It Started Out Like A Song

When Musical Theatre Characters Know They’re Singing

Häftad, Engelska, 2027

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When musical theatre characters break into song, do they know that they’re singing? It Started Out Like A Song takes a tour of musicals past and present, from Oklahoma! and Kiss Me, Kate to Hamilton and A Strange Loop, exploring the moments where characters are aware of their own music-making.The first-book length exploration of diegetic song in the musical theatre form, this lively and analytical study introduces the concept of self-awareness in the musical form and frames it for students trying to understand how musicals are written as well as for those approaching the writing and creation of their own shows. Combining sustained narrative analysis with historical perspective, the book includes original interviews and conversations with featured writers and composers from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, Will Aronson and Hue Park, Adam Guettel, Charles Hart, Rupert Holmes, Michael R. Jackson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Schwartz and Maury Yeston to shed a light on how diegetic music shapes the creation. It also brings together conversations with directors such as Scott Ellis, Daniel Fish, Rebecca Frecknall, Maria Friedman, and Jerry Zaks and performers Jonathan Groff, Jennifer Holliday, Andrea McArdle, Jessie Mueller, Kelli O’Hara and Adam Pascal to shed light on how moments of conscious music-making are staged and performed in the broader context of their characters.By exploring the ways in which musical theatre characters acknowledge and celebrate their own music — from crooning cowhands serenading their crushes to haunted sopranos at the Paris Opera — this book re-centres the story of singing itself at the heart of the art form.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-11-11
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350604650

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Dan Rubins is a theater writer and critic based in New York City. He contributes reviews and features to Theatermania, Slant Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Brooklyn Rail, and he is the host of the podcast The Present Stage: Conversations with Theater Writers. He also serves as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Hear Your Song, a national non-profit empowering youth with serious illnesses through song-writing.

Introduction: “Permission to Sing”Chapter One: “It’s An Old Song, But We’re Gonna Sing It Again”: Orpheus & Operatic Origins-Early Opera & the Orpheus Myth-Operatic Origins of Consciousness of Song-Conscious Music-Making in Gilbert & SullivanChapter Two: “All the Sounds of the Earth Are Like Music”: Rodgers and Hammerstein-Music Is Everywhere: Where Music Appears in Our Lives-Oklahoma!-Carousel-South Pacific-The King and IInterlude: “My Ship” and Lady in the DarkChapter Three: “The Band Begins To Go to Town And Everyone Goes Crazy”: The Backstage Musical-Babes In Arms, On Your Toes, and Me and Juliet-Kiss Me, Kate-42nd Street, Dames at Sea, and On The Twentieth Century-The Producers and CurtainsInterlude: “Anything You Can Do” and Annie Get Your GunChapter Four: “And I’ll Sing Once More”: The Music Man and The Sound of Music-The Music Man-The Sound of MusicInterlude: “Rosemary” and How to Succeed in Business Without Really TryingChapter Five: “You Try Singing Without Music, Sweetheart!”: Complicating Consciousness in Cabaret,Follies, and Pippin-Cabaret and Kander and Ebb-Follies and Stephen Sondheim-PippinInterlude: “Tomorrow” and AnnieChapter Six: “Only You Can Sing It The Way It Should Be”: The Voices of Effie White and Christine Daaé-Dreamgirls-The Phantom of the Opera and PhantomInterlude: “Say It Somehow” and The Light in the PiazzaChapter Seven: “One More Song About Moving Along the Highway”: Rise of the Jukebox Musical-The Gershwin jukebox (An American In Paris, Crazy For You, Girl Crazy, My One and Only, NiceWork If You Can Get It)-The bio-jukebox musical (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jersey Boys, MJ the Musical, Motown,On Your Feet)-The fictional jukebox musical (All Shook Up, Mamma Mia!, We Will Rock You)Interlude: “Something Different” and The Band’s VisitChapter Eight: “One Song To Leave Behind”: Songwriting Characters-Merrily We Roll Along-Rent and tick…tick…BOOM!-A Strange LoopInterlude: “Then I Can Let You Go” and Maybe Happy EndingChapter Nine: “You Hear That Music In The Air?”: Communities and Revolutions-In the Heights-Hamilton

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