We'll miss you. This was such a great series. I learned so much. *Sadly, slowly walks off stage singing* We'll meet again... don't know where... don't know when...
With so much more to cover, why make this the last one? Why can't there be another episode (or two) to cover the modern era of Broadway? You even said that there's still so much more to talk about! Yes we need a reprise, and an encore!
@@timmcdaniel6193 PBS did a documentary series about this called “Broadway the American Musical”, and it covers Broadway's history from the Ziegfeld Follies all the way up to Hairspray. You're probably going to have to rent it from Netflix and it goes into far more depth than crash course can.
We need more of the contemporary book musicals. Perhaps Crash Course Theater 2 with in-depth takes on classic musicals, or examination of the works of Sondheim, Rodgers & Hammerstein as a collection and more!.
As an old theatre post-graduate, I watched this waiting for the opportunity to leap into the comments and hit you with an 'Actually...' but that moment never came. This was a great series, and you even managed to teach this out-of practice stage hand a thing or two, and give me a couple of new perspectives on things I thought I knew. Bravo.
And now it’s time for one last bow... for this season of theater in Crash Course. Thanks for the lessons, Mike. Please come back for another season/series in Crash Course
This series is still being used to help students in college theatre programs, me included! I would love to see more, since most intro theatre classes are now going into contemporary work (into the 2000s minimum)
I got strangely emotional during your final soliloquy. I guess the complex history and the passion that all these makers had through time just gets me tight in the feels. THE STAGE! IT'S TOO GOOD! IT CALLS ME!
I'm truly saddened that this is the final episode, it was a wonderful, informative and entertaining series. Well done Mike and everyone who worked on these videos, you've truly helped to reignite my passion for theatre.
BRAVO! ENCORE!!! ENCORE!!! Seriously, it's always sad to see another course come to an end. Hopefully you come back for another course because I enjoyed this a lot more because of you.
Farewell Mr. Regnetta, It was fun while it lasted. In a way, this was like an alternative observation of world history. It takes videos like these to realize how much influence theater and drama has on the opinions of a Nation, therefore has an influence on politics even on an international scale. Entertaining as it was educational 🙂
I only discovered this series a few weeks ago and I have a lot to catch up on but I wanted to comment on this final one by saying thank you for this series. This is a lot more comprehensive than the theatre history survey course I did 30 years ago and as a theatre professional, I love that this series exists to help learn more about this art form. Thank you for being entertaining and informative.
And if you do another season with contemporary practices, I really hope you look at the work being done in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Latin America, Germany. Heck the explosion across the African continent is worth a few episodes.
I agree. I fully understand WHY opera gets a bad rep - I"m a big fan of it (and I'm not a fan of other fans), but there were a TON of breakthroughs in terms of stage technology, musical styles, and story telling through it.
Hope we can get a 2nd series that talks about musicals into today, awesome contemporary playwrights like Suzan Lori Parks, and, well, an episode just on Angels in America.
I would love to talk about contemporary English theatre practices outside the US. Site-specific theatre, interdisciplinary theatre (maybe talk about Lepage?), outdoor theatre (the Aussies are masters at this large scale spectacle), the merging of circus and theatre (Cirque du Soleil and all those amazing Aussie circus companies), international co-creations, Latin American theatrical practices. There's so much.
I am so sad this is over! I loved it. A future series suggestion: women authors through the ages. I know it’s rather niche but there are so many female writers that are constantly forgotten about in normal literature courses
I didn't fall asleep once, which for everyone who's ever sat through a 10am Theatre History course knows is the true high watermark of a great Theatre History course.
"First Guys and Dolls, and then Artaud" truer words have never been said. I've loved this series- it's been wonderful and informative and really fun. And thank you for including an episode on Artaud, not enough people embrace ritualistic madness any more! Thank you so much :)
Thank you so so much for this! As a distant education student without any teaching assistance, this entire crash course on drama helped me a lot in my exam. I just finished writing my final sem paper and I am so much grateful to you for this wonderful presentation of such a vast topic.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on the Broadway book musical. It really made me think about how much our industry has shifted since the early to mid 1900s.
This series was so good! I learned more here than in any of the theatre and Broadway classes I took in high school and college combined! thank you all so much!
Aww this is so bittersweet ♥️ This is probably my favorite crash course series and it was the first I watched in real time, excitedly waiting for new videos each week. Thank you for all you’ve taught me and I can’t wait to see what you guys bring out next ♥️
Aww dang it. This is the second or third episode I've seen, and you had me hooked. Hopefully I can see more of you in the future. Thanks for the work you've done!
So well done! I truly enjoyed every episode and learned a lot. Hate to see you end it. But, wow, 50 episodes was a magnificent effort, I’m sure. Congratulations!
Sad to see this end, but I guess all good things must come to an end. I loved this course and I look forward to seeing what else you have planned for us!
"First Guys and Dolls, then Artaud" - very nice. I was in a production of Oooooklahoma! (where the wind come swiftly down the plain!) when I was 14 (33 years ago) and I can still remember every word from every song - and I'm not even American :-).
This was an awesome series. Once again, great job Mike! Can't wait to see what's next, and speaking of myself, the original movie version of Annie was how I started to get into theater
Thank you, CC. This had been entertaining and enlightening. Thank you, Mike. All the best to you in all your endeavours. Hope to see you and CC together again for more awesome content.
Catch me getting emotional about theatre and art 😭 honestly though, thank you so so so much for this series, it’s made me so happy and I love it so much. I really appreciate crash course and this whole series has been a celebration of the art that is so dear to my theatre kid heart. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Harrigan? Is that: “H, A, double-R, I, G, A, N spells Harrigan Proud of all the Irish blood that’s in me Divil a man to say a word a’gin me...” GM Cohan
I enjoyed this so very much!! I am still waiting for the crash course Music history thought. I actually took a class of that nature in collage, and I think it would be so much more fun with Crash Course! Although taking it with an old hippy who happens to teach Geography was pretty great too. Until next time....
Final episode? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Thank you so much, Michael, for doing this -- and wrapping it up with exactly what did bring so much of us into theatre in the first place.
Crash course team and Mike, thank you so very much all the way from Brasil. Paulo Freire citation in poor theatre was a really nice surprise. Now, please, since mythology and theatre are gone, we need a trope crash course.
I'd be all about a crash course on just the book musicals. Seriously. I have eight soundtracks for what would be considered book musicals on my phone, and I just marathoned this crash course in three days on my spring break. Well done, Mr. Rugeatta; take a bow. Yorick gets props too. Please explore some more modern Broadway - Sondheim (who is the amazing genius behind the "Wicked" soundtrack as well as "Into the Woods"), Andrew Lloyd Webber ("Phantom of the Opera" and "Evita," anyone?), and more would all be worth another crash course.
Oh wow I can't believe we're at the end already... Its been such a great ride, I love the way you talk so passionately about theatre! As a theatre student myself I've found this all so helpful and as a nerd I died ahaha
