Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory Reside Douglas L.
Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory Reside Douglas L. Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. The shows audiences know, and the texts and music they expect to hear…
Specifikacia Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory Reside Douglas L.
Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory Reside Douglas L.
Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. The shows audiences know, and the texts and music they expect to hear when they attend a production, are defined by media consumed at home more than by memories of performances witnessed in the theatre. Why do we remember some and not others?The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in the theatre but by those with successful cast recordings, movie versions, or even illegal bootlegs on YouTube.
And Hamilton, a musical with dense lyrics and revolutionary musical style, would not have been as easily accessible to world audiences if most hadn't For example, author Doug Reside shows that it is no accident that the serious book musical with a fixed score developed in the 1940s - when commercially pressed and marketed record albums made it possible to record most of the score of a new musical in a fixed medium.