Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Musical Theatre

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Belting Away at Binaries - Kelly Kessler



PART 1: EXPLORING AND EXPLODING THE GENDER BINARY ON THE MUSICAL STAGE

1. The Radio City Rockettes and the Making of a Sisterhood - Adrienne Gibbons Oehlers

2. Billy Elliot the Musical: Visual Representations of Working-Class Masculinity and the All-Singing, All-Dancing Bo[d]y - George Rodosthenous

3. Hamilton's Women - Stacy Wolf

4. Rewriting the American West: Black Feminist (Re)Vision in Bella: An American Tall Tale - Jordan Ealey

5. A-List Drag Queens, Accidental Drag Kings and Illegible Gender Rebels: (Mis)Representations of Trans Experience in Contemporary Musicals - Janet Werther



PART 2: EMBODYING AND EXPLOITING SEX AND SEXUALITY ON AND OFF BROADWAY

6. Chorus Boys: Words, Music and Queerness (c.1900-36) - David Haldane Lawrence

7. Emancipation or Exploitation? Gender Liberation and Adult Musicals in 1970s New York - Elizabeth L. Wollman

8. A Substitute for Love: The Performance of Sex in Spring Awakening - Bryan M. Vandevender

9. If You Were Gay, That'd Be Okay: Marketing LGBTQ+ Musicals from La Cage to The Prom - Ryan Donovan



PART 3: DIVAS DON'T CARE ABOUT NOBODY'S RULES

10. Embracing Excess: The Queer Feminist Power of Musical Theatre Diva Roles - Michelle Dvoskin

11. Stepping Out of Line: (Re)Claiming the Diva for the Dancers of Broadway - Dustyn Martincich

12. Diva Relations in The Color Purple, the 2015 Broadway Revival - Deborah Paredez

13. How Can the Small Screen Contain Her? Television, Genre and the Twenty-First-Century Broadway Diva Onslaught - Kelly Kessler



PART 4: ONSTAGE, OFFSTAGE AND ONLINE: GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL MUSICAL PRACTICE

14. The Queerness of Copla: Musical Hope for the Spanish LGBTQ - Alejandro Postigo

15. Queering Brechtian Feminism: Breaking Down Gender Binaries in Musical Theatre Pedagogical Performance Practices - Sherrill Gow

16. For Progress or Profit: The Possibilities and Limitations of Playing with Gender in Twenty-First-Century Musical Theatre - Stephanie Lim

17. The Right to See and Not Be Seen: South Korean Musicals and Young Feminist Activism - Jiyoon Jung



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• Musicais
• Artes de representação (performativas)
• Os estudos de gênero, grupos de gênero
• Filmes, cinema
• Artes: temas gerais

musical theatre; broadway; gender; binaries; diva; theatre; transgender; off-broadway; sex; sexuality; politics