MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Public Theater, Ricky Gordon, Jeanine Tesori
2 Apr 2017
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Music 2tt3 lecture 10 urinetown: the musical. Whereas the impact of aids has been devastating on all of the arts, musical theatre has suffered disproportionately. Larry kert is tony in west side story: nicholas dante, co-author, a chorus line, fritz hold, co-producer: la cage aux folles, michael peters, choreographer: dreamgirls, michael jackson"s thriller video. By the 1990s, a new broadway had emerged in full force and it had a transforming effect on musical theatre. In general, musical theatre artists had two different responses to this new broadway: 1) to look to the past: Jukebox musicals: 2) to look for new directions. Revivals were not new but their pervasiveness was: 14 of the 20 seasons between 1950 and 1970 saw no broadway revivals; of the remaining 6, only 1 season had more than 1 or 2. Since the 1990s, revivals started to outnumber productions of new shows. More recently, new shows have started to make a comeback.
