T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Helen Keller, American Middle Class, Melodrama
30 Jul 2016
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Rise of american middle class (little bit more leisure time and little more money) Benjamin keith and edward albee boston with first vaudeville houses. Lecture on science -> minstrel -> melodrama -> charlie chaplin -> helen keller. Everyone popular at this time went on vaudeville at some point. Hiring and rehearsal are predecessor around actors equity today. Lots of rules for women actors and audience. Burns and allen performed well into the 60"s. 30 jokes in a minute, rule of three, puns, didn"t move very much. Mr. juba = figure that we believed existed and written by dickens. Did this type of fantastical dancing that couldn"t be put into words and were the beginnings of tap dance. Lots of american black and latina acts would act in france. Listen for the music -> tempo, tone, style (swell, slow song, low sung, First american musical" b/c dealt with serious matter and communicated a coherent plot.
