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Based on the 2007 Israeli film. Egyptian Police band lost in Israel. 10 Tony wins, including Best Musical. Best Example of Representation to date. Lebanese composer, Iranian Orchestrator, Jewish Playwright, Lebanese leading actor, Eastern European leading actress, Israeli Yemenite supporting actor, etc.

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A musical about the landing of planes in new foundland. Ali is there to represent all the middle easterners. there's fear, harassment, and disrespect. and "The Prayer" the "you don't look American!"

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opened around a decade after 9/11. Agrabah is the exotic other. it's full of stereotypes. controversy over ethnicities. it's merely a crowd pleaser. fourteen years and counting. in 2011 70% percent of the roles were played by white people.

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terrorist attack on American soil where they attacked many public landmarks but most notably, the twin towers. begins the war on terror. after 9/11 there was a huge sense of nationalism, terrorist were the common enemy, but the anti terrorism view became anti muslim.

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"Harem girls" refers to women living in the private quarters (harem) of a Muslim household, encompassing wives, concubines, female relatives, and servants, often depicted in art and literature as exotic, hyper sexualized figures.

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the Peddler - Ali Hakim

Businessman dealing in Oil

Lurid Hyper sexual Arab - Harem Girl

Shows like Desert Song, and Kismet.

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a setting was put on characters to be the "exotic other". like the stereotype from minstrelsy of the light skin brown woman. we see it in the desert song.

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a survey of musicals between 2000 and 2019.

Composer lyricist,

White Males 77%

Female 18%

Minorities 6%,

Female minorities 1%

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21% Percent of New Yorkers live below the poverty line, the top 5% make 88 times more than the bottom 20%.

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the Highest grossing musical of all time at 1.9 billion dollars in sale. NYC loaned out 3 million dollars so less than 1 percent.

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The New Blockbusters,

1. Phantom of the opera

2. The Lion King

3. Mamma Mia

4. Wicked

Hamilton makes almost 4.9 million dollars, Harry Potter and Cursed Child for 3 million dollars.

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James Raymond Lloyd (born 1980, Poole, Dorset),[1][2] known as Jamie Lloyd, is a British theatre director. He is best known for his work with his eponymous theatre company The Jamie Lloyd Company. he's known for minimalism and Expressionism. He's my favorite director of live theatre.

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Where a producing core will hire a celebrity often as a lead, solely to sell tickets even if the celebrity is not good in the role. this is one the reason why Chicago is still running. likely starting in the 90s with the casting of Rosie O Donell, and Brooke Shields in Grease! to sell more.

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Is Stunt Casting KILLING Broadway's Authenticity?

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The awful, unauthorized production of Hamilton done by a church in Texas where they changed words to make the musical christian, the show was, like quite a few church musicals, absolutely awful. the only Highlight was the guy who played Burr

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[COMPLETE SHOW] Hamilton (aka Scamilton) - The Door Christian Fellowship

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today's theatre mostly explores identity and other social issues like race and sexuality. even though these ideas are not new they have new meaning now that the exploration is more public.

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Although he's not a composer who solely writes classical music, he's one of the most famous composer of the modern day, he has multiple grammy's and he's still producing more hits.

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A contemporary Musical Exploration where a composer takes two genres and mixes them to create a new sonic-scape. my favorite composer to do this is Jacob Collier.

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The Current King of Broadway. he's most well known for Hamilton, but he's also had huge success with In the Heights, and Moana, as well as with directing like Tick Tick Boom. his most recent work is Warriors which is currently in development.

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during the 2020 pandemic, many composers, and playwrights wrote musicals, or were able to produce albums for musicals they had already written, musicals like Epic, In Pieces, and the Violet Hour.

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Classical Music right now is at its lowest point, and I think part of the problem is that people want new things and for too long we've only focused on the past. just like in theatre it's great to perform the classics, but eventually we need to move on from just doing Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach. I had to google new composers so I could get more names than just Jacob Collier, Nareh Sol, and Phillip Glass. There's very little that is new. we are still exploring similar things that we were exploring decades ago (minimalism, and technology as instruments) I know that technology is always evolving, but music needs to do more that just evolve with it.

