Form (Part 2)
The shape of a "traditional" Western story.
What is an arc?
"_____, the most beautiful sound I ever heard...."
What is "Maria"?
He elevated the American musical with West Side Story, Company, A Little Night Music, Into the Woods, and others.
Who is Stephen Sondheim?
Blackface performance was a tradition of this first truly-American "artform."
What is minstrelsy?
This is the person who opposes the protagonist.
What is an antagonist?
"Attend the tale of ___________."
What is "Sweeney Todd"?
He starred as Joe in a London production of Show Boat, as well as the 1936 film adaptation.
Who is Paul Robeson?
This type of song that repeats 8-ish bars with minor musical variations before moving onto 8-ish bars that do something different musically and then eventually returns to the first 8-ish bars.
What is AABA?
The highest point, dramatically, of a story.
What is the climax?
"525,600 minutes. 525,000 journies to plan. 525,600 minutes. ________________?"
What is "How do you measure the life of a woman or a man?"
Her choreography in Oklahoma! helped to establish the conventions of the integrated musical.
Who is Agnes de Mille?
This musical had only one performance in its original run and it happened in the wrong theatre with the actors performing from the audience.
What is The Cradle Will Rock?
The event that sets the story into action.
What is the inciting incident?
"Put on your Sunday clothes when ___________."
What is "you feel down and out"?
Adam Guettel is his grandson, so it makes sense that The Light in the Piazza was a non-contemporary sound.
Who is Richard Rodgers?
He directed and choreographed Sweet Charity, Pippin, and Chicago.
Who is Bob Fosse?
The convention Brad never taught you that is exemplified by an opening number that occurs outside of the story arc.
What is omniscient narration?
"When the sky is a bright canary yellow, I forget every cloud I've ever seen. So they call me _________, immature and incurably green."
What is "a cockeyed optimist"?
He died the night before his musical, Rent, had its first preview performance.
Who is Jonathan Larson?
This style of musical uses typically-original standalone songs that don't connect through story, but through a theme.
What is a revue?