Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Broadway Musicals in the 21st Century
Term
2025A
Syllabus URL
Subject area
THAR
Section number only
401
Section ID
THAR1272401
Course number integer
1272
Meeting times
MW 1:45 PM-3:14 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
David Fox
Cameron Kelsall
Cameron Kelsall
Description
Wicked, Spring Awakening, Dear Evan Hansen, Hadestown. And of course, Hamilton. The innovations we see in Broadway musicals since 2000 are particularly fascinating in that they, so to speak, boldly go where no musicals have gone before—while at the same time honoring and building on the long-standing traditions of this beloved form. From the powerfully romantic Light in the Piazza, which nods to roots in European operetta, to the boundary-defying Black queerness of A Strange Loop... and everything in between. In this course, we will go year by through musical theater from the quarter-century, to see where the form has gone recently… and where it’s headed. In addition to the works already mentioned, we’ll look at Caroline or Change, The Color Purple, In the Heights, Fun Home, and more. This course will also consider some recent “revisals,” like director Daniel Fish’s Oklahoma!, and Marianne Elliott’s gender-reassigned Company: reinterpretations of classic American musicals that imagine them in more contemporary light.
Course number only
1272
Cross listings
CIMS1275401, ENGL1891401
Use local description
No