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Broadway Bodies - Ryan Donovan

Broadway Bodies

A Critical History of Conformity

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Buch | Hardcover
330 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-755107-3 (ISBN)
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Broadway Bodies offers a new telling of Broadway history, exploring how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. Author Ryan Donovan unpacks Broadway's inclusion of various forms of embodied difference while exposing its simultaneous ambivalence toward non-conforming bodies.
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.

Ryan Donovan is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Duke University. He is author of Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre.

Part I: Broadway Bodies
Introduction: The Broadway Body
1. "I Saw What They Were Hiring": Casting and Recasting A Chorus Line

Part II: Size
2. Dreamgirls, Size, and the Body Politics of Padding
3. "Must Be Heavyset": Casting Fat Women in Broadway Musicals

Part III: Sexuality
4. La Cage aux Folles and Playing Gay
5. "Keeping It Gay" on The Great White Way

Part IV: Ability
6. Deaf West's Awakening of Broadway
7. Musicals, Physical Difference, and Disability

Epilogue: Recasting Broadway

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 28 b&w halftones
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 235 x 156 mm
Gewicht 594 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Klassik / Oper / Musical
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-19-755107-6 / 0197551076
ISBN-13 978-0-19-755107-3 / 9780197551073
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