Doing the Time Warp: Strange Temporalities and Musical Theatre [Paperback]

Doing the Time Warpexplores how song and dance  sites of aesthetic difference in the musical  can 'warp' time and enable marginalized and semi-marginalized fans to imagine different ways of being in the world.
While the musical is a bastion of mainstream theatrical culture, it also supports a fan culture of outsiders who dream themselves into being in the strange, liminal timespaces of its musical numbers.
Through analysing musicals of stage and screen  ranging fromRenttoRagtime, Gleeto Taylor Mac'sA 24-Decade History of Popular Music Sarah Taylor Ellis investigates how alienated subjects find moments of coherence and connection in musical theatre's imaginaries of song and dance.
Exploring an array of archival work and live performance, such as Larry Gelbart's papers in the UCLA Performing Arts Collections and the shadowcast performances of Los Angeles's Sins o' the Flesh,Doing the Time Warpprobes the politics of musicals and consider show the genre's 'strange temporalities' can point towards new futurities for identities and communities in difference.

SARAH TAYLOR ELLISis a composer, teaching artist and scholar based in Berlin. Recent compositions include the National Theatre'sHamletfor young audiences, a hybrid musical/chamber opera adaptation ofThe Trojan Women(recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant) and the original feminist rock musicalThese Girls Have Demons. Sarah has taught with ArtsEd, the University of Chester, the Nightingale-Bamford School, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, Roundabout Theatre Company and UCLA. Sarah's theatre criticism and scholarship have been published inAmerican Theatre, L.A. Weekly, Studies in Musical Theatre, and anthologies with Palgrave and Routledge. She holds a Ph.D. in Theater & Performance Studies from UCLA and a B.A. in Theater Studies/Music and English from Duke University.

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