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Theater Analysis
Essays on and analyses of plays and musicals.
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The Steve Bias
Theater analysis: Observing the suspicious amounts of successful Steves in musical theater.
Edmund W.
Jan 27, 20253 min read
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"Ladies Who Lunch": A Phonological Breakdown
Theater analysis looking at the sound patterns in Company's "Ladies Who Lunch."
Edmund W.
Jan 20, 20254 min read
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August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson"
Review of "The Piano Lesson" by August Wilson.
Edmund W.
Jan 20, 20253 min read
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Assonance by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda is the most esteemed musical theater writer of this century. Earning a Pulitzer Prize and a handful of Tonys, Miranda...
Edmund W.
Jan 16, 20258 min read
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La Cage aux Folles vs A Strange Loop
In the summer of 2024, I had the pleasure of watching Broadway’s first openly gay musical, La Cage aux Folles , and its most recent...
Edmund W.
Jan 16, 20256 min read
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G-dropping in Spring Awakening
G-dropping is a phenomenon in which the -ing suffix is realized as -in' . When we say something like "walkin'" instead of "walking," for...
Edmund W.
Jan 15, 20251 min read
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Accents in Musical Theater
A deep dive into the use of accents in English-written musicals set in non-English-speaking countries.
Edmund W.
Jan 10, 202516 min read
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