Curator of the Billy Rose Theater Division @nypl
[My opinions do not necessarily reflect those of anyone or any institution with whom/which I associate]
From the mid-70s, the appearance of musical theatre on television helped to establish the musical as an important American art form worthy of critical attention.
Discover more about this development in a chapter from @dougreside’s “Fixing the Musical”: https://t.co/veqt8iVoLy
I'm interviewing Betty Aberlin at the Library this Monday at 6pm. Many here may know her best from her long running role on Mr. Rogers, but she was also involved in many of the most interesting theatre pieces of the late 20th century. Tickets are free: https://t.co/JSQ4xE9J86
Book drop day! My book, Fixing the Musical (about the technologies that shaped what we think of when we think of musicals) is out as an eBook. Paper to come in the next week or two: https://t.co/W8CBcEcN2A
"Of course, I shouldn't tell you this but she advocates *dirty books*...Chaucer! Rabelais! Bal-zac!" ~The Music Man (1957) 📸 Friedman-Abeles
https://t.co/KtEHxmqw81 #nocutstolibraries
Did anybody here see the musical of Sweeney Todd that opened the Sullivan Street Playhouse in 1957 at the same time that West Side Story was opening on Broadway? I've written a little piece about it, but I'd love to know more:
https://t.co/9ufQocqpDt
I recently published a short piece of the making of the original production of The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window. You can read it here:
https://t.co/W5bnDeTiAF
Also, @nypl_lpa has digitized over 1000 photos of the original production. Here's Rita Moreno:
@jamescummings@mkirschenbaum If I could control the input (point it at a text), I struggle to think of a more efficient way. Messing with lots of regexps would take quite a bit longer than a sentence to Chatgpt. I think handmade markup (that isn’t idiosyncratic annotation) may be obsolete sooner than 5 years
I'm going to assume I'm not the only person to have tried this, but I remember how we used to talk about how TEI could train AI. Seems like it did. "Tag Hamlet using SP, SPEAKER tags with the "who" attribute":
@louBurnard I just asked ChatGPT to do it, and it already knew about Hamlet. Short of sending it short bits of text and asking for the results, I don't think the devs of this tool have made a good way for users to feed it large amounts of data yet. I request'd plugin dev power tho.
@hcayless @benmschmidt@FolgerLibrary The more I play with it, the more it seems capable of coming up with TEI for any text it wants (even those it generates itself). I don't think it's basing it on any particular encoding. It'll tell you itself it's incomplete and that "TEI can have a variety of valid encodings..."
@benmschmidt@FolgerLibrary Even more interesting (maybe), I sent it to a page that had the libretto of ALW's Phantom of the Opera and asked it to generate TEI. It wrote it's own adaptation, but used TEI: https://t.co/hDPbW772N9
I enjoyed compiling this not-terribly-scientific survey the scenes that get cut most often from stage versions of A Christmas Carol. (Next year let's have the Christmas celebration in the Lighthouse and the mines!) https://t.co/oHMbfJfKRe