Broadway Podcast Network - Episode 160: Fixing The Musical — How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory

Episode 160: Fixing The Musical — How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory

Over the past century, thousands of musicals have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? My guest this week is Doug Reside, the author of a very interesting new book: Fixing The Musical — How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory... Read More

40 mins

Dec 12

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Over the past century, thousands of musicals have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others?

My guest this week is Doug Reside, the author of a very interesting new book:

Fixing The Musical — How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory.

In this conversation, Doug shares with us how the printed versions of the scripts, cast recordings, movie versions, and even illegal bootlegs on YouTube have shaped the American musical as an art form and defined the Broadway repertory as we know it.

This book is filled with fascinating research, which might be expected since, in his day job, Doug Reside is the Curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the NYPL for the Performing Arts.

Reside joined NYPL in 2011 first as the digital curator for the performing arts before assuming his current position in 2014. Prior to joining NYPL, Reside served on the directorial staff of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. He has published and spoken on topics related to theater history, literature, and digital humanities, and has managed several large grant-funded projects on these topics. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Kentucky.

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Over the past century, thousands of musicals have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others?

My guest this week is Doug Reside the author of a very interesting new book:

Fixing The Musical — How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory

This book is filled with fascinating research, which might be expected since, in his day job, Doug Reside is the Curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the NYPL for the Performing Arts. He joined NYPL in 2011 first as the digital curator for the performing arts before assuming his current position in 2014. Prior to joining NYPL, Reside served on the directorial staff of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland. He has published and spoken on topics related to theater history, literature, and digital humanities, and has managed several large grant-funded projects on these topics. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Kentucky.

If you enjoy this podcast, I invite you to become a patron of Broadway Nation and join such generous individuals as Kelly Allen, whose support helps to make this podcast possible. If you are interested, there will be information at the end of the episode about how you, too, can become a patron.