MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: The Public Theater, Michael John Lachiusa, Ricky Gordon
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Broadway at the end of the millennium. Rent (1996: creators, etc, other composer-lyricists, connecions between rent and its source, puccini"s opera, la boh me, uniicaion devices, themes, broadway at the end of the millennium. Brain-drain to and compeiion from other entertainment media. Whereas the impact of aids has been devastaing on all of the arts, musical theatre has sufered disproporionately. Aids ended the lives of composers, lyricists, playwrights, performers, directors, choreographers, dancers, conductors, orchestrators, designers, and producers all of them potenial teachers and mentors to a new generaion of praciioners. Michael bennet, director-choreographer: a chorus line, dreamgirls. Howard ashman, lyricist: litle 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 efect on musical theater. In general, musical theatre arists had two diferent responses to this new broadway:
