Pure Operetta continued to get made throughout this period, but it almost invariably flopped, as audiences had lost almost all patience with its more dated conventions. Song of Norway, a musically lush but dramatically vacuous Grieg pasticcio in the … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Fifteen
At the same time, Opera continued to manifest on Broadway. Some of these were actually conventional Classical Operas that played in Broadway theaters, like the works of Gian-Carlo Menotti such as The Medium, The Consul and The Saint of Bleecker … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Fourteen
For the rest of the Forties and most of the Fifties, things more or less followed the patterns set by the aforementioned groundbreaking shows. Rodgers and Hammerstein in particular continued to build on their own innovations, creating two more … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theatre, Part Thirteen
The ‘revolution’ that the Musical experienced in the 1940s is generally credited almost entirely to Oklahoma!, but can really be traced to the innovations of no less than ten genre-busting stage and film musicals, of which Oklahoma! is but one … [Continue reading]
An Honest History of Musical Theater, Part Twelve
It’s worth noting that around this time a whole new Musical medium, the Movie Musical, was born. And strangely enough, it all started with Al Jolson. Jolson had innumerable stage and film vehicles, but only produced two works of lasting artistic … [Continue reading]
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