Times Square, Broadway in evening, May 2016. (Photo by Peter K. Burian. Used under Creative Commons License)
Love Broadway Musicals? The Pasadena Playhouse, through “PlayhouseLive: The Classroom,” may have just the right class for you.
Starting on Monday, February 22, the organization is kicking off its 10-week seminar, taught by Broadway Producer Adam Epstein, examining the evolution of the American musical, from “Evita” in 1979 to “Dear Evan Hansen.”
The seminar will focus on Broadway through the past three decades, surveying the American musicals of the 1980s, including “Dreamgirls,” “La Cage Aux Folles,” and “Into The Woods,” as well as the British invasion by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh, to the boundary-breaking musicals of the ’90s such as “Rent” and “Ragtime,” to the biggest hits of the 21st century including “The Producers,” “Hairspray,” “Wicked, Jersey Boys,” “The Book of Mormon,” and “Hamilton.”
PlayhouseLive class lectures will center around how the form has changed since the so-called “Golden Age,” what direction the musical has taken, and what it means to be an “American” musical.
Course schedules are Mondays, February 22 through April 26, 2021, at 5 p.m. Students can attend the live lessons, and the course videos will be made available to them within 24 hours of the conclusion of each session.
To register for the class, visit https://playhouselive.org/
For more information about PlayhouseLive and other Pasadena Playhouse programs, visit www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/.
