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Course detail: Broadway Music in the 1950's
The 1950s were a very special decade in the history of the musical with such figures as Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, and Jule Styne writing such shows as The King and I, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, and Gypsy for the Broadway stage. This will be survey of the decade's most popular shows, the people who wrote them, and the stars who played in them.
Instructor bio: Paul Laird is a Professor Emeritus of Musicology who taught at KU for thirty years. He has published widely on the American musical theater and taught dozens of Osher courses over the last three decades.
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