CFP (reminder): Restaging the Song: Adapting Broadway for the Silver Screen, Univ. of Sheffield, May 2014

Restaging the Song: Adapting Broadway for the Silver Screen

CFP Deadline: Tuesday 10th September 11:59pm

14-16 May 2014

http://www.stagestruckfestival.com/

University of Sheffield. Sheffield, UK

Changes of text, star, technology and audience can unsettle the apparent stability of a Broadway hit. The Restaging the Song conference aims to deal head on with this discomfort/instability.

The Restaging the Song: Adapting Broadway for the Silver Screen conference acts as part of The University of Sheffield’s Stagestruck! Broadway Meets Hollywood Festival, 14-18 May 2014. The festival will include the academic conference, seven screenings of film adaptations of Broadway musicals and an exhibition of posters and memorabilia. Book launches and other events will be announced in due course

Film scholars, musicologists, practitioners, historians and sociologists are equally encouraged to participate in this truly interdisciplinary conference. The keynote speech will be given by Professor Geoffrey Block (author of “Enchanted Evenings”), and the conference respondent will be Professor Stephen Banfield (author of “Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals”).

We would like to encourage panels to discuss ideas including (but not limited to) the following:
The impact of changing star performers between stage and screen
Problems of condensing or retaining material for the screen
Ideas of authenticity and faithfulness in reproducing stage shows on the screen
Archival evidence illustrating the adaptation process
Analytical comparisons of parts of the stage and screen versions of a musical
Sociological discussions regarding changes of audience resulting in screen adaptation (e.g. from New York to a global audience)
Proposals for twenty-minute papers, panels or other presentation formats should be submitted electronically by Tuesday 10 September 2013, 11:59 p.m. Students wishing to present developmental work are warmly encouraged to apply to speak for 5-10 minutes if they prefer.

Abstracts should be around 250 words and may be accompanied by a CV. Please send files in .doc or .pdf formats to restagingthesong at gmail.com