MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture 11: Mar30_Urinetown
26 Apr 2017
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Whereas the impact of aids has been devastating on all of the arts, musical theatre has suffered disproportionately. Aids ended the lives of composers, lyricists, playwrights, performers, directors, choreographers, dancers, conductors, orchestrators, designers, and producers all of them potential teachers and mentors to a new generation of practitioners. Howard ashman, lyricist: little shop of horrors, beauty and the beast. 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 theater. In general, musical theatre artists had two different responses to this new broadway: to look to the past. 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.
