University degrees: Summer University
Course length: 1 month
Course city: Los Angeles
Counts toward Theater minor
Survey of history of American musical: its composers, writers, and performers from musical’s emergence in immigrant cultures to Broadway and Off-Broadway. With its roots in British music halls and comic opera, Viennese operetta and African American jazz, American musical theater emerged as vivid and popular art form with its own culture and identity.
Dr. David Gorshein holds a Ph.D. from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, and has designed many courses for theater majors and non-majors. This course features video lectures by beloved former Theater professor Gary Gardner.
