Spring 2000 -- CALENDAR
THTR 3009 -- Development of American Musical Theatre
N.B. Be aware that just because an artist or a musical does not have a web link it is not important. If you find a quality web site please let me know.
Essay #1 / Essay #2 / Essay #3
Quiz #1 / Quiz #2 / Quiz #3
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DAY / DATE
DAY'S AGENDA
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
one
Wednesday 19 Jan.
Introduction
background on Gilbert and Sullivan
 webring of G&S www sites
Thursday 14 Jan.
read Chapter 1
Turn in completed questionnaire
two
Wednesday 26 Jan.
á before class watch video The Pirates of Penzance
á before class watch video of Little Johnny Jones
http://diamond.idbsu.edu/GaS/pirates/html/pirates_home.html
read Chapter 1
read Chapter 2 - Victor Herbert
read Chapter 3 -- George M. Cohan
 This great web page contains the full libretto / lyrics to The Pirates of Penznace
Wednesday26Jan.
deadline to add a course
three
Wednesday 2 Feb.
read Chapter 6 - Jerome Kern
read Chapter 8 George and Ira Gershwin
á before class watch video of Show Boat
(1936 film with Irene Dunne and Paul Robeson)
 http://www.gershwinfan.com/home.html
Friday 4 Feb.
deadline to drop a course without being assessed tuition 
deadline to change pass / fail and no-credit status on courses 
four
Wednesday 9 Feb.
read Chapter 10 -  Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
 
 
read Chapter 17
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II 
á before class watch video of Oklahoma!
 
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Wednesday 16 Feb.
 Rodgers and Hammerstein continued
 Quiz #1
           read Chapter 7 - Irving Berlin
á before class watch video of Annie Get Your Gun
http://www.irvingberlin.com
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Wednesday 23 Feb.

 

read Chapter 12 -- Cole Porter
http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/9432/porter/
 
 
read Chapter 19 
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
á before class watch video of My Fair Lady
read "The Making of My Fair Lady" by Garebian
 web site for  the film of My Fair Lady

 

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Wednesday 1 March
Lerner and Loewe continued
 
Wednesday 1 March
deadline to drop a course without petitioning your Dean
 
read Chapter 18 
Leonard Bernstein/  Jerome Robbins
á before class watch video of West Side Story
read "The Making of West Side Story" by Garebian
 http://www.leonardbernstein.com
This is another West Side Story www
eight
Wednesday 8 March
read Chapter 21 - Frank Loesser (pp. 262-270)
read Chapter 20 - Jule Styne /Ethel Merman
 
 
á before class watch video of Gypsy
read "The Making of Gypsy" by Garebian
 
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Wednesday 15 March

 

read Chapter 27 - Jerry Herman / Gower Champion
A Chorus Line / Michael Bennett
read Chapter 24 - Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
á before class watch video of Fiddler on The Roof
[Your first essay is due today]

Quiz #2

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Wednesday 22 March
read Chapter 28 
John Kander and Frank Ebb / Bob Fosse
http://www.tonys.org/pantheon/index.html
 
á before class watch video of Cabaret
List of Kander & Ebb recordings
read "The Making of Cabaret" by Garebian
 
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Wednesday 5 April
read Chapter 26 - Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields, 
pp. 167-169, pp. 313-321
director / choreographer  / actor Tommy Tune
http://www.tonys.org/pantheon/index.html
(look up Cy Coleman in the "Tony Pantheon Archive")
[Your second essay is due today]

 

 
á before class watch video of Hair
read Chapter 29 - Galt MacDermot / Rock Musicals
 HAIR - The Movie
twelve
Wednesday 12 April
Andrew Lloyd Webber / Harold Prince
http://www.reallyuseful.com/index2.html
http://www.cominguptaller.org/honors/1994/prince.html
  á before class watch video of Cats
thirteen
Wednesday 19 April
Alain Boubil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
 Cameron Macintosh
 [Your Third Essay is due today]
 
á before class watch video of Les Misérables (concert)
 
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Wednesday 26 April
Read Chapter 23 - Stephen Sondheim
and James Lapine
á before class watch video of 
Into the Woods
 
 
 
 http://www.sondheim.com/shows/itw.html
fifteen A
fifteen B

 

Wednesday 3 May
Alan Menken's Little Shop of Horrors
Alan Menken's Beauty and The Beast
Disney's The Lion King
http://www.disney.com/DisneyTheatrical/_index.html
 
Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Ragtime
Jonathan Larson's Rent
Frank Wildhorn's Jekyll and Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel
and The Civil War
[Your Research Paper  is due today
Sat. 6 May 2000
Wed. 10 May 2000
7:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.        FINAL EXAM
4:30 to 7:30 p.m.

 Links to other web pages: THTR 3009 Syllabus / THTR 3009 Essays
Theatre Resources / Theatre Etiquette
Bud Coleman's Home Page / e-mail: bud.coleman@colorado.edu