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Broadway Bodies - A Critical History of Conformity (Hardcover)
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Broadway Bodies - A Critical History of Conformity (Hardcover)
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Broadway has body issues. What is a Broadway Body? Broadway has
long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit,
exceptionally able, triple-threat performer who represents how
Broadway musicals favor certain kinds of bodies. Casting is always
a political act, situated within a power structure that gives
preference to the Broadway Body. In Broadway Bodies, author Ryan
Donovan explores how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with
gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. To
understand these intersectional relationships, he poses a series of
questions: Why did A Chorus Line, a show that sought to individuate
dancers, inevitably make dancers indistinguishable? How does the
use of fat suits in musicals like Dreamgirls and Hairspray
stigmatize fatness? What were the political implications of casting
two straight actors as the gay couple in La Cage aux Folles in
1983? How did deaf actors change the sound of musicals in Deaf
West's Broadway revivals? Whose bodies does Broadway cast and whose
does it cast aside? In answering these questions, Broadway Bodies
tells a history of Broadway's inclusion of various forms of
embodied difference while revealing its simultaneous ambivalence
toward non-conforming bodies.
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