"T'morra,' T'morra"': The 1940s Broadway Period Musical and Progressive Nostalgia in Bloomer Girl
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2014
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New England Theatre Conference
Abstract
Billed as a "Modern Musical Comedy with Old-Fashioned Charm," the
Civil War-set Bloomer Girl (1944) followed Oklahoma! as part of a
World War ll-era cycle of Broadway musicals steeped in period Americana.
This article argues that Bloomer Girl - connecting First-wave
feminism to Rosie the Riveter, and the abolitionist movement with civil
rights - offered a complex vision of progressive nostalgia, advancing
utopian aims of social justice that anticipate Finian's Rainbow.
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Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Drama., Race discrimination -- United States -- Drama.
Citation
New England Theatre Journal. 2014, Vol. 25, p49-69. 21p.