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Encountering Road Show
- Source: Studies in Musical Theatre, Volume 17, Issue Sondheim from the Side, Dec 2023, p. 229 - 235
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- 01 Aug 2023
- 17 Oct 2023
- 19 Feb 2024
Abstract
The author considers her experience as the lighting designer for John Doyle’s production of the Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s musical Road Show at the Public Theater in New York City in 2008. She reflects on the experience of her life and career as an immigrant designer in the American theatre in relationship to the story of the musical, and relates her experience of the rehearsal and technical process of the production. The author considers her relationship to the American musical through the experience of designing this one particular Sondheim musical and explores various relationships to America, to the musical and to theatre in capitalism in the context of particular songs from the musical.
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