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The movie adaptation of the second act of the musical Wicked. I didn't think this was the best adaptation, but I think it was an improvement in many aspects of the original act. I was surprised to see the second act be entertaining, but I do feel it struggled from being the second act because the emotion was high the entire time and eventually became tiring, not boring, just tiring.

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The movie adaptation of the first act of the musical by the same name some things changed, but I honestly think that Cynthia Erivo is the best Elpheba ever, but I wished that they either didn't change the riff at the end of Defying Gravity, or that they changed the riff to match in One short day's story section. because the entire point is that Elpheba matches the prophecy perfectly but instead she matches on some things but not all.

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A contemporary composer. his primary style is minimalism he's mostly known for his etudes and his opera Akhenaten. (it stars my favorite counter tenor, Anthony Roth Costanzo)

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A Contemporary Classical Composer and Conductor. he was know as the dean of American Music, the slowly changing, open harmonies in his music, are typically what people consider American Music, He is best known for the works he wrote in the 1930s and 1940s in a deliberately accessible style often referred to as "populist" and which he called his "vernacular" style. in his vernacular vein are his ballets. My favorite of his pieces is Cat and Mouse.

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In Minstrel music there are two very obvious influences, there's an aspect of Irish music with the melodies of many early minstrel songs almost matching perfectly to the songs of Irish Jigs, as well with a syncopated harmony line that has influence in Ragtime music. it's the definition of an early integrated musical style were a white style (Irish Jig) and black style (Ragtime) Weave to create a new purely American style.

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the "Disney Effect" came from an increase in tourism. and in investment in to tourism in New York being safe. there was also a chance of rezoning

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started with Zigfield Follies with a rehearsal space, then to a movie theatre, the a porno theatre, then to the "Disney theatre" after being reopened in 1996 before the lion king, they put in small things but nothing ran until lion king opened in 1997 before it moved in 2006 for Mary Poppins, then Aladdin came in in 2014.

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in 1975, NYC owed 435 million dollars in debts they only had 34 million dollars in operating budget. Abraham Beab was the Mayor. they owed so much money because people were moving because of white flight. All of NYC bonds were going to default. Banks across America, the Dollar was depreciating, the Dow dropped 10 points. other city bonds stopped being traded. New York State had already bailed the city out. 150 million dollars worth of bonds were bought by teachers. City workers were laid off, Sanitation Police and Firefighters. in 1975 the famous ticker in Timesquare shut off. NYC building began falling apart. by 1979 there were 250 crimes were being committed on the subways alone. in 1981 Rolling Stones called the area around time square called it the sleaziest block in America. by 1984 2300 crimes were being committed in a 1 block area of time square. time square is also known as the us capital of porn. in 1993 the death clock was installed in time square for gun violence in 1993 4000 crimes were committed around time square. in 1994 mayor Dinkens loses to Rudolf Giuliani. the reason Giuliani is seen as important in MT history because he met with Michael Isner and Disney Giuliani said Look me in the eye they (the porn shops) would be gone. Disney wanted to renovate the Amsterdam theatre for Lion King. this is the effect of the broken window policy. the Amsterdam theatre was started for the zigfield follies.

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Minsky's Burlesque was a brand ofAmerican Burlesque presented by four sons of Louis and Ethel Minsky: Abraham 'Abe' Bennett Minsky, Michael William 'Billy' Minsky, Herbert Kay Minsky, and Morton Minsky, They started in 1912 and ended in 1937 in New York City. Although the shows were declared obscene and outlawed, they were rather tame by modern standards.

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Oscar Hammerstein I'd theatre named for the fact that he stayed afloat after many lawsuits. in 1900 renamed to the Belasco Theatre/the Republic. Taken of by Minsky's where it then is closed down after Laguardia cracked down on Burlesque where it was changed to a movie theatre called the victory. in 1972 it becomes the first theatre to only show porn.

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a way to remember the names of victims of the AIDS epidemic. while some deaths would go unnoticed and remains would go uncollected.

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We can not undervalue the impact that this show had on AIDS. Experiences like Angel's where they wouldn't bury him is not unique and was happening all the time.

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A two part play by Tony Kushner, the work has won numerous awards including a pulitzer, and a Tony. The play is a complex, often metaphorical, and at times symbolic examination ofAIDS and homosexuality in the United States in the 1980s. Certain major and minor characters are supernatural beings (angels) or deceased persons (ghosts).

