Contemporary Broadway

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Contemporary Broadway

• By
• John Maccherone

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The Secret Garden (1991)

• 706 Performances
• Based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Three Tonys
• Daisy Eagan is the youngest actress to win a Tony
  age 11
• Eventually a motion picture

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Lucy Simon Composer

• Sister of pop Singer Carly Simon
• Has not contributed to theater since Secret
  Garden
• Composes for Television shows

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Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk (1996)

• History of African Americans through dance
• Concept Musical
• Strong Political Statements

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Jellys Last Jam (1992)

• Catalog Show
• Celebrated Jelly Roll Morton
• Stared Gregory Hines
• Hines won Tony in 92

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Wolf on Jellys Last Jam

• Wolfe thinks that black Americans have lost our
  original languages, so our languages live in
  different places in our bodies, and it comes out
  in all sorts of different kinds of rhythms, of
  the way we talk, speak, or move, so I think that
  tap is one of those manifestations of expressing
  a lost language of the body.

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Rent (1996)

• Debuted Same year as Noise/Funk
• Drew from La Boheme
• Larson Died before Previews

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Jonathan Larson - Composer

• Died Before he could witness his shows success
• Won Best Musical, Best Book, best
• Score
• Poster Child for American Dream

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Miss Saigon (1989)

• Drew from Madama Butterfly
• By Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil
  Composer/Lyricist
• Londons Theatre Royal's longest running musical

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Jekyll and Hyde (1990)

• Frank Wildhorn, Composer, got idea for Jekyll and
  Hyde while attending University of South
  California
• Concept album sung by Linda Elder
• Based on Classic tale of Good and Evil

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The Civil War (1998)

• Closed after 61 performances
• Based on letters, diaries, firsthand accounts,
  and the words of Abraham Lincoln
• Starts in Fort Sumter

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Frank Wildhorn - Composer

• Born 1958
• First person in 22 years to have three Broadway
  musicals running at once
• Jekyll Hyde, The Civil War and The Scarlet
  Pimpernel

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Ragtime (1998)

• Play depicting a tragic collision between pride
  and racial prejudice
• Played 834 times
• Mirrored life of Scott Joplin

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Once on this Island (1990)

• 469 performances
• Music by Flaherty and Ahrens
• Told through a poor peasant girl Ti Moune
• Caribbean Feel

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Seusical (2000)

• Based on the books of Theodore Geisel
• Incorporated 14 Suess classics
• Horton the elephant must save Jo Jo!!!!

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• The two met at BMI Musical Theater Workshop in
  1983
• Ragtime, Suesical, and Once on this Island
• Musical Writers

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Mamma Mia (1999)

• Writer Catherine Johnson's
• Told on a Greek Island paradise
• About a young girl on her wedding day
• Music of Rock Group ABBA

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Musical Theatre Works

• Founded 1983
• Showcase for aspiring composers
• Closed in 2004
• Board hopes to restart the program in the future

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Sources

• http//www.ibdb.com
• http//www.secretgarden.no/intro.html
• http//www.noisefunk.com/index2.html
• http//www.jekyll-hyde.com/
• http//www.frankwildhorn.com/
• http//www.ahrensandflaherty.com/
• http//www.musicaltheatreworks.org/
• http//www.mamma-mia.com/