Research Catalog

Title

Gender, sex and sexuality in musical theatre : he/she/they could have danced all night / edited and curated by Kelly Kessler.

Publication

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, 2023.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kessler, Kelly, 1972-

Description

xxvii, 323 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as simplistic, heteronormative, and traditional. This collection troubles this over-idealized notion of musical theatre, tackling divas, chorus boys, and the Rockettes; hit shows such as Hamilton and Spring Awakening; and lesser-known but groundbreaking gems like Erin Markey's A Ride on The Irish Cream and Kirsten Childs's Bella: An American Tall Tale. The book takes a broad look at musical theater across a range of intersecting lenses including race, nation, form, dance, casting, marketing, pedagogy, industry, stardom, politics, and platform. Undermining the musical form's conservative façade, scholars drive home the fact that gender and desire have long been at the heart of the musical. This exciting and vibrant collection of articles takes sex, sexuality, gendered complexity out of the musical's liner notes and back above the marquee."--Provided by publisher

Subject

• Musicals > History and criticism
• Sex in the theater
• Sex role in the theater
• Musicals

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction : Belting away at binaries / Kelly Kessler -- Exploring and exploding the gender binary on the musical stage. The Radio City Rockettes and the making of a sisterhood / Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers -- Billy Elliot the musical : visual representations of working-class masculinity and the all-singing, all-dancing bo[d]y / George Rodosthenous -- Hamilton's women / Stacy Wolf -- Rewriting the American West : Black feminist (re)vision in Bella : an american tall tale / Jordan Ealey -- A-list drag queens, accidental drag kings, and illegible gender rebels : (mis)representations of trans experience in contemporary musicals / Janet Werther -- Embodying and exploiting sex and sexuality on and off Broadway. Chorus boys : words, music and queerness (c.1900-c.1936) / David Haldane Lawrence -- Emancipation or exploitation? Gender liberation and adult musicals in 1970s New York / Elizabeth L. Wollman -- A substitute for love : the performance of sex in Spring awakening / Bryan M. Vandevender -- If you were gay, that'd be okay : marketing LGBTQ+ musicals from La cage to The prom / Ryan Donovan -- Divas don't care about nobody's rules. Embracing excess : the queer feminist power of musical theatre diva roles / Michelle Dvoskin -- Stepping out of line : (re)claiming the diva for the dancers of Broadway / Dustyn Martincich -- Diva relations in The color purple, the 2015 Broadway revival / Deborah Paredez -- How can the small screen contain her? Television, genre and the twenty-first-century Broadway diva onslaught / Kelly Kessler -- Onstage, offstage, and online : gender and sexuality in personal and professional musical practice. The queerness of Copla : musical hope for the Spanish LGBTQ / Alejandro Postigo -- Queering Brechtian feminism : breaking down gender binaries in musical theatre pedagogical performance practices / Sherrill Gow -- For progress or profit : the possibilities and limitations of playing with gender in twenty-first-century musical theatre / Stephanie Lim -- The right to see and not be seen : South Korean musicals and young feminist activism / Jiyoon Jung.

Call Number

JMF 23-153

ISBN

• 9781789386196
• 1789386195
• 9781789386202 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781789386219 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1344293445

Title

Gender, sex and sexuality in musical theatre : he/she/they could have danced all night / edited and curated by Kelly Kessler.

Publisher

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, 2023.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Biography

Kelly Kessler is professor of media and cinema studies in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago. She has published widely on television, film, and musical theater, including her recent book Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical.

Added Author

Kessler, Kelly, 1972- editor, curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Gender, sex and sexuality in musical theatre. Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Ltd, 2023 9781789386219 (OCoLC)1375474716

Research Call Number

JMF 23-153