Musical Theater on Broadway and Beyond

3 Credits.

What is a Broadway musical? Why aren’t there more smash hits like Hamilton? And what canAmerican musical theater teach us about our own lives? In this introductory course, studentswill explore these questions and more, learning about the history and craft of significant 20th and 21st-century musicals in the interdisciplinary context of society, politics, economics, andtechnology. Students will apply their knowledge by collaboratively creating and performing anoriginal short work of musical theatre and, if practicable, will attend a performance in theBaltimore-Washington area or in neighboring cities as far away as New York.