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cycle plays
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biblical dramas from medieval Europe
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play masters
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coordinated and staged cycle plays in medieval Europe
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promptbooks
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play masters' notebooks to organize and document the production process
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antiquarianism
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historical accuracy, an ideal which arose in the nineteenth century in the West
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combination companies
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full productions rather than individual stars
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fourth wall staging
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treating the stage space as if it were an enclosed room
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concept
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the artistic decisions meant to communicate a specific interpretation to the audience
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dramaturg
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literary and historical advisor assigned specifically to a production
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auteur
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a director who operates with almost total control over the design team
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metatheatre
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the play comments on the nature of performance and the world as theatre
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new stagecraft
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simplified staging popularized by Arthur Hopkins and Robert Edmond Jones
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casting director
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specialist in finding actors for specific roles
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stage manager
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coordinate a show during rehearsal and performance and keep the director's artistic choices intact during its run
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prompter
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calls out forgotten lines (typically in repertory theatre)
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production manager
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scheduling and coordinating with individual stage managers
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nontraditional casting
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casting minorities in roles not specifically intended for minorities ("racially blind" casting)
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table work
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period of rehearsal dedicated to analysis of the play's plot, major themes, potential problems, etc.
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blocking
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usually a combination of pre-planned and organic
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technical rehearsals
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light, sound, and set changes are added to the show
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paper tech
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director and designers coordinate series of cues in their scripts
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dry tech
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tech rehearsal with no actors
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wet tech
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tech rehearsal with actors and no costumes
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What can blocking accomplish?
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-Can the audience see the actors' faces?
-Are movements definite? -Are actors pointed at other actors? -Is the speaking actor the focus? -Which actors are in focus during movement? -Where are the actors on the set? -How are character relationships intensified? |
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What is the director in charge of?
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all artistic aspects of theatre including textual interpretation, artistic conceptualization, coordination of visuals, and actor coaching
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actor manager
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(17th and 18th century Europe)
leader of theatrical company -made financial decisions -selected repertory of plays -hired the actors |
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Why is 1850 important?
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Repertory plays were basically eliminated, so that theatre companies could focus on one show at a time, making elaborate, historically accurate sets.
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intrinsic
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information taken from the script
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extrinsic
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applying outside information from other sources
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production concept
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director's intrinsic interpretation of the text
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concept production
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director's manipulation of a script to achieve his/her own goals, vision (extrinsic)
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Peter Brook's The Empty Space
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about stylized directing style
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Who wrote Ghosts?
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Henrik Ibsen
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Festival of Dionysus
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first playwrighting contests of ancient Greece
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Greek tragedians
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Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles
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Oresteia
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famous Greek tragic trilogy
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Greek comedians
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Aristophanes (satire) and Menander ("sitcoms")
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satyr plays
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featured dancing fauns
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Roman comedians
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Plautus and Terence
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Roman tragedian
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Seneca
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Hrotsvitha
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nun who applied Roman theatre to Catholic ritual in medieval Europe
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tropes
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repeated verses in liturgical drama, such as the "Quem Quaritis" ("whom do you seek")
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mystery plays
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recreated Bible stories
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morality plays
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personified vices and virtues
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miracle plays
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biographies of saints
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Natyasastra
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doctrine of dramatic art for Indian Sanskirt plays
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The Little Clay Cart, by King Sudraka
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Sanskirt play that retells Indian mythology
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Kutiyattam
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a form of Sanskrit theatre known for its folk traditions and formalism
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Kathakali
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more modern form of Sanskrit dance
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appropriation
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dominant culture adopts aspects of dominated culture
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poetic justice
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good is rewarded and evil is punished (as in Chinese Yuan plays)
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commedia dell'arte
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16th century drama with improvised scenarios and stock characters
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commedia erudite
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written comedy
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Angelo Beolco-Ruzante
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"Italian Shakespeare" with dirty, dirty writing (actor and playwright)
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3 tenets of neoclassicism
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1. reality (verisimilitude)
2. morality 3. universality |
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masque
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poetic court entertainment with dancing
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Mary Frith, aka "Moll Cutpurse" or "The Roaring Girl"
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1611--appeared onstage in men's attire
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cazuela
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segregated area for unmarried, unaccompanied women in Spanish Golden Age theatrical corrals [Fun fact: Cazuela means casserole.]
