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Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity - by Ryan Donovan


Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity by Ryan Donovan

Explores how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. Asks/answers "Why did A Chorus Line, a show that sought to individuate dancers, inevitably make them indistinguishable? How does the use of fat suits in musicals like Dreamgirls and Hairspray stigmatize fatness? What were the political implications of casting two straight actors as the gay couple in La Cage aux Folles in 1983? How did deaf actors change the sound of musicals in Deaf West Theatre's Broadway revivals? Whose bodies does Broadway cast and whose does it cast aside?"

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Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity on Hardcover Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity on Paperback

Publisher: Oxford Univ Press

Released: 2023





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BROADWAY BODIES: A CRITICAL HISTORY OF CONFORMITY To Be Published By Oxford University Press February 2023
by A.A. Cristi - December 12, 2022

Oxford University Press will soon publish Ryan Donovan's Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity on February 17, 2023.

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