He was taught piano from his father. when his father left his mother began to abuse him by projecting her feelings about his father onto him.

the Opera was Commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal. which I find similar to the idea of the industrial musical.

Pirates of Penzance was the only of the Gilbert and Sullivan Productions to premiere in America due to America's lack of Copyright protection for foreign works

Minstrelsy was the first Purely American Art form, It began as a comedic interlude in Burlesque shows but eventually gained more popularity as stand alone productions, Minstrel shows were seen as controversial from both sides integrationist saw it as offensive due to the distortion of black people in their portrayal. meanwhile, Segregationist thought it was problematic because it viewed escaped slaves with empathy and a non threatening light.

Side note:

In elementary school in PE we were taught to cake walk and we did it at assembly for all the parents. the next year I moved to Nixa. I wonder if my parents knew what a cake walk was.

Composers used many different musical gestures to evoke a non-musical concept. Some musical gestures appear to be literal representations of their non-musical counterparts. For example, Sergei Rachmaninoff uses an uneven 5/8 time signature throughout The Isle of the Dead in order to suggest the rocking of a boat.^[3] In Richard Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, the composer uses the orchestra to mimic the sound of an irregular heartbeat and labored breathing. The Symphonic Poem was the result of the Hungarian composer Franz Lizst combining ideas from other great composers. ideas like, Cyclic forms previoususly developed by Beethoven and thematic Transformation developed by composers like Mozart.

He graduated from Harvard, where he was also the first African American to earn a doctorate degree. he was one of the founders of the NAACP. he embraced socialism, and later became a professor at Atlanta University. after the Second World War, he was targeted by the FBI for ties to Communists He died in 1963 at the age of 94.

Aimed specifically at elite audiences worked with Villy Johnson and the other Johnson brothers.

Bert Williams was the only black person to ever get an offer to join the zeigfield follies.

Legacies

The Scottsboro Boys

Chicago(Cellofane)

Rockefeller

J. P. Morgan

Turn left and do the cakewalk prance,

Turn the other way and do the slow braf

Now take your lady to the World's Fair

And do the rag-time dance.

All across southern America brass musicians began to play ragtime together creating things like municipal bands and "Dixie land jazz bands"

when the black indentured slaves were freed they were given a plot of land it was placed outside of the wall so the natives would attack them first.

The Dutch came to the new world for a port city to have an economic space.

New York benefitted from its natural geography in multiple aspects. in the more modern day, due to the bedrock sitting underneath the soil has allowed for buildings to grow taller and taller with a foundation that has a similar footprint to the building above. it also has a natural Harbor allowing ships to be protected from the dangers of the sea. it also has a convenient location when is relation to Europe allowing it to be the hub of trade to Europe.

in 1895 NYC had 298 companies worth more than one million dollars.

It was the first time that you could live in one place an work in a different place.

Construction was led by Roebling Sr. then taken over by his son and then taken over by his son's wife.

to prove the structural integrity of the bridge they had PT Barnum walk with elephants across the bridge.

Black People and White people intermingled in The Five Points. as well with the Irish. this is where Dance traditions from the Juba Tradition meet with the Irish step Dancing. and they have DANCE OFFS!!! with this came the first invention of tap dancing.

debunked, far-right white nationalist conspiracy theoryclaiming white Europeans and ethnic French people are being deliberately replaced by non-white, especially Muslim, immigrants through mass migration and declining white birth rates

Joseph Fields

Herbert fields

Dorothy Fields

II - Test Act

III - Flash Act

IV - Momentum Act

V - Headliner

Intermission

I - Dumb Act

II - Test Act

III - Flash Act

IV - Headliner

V - The Haircut act

Immigrants used it to tell "nativists" I'm here. they could be Italian and Irish and other ethnic groups on stage. it was an example of the American Dream. although it was helpful, people still had to live into the stereotypes they were living into.

Boy Loses Girl

Boy Gets Girl Back

in George M Cohan the man taking the girl away isn't an older man it's a British man.

before Black Tuesday 42 shows

1929-1930 34 shows

1933-1934 13 shows

in the 30s a mass migration to Hollywood happened

His advice:

the playgoer follows the plot,

think extensively before writing,

continue improving.

Harbach's Rules:

The story must be compelling

Everything Serves the story

Ethel Merman was an American singer and actress. Known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and her leading roles in musical theater, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage."

his grandfather was the wealthiest man in Indiana. he was very cultured and educated. he went Yale. he wrote 300 songs he went to Harvard and studied law, but he hated it so he switched to studying music.

Gershwins

Hammerstein

Rogers & Hart

all moved to Broadway

1. Richard Rodgers, Composer

2. Oscar Hammerstien II Lyricist

3. Lawrence Langner - Founder of the Theatre Guild,

4. Theresa Helburn - Executive Director

5. Lynn Riggs - Wrote the play Green Grow the Lilacs

He was to Roger a partner, best friend, and a constant source of irritation.

He wrote many waltz and he was a master at it.

1. The Waltz

2. The love duet

3. The "Exotic" Tune

4. The Dance Tune

5. The Uplifting Hymn

"My Obsession: plays combined with Music"

She originally wanted to be an actor, but was told she wasn't pretty enough, so she turned to dance. she choreographed regularly for Rodgers and Hammerstein, most notably in Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Allegro.

1. when he says bill

2. at my boy bill

3. I don't give a damn what he does

   1. Rhythm Patter

4. My boy bill

5. my kid aint even been born yet

   1. Ragtimey

6. What if he's a girl

7. It a Girl?

8. My little Girl Waltz

9. You gotta be a father to a girl

   1. Waltzy

Preview in Boston in 1925. it had two characters called Mr. and Mrs. God but it became the starkeeper. After the Previews they would meet after the show in PJs and they would learn their notes for the next show. the show was 4 1/2 to five hours long. in the first notes meeting they cut down all the songs cut 5 scenes 2 songs and half the dream ballet. There is not an Overture but instead a prologue called the Carousel Waltz. There is a single source that states that the Waltz was written for the Paul whites man orchestra but wasn't accepted the same one that played Rhapsody in Blue. the Revival with Audra won every single Tony it was nominated for. the First scene, the Bench Scene it is the most important moment in the revolution of contemporary musicals. it is 20 min sets and 300 bars of music. The heart of If I loved you is two broken individuals having a feeling they can't express and its ruins themselves and their families. It opened in New York April 19th 1945. Rodgers was injured due to a football accident and had to watch in the back on a stretcher. Irving Berlin saw one of the early performances and he said that You'll never walk alone would have the same religious impact as Psalm 23. The show Ran for two years.

managing their vast catalog (including Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The Sound of Music) and other writers like Irving Berlin, and later expanded to represent contemporary talent.

A song commemorating the devastation of World War II in Europe.

Greedy -

Domineering -

Mimetic Desire - A trained behavior. from the Desire for something like a job, comes Community Conflict. from the conflict comes projection of blame. when all of this is done on a greater scale it's called scapegoating.

The original version was a rock musical that focused on Vietnam. they wrote beat like poetry words. It's' the first musical brought by Joseph pap to the public theatre. the show slowly became more pop and the story started to revolve around the protagonist's choice to enlist or not. they used absurdist improve techniques. in the same year, the village voice condemned hair saying it exploits every up to date issue. at the tony's it was beaten by 1776. audiences were scandalized by the strong use of vulgar language, and the sexual uses of the musical, and the end of act I including non sexual nudity. it went not just once but twice to the Supreme Court for profanity.

a Canadian-American composer, pianist and writer of musical theater. he won a Grammy for a song called 'African Waltz'

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.

Grammy for Send in the Clown

Tony for a whole bunch of stuff

Pulitzer for Sunday in the Park with George.

Take a play that's good

Take a play that is flawed and fix it.

Take a non play story

Write and original

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

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."

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

1. A change in Station

2. Coming into Adulthood

3. A happy Ending

Into the Woods flips these on it's head,

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.

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.

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

Homosexuality expressed ad double entendre jokes.

• "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.

first nondiscrimination measures voted in

leaders like Harvey Milk in SF elected

Briggs Initiative to firs gay teachers in CA defeated

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

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.

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.

Composer lyricist,

White Males 77%

Female 18%

Minorities 6%,

Female minorities 1%

Businessman dealing in Oil

Lurid Hyper sexual Arab - Harem Girl

Shows like Desert Song, and Kismet.