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\Defying Gravity\: Queer Conventions in the Musical \Wicked\
The musical \"Wicked\", which opened on Broadway in 2003 and is the top-grossing musical of the twenty-first century, features certain elements of a contemporary megamusical, including spectacular visual effects, musical themes that thread through the score, and global capitalist marketing, distribution, and production practices. But, as I demonstrate in this essay, \"Wicked'\"s narrative and musical structure relies on the building blocks of the \"integrated\" musical developed and conventionalized during the 1940s and 1950s by Rodgers and Hammerstein and their peers. By starring two women as its principal characters, and by employing mid-twentieth-century musicals' conventions of speech, music, lyrics, and dance, this prequel to The Wizard of Oz tells a queer and feminist romance. This essay explores recent scholarship on musical theatre to consider how \"Wicked\" navigates the politics of race, how it represents a remarkably appealing girl protagonist, and how it interpellates its audience through old conventions to tell a new and progressive story.
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Media and performance in the musical : an Oxford handbook of the American musical, Volume II
The American musical is a complex, multivalent, collaborative form of popular and commercial art and entertainment, which both reflects and influences culture and society. The chapters in this book explore the various media in which American musicals are created and the people who work to bring a musical to life. The first part of the volume includes chapters that examine new stage musicals and revivals, film musicals, television musicals, and animated musicals. The second part of the collection examines the various theatre workers' jobs that are crucial to musicals' production in performance: producers, theatre owners, orchestrators and arrangers, directors, designers, actors, singers, and choreographers and dancers.\"--Backcover.
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Performing Jewishness In and Out of the Classroom
[...]with anthropology and religious studies majors in the room as well as a small cohort of serious theater students, book and theater performance knowledge productively supplemented experiential knowledge. [...]our students' knowledge of Judaism and Jewish culture, either through their experiences or through their other coursework, enhanced our understanding of the texts and performances we encountered each week.
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Histories of the musical : an Oxford handbook of the American musical, Volume I
\"This book explores the American musical from both the outside and the inside. In particular, this book concentrates on large-scale, philosophical issues of relevance to the genre, considering historical situations and formal procedures as they bear on the narratices we make concerning productions and performers, artists and audiences, commerce and context. The first four chapters discuss ways of defining histories and texts of the American musical, and also explore formal choices made by singers and dancers; the second group of chapters takes up the subtle challenges of the genre's signal transformations out of minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley to integration and beyond.\"--Backcover.
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