October 23, 2025: Other Original Musicals, Part 1 (2000-2005)

Class Preparation

Recommended Reading: 

• Broadway: The American Musical: 
  • “Defying Gravity--Wicked” (pp. 418-420)
  • “I am not dead yet—The Resurrection of Musical Comedy” (pp. 421-429)

​Handouts:

• Class 6 Selected Lyrics
• ​Handout of Key Class 6 slides

Links & Playlists

 YouTube Playlists:

• Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• Wicked (2003 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• The Light in the Piazza (2005 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee  (2005 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
• Class 6 Videos
• On October 21, 2025, "Dancing With the Stars" devoted an entire program to Wicked. After an opening number the ten remaining couples dance to songs from the musical. This playlist puts the dances in the order of those songs in the stage version of the show.
  

Other Links:

• ​An entire performance of The Light in the Piazza is available on YouTube. This is a video transfer of a "Live from Lincoln Center" broadcast in June 2006 with Victoria Clark as Margaret, Katie Rose Clarke as Clara, and Duke graduate Aaron Lazar as Fabrizio. Link:  https://youtu.be/_umTxYD-o3k?si=EmfJzuxNgVI88WBp “Statues and Stories" is in the first scene, Dividing Day” starts at 54:30, and Clara's solo "The Light in the Piazza" starts at 1:36:00.