THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Speakeasy, Catchphrase, Alcoholism
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Musical genres: tragedy west side story (1957, farce a gentlemen"s guide to love and murder (2013, comedy guys & dolls (1950, melodrama les miserables (1987, drama fun home (2015) Popular + elitist entertainment: greek, shakespeare, musical theatre come together. Singers, comedians, jugglers, acrobats, dancers, animals, etc: evolved from pub & tavern sing-alongs , immediately americanized (music hall saloon) Morality split: burlesque, continuation of barmaid entertainment for wealthy male audience, vaudeville, family-friendly variety acts, minstrel show, roots in plantations, 1853 christy minstrels developed into a fixed 3-act format: I cakewalk (or walkaround) jokes. Iii parody of popular opera or play: extravaganza, popular, spectacular melodramas, lavish sets, dancing girls, music, 1866 the black crook, melodrama + standard ballet troupe = first mega-hit book broadway musical. Elitist/cultured entertainment: operetta, european origins opera + dialogue, comic opera, not sung though, farcical, melodramatic, social commentary, middle class entertainment, w. s.
