betty's question has led me to wonder about something that somehow never
occurred to me before . . . the american musical theater --and film
musicals that are a first cousin --almost always [so far as i can
recall] include dancing  . . . and yet in opera, from which musical
theater presumably derives, dancing, while not uncommon, is at best an
optional feature . . . can this be right? . . . are there in fact very
few american musicals that lack dancing? . . . i don't remember any
dancing in meet me in st. louis, but that's the only one i can think of
and i don't even remember that one well enough to be certain . . . what
i am missing???

 

mike

 

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Subject: [SCREEN-L] Irish Musical Films

 

Does anyone have information about Irish musicals on film?  I'm thinking
of the moving Once.  It seems to me that the Irish musical movie
(including music but not dancing) may be a very different genre from
American musicals--which are music and dancing.

Betty Bettacchi

Professor of English

Collin College

Plano, Texas

 

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