MUSI10192 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Jukebox Musical, Intellectualism, Seussical
23 Jul 2018
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Jukebox musicals: mamma mia opened in london 1999, broadway 2001- female creative team, stage musicals based on existing songs woven into a story, others jersey boys, we will rock you, boy from oz, american idiot etc. Movie adaptations: broadway shows have long been adaptions of other things e. g. cabaret . Ishe(cid:396)(cid:449)ood"s sho(cid:396)t sto(cid:396)(cid:455: shrek, once, hairspray, ghost, bring it on, mean girls etc. Intellectualism: often influenced by sondheim, experiments with the form of the musical, often musically adventurous. World music: broadway begins to portray ethnicity on stage, not always written by people of that ethnicity. Self-reference ironic comedy: these shows poke fun at themselves and the world around them, often will be referential of other musicals e. g book of mormon. Flaherty and ahrens: successful writing team of blockbusters and adaptations, anastasia (also wrote songs for the movie, rocky. Ragtime: pe(cid:396)iod setti(cid:374)g (cid:894)ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s(cid:895, costumes were naturalistic, very large cast, role of ensemble representing different groups in society.
