Fixing the Musical
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Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory

Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory


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About the Book

Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is not composed of titles popular in the theatre but by those with successful cast recordings, movie versions, or even illegal bootlegs on YouTube. The shows audiences know, and the texts and music they expect to hear when they attend a production, are defined by media consumed at home more than by memories of performances witnessed in the theatre. For example, author Doug Reside shows that it is no accident that the serious book musical with a fixed score developed in the 1940s - when commercially pressed and marketed record albums made it possible to record most of the score of a new musical in a fixed medium. And Hamilton, a musical with dense lyrics and revolutionary musical style, would not have been as easily accessible to world audiences if most hadn't already had the opportunity to learn the score by listening to free digital streams of the original cast recording. The technologies that made these media possible developed concurrently with and shaped the American musical as an art form. Reside uncovers how the affordances and limitations of these technologies established a repertory of titles that are most frequently performed and defined by the texts used in these performances. Fixing the Musical argues that the musicals we most remember are those which most effectively used their era's best recording and distribution technologies to document and share the work with those who would never see the original production on Broadway.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Printing the Musical 2. Picturing the Musical 3. Recording the Musical 4. The Musical as Moving Image 5. Bootlegging the Musical 6. Licensing the Musical 7. Fixing the Future Index

About the Author :
Doug Reside is the Curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division. He joined NYPL in 2011 first as the digital curator for the performing arts before assuming his current position in 2014. Prior to joining NYPL, Reside served on the directorial staff of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. He has published and spoken on topics related to theater history, literature, and digital humanities, and has managed several large grant-funded projects on these topics. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Kentucky.

Review :
In Fixing the Musical, Doug Reside brilliantly excavates what's been hiding in plain sight: how audiences, artists, and academics encounter, engage with, and enjoy musical theatre outside of the performance itself. This indispensable book tells the fascinating and surprising histories of musical theatre's various 'fixed' forms, from published librettos to cast albums, films, bootleg recordings, licensing, and more. Impeccable archival research and a lively, accessible voice make Fixing the Musical necessary and delightful. Doug Reside has taken a deep dive into a hitherto unexamined side of musical theater: technology. He goes from how scripts and musical scores were first printed, up to the creation of ancillary materials licensing houses offer to help mount productions. Reside makes us question many of our assumptions while surprising us with a lot of new information. Reside's combination of detailed archival work, interviews, and cultural analysis provides an engaging trip through the musical's journey from fleeting piece of ephemera to performances somewhat frozen in time-whether by industrial practices, new revenue streams, or shady dealings.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780190073725
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 236 mm
  • No of Pages: 232
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 349 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0190073721
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 2023
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory
  • Width: 158 mm


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