PPT-20th Century Theatre: Musical Theatre

Week 15 Part 1 Introduction to Theatre College of the Desert Realism Realism in the last half of the 19thcentury began as an experiment to make theater more useful to society The mainstream theatre from 1859 to 1900 was still bound up in melodramas spectacle plays disasters etc comic operas and vaudevilles. A History. Forward by John . Kenrick. “Let’s start at the very beginning…”. Did Broadway’s GOLDEN AGE end in the 1950s? 60s?. OR. Is the theatre itself “an art form of the now.. ”. January 12, . Norwegian . . English. Norwegian. . Music Traditions. The first instrumental traditional music in Norway was called . Slatt. . . The Folk songs were passed down through generations using oral transmission . A HISTORY. CHAPTER TWO. CONTINENTAL OPERA (1840-1900). “TYPICAL OF FRANCE”. According to the French, everything of value in western culture originated in France. What is the truth? Drama and cuisine were first cultivated in Greece. History. Broadway refers to the 40 large professional theatres with 500+ seats in the theatre district and Lincoln Center in Manhattan, New York.. It is also the name of a street in New York . “The Great White Way”- name given to the theatre district because of all of the bright lights, this was one of the first electrically lighted streets in the US. From . American Musical Theatre . by James Leve. CHAPTER ONE. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s . Oklahoma!. opened in 1943 and ran for 2,212 performances.. Produced by The Theatre Guild. Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960). Early Influences. What is Musical Theatre?. mu·si·cal. . the·a·ter. . noun: musical theatre is a genre of drama in which singing and dancing play an essential part. It is an American creation. Revival styles. Colonial Revival style. Tudor style. Chateauesque. Mission. Modern Styles. Prairie . Craftsman/Bungalow . International. Early 20. th. Century Revival: Colonial. Similar to Georgian, Federal, Adam, Greek Revival. 1800-1915. American theatre. - starting to develop its own flavor. - up to this time borrowed from English . theatre. - early drama sparse. - the church controlled events. - theatre was viewed as sinful. This was a unit of the government funded by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was established to combat unemployment.. Headed by Hallie Flanagan Davis, at its peak it employed 10,000 people in 40 states.. Musical Form Please take handout I. Musical Form (5 Variations on a Theme) B. Form as musical architecture A. Form as balance of unity/variety I. Musical Form (5 Variations on a Theme) B. Form as musical architecture Life at the turn of the 20 th Century. African Americans led the fight against voting restrictions and Jim crow laws. As Americans had more time for leisure activities , a modern mass culture emerged. What is the relationship between a society, a culture or a historical time period and its Theatre?. In what ways can Theatre reflect life?. What are some ways to tell from which historical time period a play originates?. Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically forward toward 20th century Modern art. . Cubism . in its various forms inspired related movements in music, literature and architecture. . th. Century. Julian Franks. London Business School, CEPR and ECGI.  Colin Mayer. Sa. ïd Business School, Oxford . University, CEPR and ECGI . Hideaki Miyajima. Waseda University and RIETI. Introduction.