Musical On B'Way&Hollywood II

Catalog description

A continuation of MDT 520 . This course offers an analysis of current Broadway musicals with special seminars with those connected with one or two productions. Major movie musicals are analyzed which may include the “golden oldies” and the transfer from Broadway to Hollywood. Special attention is directed toward key people such as: George and IRA Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Richard Rogers, Moss Hart, Oscar Hammerstein II, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Jerry Herman, Alan Jay Lerner, and Frederick Lowe. This course requires a lab fee to cover the cost of the theatre tickets. Students should not register for another course on the same evening that “the musical” is scheduled as that is when the class must attend plays and other field trips.