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When:
No class Nov 20

Where: The Loft Cinema

Cost: $165.00 for 6 session(s) Each session is 6 class meetings

Type: In Person

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Instructor: Richard T. Hanson Richard T. Hanson is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona.
Richard T. Hanson

The Theatre of Conscience

You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear, you’ve got to be taught from year to year,

It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear, you’ve got to be carefully taught . . .”

– Oscar Hammerstein, South Pacific

Oscar Hammerstein II was a surrogate father and mentor to Stephen Sondheim. Hammerstein passed on to Sondheim the craft and art of creating Musical Theatre. “In one afternoon I learned more about songwriting and the musical theatre than most people learn in a lifetime.” Carefully Taught explores the theatre of conscience that is at the core of the musicals of Oscar Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim. Both men explored social issues and subjects that had been off-limits in American Musical Comedy: Race prejudice, miscegenation, ethnic gang warfare, anti-immigration, the rise of Nazism in pre-war Austria, spousal abuse, and the moral responsibility of parenthood.

From Show Boat to Into the Woods, Carousel to Sweeney Todd, Oklahoma to Sunday In The Park with George, The Sound of Music to West Side Story, Carefully Taught celebrates the genius of Oscar Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim as the two most influential artists of the American Musical Theatre. Both men managed to entertain and at the same time, speak to a higher moral truth in their work.

Careful the things you say, children will listen.

Careful the things you do, children will see & learn…”

– Stephen Sondheim, Into the Woods

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Register for Carefully Taught: Oscar Hammerstein & Stephen Sondheim – Session 1

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