Music 2701A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Craig Lucas, Adam Guettel, Uffizi
10 Oct 2017
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Lecture 4 - the secret garden & the light in the piazza. Menotti, etc: use of classical music idioms to evoke romance and times past, depicting period stories. They don"t just die, they stay in the show: some characters directly interact with ghosts: Archibald craven says specifically that when someone dies, they"re only a ghost if someone left behind holds onto them. Awards: tony nominations in 1991: best musical, best book of a musical, original score, 2. Nominations for featured actress in a musical, scenic design, costume design. Actress daisy eagan - mary: eagan at age 11 youngest female recipient of a tony. Presents the basic premise of the house being haunted by the ghosts of the past. Told not to wander around the house, but she does it anyways. Find out later that the crying is colin, archibald craven"s sickly child. Lily is there, stuck there because of her concern for the family she has left behind.
