Over the course of the 1960s and beyond, the serious musicals (the ‘Musical Plays’, as we designate them in the business), influenced by My Fair Lady, became increasing dense and intellectual, dealing with far more complex sociological and … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Twenty
For all these positive developments, this era was far from perfect. Theater snobs like to imagine these decades (particularly the Fifties) as some kind of theoretically perfect alternative to the supposed tawdriness of modern Broadway, to the point … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Nineteen
It wasn’t until the second half of the Fifties that a new set of shows with totally unprecedented innovations began to appear on Broadway. The innovations that led to this revolution actually first made their appearance not on Broadway, but in … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Eighteen
The animated musical was, at this point, almost completely dependent of the works of Walt Disney: there were a few important animated musical shorts, like the Wagner parody What's Opera, Doc? or the Jazz Singer-inspired I Love to Sing-a, being made … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Seventeen
Meanwhile, the film musical was also breaking new ground, though nothing as staggering as what was happening to Broadway at the time. Still, a similar movement toward deeper, more intelligent scripts was definitely underway. Meet Me In St. Louis … [Continue reading]
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