The History of Musical Theatre Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

In this interview I talk to David Weston, who spent a very long career in Shakespeare's plays. He was Ian McKellen's understudy in a world tour of King Lear. He kept a diary during that time which was published as Covering McKellen, which he followed up with Covering Shakespeare. I do some fangirling, and we chat about his career. 

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Script Here: Episode 2: Victor Hugo and English Operetta - OUT OF THE WINGS (outofthewingsmedia.com)

Books:

Citron, Stephen - Noel and Cole: The Sophisticates - 1992 - Oxford University Press

Dickson, John - Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History - 2021 - Zondervan

Hammerstein, Oscar Arthur - The Hammersteins: A Musical Theatre Family - 2010 - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers

Harding, James - Folies de Paris: The Rise and Fall of French Operetta - 1979 - Chappell & Company

Ganzl, Kurt. Lamb, Andrew - Ganzl’s Book of the Musical Theatre - 1988 - The Bodley Head

Nightingale, Benedict - The Musical Phenomenon Les Miserables From Page to Stage to Screen - 2018 - Carlton Books Limited

Lerner, Alan Jay - The Musical Theatre: A Celebration - 1986 - Gilmount

Weston, David - Covering Shakespeare: An Actor’s Saga of Near Misses and Dogged Endurance - 2014 - Oberon Books

Whitfield, Sarah - Boubil and Schonberg’s Les Miserables - 2019 - Routledge

Websites:

A Brief Summary of Victor Hugo’s Life - Guernsey Museums & Galleries - A Brief Summary of Victor Hugo's Life - Guernsey Museums (gov.gg)

Victor Hugo - Britanica - Victor Hugo | Biography, Books, Poems, & Facts | Britannica

Notre Dame Cathedral Update - Friends of Notre Dame de Paris - Notre Dame Cathedral Update | 2022 Restoration Update (friendsofnotredamedeparis.org)

Why did Gilbert and Sullivan quarrel over a carpet? - Classical Music - Why did Gilbert and Sullivan quarrel over a carpet? | Classical Music (classical-music.com)

The beginner’s guide to operetta - English National Opera - The beginner's guide to operetta | English National Opera (eno.org)

Other:

Oxford Dictionary

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After Diaghilev's death the ballet was left in a chaotic state. Disparate producers, impresarios, choreographers, and dancers came together to form a new company. On Broadway ballet makes its way into the mainstream and onto the stages. 

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This week's episode is an interview with Lyrica Woodruff, basically Broadway's ballerina. The SAB alum talks about her journey from California to New York and from ballet to Broadway.

The Diaghilev Ballet Russes was a project which brought revolutionized ballet, brought it to the world, and served as a launching point from which artists like George Balanchine would begin their careers. 

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Enjoy this interview with Jojo Newman, creator of the Adult Ballet Collective. We talked about our journeys to ballet, how we started our respective passion projects, our bubble tea orders, and the value of learning new skills as an adult. 

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The new season begins! In this episode we take a high speed review of ballet history covering figures like Enrico Cecchetti, Marie Taglioni, Louis XIV, and Fanny Elssler.

Note: in the time between recording the episode and now, Stephen Sondheim has passed. I will address this at the beginning of the next episode.

Our final foray into the world of West Side Story!

This episode covers the post-West Side Story story from the Broadway production to the first film. In it we meet Chita Rivera, David Winters, and Rita Moreno, as well as a few others.  The story covers "Gypsy", the death of Oscar Hammerstein II, and the film's production.