MUSIC 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Drowsy Chaperone, Alan Jay Lerner, Cheryl Crawford
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Credits; characters; recepion history; use of metaphor; musical examples, including comment songs; and landmark status. Your writen assignment is due on wednesday, march 23 by 11:59pm. Late reviews will be penalized 10% per day up to two days ater the deadline. This assignment is worth 10% of your inal grade: use the dropbox feature on a2l to submit your review. Refer to guidelines on a2l: warning about plagiarism, what is a concept musical, a musical that focuses more on projecing a central metaphor or noion rather than storytelling. In the 1970s, criics started to use the word concept to describe a plotless musical oten a piece that ofered muliple angles and perspecives on a subject. It gives the efect of circling around a subject rather than moving forward along a storyline. Lady in the dark, allegro, love life, cabaret, company, follies, a chorus line, chicago, Concept musicals oten draw on forms of musical theatre to frame the show:
