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Pageantry
Made to resemble art in order to connect various cultures -
Theater tax
congress taxed theater tickets 10%in 1916 and 20% in 1918 in order to repay $6 billion debt due to Great War; theater management nation-wide rebelled and tax was removed -
Actor's Equity
Provides professionals with health benefits, pension plans, etc. -
Annie Get Your Gun
George Gershwin, Irving Berlin-leading man of time; composed Annie Get Your Gun -
Gershwin music=POPULAR
:Ethel Merman made famous, Girl Crazy (Crazy for You) and Anything Goes :Will Rogers; humanist, humorist; raised money for organizations for crippled children, cancer patients, etc. -planted the first ideas of: "Equity fights AIDS" -
Tony Awards
First Tony Awards (originally called Antoinette Perry Awards) -
scripted improvisations (with extreme limitations for actors)
:Frank Losser composes Guys and Dolls :Arthur Miller's The Crucible; controversial and forever remembered :Rogers and Hammerstein leading playwrites/composers; Julie Andrews leading actress :West Side Story, The Music Man, The Sound of Music :Gene Kelly (ever-popular 40's-80's), Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds; Singing in the Rain -
Integrated Theaters
Broadway integrated theaters; sought audiences based on race, background, social status :audience-performer relationship redefined -existing theater: large, museum-esk, audience and stage were distinctly separate and at a distance (Broadway) -redefined theater: resembled close proximity like a church, audience and stage were very close-perform on a more personal level (Off-Broadway) :Neil Simon-one of America's most successful playwright -writ -
Steven Sondheim
Follies, Jesus Christ Superstar, Pippin, A Chorus Line -
Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS
:42nd Street, DreamGirls, Fences (straight play), The Phantom of the Opera :Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cat's -
Disney Classics hit the stage
Beauty and the Beast, The Lion Kind, Sunset Boulevard, RENT
