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Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre - He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night (Hardcover, New edition)
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Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre - He/She/They Could Have Danced All Night (Hardcover, New edition)
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Critics and fans alike often mistake theatrical song and dance as
evoking a sweeping sense of simplicity, heteronormativity, and
traditionalism. Nothing drove home this cultural misunderstanding
for Kelly Kessler as when a relative insisted she watch the Clint
Eastwood-Lee Marvin cinematic transfer of Paddy Chayefsky's Paint
Your Wagon (1969) with a young niece and nephew because it was a
'sweet movie.' In the relative's memory, good old-fashioned singing
and dancing-matched with the power of an assumed hegemonic embrace
of social norms-far outweighed the whoremongering, alcoholism,
wife-selling, and what appears to be narratively sanctioned
polyamory. This collection seeks to trouble such an over-idealized
impression of musical theatre. Tackling Rockettes, divas, and
chorus boys; hit shows such as Hamilton and Spring Awakening; and
lesser-known but ground-breaking gems like Erin Markey's A Ride on
The Irish Cream and Kirsten Childs's Bella: An American Tall Tale.
Gender, Sex and Sexuality in Musical Theatre: He/She/They Could
Have Danced All Night takes a broad look at musical theatre across
a range of intersecting lenses such as race, nation, form, dance,
casting, marketing, pedagogy, industry, platform-specificity,
stardom, politics, and so on. This collection assembles an amazing
group of established and emergent musical theatre scholars to
wrestle with the complexities of the gendered and sexualized
musical theatre form. Gender and desire have long been at the heart
of the musical, whether because 'birds and bees' (and educated
fleas') were doing it, a farm girl simply couldn't 'say no,' or
one's 'tits and ass' were preventing them from landing the part. An
exciting and vibrant collection of articles from the archives of
Studies in Musical Theatre, with contributions from Ryan Donovan,
Michele Dvoskin, Sherrill Gow, Jiyoon Jung, David Haldane Lawrence,
Stephanie Lim, Dustyn Martinich, Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers, Deborah
Paredez, Alejandro Postigo, George Rodosthenous, Janet Werther,
Stacy Wolf, Elizabeth L. Wollman, Bryan Vandevender and Kelly
Kessler, brought together with a newly commissioned piece by Jordan
Ealey. All set against the backdrop of Kelly Kessler's
scene-setting introduction. Excellent potential for classroom and
course use on undergraduate and graduate courses in theatre
studies, musical studies, women's and gender studies.
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