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A largely auto biographical play by Larry Kramer, it focuses on the rise of HIV/AIDs in American and LGBT culture.

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after merging in 1992, two organizations that are set to battle aids. They've raised at least 300 million dollars, one of the biggest non federal organizations of HIV/AIDS

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a musical by Jerry Herman, the play focuses on drag culture and the people under all the makeup. it was a complete 180 to the shows people were used to seeing from Jerry Herman.

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a 90's graffiti artist

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The first cases reported in 1981 initially called GRID referred to as a "gay cancer"

in just 3 years, over 3600 deaths in America from AIDS

President Reagan does not mention AIDS until 85

frustration over lack of governmental help, act up and gay mens health crisis created

caused a negative stigma of gay men as disease spreaders, God's punishment for the lifestyle. even though straight people were also getting it. It is now a totally manageable condition.

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A rewriting of three one act musicals that combine the story into one single show.

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One of the three one act musicals that was later turned into Falsettos

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The second installment in the Falsettos trilogy later into just Falsettos,

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a 1979 play written by Martin Sherman. It revolves around the persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany, taking place during and after the Nigh of the Long Knives.

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a collection of three plays by Harvey Feinstein, the play is in three acts: International Stud, Fugue in a Nursery, and Widows and Children First! The story centers on Arnold Beckoff, a Jewish homosexual,Drag Queen, and torch singer who lives in New York City in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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A play by Matt Crowley, The play revolves around a group of gay men who gather for a birthday party in New York City. the play was famous for its portrayal of gay life.

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conservative backlash against disco as the "gay identified" music genre places held events of "book-burning-esque" for anti Disco.

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the Nazi's learned from the American Segregation and Discrimination of African Americans

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one of the first LGBTQ leaders to hold office.

the man who killed him got released by saying he ate too many Twinkies and the chemicals affected his brain and made him kill two men

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APA removes Homosexuality as a mental disorder

first nondiscrimination measures voted in

leaders like Harvey Milk in SF elected

Briggs Initiative to firs gay teachers in CA defeated

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a response to Vietnam. in cities like NYC things like cocain and dancing the night away to forget the horrors of Vietnam and how bad we feel about it. Struggle between those focused on sexual freedom and those focused on respectability and increased visibility.

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already underground, it was a cheap way to get booze. one night Marsha P Johnson said "fuck this" and threw bricks to fight back. began the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement. a year later is the first gay pride parade in NYC. Obama made Stonewall a National Park.

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Thousands of LGBT people lose their gov jobs Homosexuality sent into the shadows Sodomy laws, Anti-Transvestism, and Bar Raids. Mail rooms used to track mail to out homosexuals. the government outlawed drag.

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A discothèque, is an entertainment venue or club with recorded music rather than a live band. where we get discos, and eventually the club culture we know today.

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A German Dancer, Actor, and Writer. she was scandalously androgynous, she made a name for herself by wearing an insane amount of makeup.

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A German Poet, writer and Dancer, known for his performances in Underground counter culture.

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18th century language: "Cant" its a patois it's made up of British Italian and French language. Used in the 1900's until c. 1970 in the UK. it's a made up language for the gay community which gave us words like "Bod" the term "butch" the word "camp" the word "Dish" "naff" "hoofer" words coming back "Trade" "Troll"

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the word Gay comes from the French word Gai which was originally used for sex workers. in the 20s it became associated with homosexuality in the 20s.

"Go gay" with flashy clothes, campy attitudes

the word Homosexual doesn't actually appear in the Bible the French came up with the term to group sailors that were homosexual pulling from the greek words for man and sexual.

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the balls were men held balls to come out to each other as gay men. the idea of coming out to non gay people didn't happen until the 1950s.

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because she was seen as more aggressive therefore more masculine, and was labeled a diva.

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The Popularity of "Pansy" performers, like Jean Malin and Rae Bourbon

Singers, Dancer, Emcees with campy effeminate bitchy mannerisms and jokes

Homosexuality expressed ad double entendre jokes.

