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6th Susan Porter Memorial Symposium
October 2-4, 2010: Schedule
- Saturday, October 2
- Sunday, October 3
- Monday, October 4
Venue: First Congregational Church UCC
Location: corner of Broadway & Pine Street, downtown Boulder
Session I: Pre- or Post-? Classic Broadway
chair: Tom Riis, University of Colorado at Boulder
8:15 am -- Playin' House: Broadway's "First" Rock-n-Roll Song
Scott Warfield, University of Central Florida
8:45 am -- The Revival of Tin Pan Alley Musicals: Reshape and Reinvent
Paul Christman, The University of Oklahoma
9:15 am -- Race, Rock and Cold War Anxiety in Bye Bye Birdie
Ryan Bunch, Holy Family University, Community College, Philadelphia
9:45 am -- Break
Session II: Depicting Race & Nations:
Oscar Hammerstein & His Collaborators
chair: Erika Randall, University of Colorado at Boulder
10:00 am -- Post War/Cold War Show Boats
Todd Decker, Washington University of St. Louis
10:30 am -- Staging Stowe in Siam,
or the Puzzlement of The Small House of Uncle Thomas
James Steichen, Princeton University
11:00 am -- Break
11:15 am -- Musical Assimilation and King Mongkut in The King and I
Carla Ponti, University of California, San Diego
11:45 am -- The Hundred Million Miracles of Adaptation:
Erasures of Chinese Gender and Nationalist Inclusion in Flower Drum Song
Brian Granger, University of California, Santa Barbara
Noon -- Break/Lunch on your own
Session III: Panel Discussion:
The Role of the Critic in Mid-20th Century Musical Theater:
Genre Formation, Identity Politics, & Structures of Reception
1:30 - 3:00 pm -- Panel members:
Raymond Knapp, University of California, Los Angeles
Jessica Sternfeld, Chapman University Conservatory of Music
Stacy Wolf, Princeton University
Elizabeth Wollman, Baruch College, CUNY
Session IV: Cross-Dressing & Transgressing with Voice & Gender
chair: Bud Coleman, University of Colorado at Boulder
3:30 pm -- Pins and Needles: Working Class Culture in Revue
Trudi Wright, University of Colorado at Boulder
4:00 pm -- Why Do We Fall for the Diva of the Rasp? Vocal Cross-Dressing on Broadway
Samuel Baltimore, University of California, Los Angeles
4:30 pm -- Learning to Speak (and Sing) the Other's Language:
On Gamblers, Missionaries, and Their Musical Signifiers in Guys and Dolls
Michael Buchler, Florida State University
Dinner on your own
Session V: Keynote Speaker
7:30 pm -- Theatrical Liberalism: The Backstage Musical as Secular Judaism
Andrea Most, Professor of English, University of Toronto
Reception to follow at First Congregational Church
Venue: University of Colorado, College of Music, Chamber Hall [Room C-199]
Location: 18th & Euclid, off Broadway
Session VI: Jewish "Actors" / Black Music
chair: Linda Snyder, University of Dayton
8:30 am -- Dorothy Fields in Black and White
Charlotte Greenspan, Cornell University
9:00 am -- The Jewish West Side Story
Elizabeth A. Wells, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
9:30 am -- Break
9:45 am -- Jule Styne's Leading Ladies & the Golden Age of the Broadway Book Musical
Eliott Kahn, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
10:15 am -- Golden Boy and "Black-Jewish" Relations
James Leve, Northern Arizona University
10:45 am -- Jazz and the Politics of Identity in Bernstein's New York Musicals
Katherine Baber, University of Redlands, California
11:15 am -- Brunch Break
Session VII: Genre & Reception, Part 2
chair: Paul Laird, University of Kansas
1:00 pm -- Selling Oklahoma!: The Genesis of the "First Ever" Integrated Musical
James O'Leary, Yale University
1:30 pm -- A Funny Thing Happened . . . to the Integrated Show
Sarah Taylor Ellis, University of California, Los Angeles
2:00 pm -- The Creation of “Wicked”: A Consideration from Draft Scripts and Music Manuscripts
Paul R. Laird, University of Kansas
2:30 pm -- Break
Session VIII: Remembering the Decades of Classic Broadway
moderator: William Everett, University of Missouri-Kansas City
3:00 - 4:30 pm -- Panel members:
Jo Sullivan Loesser, New York singer/actor
Michael Duran, Founding Director, Boulder's Dinner Theatre
Lisa Tamiris Becker, Boulder, CO
Eliott Kahn, New York, NY
Dinner Break
7:30 pm -- Robert and Ruth Fink Lecture:
My Father’s Musical Time-Capsule: George Gershwin, Affirmative Action, and the Ultimate American Promise
Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Professor Emerita, Brown University
Reception to follow in the College of Music
Morning and afternoon:
open schedule, tours of Boulder and Front Range sites TBA
Evening:
I Believe in You, An Evening with Frank Loesser
Benefit & dinner concert for Boulder Community Hospital & the AMRC
Venue: Boulder's Dinner Theater [advanced ticket purchase required: $150]
Location: 5501 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder
