Jerome Kern and his Achivements
....G. Wodehouse developed a new writing style for Broadway shows. “Instead of the royalty, clowns and gods of the European writing tradition, the three men wrote about believable people” (Kern, 3). Jerome Kern also turned to modern American life, especially new dance crazes for inspiration, “he was also very creative with relatively basic tools and this made his shows spontaneous and creative” (Wade 1). Jerome Kern didn’t duplicate the typical European shows; He created something new, something that the European audience had never seen before and he was greatly appreciated for his work. Jerome Kern has been credited with the creation of the first truly American musical theater, by creating The Princess Theater, Kern created a new style of writing and composed a new style of musical for Broadway shows. The Princess Theater shows were straight, consistent comedy with the addition of music. Every song and lyric contributed to the action. The humor was based on the situation, not interjected by comedians; Realism and Americanism were other distinguishing traits. The Princess theater Show couldn’t afford to spend a large sum of money for large cast or elaborate stage mechanics and settings the Princess Theater Show had to concentrate on witty dialogue, unusual plot twists, and fresh, at times novel, American Backgrounds, situations and characters. Music, Dance, and humor were well integrated with the other elements of the production. By accomplishing all this, The Princess Theater Show helped to explore a new world for the American musical theater. Jerome Kern introduced Show Boat to the American audience, he had felt for some time that Broadway musical theatre was suffering from a lack of depth and needed to steer away from the fluffy musical comedies and melodramatic operetta that it was accustomed to. Show boat was based on an unlikely source for a musical, a novel by Edna Ferber, but Kern was a master at creating musical settings for the unusual, due to Show Boat, a new art form emerged in American musical theatre; it was a rich, colorful reflective chapter from the American pas filled with humor, gentle sadness, tend...