2 Parestroila 1992
Most important work of 2nd half of 20th century |
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Rudy Gullioni Becomes mayor and wages war on crime
Cleans up streets/put away drug dealers and prostitutes
Gentrification/ low property value neighborhoods start to rise /neighborhoods loose character starts in chelsea gay neighborhood
Dinsney invests in broadway
1994 beuty and the beast starts in palace that 1999 moves
1997 lion king0New amsterdam that |
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1952
director of stage production and films
Colerful bold unusual choices in works
*lion kin musical
freida movie
Across the univer
Tempest* |
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1951
Controversial topics, sexabuse, insest,prostitution
Femenist wrighter
Baltimore Waltz
How I learned to drive- young woman has a pays relation with uncle but is some how okay because he teaches her to drive |
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Collections of pre existing songs with new book
based around work of one particular artistes group |
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Routes in gilber and sullivan & Oppereta
Forbidden broadway-parodys of what was on broadway
urinetown-town with water crisis in which you have to pay for the restroom
The producers
Spamalot
Title of show |
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2003 music&lyrics steven schwartz novel by greg mguire
tells story form the which's point of view |
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Playwright and screen play writer/language dentate misanthropic
*Mercy seat
Fat pig
Shape of things* |
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Playwright and actor
member of steppanwolf
pulitzer in 2008
lives of people in western states
*man from nebraska* |
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| August: Osage County 2007 |
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3 act play
family on way to self destruction
originally in steppanwolf in chicago
then to broadway 648 performances |
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2008
Lin Manuel Miranda
Community in whashington Heights NY
Mostly hispanic
winning lottery ticket sold at store in community |
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A reexamine of traditional attitudes and ideas
The material presented to audience
recycling of text and theory and concept |
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1934 director and theorist
1967 founded performance group/post modern artist and performers
1992 Founded east coast artists/ grouping of post modern that artists
insturmental in performance arts studies in universities |
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1937 director and playwright
Founded ontological hysterical theater
wanted to move attention of audience from conflict to imagery/props/Idiot savor/Each person watching gets a different experience |
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using extremes time and space
Big collaborator especially with music artist
*Phillip glass
Tom Waites
Ruffus Wainwright* |
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1951 director/theorest
co founder of the city company with suzuki
Charles me
*development of viewpoints* |
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Spacial relationships
architecture pays space, how far
Floor pattern
shape
gesture |
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Time kinesthetic response
Tempo
Duration
Repetition |
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Americana
Definition/value of art
Nostalgia; images from time gone by |
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