Class #1 Background. Our resources… Broadway: The American Musical 3-part dvd by PBS musicals101.com A terrific web site by John Kenrick.

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Class #1 Background

Our resources… Broadway: The American Musical 3-part dvd by PBS musicals101.com A terrific web site by John Kenrick

Where does it all begin? Greek theater (5 th Century, BC) Roman theater (3 rd Century, BC) Middle Ages Religious Dramas Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutum Hildegard of BingenOrdo virtutum Renaissance French Commedia Dell’arte Pulcinella (Igor Stravinsky) Pulcinella Opera (Italy) England Ballad and Comic

Baroque Opera Arias, Recitatives, Chorus Little dramatic action Quality of the singing Excessive stage tricks Aristocratic/Noble audience

Mozart & DaPonte

What’s new? Everything! Character development! Subconscious thought! Ever expanding ensembles! Middle-class target audience!

Operetta Paris, Vienna and London Vernacular Spoken dialogue Comedies Predictable characters, plots and situations

Paris: Jacques Offenbach Popular yet refined music Silly plots Spoken dialogue Happy endings La Belle Helene (1864) La Belle Helene

Vienna: Johann Strauss More refined and “classical” music Spoken dialogue Infectious melodies Die Fledermaus (1874) Die Fledermaus

England: Gilbert & Sullivan W.S. Gilbert (librettist) Pioneering stage director Arthur Sullivan (music) 14 comic operas (Richard) D'Oyly Carte Opera Company Pirates of Penzance (1880) (Kevin Klein)Kevin Klein “Topsy-Turvy” 1999 “Three Little Maids Are We” Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles

England: Music Halls Legitimized saloons Intermingling of classes 300+ in London by 1875 “Ye Ole’ English Music Hall” 1926 “Ye Ole’ English Music Hall” Stars included Laurel & Hardy Charlie Chaplin

Next week… Before Showboat i.) Review of Vaudeville, Minstrel shows, Variety, Burlesque. ii.) Integrated musical vs. Musical comedy and reviews iii.) Florenz Zeigfeld and the Follies iv.) George M. Cohan v.) Irving Berlin (1) Influence of World War I

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