Day 1: Wednesday 14 May 2025
12:00 pm: SHOW & TELL OF TREASURES, West Dining Room (LM 632)
2:15 pm: INTRODUCTORY REMARKS, Mumford Room (LM 649)
PANEL ONE: SONGWRITERS:
2:45 pm: Jeanine Tesori and Shaina Taub, Mumford Room (LM 649)
PANEL ONE: DIRECTOR & DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER & PRODUCER:
4:15 pm: Julie Taymor and Marjuan Canady, Mumford Room (LM 649)
Day 2: Thursday 15 May 2025
9:30-10:30: SESSION 1: Women of the American Musical in the Collections of the Library of Congress
Megan Woller: “A first rate singing, dancing, entertaining encyclopedia of Musical Comedy”: Sylvia Fine’s “Musical Comedy Tonight” Series
Alex Badue: “Maid for Broadway”: Jeanine Teosori’s Score for “Caroline, or Change”
10:30-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30: SESSION 2: Reclaiming Women of the American Musical
Sunny Stalter-Pace: Remembering Albertina Rasch
Kathryn Edney: Beyond Bloody Mary: Researching the Archives for Juanita Hall
Becky Potter: Trude Rittmann
12:30-1:30: Lunch
1:30-3:30: SESSION 3: Black Feminist Approaches to Musical Theatre
Jordan Ealey: The (Drama)turgy of Black Life: Zora Neale Hurston’s Experiments in Sound
Elea Proctor: Lessons from the Archive: Rethinking John W. Isham’s Black Chorus Girls
Respondent: Michelle Scott
3:30-4:00: Break
4:00-6:00: SESSION 4: Women on Screen
Virginia Jansen: “Strife! And Tribulation!”: Refiguring gender and race in America’s “Golden Age” of musical theater through the women of “Schmigadoon”
Kelly Kessler: From the Teachers’ Lounge to Television: American Musical Theater and the Forgotten Small Screen Legacy of Ethel Burn
Adrienne McLean: Better than Everybody: Eleanor Powell and the Quandaries of Female Authorship in the Hollywood Musical
Hannah Lewis: “Lord Help the Sister Who Comes Between Me and My Man”: The Performance of Femininity in “White Christmas” (1954)
Day 3: Friday 16 May 2025
9:00-11:00: SESSION 4: Women and Identity
Amanda Lee Morrill: Every Tudor Rose Has Its Thorns”: Whitestream, Mean Girl Feminism in SIX
Catherine M Young: Sex and ‘Stuckness’: The Mobility and Immobilization of Women in In the Heights
Sam Yates: “Stealing from the Cookie Jar”: Women Modeling Disability in Sondheim’s Anyone Can Whistle
Donatella Galella: “They Don’t Know”: Thoroughly Modern Millie and Ironic Racism
11:00-11:30: Coffee
11:30-13:00: SESSION 6: Women, Voice, Power
Gregory Camp: “I can sing everything from popular music to grand opera”: Deanna Durbin, Power, and Musical Structure
Nathan Platte: Behind the Bamboo Tree: Listening to Sally Benson’s Meet Me in St. Louis
Kristen Turner Unruly Women and Respectable Ladies: Vocal Timbre and Stock Characters in Early Musical Comedies
13:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:30: SESSION 7: Groundbreaking Women in Production, Writing and Marketing
Dean Adams: women as producers [title TBC]
Samantha Lampe: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Evita? Mary Bryant’s Marketing Strategy
Shoshana Greenberg: Inner City [title TBC]
15:30-16:00: Coffee
16:00-17:00 SESSION 8: Women as Directors and Choreographers
Laura MacDonald: American musical theatre at Glyndebourne: Diane Paulus’s Carmen (2024)
Mary Jo Lodge: The Last (Twenty)Five Years: Women Directors and Director/Choreographers on Broadway
17:00-17:30: Stacy Wolf + Dominic Broomfield-McHugh – closing discussion + wrap-up