Music 2701A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Edna Ferber, Song Plugger
18 Nov 2015
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Lecture 6: the 1920s and 1930s (show boat, anything goes, pal joey) What musical theatre scholars say about show boat: (cid:120) first successful musical play the fist outstanding precursor to. Importance placed on a superior libretto, based on a literary source, serious topic, complex plot. Now the play was the thing, and everything else was subservient to that play. Now came complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single and inextricable artistic entity. What operetta scholars say about show boat: (cid:120) argue that distinction of musical play was developed well after show. Boat"s composition, and is therefore meaningless: operetta scholars: musical play didn"t exist so writers did not write a musical play because they had an operetta in mind. Black blood people not allowed to marry white people, but her lover steve is and she did anyway. Another guy loves julie so he goes to the sheriff and rats them out.
