Musical Theatre History Study Guide

Test #2
Broadway in Its Infancy

Lola Montez

The Black Crook

William Wheatley
Niblo’s Garden

The Tourists in the Pullman Palace Car

First concept musical

Harrigan and Hart

Edward (Ned) Harrigan
Tony Hart
Mulligan Guard shows
Mulligans and Skidmores

Weber and Fields

Joe Weber
Lew Fields
Schlemiel and schlimazel
Whoop-Dee-Doo

George M. Cohan
The Four Cohans
Little Johnny Jones
“Yankee Doodle Dandy”
“Give My Regards to Broadway”
Battle with Equity

The Revue Versus the Book Musical

Define: Integrated or book musical

Revue

New York’s Hippodrome

Charles B. Dillingham

Florenz Ziegfeld
The Ziegfeld Follies
The Follies: Jardin de Paris
Anna Held
Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth
“Shine on Harvest Moon”
Fanny Brice
Eddie Cantor
Bert Williams
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“A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody” – Irving Berlin

African-American Revues
Runnin’ Wild
James P. Johnson
Shuffle Along
Eubie Blake
Blackbirds Revue
Fats Waller
“Ain’t Misbehavin’”
Bojangles Robinson

The Greenwich Village Follies

Little Theatres
John Murray Anderson
Types of artists and art

Superstars on the Horizon

The Girl from Utah

“Ballin’ the Jack”

Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth

Eve Tanguay
Lillian Lorraine
Sophie Tucker

Eddie Foy

Bert Williams
Fanny Brice

Al Jolson
Winter Garden
Chutzpah
His style of performance

Victor Herbert
Naughty Marietta
Babes in Toyland

Watch Your Step

Vernon and Irene Castle
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Cole Porter
See America First

Jerome Kern
The Princess shows
Style difference to Broadway’s normal fare
Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
Very Good Eddie

Transition into the Jazz Age (1916 – 1920)

Prohibition era

Image of a “woman” – Mary Pickford vs Pearl White

Jerome Kern
Oh Boy!

Eddie Cantor
Bedini & Arthur
Gus Edwards & the Kid Kabaret
Whoopee

Harlem Renaissance
James Reese Europe
Duke Ellington
Shelton Brooks
Josephine Baker

Irene
Harry Tierney and Joseph McCarth
Edith Day

Sally
Jerome Kern
Marilyn Miller
“Look for the Silver Lining”

George White Scandals

George White
George Gershwin
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Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern – Contrasts

Billy Murray

Irving Berlin

His piano
“Alexander’s Ragtime Band”
Ziegfeld Follies
This is the Army

Annie Get Your Gun

Dorothy Fields
The songs
“Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better!”
“There’s No Business Like Show Business”
Ethel Merman

Jerome Kern

Charles Frohman
The Princess shows
Sally
Ziegfeld connection
Sunny

Show Boat
Oscar Hammerstein
The songs
“Old Man River”
“Bill”
“Make Believe”
“Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man”
Paul Robeson and Jules Bledsoe

George Gershwin’s Legacy (1919 to 1935)

George Gershwin
The style
Repeated notes, blue notes, and aggressive rhythm
Popular music vs classical music
Examples?
“Swanee”
Al Jolson
George White Scandals
“I’ll Build a Staircase to Paradise”
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Ira Gershwin

Lady Be Good
“The Man I Love”
“Fascinatin' Rhythm”
Fred and Adele Astaire
Oh, Kay!
“Someone to Watch Over Me”
“S'Wonderful”
Riff song

Porgy and Bess

Opera
The Songs

Hollywood years
“Nice Work If You Can Get It”
“They Can't Take That Away from Me”

Rodgers and Hart

Richard Rodgers
Lorenz Hart

On Your Toes
Ray Bolger
George Balanchine
“Slaughter On Tenth Avenue Ballet”

Babes in Arms
“My Funny Valentine”
“The Lady is a Tramp”

George Abbott

Cole Porter

Gay Divorce
Fred Astaire
“Night and Day”

Anything Goes
Ethel Merman
The Songs
“You’re the Top”
“I Get a Kick Out of You”
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“Anything Goes”

Rodgers and Hammerstein Era (1940s)

Pal Joey
Rodgers and Hart
Gene Kelly

Lady in the Dark

Kurt Weill
Ira Gershwin
Danny Kaye and Gertrude Lawrence

Oklahoma!
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration
The source
Lynn Rigg’s Green Grow the Lilacs
The Songs
“Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’”
Characters
Agnes de Mille
Dance as component in story telling
“Laurey’s Dream Ballet”
Alfred Drake and Celeste Holm

Lyrical differences
Oscar Hammerstein
Larry Hart

On the Town
Leonard Bernstein
Jerome Robbins
Fancy Free

Carousel
R&H
“If I Loved You”
John Raitt, Jan Clayton, and Bambi Lynn

Finian’s Rainbow
Yip Harburg and Burton Lane
“Look to the Rainbow”
“That Old Devil Moon”

Brigadoon
Fritz Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner
“Almost Like Being in Love”
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Kiss Me Kate
Cole Porter’s masterwork
“Another Opening Another Show”

South Pacific
R&H
The source: James Michener’s Tales of the South Pacific
Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza
Joshua Logan
The songs:
“I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy”
“Happy Talk”
“Some Enchanted Evening”
“Bali Hai”