Topic 6

1950’s-70’s

For the following please pick out one prompt, either composers, directors, etc.,  and share out a one page synopsis of who they are and there influence on Broadway:

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• Composers: Rodger, Hammerstein, Loesser, Bernstein

• Directors: George Abbott, Jerome Robbins, Bob Fosse

• Female Stars: Gwen Verdon, Mary Martin, Ethel Merman

• Choreographers: Fosse, Kidd, Robbins,

• Laurents and Sondheim influenced by topical music music created West Side Story

• Hair