Theater Appreciation Exam 3

vaudeville

burlesque

extravaganza (The Black Crook)

revue (The Ziegfeld Follies)

book musical

jukebox musical

musical theater composers

Cole Porter

importance of Steven Sondheim

Jerome Robbins

Bob Fosse

Yiddish Immigrant Theater Origins

Why did Yiddish immigrant theater move to US?

Yiddish Immigrant Theater Features

Yiddish Immigrant Theater Demise

Italian Immigrant Theater

Chinese Opera: Why did Californians resent Chinese?

Chinese Opera Features

Chinese Opera Function of Makeup

Chinese Theater Stock Characters

Arguments for Theater

Arguments Against Theater

Funding and Connection to 1st Amendment

Importance of Production of Hair

Miller vs. California

Definition of obscenity

Origin and Demise of Federal Theatre Project

Impact of Federal Theatre Project on Black Theater Artists

National Endowment for the Arts

Serrano and Mapplethorpe controversy

NEA Four and the Supreme Court (“decency clause”)

Trump administration restrictions

Drag queen/king

Importance of Stonewall Riots

pansy craze

definition of camp