Theater History
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 John Gay | 1st ever librettist- the musical script (dialogue) The Beggars Opera |
| Jerome Kern | Lyricist/book/plot writer for Showboat |
| Florenz Zeigfeld | The Follies and the great sandow |
| Cole Porter | Anything goes |
| Gilbert and Sullivan | 1st duo in musical theater history, earned their own category, most significant and most important in history, so significant opera was never performed in london again. first team ever to copyright their musical work. shows- hms pinafore, pirates of penzance, the mikado |
| Oscar Hammerstien | did well but went down hill and didnt have a hit for almost a decade |
| Richard Rogers | shared a successful career with Lorenz hart 1935-1942 their famous shows the boys from syracuse, on your toes, pal joey, babes in arm. |
| George Gershwin | dropped out of high school, worked in tin pan alley, a plugger he was signed, from 1920-192 gershwin wrote 45 songs for musical comedies, their music and lyrics matured through a number or musical comedies black spirituals rhapsody in blue, concerto in f, and american in paris. |
| Agnes demill | niece of famous hollywood director cecile d demille.. dancer and choreographer was wuite successful at the american ballet theater. oklahoma! was agnes' first broadway attempt |
| Rouban Mammoulian | considered the first major director of braodway. with his background in realism mammoulian was unwilling to let the singers think of themselves as less than actors. changed american theater staging and directing. |
| Blackface | blacking up, burnt cork |
| Lyricist | ... |
| Score | the music throughout the play |
| Vaudeville | first clean show created by tony pastor. peoples gender, race or appearance were of no barrier to their succes. anything that was inoffensive and entertaining belonged there. |
| Medium time | good theaters in a wide range of cities |
| Composer | write of music |
| Libretto | ... |
| Tinpan Alley | row after row after row of music buildings music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popluar music of the us in the late 19th century great american songbook |
| Small time | small town theater grungy, dirty |
| Big time | the finest theaters in the best cities most pay |
| Freak act | ... |
| Dumb act | no speaking |
| miscegenation | marrying outside your own race |
| the great sandow | mags act buff man |
| significance of showboat | multi racial cast, first ever to create underscoring, marked the beginning of the srious musical |
| significance of porgy and bess | first all black cast on broadway, accurately depicting the southern black experience and culture. created a completely american score for a serious drama |
| significance of oklahoma | the complete integration of music lyrics and dance all moving the plot forward, opening number simple pastoral scene' the use of professionally trained dancers the dream ballet sequence |
| significance of he princess theater musicals | changed the format of musical theater, the plots dealt with subjects more closer to the heart. every line funny or serious was supposed to move the plot forward. the musical numbers should move the plot forward also. |
| ballad opera | racey in nature, lower class poking fun at higher class, songs were popular songs from the day, very short songs. |
| vaudeville | singers, dancers, specialty acts, dumb acts, freak acts, family acts, novelty acts, rising stars place number 5,7th was closing spot, |
| golden age of musical theater | quality of work was high |
| annie get your gun | ... |
| the beggars opera | ... |
| south pacific | rogers and hammerstien |
| boys from syracuse | ... |
| porgy and bess | gershwin mammoulian |
| showboat | kern and hammerstien |
| the mikado | gilbert and sullivan |
| anything goes | cole porter |
| kiss me kate | cole porter |
| oh boy! | ... |
| OKLAHOMA! | rogers and hammerstein |
| carousel | rogers and hammerstein |
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