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from the 20s when Pink became for girls and blue became for boys. this is really when gender roles started to relax in more than just the performance spaces. LGBTQ artist are becoming more popular, and drag is becoming more popular.

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1.Bars gave people in the community gave people a place to meet one another

2.Bars Needed Performers to draw in crowds

performers tailor their acts to the taste of the audience

3.Performers tailor their acts to the taste of the audience

4.performances start to reflect the thoughts and feelings of the audience

5.new patrons start learning expressions from the performers

6.culture begins when art reflects real life and real life is informed by performance.

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born as an enslaved person. later in life she dubbed herself the queen of Drag. she started leading house parties for white and black men dressed in drag. even in the home of pierce Lafayette, one of the former slaves of the vice president of the Confederacy. Swann was arrested at one of the parties, and asked for a pardon and was denied it. the balls had cakewalk and pose contests.

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It is part of the Travesty Tradition in Opera and Burlesque. The Idea of gender as a construct is not new, cross dressing and Things like the Castrato playing masculine characters date back centuries. likely were Drag came from with the dress dragging on the ground. the dame role is still living in British Pantomime Tradition. is the reason why the trunchbull is always played by a man in Matilda. Pantomime is a weird tradition. Known at the turn of the Century as "female Impersonators" in 1878 there was a "transvestite" pinafore were all the characters were played by the opposite gender.

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a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by David Ives, inspired by the surrealist films of Luis Buñuel.The show, which premiered in 2023, follows a group of wealthy friends whose attempts to have dinner are repeatedly thwarted. It is considered Stephen Sondheim's final musical, with the composer having sanctioned the project before his death.

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Proshot on Youtube

After Listening I found the musical's plot complicated, but easy to follow. I found the Relationship between the captain and the old lady to begin loose but strengthened as it went.

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A show about the people who have attempted to killed presidents. reflecting their crimes to the darker side of the American dream.

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There is a lot of Leitmotif in Into the woods. each Motif represents a different object or idea. A story about children growing into adolescence. There are three common themes in fairy tales

1. A change in Station

2. Coming into Adulthood

3. A happy Ending

Into the Woods flips these on it's head,

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a minimalist composer who greatly influenced the music of Sunday in the Park with George

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Marked with notes of repetition, drone and Motifs, consonant harmonies and processes of Gradual transformation. the importance is on the change. when the change is revealed it shows the composer.

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Using a minimalism style of music, it's about the passage of time and the affect your decisions now will have on your future generations.

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The Director after Hal Prince. he was a visual artist which made him think differently from Hal Prince. He helped Sondheim create the idea for Sunday in the Park With George. they decided to make a musical about the missing person in the painting by telling about the painter.

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About Teenagers going through life but in reverse. it talks about how dreams often fail. and shows how the pursuit can infect the dream.

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Completely underscored and not quite an opera but very close. it's most commonly done by Opera Companies because of how hard it is to sing.

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | New York Philharmonic Concert

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Sondheim's reaction to American Imperialism in Vietnam. the last big revival was in 2004 when the US was in Iraq

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EGOT winner born in 1938

Orchestrated: Promises promises, Company, A Chorus Line, Merily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, The Color Purple, A gentleman's Guide, Here We Are

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thought to be the first Naturalistic show. the first shows to be more realistic. thought to be the first non linear concept musical. Marriage is the metaphor for the concept. Based on the plays of George Furth's plays from therapy.

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The producer-director for many of Sondheim's show. he went on to write Company

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written with Richard Rodgers, Sondheim called it a pity Collaboration. just after Hammerstein's death. even Rodgers thought it was a bad musical. he was no longer innovating. he also gained some of the more sour personalities of his old friend. he looked at Sondheim and told him his lyrics were shit. Solidified that no one would ever write the music ever again. it also showed that the genius behind Rodgers and Hammerstein wasn't Rodgers

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A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

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A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

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based on Plotus and other greek comedies. its definitely a farce. Sondheim was working with George Abbott people were not laughing but they knew it was funny. Abbott told Sondheim to call Jerome Robbins. who told them the opening number was too serious that Sondheim took to heart. Robins said don't write the jokes in the songs leave that to the director.

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Cobden and Green would have written it but they were writing Singing in the rain. Sondheim was approached, but didn't want to write it because he couldn't write the music, but Hammerstein told him to work with the talented people and write music later.

