History of American Theater from 1750s to Today
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- 2. Pre-theater: alcohol and coffee The New Theater (1750) Hiatus: Revolutionary War The Park Theater (1798) Niblo’s Garden (1834)
- 3. 1830’s- mid 1900’s 1848: “National Art” Greasepaint & show polish Conveyed stereotypes Skits, comic songs and dances
- 4. “The Heart of American Show Business” 1880’s- 1930’s Featured variety of acts Appeal to middle class, women, families
- 5. 1920’s/30’s: Broadway moved to its location today 12.3 Million in 2011 1 billion dollars worth of tickets Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway Touring
- 6. Watchpart of Create & Perform a skit West Side Story based on Romeo and Juliet
- 7. Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet Debuted on Broadway 1957 Celebrated for great music and dance routines
Editor's Notes
- The New Theater: Thomas Kean, Walter Murray (actors), 2 story wooden structure, Shakespeare!The Park Theater: 2,000 seats. Attended by all classes. Balcony 25c - lower class men, and blacks. Working class in the pit 50c, upper class were in the box seats 1dollar. Niblo’s Gardern: started as a “resort” that served refreshments of lemonade, coffee, ice cream. Was actually a garden with an open air saloon where musicians would perform and smaller buildings where the refeshments were served. Rebuilt in 1849, seated 3,200 people. Theater began to be more popular.
- Portray Blacks as buffoonish, lazy, superstitious, cowardlycharacters, who stole, lied pathologically, and mangled the English language. Women were often portrayed as either unappealing and manly or very provocatively.
- “The Heart of American Show Business” Variety entertainment, where different acts or performances that were unrelated were grouped together in one showing. Examples of acts include: classical musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, and lecturing celebreties. Primarily geared towards the middle class. Popularity grew as it was made “clean.” Owners of vaudeville theaters would tell performers what they couldn’t say, or else they’d be banned from performing forever. Appeal to women and families. Palace Theater in NYC.