PPT-Musicals

Margo Gordon Allison Venida Pooja Shah History of Musicals Illustrations of show musical begin with Americas first talkies First Musical Jazz Singer 1927 Musicals from 1930s focus more on dancing than singing there was a combination of music singing dancing and spoken dialogue . Chapter 9 . from . Learning About Dance. textbook by Nora . Ambrosio. History of Jazz. Origins of jazz can be traced back to Africa. In the 1600’s slaves were brought from Africa to America. The slaves continued to dance and drum on the plantations. , Chapter 15. Spectacles and Boardrooms – . “As If We Never Said Goodbye”. 1980-1999. David Merrick and Gower Champion. "The Lullaby of Broadway". The first musical hit of the 1980s was a musical comedy based on a classic . 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, . Kyra Britton. 1. The lion king . The lion king is the highest grossing Broadway musical of all time, with a Broadway gross of $1.09 billion. It opened on November 13, 1997, and it is still running today. . Something’s Coming – From West Side Story. Task: Copy and complete the glossary below. Word. Meaning. Extravaganzas.  . Melodramas.  . Minstrelsy.  . Dissonance.  . Blue notes.  . Syncopation. EXPLORATIONS. (1624-1880). Chapter 3. “The Music of something beginning”. Broadway’s early years. We date the start of the American Musical from “The Black Crook” in 1866. But was it really the first Broadway musical?. Kenrick, . Musical Theatre, A History. Chapter 16. James Joyce’ THE DEAD. The year 2000 found the Broadway community quite unsure of what the future of musical theater could be. . James Joyce's The Dead. (1970-1979). Kenrick. , Chapter 14. “Vary My Day”. The Rock Musical. HAIR inspired several new rock musicals.. TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA (1971) was a rock, multiracial adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy that first played in Central Park and then ran for almost 2 years on Broadway.. A Lasting . Legacy. From MUSICALS 101website. by John . Kenrick. Birth of a partnership. Richard Rodgers . and . Oscar Hammerstein had . known each other since they worked on varsity shows at Columbia University. . Keenan Parra. Beverly Ramos. Vivek. Reddy. Chris Ruiz. Daniel Yi . History of Film Noir. French phrase meaning “black film”. Film Noir was identified in 1946 following World War II and the German occupation of France. June 2, 1944-August 6, 2012. "Music can make a difference. There is a global nature to music, which has the potential to bring all people together. Music is truly an international language."-Marvin Hamlisch. Week 15. [Part 1]. Introduction to Theatre. College of the Desert. Realism. Realism in the last half of the 19th-century 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. The Musical Setting the Stage Heart of the musical lies in its music and those who sing and dance to it The music functions as an extension of the character singing (shows their personality, ideas, motivation, etc.) 1943 - 2000’s. Terminology. Overture. Prologue. Soliloquy. Reprise. Finale (Ultimo). Solo, Duet, Trio, etc…. Ensemble. Entre Acte. Libretto. Book Musical. Synopsis/Overview. Review/Critique. Rodgers & Hammerstein.