Wednesday
10.20 Overlooked commercial sources (Venue: Humanities Research Institute)
Chair: Scott Warfield
Olaf Jubin - “Didn’t You Once Sing to Me in German?” – Tracking the Dubbing and Subtitling of Film Musicals for the
German-language Market
Dean Adams - Art and Commerce: How to Succeed in Musical Theatre Business Sources
Discussion: How can we reconcile the artistic and commercial aspects of musicals into a single narrative?
11.15 Coffee (Venue: Humanities Research Institute)
11.35 Editions Panel (Venue: Humanitites Research Institute)
Chair: John Graziano
Matthew Malone - Subways are for Sleeping: Creating and Performing a new Critical Edition
Discussion with John Graziano and Amy Asch (editor of Hammerstein and Lerner's lyrics): What are the benefits
and perils of editions in musical theatre research?
12.15 Lunch (Venue: The Diamond, Workroom 2)
13.15 Archivists Panel (Venue: The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 3)
Chair: Dominic McHugh
Mark Eden Horowitz - Musical theatre collections in the Library of Congress
Doug Reside - "When scientists control the human race": Archives in the digital present
Discussion: How can archivists and scholars work together more closely to achieve mutual goals at a time when
funding for archives is increasingly cut back?
14.30 Coffee (Workroom 1)
15.00 Case Studies (Venue: The Diamond, Lecture Theatre 3)
Chair: Stephen Banfield
Nathan Blustein - Playwriting in Song: “Reprise Types” in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd
Emilo Méndez - “Something appealing, Something appalling”: stalking the Sondheim Musical through the
Mexican Archive
Discussion: How can source studies complement the study of living musical theatre writers?
15.55 Break (Walk to Department of Music)
16.10 Keynote and Discussion (Department of Music, Ensemble Room 2)
Chair: Dominic McHugh
Jeffrey Magee - “From Flatbush to Fun Home: Broadway’s Cozy Cottage Trope”
17.10 End of Session
18.00 Conference dinner (Optional: extra fee: Piccolino)
Go to Day Three
Lisa Lobdell - “Strange Bedfellows, or, what happens when a small archives and large university work together”