FRIDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER
2:00 PM Graduate Student Writing Workshop Blewett Conference Room, Gaylord 16
6:00 PM Dinner and First Keynote Address Pan d’Olive
This is Not a Broadway Body
STACY WOLF, Princeton University
SATURDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER
9:00 – 10:30 AM Session 1: Characters’ Bodies Music Classroom Building 102
Chair: Caleb T. Boyd
“Sumpin’ Wrong Inside Him”: Issues of Eugenics and Disability in Adapting Rodgers’ and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
ANDREW TUBBS, The University of Iowa
The Absent Broadway Body: Michael Bennett’s Scandal
VIRGINIA ANDERSON, Connecticut College
“Here She Is, World!”: Locating the Aging Female Body in Gypsy
MICHAEL EVANS KINNEY, Stanford University
10:30 – 11 AM Break with Coffee and Tea
11 AM – 12:30 PM Session 2: Nontraditional Bodies on Stage Music Classroom Building 102
Chair: Ashley Pribyl
Vivienne Segal and the Spectacle of Age on Stage
JULIANNE LINDBERG, The University of Nevada, Reno
“I Know They’re Kids But They’re Awesome!”: The Virtuosic Spectacle of Child Prodigies in Billy Elliot and School of Rock
CURTIS RUSSELL, CUNY
Embodiment, Cultural Memory, and the Performance of History
ELISSA HARBERT, DePauw University
12:30 – 1:30 PM Lunch Blewett Patio
1:30 PM Second Keynote Address Music Classroom Building 102
Disability Musical Theater: Dramaturgy, Performance, Access, and Accommodation
JAMES LEVE, Northern Arizona University
3:00 PM Break with Coffee and Tea
3:30 – 5:00 PM Session 3: Revivals Music Classroom Building 102
Chair: Daniel Fister
Reviving Shuffle Along: Embodiment and the Haunting of Race
JOANNA DEE DAS, Washington University in St. Louis
Can I Remember How This Song and Dance Began?: Memory and Embodiment in the Broadway Revivals of Sweet Charity
BRYAN M. VANDEVENDER, Bucknell University
“A Real Fat Girl”: Fat Stigma and Re-Casting Effie
RYAN DONOVAN, CUNY
5:00 – 6:00 PM Break
6:00 PM Closing Reception Blewett Patio