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The Emergence Of Musical Theatre

The Emergence Of Musical Theatre. Part One Ms. Lirette. Vocab. chassé : ( sha -SAY ) “to chase” A triple step gliding movement (step, close, step)

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The Emergence Of Musical Theatre

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  1. The Emergence Of Musical Theatre Part One Ms. Lirette

  2. Vocab • chassé: (sha-SAY) “to chase” A triple step gliding movement (step, close, step) • pas de bourrée: (pahduh boo-RAY) A sideways movement or transition step where a person steps behind, to the side, and then steps to the front.

  3. What is A Musical? • A performing art Form that combines • Singing • Spoken Dialogue • Acting • Dancing • There is an Emphasis on the Music, hence “Musicals”

  4. When did we start calling them musicals? • What was the first musical? • What makes a musical unique from other performing art forms?

  5. Roots: Ancient 5thCentury BCE Grecian Theatre amphitheaters comedies and tragedies Greek Chorus Aeschylus and Sophocles

  6. Roots: Ancient • 3rd Century BCE Roman Theatre • Plautus’s comedies • Sabilla = tap shoes! Flinn, Denny M. (c. 1997). Musical! : a grand tour : the rise, glory and fall of an American institution. New York: Schirmer Books.

  7. Roots: Western Europe • Medieval • Christianity • Liturgical chant • Mystery plays • Pageant Wagons

  8. Roots: Western Europe Renaissance Commedia dell’Arte

  9. Roots: Western Europe 18th and 19th Century Opera Buffa intermezzo “Enlightenment” from La ServaPadrona (Pergolesi) Premier September 5, 1733

  10. Eastern roots and branches Chinese Opera Boats Taiwanese Opera Indian Dance Sanskrit Drama Replica of a Cantonese Red boat From late 19th early 20th century

  11. Roots: 19th-20th century Europe Ballad Operas Comic Operas Operetta W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan 14 comic operas between 1871 and 1896 The Mikado H.M.S. Pinafore Pirates of Penzance

  12. “I’ve Got a Little List” from The Mikado Patter song As some day it may happen that a victim must be found,I've got a little list — I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground,And who never would be missed — who never would be missed!There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs — All people who have flabby hands and irritating laughs — All children who are up in dates, and floor you with 'em flat — All persons who in shaking hands, shake hands with you like that — And all third persons who on spoiling tête-á-têtes insist — They'd none of 'em be missed — they'd none of 'em be missed! 

  13. America! • What was being performed? • Burletta • Minstrel shows • Music halls/saloons • Burlesque • Pre-cursors to Vaudeville • musical comedies featured characters and situations taken from the everyday life of New York's lower classes and represented a significant step from

  14. Emergence of a new art form? Musical comedy September 12, 1866

  15. What makes a musical a musical? • Emphasis • Stephen Sondheim said, "I really think that when something plays Broadway it's a musical, and when it plays in an opera house it's opera. That's it. It's the terrain, the countryside, the expectations of the audience that make it one thing or another.”

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