Doing the Time Warp

SARAH TAYLOR ELLIS is a composer, teaching artist and scholar based in Berlin. Recent compositions include the National Theatre’s Hamlet for young audiences, a hybrid musical/chamber opera adaptation of The Trojan Women (recipient of a 2019 OPERA America Discovery Grant) and the original feminist rock musical These 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 in American 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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Introduction: ‘I would like, ah, if I may, to take you on a strange journey … ’

1 A Funny Thing Happened … to the Integrated Musical: Poetics and Politics of Queer Temporality

2 ‘Let’s Do the Time Warp Again’: Performing Time, Genre and Spectatorship

3 Ragging Race: Spectral Temporality in the American Musical

4 ‘I Just Projected Myself Out of It’: Rehearsing Identities in Youth Musical Theatre

5 Just an Illusion: Identity and Musical Form

Conclusion: ‘Everything You’re Feeling Is Appropriate’

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