..., and scholarship of a sixteenth-century legal proceeding in which a Basque peasant named Martin Guerre was subject to identity theft. Focusing on the 1996 West End musical, the essay proposes that the conventions of musical theatre allowed this adaptation to revise earlier versions of the story in response...

... community networks to support continued engagement with health-related behavioural outcomes. HIV/AIDS applied theatre musical theatre South Africa stigma Education entertainment (EE) describes media that both entertains and educates on the subject of a specific social or health issue ( Singhal...

...Juan Pablo Fernández-Cortés © The Author 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. 2012 OUP Journals Juan Pablo Fernández-Cortés is artistic director of La Compañía del Príncipe, Aranjuez, a group specializing in the research and interpretation of Spanish musical theatre of the 18th...

...0 07 03 2025 The closely related genres of operetta and musical theatre are often dismissed as trivial, shallow and essentially secular. This book challenges these judgements and seeks to show clear religious influences and spiritual resonances in major works in both genres. It can be read...

... with serious issues. They are simultaneously reassuring and challenging. The spiritual show goes on! Rent Mamma Mia The Addams Family The Book of Mormon Come From Away Hamilton musical theatre ABBA Andrew Lippa The Lion King was the last big hit musical of the twentieth century...

...The closely related genres of operetta and musical theatre are often dismissed as trivial, shallow, and essentially secular. This book challenges these judgements and seeks to show that there have been clear religious influences and spiritual resonances in some of the best-known and most popular...

... expansion into the German musical theatre market, Stage Entertainment evolved into the market leader for musical theatre production in continental Europe and one of the major producers worldwide. The Amsterdam-based company became an important originator of local musicals and supporter of local musical...

...For decades Canadian musical theatre writers hoped to conquer New York and/or London, without much luck. These attempts have included such ‘flops’ as Rockabye Hamlet, Billy Bishop Goes to War, and The Story of My Life. The essay discusses...

... of Eugène Lassalle with the caption: ‘The Eighth Plague of Athens’. Created by Themos Anninos, published in To Asty, 19 June 1888. Τhis chapter focuses on the activity of musical theatre companies touring in south-eastern Europe, the Near East, the Caucasus and Central...

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...This book presents the public triumphs and personal tragedies of Lorenz Hart, a true genius of the American musical theatre. It is based on many years of research, and interviews with Hart's friends and collaborators one by one, including a remarkable conversation with Richard Rodgers himself...

...For anyone who has ever participated in, worked on, or enjoyed musical theatre beyond Broadway Introduction The first musical I ever saw was The Music Man at the Burn Brae Dinner Theatre in 1970 when I was nine years old. My parents, my seven- year- old sister, Allison, and I drove our dark blue...

...Singing Utopia offers an original and provocative account of singing voices in musical theatre. It listens to extraordinary voices across fifteen case studies, from Florodora to Hadestown, and hears an emotional and situational directness—a utopian...

...This chapter provides an overview of British musical theatre. The first known British musical was dramatist John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728), which centers on an anti-hero, Macheath, who was surrounded by enemies and allies grouped in twos. The music is not original because Gay...

...’ ‘Now I’m Here’ ‘You’re My Best Friend’ Beatles The ‘Doing All Right’ Queen analysis style Queen voice camp queer interpretation form timbre musical theatre One of the central themes in the literature on glam rock is the fluidity and flexibility of the performance persona. Allan Moore...

... Attack Innuendo News of the World Queen Queen II analysis Queen idiolect musical theatre voice performance historiography influence form style Freddie Mercury died in 1991, but in the thirty years since, Queen, in various incarnations, have remained a relatively constant fixture in popular...

...Kurt Weill’s America. Naomi Graber, Oxford University Press (2021). © Oxford University Press. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190906580.003.0008 Throughout his career, Weill remained optimistic that musical theatre could change the world for the better, all while reaching the broadest...