MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Scenic Design, Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents
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Refers to a type of performance made up of talking , singing, and dancing: the theatre that speaks, sings, and dances. Bernstein wanted to separate the musical theatre genre from europe and their traditions: wanted to elevate the genre of the musical, building on the shoulder of composers and writers that took on different roles for musicals. Most successful musical of bernstein"s > westside story. Many people come together in order to make a musical, so there isn"t really a hierarchy of producers. Musicals may start from books, plays, or any other medium. Any range of entertainments that: has been produced in a designated commercial theatre in new york city. 4 dozen theatres: create compact rectangle centred on broadway between 39th and 54th street. In london, england there is also such a district called the west end. Costs more to produce a broadway musical on broadway then it does to do this in the.
