Notes 1930s

Iconic song; brother can you spare dime? Yip Harvard

Hoovervilles
Shantytowns popped up along east ricer and central bark
Sheep removed from sheep meadow (feared they would be killed and eaten)
Breadlines take over Bryant Park ad duffy square
Millions of Americans became unemployed or cut wages

From manhattan to Hollywood

Broadway musicals optioned by movie studios
Broadway writer lured to Hollywood
Irving Berlin- white Christmas- greatest hits ever written (Easter Parade)
Writers had little control over their work
The production Code (hays code)- censored film material 1934
Rodgers & Hart I gotta get back to New York- Last song for film studios.

Cole Porter
anything Goes
Signature
o Oxymoron
o Made sex safe
o Risqu material
o Witty lyrics
o Latin rhythms
o Sophistication
o Extended lyric breaks form

Fred Astaire- Night and Day (Gay Divorce)

Of thee I sing- Satire on Broadway

Social criticism and political satire
Escapism and engagement
Broadway musical became a reflection of America during the Great
Depression.
First musical to be published in book form
First show to win a Pulitzer 1931

Ethel Merman
Cole porters favorite singer
Starred in Girl Crazy- I Got Rhythm

Antyhing Goes- defining musical of the thirties

Porgy and Bess- The Folk Opera
Dubose Heyward Book
Book- Porgy
Folk Opera
o Todd Duncan- Porgy
o Anne Brown- Bess
o The great American opera

The Faces of the 30s

Ethel Waters
Harlems cotton Club
heat Wave Suppertime
Roy Balger
o On your Toes- Slaughter on thent ave
Bert Lahr
o The Wizard of oz- Cowardly Lion

Rodgers and Hart Multple Personalitites

o Jumbo

o Resurrected 4600 hippodrome theater

o On your toes

o Use of dance to further plot _slaughter on tenth ave

o Babes In Arms

o Hey kids lets put on a show,show

o Id rather Be Write

o First full lengthmusical to soppf of a sittle president (FDR)

o George M Cohan plaed the role

o The boys from Syracuse

o First Musical badrd on shakspear

George Balaunching
 o Choreographed by rather than dances by (the first choreographer to be

noted on broadway)

o Slaughter on tenth Avenue- plot

o New York City Ballet

The government Parade

o Harold Pme

o Cast Union Workers

o International Ladies Garment Workers Union

o Rehearsed after work played on weekends

The Cradel will rock

o Mark Blitzstein

o Orson wells music drama

Brecht and agitprop

Works progress administration / federal theater project

June 16, 1937- greatest opening night of 1930s (unions wouldnt let the

actors perform,so the composer came on stage and the actors sang from their

seats in the audience)