THTR 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Yankee Doodle, Song Plugger, Showboat
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Created the integrated score for show boat. Overture: a thematic introduction to the whole show; sets the tone for everything you"re about to see. Leitmotifs: different characters have different ones, little piece of underscoring, a song that"s played every time you see a certain character or something bad/good is about to happen. Reprise: replaying a song that already happened (brings show full circle) e. g. , old man river at the end of show boat. Quasi-long song: main characters never say they love each other; i wanna say i love you but i can"t . Self-contained song: often a dream sequence or reveals something about the plot or character; its own world; extended musical number (exists to be a star vehicle) Song as soliloquy: helps us understand what the character is thinking. 1927 at the ziegfeld theatre: 572 performances. Ran for 1. 5 years (shows usually didn"t run for this long)
