The Musical as Drama

does not lie behind this musical but is actually represented in the musical, taking shape as a tableau before our eyes. This mig ...

Seurat is long dead at the beginning of act 2. His great- grandson is there instead. The new George cannot get his mod- ernistic ...

scenic effects, and as the figures of the Seurat painting return to the stage, standing in different places this time, a sort of ...

scenes. But they are not omniscient. Omniscience is for the or- chestra, unless the orchestra is placed on the stage. These are ...

opera in its comic scenes of rehearsal of the so-called “Hanni- bal” and performance of the so-called “Il Muto.” Scornful of wha ...

but is being turned into twentieth-century computerized tech- nology, and this is smart thinking about the craft of theatre. Wit ...

Phantom in this regard like other people? Is he different? What lies behind his mask, and how can Christine and the au- dience r ...

you are not alone... Whereupon “she kisses him long and full on the lips” while the orchestra plays gorgeously in approval. But ...

This seems promising, as though it might be a recognition scene for the Phantom too. But he has no response. Instead, there bein ...

Lucy’s earlier “Alms” motif. This is a deliberate “clash” (Sond- heim’s word for it) among reprised segments of earlier songs, a ...

Nor ten men, Nor a hundred Can assuage me— I will have you! The final line—“And I’m full of joy!”—is the musical climax of the r ...

With actual shepherd On top. Sondheim’s superb sense of rhyme makes it certain that the versifying of Ira Gershwin, E. Y. Harbur ...

The film musical is now gaining a valid aesthetic form of its own. Through most of its history it has served a long appren- tice ...

a bit uncomfortable, looking at a stage, which is sometimes said to be “all the world,” but there it is anyhow, a stage. Every- ...

because they define a dance space to be transgressed and come as close as possible to transgressing it without losing a step. Th ...

musical Chicagooccurs, while it may from time to time seem to be Roxie’s apartment or a law court, is really the stage of a nigh ...

make movie performers appear to be singing (they aren’t). There is nothing odd about this in a film. On a stage, however, lip-sy ...

Chapter Eight WHAT KIND OF DRAMA IS THIS? Releasing the Demon: Kierkegaard on Repetition S TAGE musicals depend on such incongru ...

and Langston Hughes in Street Scene(the young lovers break apart at the end, after the girl’s mother is murdered by her husband) ...

of the illegitimate theatre, the Broadway posse. Teenagers in America testify to this experience, as can be seen in recent ret- ...