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Structure
Shows since Rogers and Hammerstein
Succeed due to their structure
Even when the audience doesn’t know it.
Until Show Boat (1927), musicals were
mostly revue-style shows
Librettos with stock characters
Cliché situations
Songs and plots not necessarily linked
Shuffle Along
Broadway
1921 first financially successful
Broadway play to have African-American writers and an all African-American cast
Songs and Theatre
Intellectual and emotional response
Connected to the plot?
What is the aim of a song?