Theater Final

Cabaret Composer: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb

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Diegetic they take out every song that you wouldnt actually sing in the context of the play, ie are the characters aware they are singing? Suspension of belief when watching the movie Based on short stories by Christopher Isherwood o Berlin stories Goodbye to Berlin Sally Bowls The Land hour o Made a play before movie: I am a camera o Time between WW1 and WW2 o Cabaret = Candide = Buildings Roma (moral conscious) o People on the fringe, soon to be targeted by the Nazis Takes place in Germany and in a nightclub Kit Kat o Everything that happens in the Kit Kat is commenting on the world that is happening outside Emcee satanic figure (based on Mephistopheles Faust) Club owner beaten Emcee mocking Hitler, uses mud for a moustache Audience of the Kit Kat Club is all people in normal clothing, then some people with Nazi bands, then all Nazis Revival from 1998 Berlin was a very cosmopolitan place many different languages German lies

Thea 101
Anyone Can Whistle 60s type of show pretend to stage a musical fountain that cures everyone Doctor shows up is he really a doctor? o Everyone Says Dont Dont believe in miracles Doctor turns out to be a lunatic?

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The Fantastics longest running musical in history Small theater Rape the girl (abduct her) Rape of the locket poem

Hair

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Hair (The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical) Gerome Ragni and James Rado - lyricists o Wanted to created their own shows, lived in East Village o Rebellious New York Shakespeare Festival o Joseph Papp founder Galt MacDermot Canadian composer 1967 off broadway version Claud, Berger, Woof, Hud Off-broadway Evening Aquarius Dawning of a new age, uses astrology Yogis Roman Polanski - filmer Timothy Leary Primrose I Remember

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM Two Gentleman of Verona Based on Shakespeares comedy Music Malt MacDermot Lyrics John Guare (also wrote House of Blue leaves) Are in Puerto Rico, moving to Milan Becomes pregnant, men dress up as girls

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM Company, A Little Night Music and Follies are three big hits from Steven Sondheim Born in NYC, with divorced parents Very Warm for May inspired to write music Gypsy & West Side Story lyrics, wanted to do music but Hammerstein told him to just do lyrics A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum first show that he did both the music and lyrics Harold Prince producer of musicals, first show he directed was Company

Hair inspired: Rocky Horror, Spring Awakening The Girls Upstairs became Follies George Furth book for Company Song features a busy signal Concept musical not plot Robert has all these friends with marriages with success and unsuccessful stories has to decide whether he would commit Party is a symbol Busy signal humans arent connecting Dont want to be alone on a Saturday night Unromantic music 1940s style music (Andrews sisters) Company 1 is lonely, 2 is boring Barcelona dialogue between Robert and April, after a one night stand o He wants more sex Being Alive positive & negative 2007 revival John Doyle Has the actors learn how to play musical instruments Detailed plot summary of company Follies: Broadway Baby talks about her life

The Road you didnt take youre either a poet or a lover what he wanted to be, but came a rich government worker Im still here worse off than him, been through everything. Ive stuffed the newspapers in her shoes instead of socks etc Could I leave you Phyllis finds out that ben is flirting with sally, could she divorce him? Shes says shes not very upset

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM Ziegfeld Follies Comic numbers, cross between vaudeville and musical numbers, leggy showgirls They might be giants man gets hit on the head and thnks hes Sherlock homes Book numbers songs that character sings to one another Songs that are from the Follies Pastiche songs loving imitation, not a satire Similar to cole porter songs, Richard rogers (rogers and hart) Yip harbor Beautiful Girls Waiting for the girls upstairs - Memories, guys would wait around for the girls upstairs

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM A Little Night Music: Based on a film, Smiles of a Summer Night Book Hugh Wheeler 1900s in Sweden Fredrik Egerman marries Anne Egerman (nave and very young) Waltz time (dance of the period) Hedrik is at home, Fredrik is a lawyer and they have not had sex yet Blue = pornography

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM Chicago musical vaudeville numbers based on vaudeville performers or is vaudeville Based on two historical murders A satire on America in the 1970s and 1920s. Based on the 1920s, characters daydream about 50 years from then, 1970s when the musical was produced Everyone wants to be famous Funny Honey, Losing My Mind (Follies) torch song sentimental love song, lamentation of lost love Funny Honey very Bretch like, songs commented on the scene If you were in the same situation you would have done the same thing Not guilty Not physical love, other kinds of love justice, legal procedure They both reached for the gun lawyers are corrupt, clients are their puppets ventriloquist

