THE MUSICAL

Origin is in black reviews and minstrel shows and operettas.

The Black Crook added a stranded French dance company and the Broadway musical was born. 1866

African American musical comedy reviews

Ragtime

Bob Cole’s Trip to Coontown1898

Full length musical comedy

Huge success

White face/played to mixed race audiences

Gilbert and Sullivan/Offenbach

Elite audiences

Comic opera

Telling stories through music

Plot more important than the singers

By the turn of the century the musical is extablished

Babes in toyland, Naughty Marrietta

Victor Herbert

Little Johnny Jones

George M. Cohen

First Phase of the Golden Age-Musical Comedy

1900-1930

comedy, youthful , sexy, patriotic

Dancing for dancing

Movement was featured

Songs witty and fun

jazz

George and Ira Gershwin

Lady be Good, girl Crazy

Vincent Youman

No, No Nanette

Tea For Two

Jerome Kerns

Sunny

Cole Porter

Anything Goes

Rogers and Hart

Babes in Arms, A Connecticut Yankee

Lady is a Tramp

Up in Harlem

Leubrie Hill and Bert Williams

Darktown Follies

Eubie Blake

Shuffle along

I’m just wild about harry

The Second Phase-Musical Drama

Serious Plots

Showboat

Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein 1927

Adapted from the Edna Ferber Novel

Dealt with race relations in america

Old man river

Of Thee I sing-The Gershwins

Political theatre

Won the pulitzer in 1932

The first musical to so this

Pal Joey

Rodgers and Hart-1940

From the New Yorker stories Amoral gigolo and his street-wise friends

Strippers and petty thieves

Many musicals followed that

Cradle Will Rock by Mark Blitzsien

Lady in the Dark by Weill Hart and Gershwin

Psychological dream ananlysis

Attacked the outdated conventions of the day

Oklahoma

Rogers and Hammerstien

FOLLWED By Carousel, South Pacific, the King and I, Flower drum Song, and The sound of music

Like realism was dealing with problems

West Side Story and On the Town

Bernstien

The Contemporary Musical-The Artists

The Golden Agers

Jerome Robbins

Trained dancer and actor

Directed and choreographed

West Side Story, Gypsy, Fiddler

Gower Champion

Dancer on Broadway

Lighter Fare

Bye Bye Birdie

Carnival

Hello Dolly

42^nd street

Bob Fosse

Started Choreographing in the 50’s

Pajama Game, Damn Yankees

Developed one of the most recognized styles

Chicago

Sex Sex Sex

Caberet (film)

All That Jazz

The Latter ones

Tommy Tune

Only one to win 4 Tonys for leading and featured actor, director, choreography

Tap Dancer

My one and Only, Grand Hotel and Will Rogers Follies

Michael Bennet

Chorus Line

Company and Follies

Stephen Sondheim

The most influential composer of the latter 20^th century

Lyrics for West Side Story

Company, follies, a Little Night Music, Sweeny Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Assassins and Passion

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Cats, Jesus Christ Super Star, Chess, Aspects of Love, Phantom, Evita, Sunset Blvd. Etc

Pop

Allan Boubil and Claude Michel Schornberg

Les Miz and Miss Saigon