Tuesday
11.15 Welcome (Venue: Humanities Research Institute)
Opening Panel: The State of the Sources and Literature
Dominic McHugh (Chair), Stephen Banfield, Julianne Lindberg and Mark Eden Horowitz
11.50 Case Studies 1. Forgotten Musicals (Venue: Humanities Research Institute)
Chair: Jeffrey Magee
Scott Warfield - Reclaiming a Forgotten Musical : The case of A Joyful Noise
George Burrows - Where’s the work? Exploring archival scholarship via the manuscripts of Raymond Scott’s Lute Song
Discussion: How can sources help to fill in the gaps in our understanding of Broadway repertoire - and does the
existence of sources on lesser-known musicals exaggerate their importance?
12.45 Lunch (45 mins) (Venue: Humanities Research Institute)
13.35 Digital Media (Venue: Humanities Research Institute)
Chair: George Burrows
Adam Rush - Everything’s Coming Up Twitter: Social Media as Research Tool and ‘Text’
Eleonora Sammartino - Curating YouTube: The Use of Promotional Materials in the Remakes of Fame and Footloose
Jonas Westover - Expect the Unexpected: Expanding the Tools for Mining Digital Resources
Discussion: What are the strengths and pitfalls of using digital sources in musical theatre research?
14.55 Coffee (The Diamond: Workroom 1)
15.20 Case Studies (The Diamond: Lecture Theatre 6)
Chair: Robert Gordon
Andrew Buchman - The Early Scripts and the Genesis of Hair (1967-68)
Ben Redmayne - Billion Dollar Baby: seeking perspective on the Comden-Green-Robbins collaboration
Discussion: What are the benefits of studying the pre-production genesis of a musical theatre work when musicals come to life in performance?
16.15 Break
16.20 Keynote and Discussion (The Diamond: Lecture Theatre 6)
Chair: Dominic McHugh
Geoffrey Block - “He used to be in Beethoven”: One Scholar’s Journey from Beethoven to Broadway
17.20 End of Session
19.30 Lerner and Loewe concert (Firth Hall) (Optional; free of charge to delegates)
A programme of songs from What's Up? (1943), The Day Before Spring (1945), cut songs from Paint Your Wagon (1951), and
The Little Prince (1974), based on archival research by Dominic McHugh and Matthew Malone.