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Volume 14, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 1750-3159
  • E-ISSN: 1750-3167

Abstract

, a popular Broadway musical whose narrative centres on connectivity and the protagonist’s social anxiety, offers a disruptive potential to the otherwise standard nostalgic leanings of the contemporary American musical. Operating dramaturgically, nostalgia offers the audience an opportunity to recall an idealized past that imbues the musical they are witnessing with their own positive affect. ’s use of prosthetic memory disrupts the nostalgic tradition of the contemporary musical. Using dramaturgical analysis to identify the narrative operation of nostalgia and prosthetic memory, this article situates the disruptive potential of as an intervention into the American musical theatre canon writ large.

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Keyword(s): Broadway; dramaturgy; memory; musicals; nostalgia; social anxiety
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