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Changed for Good : A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

From Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls" to Nina in "In the Heights" and Elphaba in "Wicked," female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their ...

The Broadway Musical Has a Man Problem - The New York Times

We are reviewing our stories with a skeptical eye and banishing outdated plots on feminist grounds. It's as if Broadway is offering to draw us a ...

Changed for Good: A Feminist Histoty of the Broadway Musical

In Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical, Wolf sets out to examine musical theatre since 1950 through the critical lenses of feminist and ...

Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical

Beginning in the 1950s and organized by decade, the book examines women in musicals and in the context of U.S. culture, considering both the representation of ...

My Unfair Lady: Why Are Smart Women in Musicals Treated ... - TDF

In classic Broadway musicals, working women are often presented as victims of circumstance. Julie Jordan in Carousel and Magnolia Hawks in Show ...

By the Numbers - Women on Broadway

Is this cause for celebration or despair? Or pie? The musical “Waitress” and the play “Eclipsed” featured all-female creative teams. Yet even as women ...

Mean Girls on Broadway Embraces Its Feminism in Ways the Movie ...

Tina Fey's new musical doubles down on one of the best jokes of the classic teen film, emerging with a timely (and very funny) feminist lesson.

Legally Blonde: The Musical and Internalized Misogyny

... musical analysis and personal reflection. It's been a while since I ... broadwayfeminismmoviesmusicmusical · Previous post. Evelyn Makes ...

A Problem Like Maria - University of Michigan Press

All four women exemplify musical theatrical or filmic stardom of ... (December 1997): 493–509; and “The Queer Pleasures of Mary Martin and Broadway: The Sound of ...

What Is Your Favorite Female Empowerment Musical? - Playbill

Idina Menzel in Wicked Joan Marcus ; Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple Matthew Murphy ; Chandra Wilson and Tonya Pinkins Michal Daniel ; Jessie Mueller in ...

Did Funny Girl Make Me Feminist?

This iconic line spoken by a woman and written by a woman opens Funny Girl in both the Broadway musical and the 1968 film starring Barbra ...

Broadway is awash in bad pop musicals pretending to be ... - Vox

Broadway is awash in bad pop musicals pretending to be about feminism ... Once Upon a One More Time is a lumpy slurry of Britney Spears, ...

Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical - Gale

In the epilogue Wolf contends, "A feminist history of the Broadway musical is an argument and a story but it's also a method and a perspective" (239). One hopes ...

Guest Post: Into the Woods | The Feminist Spectator

Both musicals were developed off-Broadway, and both feature radically different first and second acts. Like many second musical theatre ...

A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical by Stacy Wolf (review)

Instead, what the musical offers is a focus on female friendship, a trope little seen on the musical stage, while still appealing to the base audience by ...

Changed for Good: A Feminist Histoty of the Broadway Musical

The first and last numbers of the female lead are analyzed in the context of race, gender, and sexuality, topics which began dominating public discourse ...

Chicago: The Female Lament behind the Vaudeville - Harpy Magazine

Chicago is a musical that tells women's stories predominantly through performances by female ... When Chicago was first adapted into a Broadway ...

In which I Turn my Feminist Lens on Legally Blonde, the Musical

They think that she's making terrible decisions. They think she's shallow and superficial. This helps us root for Elle. She becomes an underdog ...

Six Review. Wronged Queens in a Broadway Musical of Sonic Wave ...

Indeed, the musical proclaims its feminism so loudly that it's less fourth wave than sonic wave. But it feels more for show than out of ...

Gender is a Fundamental Element of the Broadway Musical | Bartleby

Therefore, the Broadway musical venerates female performers and ... play also give us insight into women's roles and help feed the feminist analyses.