Fifty Key Stage Musicals: The Podcast is a supplement to the Routledge Press publication Fifty Key Stage Musicals. Each episode focuses on an iconic musical that altered the landscape of the genre and features interviews with theatre professionals and scholars. Hosts: Andrew Child and Robert W. Schneider.
https://www.routledge.com/Fifty-Key-Stage-Musicals/Schneider-Agnew/p/book/9780367444426
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 23 hours 46 minutes
episode 11: PAL JOEY
Pal Joey’s unsentimental treatment of nightclub life and uncensored sex appeal were controversial and divided the opinions of critics and audiences in 1940.
episode 10: THE CRADLE WILL ROCK
Johanna Pinzler traces the development of Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, to date the only Broadway musical ever shut down by the United States government and argues its significance as a work that fused music and text in radically new ways.
episode 9: Ch, 8- PORGY AND BESS
Davóne Tines explores the complexity of this piece, specifically how it relates to the black experience being created through a white lens.
episode 8: ANYTHING GOES
This chapter argues that the oft-revived, oft-edited book musical, Anything Goes, houses a depth of social and political satire that was so topical and current upon its premiere that it is regularly overlooked by artists and audiences approaching the work.
episode 7: OF THEE I SING
Of Thee I Sing is the result of George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind’s desire to write a musical satire with George and Ira Gershwin that could criticize the United States’ political party system without being watered down for mainstream audiences.
episode 6: SHOW BOAT
Susan Stroman explains how Show Boat departed from the standard fare of musical comedies, comic operetta, and vaudeville revues, definitively envisioning a style of musical theatre in which dances, song, and dialogue served a unified dramatic arch.
episode 5: SHUFFLE ALONG
Shuffle Along was significant as an early Broadway revue written by and starring Black vaudeville artists that became a smash hit with Depression-era audiences.
episode 4: THE MERRY WIDOW
Both the cultural influences and the lasting artistic impacts of Franz Lehár’s The Merry Widow are analyzed within the context of American musical theatre history.
episode 3: HMS PINAFORE
Rupert and Richard Holmes detail the unparalleled significance on musical theatre history by Gilbert and Sullivan’s second major collaboration, H.M.S. Pinafore,
episode 2: THE BLACK CROOK
Though neither the first American fusion of storytelling and music nor a particular artistic triumph, Professor Sebastian Trainor examines The Black Crook’s position as the first commercially successful piece of musical theatre to take New York by storm.