The Musical as Drama

cabaret, a metaphor for Nazism on the rise, and then leave it behind as though one were free of the experience. We have been in ...

their soil, the Japanese have rigged a gangway of straw mats leading into the Treaty House. The mats and the floorboards are to ...

reach its own form of closure, through the kinds of repetition that lyric is capable of, and when the three singers join in thei ...

goes without saying—for that is the show we are seeing at this moment, an American show that pretends to be created from a Japan ...

These numbers stop the show. “Someone in a Tree” stops it because it surrounds a book scene that is not there, a turning point t ...

The other side of “Your Turn” is “Next,” the Westernized rock-and-roll extravaganza with which the show ends.^19 The entire comp ...

crucial book scene from our view and supplies a boy singing in a tree about the scene he cannot see either, for the benefit of h ...

the form. Integration is a political word too, and it means some- thing different from coherence. Integration means the blend- i ...

mance. These shows push in the direction of aesthetic in- tegration, and their political implications are imbued with conservati ...

the momentum of greatness in the plays of August Wilson. Many of the conventions we have been discussing for the mu- sical are a ...

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Abbate, Carolyn, 68 “Adelaide’s Lament,” 70 Adorno, Theodor, 31n “Advantages of Floating in the Middle of the Sea, The,” 207n Af ...