THEA 110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Xenophobia, Dramaturge, Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
13 Feb 2017
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The introduction from your text, the readings in packet #1, readings in packet #2 and all lectures there related. Know your reading assignments: packet readings #1 and #2. Understand kislan"s view as to what musicals do and why they do it. All musical theater embodies the spirit and philosophy of the theater of romance . Song and dance in the service of romantic ideals exclude all other alternatives . Song raises the listener and the singer to a higher artistic level song recalls in the listener personal experiences of deep and highly charged feeling . Musical theater offers an intricate and colorful puzzle for the senses . Each piece complete enough to fulfill a prescribed function, while subservient enough to submit to the total effect of the work. As if by magic, the seams that separate the parts are lost: message of any show must be life is worth it, all musical theater is presentational.
