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This study investigates the ways that theatre professionals brought significant changes to the Walt Disney Company, from 1984–1994, in a period affectionately referred to, in popular discourses, as the “Disney Renaissance.” These individuals, including Peter Schneider, Linda Woo…

This thesis explores senior adult theatre recorded interviews, several text book, internet, and published articles that report on findings conducted by educational scholars regarding senior adults in theatre 60 and older. Subsequent background research reflects on multigeneratio…

I believe the films from the Disney Renaissance period (1989–1999) drew heavily from the evolution and traditions of musical theater. Through the course of this thesis I examined several factors including the following: how these films were influenced by the history and traditio…

Responding to and provoked by an America colored by stark political division, tense racial conflict, and the powerful urban narrative of hip hop culture, Hamilton: An American Musical, created by composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda, became the subject of a cultural focus unprec…