Music 2701A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Sexual Revolution, Aaron Tveit, Transvestism
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Lecture 12: sex, drugs & rock & roll (rent & next to normal) Is a musical theatre work which contains rock music. Began in 1965 as a series of a workshops at ellen stewart"s la mama. First performed at joseph papp"s public theatre in 1967. Some major marketers: use of rock and roll music, the rock band/combo, declaring itself rock. Casting subversions: found actors taken from the streets, not at all trained, but rather real and raw. Music: rock, gospel, r & b, soul-all alien to early broadway. Ideological subversions: not the america of oklahoma! , sexual revolution, drugs, civil rights, anti-war, irreverence of the. Hair brought the ideal of the youth counterculture to stage. Music, lyrics, and book by jonathan larson. Began previews off-broadway at nytw (new york theatre workshop) in late. Opened on broadway at the nederlander theatre on april 29, 1996. Rent is a fusion of several elements, including:
