MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nanette Fabray, Kurt Weill, Cheryl Crawford
21 Feb 2017
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Music 2tt3 lecture 7 love life and cabaret. A musical that focuses more on projecting a central metaphor or notion rather than storytelling. Examples of concept musicals: lady in the dark, allegro, love life, cabaret, company, Follies, a chorus line, chicago, sunday in the park with george, assassins. Self-reflexive: to be looked at as object not just form of entertainment, musicals want you to think more critically. Concept musicals often draw on forms of musical theatre to frame the show: nightclub acts: cabaret, vaudeville: love life, chicago, assassins. Vaudeville was the early form of american entertainment, circa late. Revues are variety acts, no plots rather a variety of acts: musicals: a chorus line. Frames often have diegetic performance element to them. 1) the frame is more important than plot or character. 2) the musical is a vehicle for socio-political commentary.
