Anxiety, Depression, and Suicide in the American Musical. A Vision Through Lady in the Dark, Seeney Todd and Dear Evan Hansen
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.latente.2024.22.07Keywords:
Anxiety, depression, suicide, American musical, musical cinema., Anxiety, depression, suicide, American musical, Musical cinemaAbstract
Anxiety, depression, and suicide are taboo subjects that are still rarely talked about in an open and honest way, both in musical theatre and in its cinematic namesake. In 2015 we saw the play Dear Evan Hansen on stage, which for the first time in decades openly talked about suicide, anxiety, and depression. However, this does not mean that there are no examples throughout the history of musical theatre and film where the main characters do not exhibit some kind of pathology. In this article we will analyze the case of Lady in the Dark (1944), Sweeney Todd (1979), and Dear Evan Hansen.
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