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sturm and drang (storm and stress)
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movement in German theatre that attempted to unify Germany with its theatre; highly controversial subject matter
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dithyramb
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a choric presentation sung and danced in homage to Dionysus
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orchestra
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typically circular performance space where the chorus performed
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parados
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chorus entrances and exits
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skene
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actors' retiring place
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theatron
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audience seating
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Poetics
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Aristotle's influential examination of tragic form
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vomitories
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stadium-like entrances for the audience
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facade
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architectural background, as in Greek and Roman theatres
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platea and mansion
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in liturgical drama, an open performing space (platea) in front of an emblematic background (mansion)
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pageants
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processional staging in which moving wagons traveled through the streets carrying actors and scenery
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three unities
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time, action, place
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decorum
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neoclassic idea of idealism and universality in morality of character--stereotyping
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blank verse
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unrhymed iambic pentameter, used commonly in Elizabethan England
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chronicle
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dramatic adaptation of historical events
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rhetorical acting
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attempt to create direct contact between audience and actor
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naturalism
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"slice of life" drama--strict attempt at realism
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modernism
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rebelled against realism and naturalism to create non-realistic theatre
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avant-garde theatre
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experimental theatre (usually associated with 20th century)
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new stagecraft
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guiding principle of simplicity in 20th century set design
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expressionism
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dramatized the dehumanization or destruction of humanity at teh hands of industry and war
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surrealism
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attempt to convine the dream world with the real world
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Epic Theatre
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anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment, narration, songs, and obvious theatricality
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avant-garde theatre
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experimental theatre (usually associated with 20th century)
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new stagecraft
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guiding principle of simplicity in 20th century set design
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expressionism
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dramatized the dehumanization or destruction of humanity at the hands of industry and war
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surrealism
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attempt to combine the dream world with the real world
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Epic Theatre
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anti-illusionist theatre featuring emotional detachment, narration, songs, and obvious theatricality
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Theatre of Cruelty
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Artaud's theory that theatre should focus on personal rather than sweeping social change
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Theatre of the Absurd
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existential, post World War II theatre about living in a meaningless world
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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French playwright and philosopher who advocated existentialism and the belief that theatre should be directed toward social change.
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Albert Camus
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"The Myth of Sisyphus" (about the Greek boulder guy) is somehow important to theatre because of its influence on existential philosophy. Life has no meaning, etc.
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Eugene Ionesco
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Romanian playwright who lived in Paris and critiqued the isolation and lack of communication in bourgeois society; wrote The Bald Soprano
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Samuel Beckett
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Irish playwright who wrote in French; Waiting for Godot and Footfalls
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I'm not including Romeo and Juliet on this because...
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You're already more than familiar. :)
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Who wrote Act Without Words?
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Samuel Beckett
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Federal Theatre Project
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nationwide effort representing the first time that the U.S. government directly subsidized theatre--result of the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression
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National Endowment for the Arts
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(founded in 1965) public agency that is the largest single funder of nonprofit arts organizations in the U.S.
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dominus grex
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"master of the flock" actor-manager of a troupe in ancient Rome
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David Belasco
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producer, director, and playwright at the turn of the 19th century; known for state of the art theaters
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David Merrick
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American producer known for his publicity stunts (Cutter Buck and Subways are for Sleeping)
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Rocco Landesman
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focused on new play development, resulting in Angels in America and The Producers
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libretto (book)
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contains spoken parts, story, and characterization written by author
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operetta
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lighter form of opera with some spoken dialogue, as in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado
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vaudeville
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focused on the individual performer and various crazy things like people holding chairs in their mouths
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Florenz Ziegfeld*
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produced a new version of Follies every year; known for discovering talent, especially within integrated casts
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1928 - musical theatre's Most Important Year
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The Jazz Singer
Show Boat Threepenny Opera |
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Bertolt Brecht*
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aesthetic distance and Theatre of the Absurd; songs deliberately interrupt action of the play; sentimental music juxtaposed with bitter words
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George Gershwin*
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ridiculously prolific composer
--Porgy and Bess --Of Thee I Sing (first musical to win a Pulitzer) |
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Ethel Merman*
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established belting as the norm for musical theatre
--Anything Goes --Annie Get Your Gun --Gypsy |
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Oscar Hammerstein II*
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collaborated with Richard Rodgers to write a million important musicals, including:
--Oklahoma! --South Pacific --The King and I --The Sound of Music |
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Jerome Robbins*
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choreographer and director responsible for the "rise of the triple threat"
--West Side Story --Gypsy |
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Stephen Sondheim*
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composer and lyricist
--Company --West Side Story --Follies --Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum --Into the Woods --Sunday in the Park with George |
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A Chorus Line
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(1975) directed and choreographed by Michael Bennet
--18 months developing off Broadway --ran for 15 years on Broadway |
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Andrew Lloyd Weber*
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originated the mega-musical with pop and rock influence
--Evita --Jesus Christ Superstar --Cats --Phantom of the Opera |
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Rosie O'Donnell
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brought musical theatre "back into people's living rooms"
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