Doing the time warp : queer temporalities and musical theatre / Sarah Taylor Ellis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Sarah Taylor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

O'Brien, Richard, 1942- Rocky Horror show.

O'Brien, Richard.

Performing arts--Social aspects--United States.

Performing arts.

Gay people and the performing arts.

Musical theater--United States--History and criticism.

Musical theater.

Musicals--Social aspects--United States--History and criticism.

Musicals.

Performing arts and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2021.

Summary:

"This book employs the aesthetic principles of musical theater to consider the genre's politics, which can cut against the grain of dominant ideology to establish identities and communities in difference. The musical, a bastion of mainstream theatrical culture, always and already contains a fan culture of outsiders who dream themselves into being in the lineal timespaces of song and dance. This book employs an array of analytical approaches to the musical in which archival work is as essential as analysis of live performance. It analyzes dramaturgical notes found in Larry Gelbart's papers in the UCLA Performing Arts Collections as well as old sheet music covers and pianola advertisements; equally important are investigations into Sins o' the Flesh, a Rocky Horror shadowcast based in Los Angeles, and interviews with audience members who warped time in Taylor Mac's 24-hour-long popular music extravaganza at St. Ann's Warehouse."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Introduction: I would like, ah, if I may, to take you on a strange journey? è

Chapter 1: A Funny Thing Happened ? to the Integrated Musical: Poetics and Politics of Queer Temporality è

Chapter 2: Let's Do the Time Warp Again: Performing Time, Genre, and Spectatorship è

Chapter 3: Ragging Race: Spectral Temporality in the American Musical è

Chapter 4: ?I Just Projected Myself Out of It?: The Excess and Economics of Youth Musical Theater è

Chapter 5: ?Everything You're Feeling Is Appropriate?: Camping Out with Taylor Mac

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781350151734

1350151734

9781350151727

1350151726

9781350151710

1350151718

OCLC:

1291317764