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using both his lyrics and his tune, he created a powerful psychological insight of characters, abstract and intellectual work, and bigger and nonromantic theme.

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Music Reveals the psychological subtext. Music Writing is an art. He tried to get his teacher to teach him how to write atonal music, but he said learn to write melodically and the atonal music will come.

He studied with Babbitt. He said in regards to babbitt "I am his maverick, his one student who went into the popular arts with all his serious artillery."

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a contemporary version of the synthesizer that Babbitt used.

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Modular Synth (not a spaceship, this is an instrument)

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He worked on writing Avant Gard classical music with early synthesizers.

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went to Williams college and studied under Robbert Barrow. who taught him how to use theory to write music. we worked with Milton Babbitt. who was known for Neo classical music with early synthesizer. he was also interested in pop music he also tried to write a musical for Mary Margret. they also studied Bach and Mozart. the study of symphonies taught him pacing. Babbitt wanted to teach Sondheim to write like Jerome Kern.

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1. a song is a little play and it must be necessary to the play.

2. Content dictates form; how the song is written is influenced by what you are writing.

3. less is more,

4. God is in the details.

* all of this creates clarity.

5. Lyrics are not poetry.

6. lyrics must sound like speech.

7. perfect rhymes are best.

8. balanced.

Lyrics are revealed in time

if you put too many lyrics in time they aren't understood

9. Writing lyrics are a craft, not an art

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A Sondheim musical from 1955 with words and music by Sondheim and a book by Julius Epstein, based on the play on the front porch by Epstein. It was intended to premiere on broadway, but after the death of lead producer, it was shelved.

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Sondheim was mentored by Hammerstein where he was blessed with Critical Honest, the Musical-ization Challenge, and Ruthlessness. Sondheim sent Hammerstein a musical and asked for his thoughts he asked to be treated as a professional and Hammerstein said it was the worst thing he had ever read, he then spent two hours telling him what didn't work and why it didn't work.

Take a play that's good

Take a play that is flawed and fix it.

Take a non play story

Write and original

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Oscar for Dick Tracy

Grammy for Send in the Clown

Tony for a whole bunch of stuff

Pulitzer for Sunday in the Park with George.

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it's a coincidence that the Kit Kat Klub is the KKK, but when Cabaret was being created Hal Prince wanted it to be a direct reference to the racist south. the ending was supposed to have videos from around America to visualize the references.

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When The parties switched on the Electoral Map. to us today, the Realignment looks like a change in values; These values did not change, instead which value was considered the predominant of the party. before the "Switch" both parties were liberal and Conservative, but eventually the parties began to lean specifically liberal or Conservative, and with that there was a change in who considered themselves Republican and who considered themselves Democratic. The values of the area did not change; the values of the people did not change. the only thing that changed were what they called themselves.

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A term Based of the Character of Babbitt from the Sinclair Lewis. the Term also inspired Bilbo Bagins and the Hobbits.

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A style of theatre at explore the use of public space to create private personal experiences.

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Signed by MGM to be a singer for Movie Musicals she was hired mostly because she was light skinned. because she wasn't black, she was often cast as the secondary female; Unlike the black actors.

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A jazz Singer signed by MGM for Movie Musicals she was hired mostly because she was light skinned. because she was black she wasn't allowed to show any love. she wasn't allowed to be integral to the plot of the movie. she usually showed up diagetically as Lena Horne.

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with the music of George Gershwin and lyrics of Ira Gershwin. this was an all black musical. it was one of the Derwin's biggest flops.

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The Move Uptown from (1920-1929) Harlem became the Cauldron of almost all "Black Music" with it came Rhapsody in Black. swell as the review group the Black Birds.

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When Black people started to move into traditionally white neighborhoods in cities, White people fled to Suburbs where it could be more controlled who could live there. Primarily known for happening in St. Louis

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the act of restricting who can buy a certain house in order to control the average race of the area. the counter act actions to remove Red Lining.

1. Illeagal

2. Against Contract

3. Threats to the Real Estate Agents

This was done because zoners assumed that if a neighborhood was black it would be considered to be less valuable. the Red districts that came from this were deemed risky for banks to mortgage to.