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012515 Taylor Mac "A History of Popular Music" { 7 galleries }

Taylor Mac debuted an extended section of his upcoming "A History of Popular Music," sharing a six hour segment covering the 1900s through the 1950s. Look for the complete 24 hour version in mid-2016!

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  • MachineDazzle: The Lobby
    MachineDazzle: The Lobby
    37 images
    To accompany Taylor Mac's residency at New York Live Arts, costume designer MachineDazzle reimagined NYLA's lobby and window as an extension of Taylor & MD's theatrical world.
  • Taylor Mac: The 1900s
    Taylor Mac: The 1900s
    94 images
    The 1900s portion of the show focused on the songs popular in the Jewish tenements.
  • Taylor Mac: The 1910s
    Taylor Mac: The 1910s
    82 images
  • Taylor Mac: The 1920s
    Taylor Mac: The 1920s
    80 images
    The war is over and the country gets back to joy. Barry and Larry return from the war, lose love and find it again. A nonagenarian teaches a teen to shake his thing. Molly Bloom has an orgasm. And Pez is invented.
  • Taylor Mac: The 1930s
    Taylor Mac: The 1930s
    87 images
    Happy days are here again - or are they? the Depression ravages the country, and both the haves and have-nots are impacted. Soup kitchens are the norm and Taylor builds a shanty-town of the displaced on stage.
  • Taylor Mac: The 1940s
    Taylor Mac: The 1940s
    92 images
    It's the 1940s, an era of concentration camps and camp Hollywood films. It's also a chance for Taylor to instruct us in subversive techniques to survive the unsurvivable.
  • Taylor Mac: The 1950s
    Taylor Mac: The 1950s
    138 images
    Taylor and the gang enter the 1950s, an era of white flight, undermining the patriarch, young gay love, burlesque, and of course rock 'n' roll.