A chorus line Documentary musical Group of dancers with personalities Dancers are constantly being judged, how do they look, dance, how tall

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM Japanese Kabuki play (all men) Pacific Overture The reciter- the host? Not easy to invade a floating island Shattered by warships No female singers End of their way of life, the way that theyve chosen to love

Chrysanthemum tea His mother has been poisoning him the whole time Someone in a tree sondheims favorite song Interacts with a younger version of himself Pebble not the stream Fragment of the day Story begins to be told by people who experienced it, not the historians

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM Recorded as albums first.by rock singers Got people excited for it

Evita Rock opera not a lot of spoken dialogue Politics Cross between Cinderella and Richard III Illegitimate girl who becomes very powerful, supposed to be a hero for the working class Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamboat: Rock music, pop music, reggae, country music Anachronisms reference to something modern in something that is supposed to be old Eva Peron first lady of Argentina Tim Rices idea to make the musical about Evita Needed conflict Shay a educated commoner Peronista saint of all the poor people

Jesus Christ Superstar Rock musical Last five days of his life before the crucifixion Leaves out the resurrection as a god Saw Jesus as a political and historical figure rather than a religious figure Jesus Christ as a celebrity Political leader or messiah

Pilates Dream Reuses themes and motifs Traditional folk song Poor Jerusalem Vision Song Same melody as Pilates Dream Mystery plays the life of Jesus Christ The Church always had a love hate relationship with theater Andrew Lloyd Webber writes one song, releases it to the public and if good response then writes the musical Cats music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by T.S. Eliot Based on a book wrote for children, Old Possums Book of Practical Cats Have names and their Jellicle names Which cat will go to the Heavenside Layer Memory lyrics by Trevor Nunn, not T.S. Eliot Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer

Phantom of the Opera Based on a romance-horror story by Gaston Leroux Novel was a really big hit was a hit and many movies made that were based off of the musical wrote the first song The Phantom of the Opera, recorded it Let your darker side give in to the power of the music that I right Normal life v. life of an artist Tender side of the phantom Sing everything instead of speaking Phantom writes an opera on Don Giovanni Mozart Don Juan Triumphant (rapist, womanizer)

Story of Don Giovanni from his perspective

Mama Mia Jukebox musical music was from pop music, rock music. Musical made around already established music Like Rock of Ages Chess

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber Cold War One Night in Bangkok going to Bangkok for a chess tournament, not for the normal reasons (sex) o more fun to go for a chess tournament ?

Les Mis Based off a book by Victor Hugo Written by Alain Boublil and Claude Michel Schnberg Boublil got inspiration from a street urchin, Gavroche About the student revolution Fewer scenes and plot in the French Version o like a national novel in france Cameron Macintosh producer Herbet Kretzner lyricist Jean Valjean in jail for stealing bread Fantine, her daughter Cossete

Urinetown Music Mark Hollman Lyrcs Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis (book too) came out of a group improve comedy group (Cardiff-Giant) Greg Kotis Neo-Futurists (too much light makes the baby go blind) o Greg was abroad in Paris had no money, couldnt find public restrooms bc you had to pay to use the restaurants ones

town that experienced a drought, no clean water, place where you have to pay to use the bathroom Uses the devices of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill Started at the New York Fringe Festival Musical about musicals staging was reminiscent of other musicals Characters aware that they are in a musical Overture pastiche (imitating another artist)

The Wiz Purely African American Based on the Wizard of Oz Stephen Sondhiems favorite musical

10/23/2012 1:37:00 PM Did Godspell Pippin

Bob Fosse Pippin and his father Charlemagne

The Bakers Wife In the Heights Lin-Manuel Miranda Washington Heights

WATCH FILMS (company)

Chap 32 Know names from 1960s Sweet Charity (musical) o Inspired by Nights in chiberia Jerry Herman o Hello Dolly Charles Strauss Hair o Pg 200 o Know EVERYTHING Chap 33 Chap 35 The Fantastics Forum Gypsy Kander and Ebb o Chicago and Caberet

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Chap 36 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice A Little Night Music Weber and Rice Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita Anyone Can Whistle Two Gentlemen of Verona Follies Chicago Sondheim o Pacific Overtures Sweeney Todd

Chap 37 Marvin Hamlisch A Chorus Line Chap 39

Webber without Rice Cats Starlight Express

Chapter 40 Phantom Chap 41 Les Mis o Plot Chap 42 Chess o Plot Summary Chap 43 Into the woods Assassins tried to murder president Chapter 44 Jonathan Lawson o Tick tick boom Pg 299

Urinetown

Disney Musicals Lion King not like musical Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast

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