'Gilding the Guild': Art Theatre, the Broadway revue and cultural parody in The Garrick Gaieties (1925-1930)

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dc.contributor.authorCantu, Maya
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-01T16:10:40Z
dc.date.available2016-11-01T16:10:40Z
dc.date.issued2013-03
dc.description.abstractThe legendary Garrick Gaieties revues of the mid-1920s are credited with launching the Broadway careers of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, with developing the style of the ‘sophisticated revue’ and with establishing Rodgers’ collaboration with the Theatre Guild, which later produced Oklahoma! (1943) and Carousel (1945). Beyond these more familiar innovations, The Garrick Gaieties invites closer scrutiny for the series’ complex relationship with the Little Theatre and art theatre movements of the 1920s, as represented by the Theatre Guild. Through cultural parody satirizing both the Theatre Guild and Broadway commercialism, the creators of The Garrick Gaieties of 1925, 1926 and 1930 not only used the revue form to destabilize cultural hierarchies and address tensions concerning art and commerce, but to bridge the distinct traditions of the Broadway musical and art theatre during the culturally dynamic years of the 1920s.en_US
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Musical Theatre Volume 7 Number 1 doi: 10.1386/smt.7.1.45_1en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11209/10529
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherIntellect Journalsen_US
dc.subjectBroadway revueen_US
dc.subjectRodgers and Harten_US
dc.subjectTheatre Guilden_US
dc.subjectart theatreen_US
dc.subjectparodyen_US
dc.subjectintertextualityen_US
dc.title'Gilding the Guild': Art Theatre, the Broadway revue and cultural parody in The Garrick Gaieties (1925-1930)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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