Doing the Time Warp

Strange Temporalities and Musical Theatre

Sarah Taylor Ellis

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Methuen Drama
24 August 2023

Theatre Studies; Musicals; Musical scores, lyrics & libretti

Doing the Time Warp explores how song and dance – sites of aesthetic difference in the musical – can ‘warp’ time and enable marginalized and semi-marginalized fans to imagine different ways of being in the world. While the musical is a bastion of mainstream theatrical culture, it also supports a fan culture of outsiders who dream themselves into being in the strange, liminal timespaces of its musical numbers. Through analysing musicals of stage and screen – ranging from Rent to Ragtime, Glee to Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music – Sarah Taylor Ellis investigates how alienated subjects find moments of coherence and connection in musical theatre’s imaginaries of song and dance. Exploring an array of archival work and live performance, such as Larry Gelbart’s papers in the UCLA Performing Arts Collections and the shadowcast performances of Los Angeles’s Sins o’ the Flesh, Doing the Time Warp probes the politics of musicals and consider show the genre’s ‘strange temporalities’ can point towards new futurities for identities and communities in difference.

By: Sarah Taylor Ellis
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781350333192
ISBN 10: 1350333190
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 24 August 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Figures Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: ‘I would like, ah, if I may, to take you on a strange journey … ’ 1 A Funny Thing Happened … to the Integrated Musical: Poetics and Politics of Queer Temporality 2 ‘Let’s Do the Time Warp Again’: Performing Time, Genre and Spectatorship 3 Ragging Race: Spectral Temporality in the American Musical 4 ‘I Just Projected Myself Out of It’: Rehearsing Identities in Youth Musical Theatre 5 Just an Illusion: Identity and Musical Form Conclusion: ‘Everything You’re Feeling Is Appropriate’ Notes Select Bibliography Index

SARAH TAYLOR ELLIS is a composer, teaching artist and scholar based in Berlin. Recent compositions include the National Theatre’s Hamlet for young audiences, a hybrid musical/chamber opera adaptation of The Trojan Women (recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant) and the original feminist rock musical These Girls Have Demons. Sarah has taught with ArtsEd, the University of Chester, the Nightingale-Bamford School, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Roundabout Theatre Company and UCLA. Sarah’s theatre criticism and scholarship have been published in American Theatre, L.A. Weekly, Studies in Musical Theatre, and anthologies with Palgrave and Routledge. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater & Performance Studies from UCLA and a B.A. in Theater Studies/Music and English from Duke University.