Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity Donovan Ryan
Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity Donovan Ryan Broadway has body issues.What is a Broadway Body? Casting is always a political act, situated within a power structure that gives…
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Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity Donovan Ryan
Broadway has body issues.What is a Broadway Body? Casting is always a political act, situated within a power structure that gives preference to the Broadway Body.In Broadway Bodies, author Ryan Donovan explores how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the Broadway Body: the hyper-fit, exceptionally able, triple-threat performer who represents how Broadway musicals favor certain kinds of bodies.
How does the use of fat suits in musicals like Dreamgirls and Hairspray stigmatize fatness? To understand these intersectional relationships, he poses a series of questions: Why did A Chorus Line, a show that sought to individuate dancers, inevitably make dancers indistinguishable? What were the political implications of casting two straight