MHST 138 - The Broadway Musical

FC CNDP

4 credits
A survey of the American Broadway musical from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Topics will include operetta, the early twentieth-century musical comedy, Black musical theater, the integrated musical, the concept musical, mega musicals, jukebox musicals, and recent developments in the genre. Required performances and viewings outside of class. No prerequisites. All students in the conservatory and the college are welcome.