The American Musical
The direct predecessors of the American Musical
What were Vaudeville and Minstrel shows?
The creator of realism acting
Who was Konstantine Stanislavski?
New, unusual, and experimental work
What is Avant Garde?
Using historical events as metaphors for the present
What is historicization?
Created by FDR to pull the USA out of the Great Depression
What was the New Deal?
The "first" American Musical
What is "Show Boat"
Influenced by Darwinism and studies humans through a scientific lense
What is Naturalism?
The creator of Theatre of Cruelty
What is Verfremdungseffekt?
At it's peak, employed 13,000 people
What was the Federal Theatre Project?
Who are Rodgers & Hammerstein?
Emphasis on realistic human behavior and motivations
What is Realism?
The method to purify the soul
Creator of Epic Theatre
Who was Erwin Piscator?
Satirical retellings based on news leadlines
What are Living Newspapers?
An On Broadway theatre
What is at least 500 seats?
The father of Realism
Who was Henrik Ibsen?
Plots that are not linear
What are cyclical and nonsensical plots?
Helen Weigel, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Caspar Neher, Karl von Appen, Paul Dessau, and Hanns Eisler
Who are the Berliner Ensemble?
Created by Joseph McCarthy to investigate communism
Rent, Spring Awakening, Footloose
What is a Pop Rock Musical?
Famously taught realism in the USA
Who was Uta Hagen?
Yes.
What is Dadaism?
Like a TV show's plot structure
What is Episodic structure?
Artist who's show was canceled and moved to Paris after HUAC investigation
Who was Hazel Scott?