THTR 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Agnes De Mille, Star Vehicle, Libretto
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Overture, leitmotifs, reprise, quasi-love song, self-contained song, song as soliloquy. Oklahoma 1943 - fiddler on the roof 1964. Waiting until hammerstein wrote everything he needed to. Waited until the whole play was written then created brand new music. Wrote oklahoma and many other musicals together throughout the golden age. Responding to a rise in nationalism (going into wwii) Movement to unify specific people in the u. s. against other specific people. Personal ideology and voice of the other". Write plays and develop musical theatre that would show societal issue to society and remind the audience they could grow and change and be better. Trying to be progressive and bring a voice to the groups being labeled other on stage. Star vehicle: usually people would hire the biggest name in dance they could.
