Week Eight
THTR 3009 -- Development of American Musical Theatre
Tuesday
read Chapter 21 - Frank Loesser (pp. 262-270)
read Chapter 20 - Jule Styne /Ethel Merman
Thursday
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before class watch video of Gypsy
Jule Styne
Ethel Merman in
Annie Get Your Gun
http://save-as-dance.org/honors/years/styne.html Styne bio from Kennedy Center Awards 1990
http://www.seekeasy.net/c/Ethel_Merman/Ethel_Merman.html Ethel Merman web page
Traditionally Stage Directors have worked under "work for hire" agreements, which meant that they received credit for their work, but no copyright protection. Recently, collective bargaining agreements have resulted in the stage directors retaining copyright ownership of their work. As a result, several stage directors have registered their works with the Copyright Office. An earlier this year, director Gerald Gutierrez settled a lawsuit against the producer and director of the 1994 Chicago production of The Most Happy Fella. Gutierrez alleged that artistic innovations had been appropriated from his 1992 Broadway revival without consent.