...Patrick J. Smith Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Patrick J. Smith 20 W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) is something of a totem figure in the history of the musical (or light opera or operetta), for he represents both a continuation of a tradition...

...Robert Kimball; William Bolcom Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Reminiscing with Side and Blake: The Black Musical in America Robert Kimball WiNiam Boloom It is now more than fifty-seven years ago that Noble Sissle, a twenty-five-year-oldsinger and lyricist from...

...Winthrop Sargeant Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Winthrop Sargeant a It is my view that the duty of a critic, whether drama or music or movie, is simply to ask himself "Am I having a rewarding evening?" or "Am I being bored to death...

...Rebecca Ann Rugg © 2002 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2002 Gary Beach and Roger Bart in The Producers. Photo: Paul Kolnick Rebecca Ann Rugg What It Used to Be Nostalgia and the State of the Broadway Musical “Springtime for Hitler and Germany!” A surprise...

...Bob Telson Copyright © THEATER 1981 1981 BEN’S JIVE: (SIMULTANEOUSLY) ARE WE EVER. MOVING Writing the Music PICTURES SISTER SUZIE CINEMA for Sister Suzie BASS RAP . BRIZ: WE OPENED UP. UPTOWN...

...Frederick J. Marker; Lise-Lone Marker Words to Music: Frederick J.Marker and Lise-Lone Marker Peer Gunt and Two of the most notable productions at Berg, presents technical difficulties of such U...

...Eric Salzman Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays edited and with an introduction by Sandor Goodhart 2000: Garland; Sondheim and Lloyd-Webber: The New Musical by Stephen Citron 2001: Oxford University Press; Hollywood Musicals: The Film Reader edited by Steven Cohan 2002...

...Gregory Sandow Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Theatre in Contemporary Music Gregory Sandow 148 New music may be the least understood of all contemporary arts. I shrink a little from trying to describe it. There are many, often opposing...

...Michael Weimer Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 The Well-Tempered Performance: Shaw as a Critic of Music Michael Weimer 15 Many who know Shaw as a playwright and theatre critic are unaware that he was also one of the most brilliant musical...

...John McCaffrey Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 "Any of Mine Without Music to Help Them" : The Operas and Plays of Gertrude Stein John Maaffrey 27 Anticipating a visit to London in April of 1937 (to see a perfor- mance of Lord...

...Gary Jay Williams Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 "The Concord of this Discord " : Music in the Stage History of A Midsummer Night's Dream Gary Jay Williams 40 Few plays of Shakespeare invite more reliance upon music to help...

...Martin Gottfried Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Why is Broadway Music So Bad? Martin Gottfried 82 It has become commonplace to say that musicals are America's greatest contribution to the theater and yet musicologists persist...

...Emanuel Azenberg Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 An Interview: Producing Broadway Musicals Emanuel Azenberg 94 The large Broadway musical, the one that costs three-quarters of a million dollars, is now economically unfeasible. It used...

... Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 Dramaturgy at the Brooklyn Academy of Music An Interview with Richard Nelson by Mark...

...Glenn Loney MYTH AND MUSIC: RESONANCES ACROSS THE CONTINENTS AND CENTURIES GLENN LONEY dging from some of the critical complaints about...

... of American Literature, Beinecke Library. The30.2-02 Salzman.ak 7/6/2000 3:43 PM Page 9 Eric Salzman Some Notes on the Origins of New Music-Theater Dramma per musica is what Monteverdi called it. Every age seems...

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.... Photo: Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, Yale University Music Library. 12-The30.3-Prod.ak 118-123 10/18/00 1:49 PM Page 119 Productions Gordon Rogoff dental score.” Only Brooks Atkinson...

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