ブロードウェイの身体：従順な身体の歴史 Broadway Bodies : A Critical History of Conformity

著者名：Donovan, Ryan

Oxford University Press（2023/02/03発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197551073
• eISBN：9780197551103

Description

Broadway has body issues. What is a Broadway Body? Broadway has long preserved the ideology of the "Broadway Body": the hyper-fit, exceptionally able, triple-threat performer who represents how Broadway musicals favor certain kinds of bodies. Casting is always a political act, situated within a power structure that gives preference to the Broadway Body. In Broadway Bodies, author Ryan Donovan explores how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. To understand these intersectional relationships, he poses a series of questions: Why did A Chorus Line, a show that sought to individuate dancers, inevitably make dancers indistinguishable? How does the use of fat suits in musicals like Dreamgirls and Hairspray stigmatize fatness? What were the political implications of casting two straight actors as the gay couple in La Cage aux Folles in 1983? How did deaf actors change the sound of musicals in Deaf West's Broadway revivals? Whose bodies does Broadway cast and whose does it cast aside? In answering these questions, Broadway Bodies tells a history of Broadway's inclusion of various forms of embodied difference while revealing its simultaneous ambivalence toward non-conforming bodies.

Table of Contents

Part I: Broadway BodiesIntroduction: The Broadway Body1. "I Saw What They Were Hiring": Casting and Recasting A Chorus Line Part II: Size2. Dreamgirls, Size, and the Body Politics of Padding3. "Must Be Heavyset": Casting Fat Women in Broadway MusicalsPart III: Sexuality4. La Cage aux Folles and Playing Gay5. "Keeping It Gay" on The Great White Way Part IV: Ability6. Deaf West's Awakening of Broadway 7. Musicals, Physical Difference, and DisabilityEpilogue: Recasting BroadwayBibliographyIndex