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RESURRECTING THE STAGE:
HOW WITNESS UGANDA COULD LAUNCH THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF
BROADWAY FROM RIGHT HERE IN LOS ANGELES
by
Erica Ellen Phillips
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM—THE ARTS)
August 2010
Copyright 2010 Erica Ellen Phillips
Object Description
| Title | Resurrecting the stage: how 'Witness Uganda' could launch the new Golden Age of Broadway from right here in Los Angeles |
| Author | Phillips, Erica Ellen |
| Author email | eephilli@usc.edu; ericaephillips@yahoo.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Specialized Journalism (The Arts) |
| School | Annenberg School for Communication |
| Date defended/completed | 2010-05-07 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2010-08-02 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Page, Tim |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kun, Joshua Roman, David |
| Abstract | In February of 2010, Griffin Matthews and Matt Gould presented their original musical, Witness Uganda, at the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) / Disney Musical Theater Workshop at the Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Although the musical was still only half-complete, the panel—consisting of Paris Barclay, Paul Lazarus, and Stephen Schwartz—responded positively, and Pasadena’s Boston Court Theater invited Gould and Matthews to develop their musical over the summer and present the premiere at Boston Court the following fall.; Matthews and Gould originally developed the musical score for a fundraiser event benefitting Matthews’s not-for-profit organization, Be The Change (Uganda). After the incredible audience response at their first presentation in New York, however, the two decided to turn the songs into a full-length musical theater production. Now, they are working on an internet-based campaign—inspired by and modeled after president Barack Obama’s efforts—which they hope will get them to Broadway. In a world where their peers are connected through global social networks, and spend hours each day in front of their computers, Witness Uganda is working to rewrite the musical theater success story—starting in Los Angeles. |
| Keyword | musical theater; Africa; Witness Uganda; Uganda; music; theater; performance; Los Angeles; stage |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | Uganda |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3254 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Phillips, Erica Ellen |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-PHILLIPS-3758 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-PHILLIPS-3758.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | RESURRECTING THE STAGE: HOW WITNESS UGANDA COULD LAUNCH THE NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY FROM RIGHT HERE IN LOS ANGELES by Erica Ellen Phillips A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (SPECIALIZED JOURNALISM—THE ARTS) August 2010 Copyright 2010 Erica Ellen Phillips |
