Is there any interest in exploring how remembering and the requirement of memory is built into the structure of musicals either generally (I'm thinking about reprises especially, but overtures and melodies that remain unresolved for some portion of the show also seem to be instances worth exploring)

or specifically (how does remembering figure into a show like Les Miserables with its multiple repetitions of similar music; how do inversions of melodies -in Show Boat, for example, though there are of course others- operate for characters, the work in which they're found and listeners; the "hummability" of some writing, but not others; etc)?

Please let me know! acglover@tamu.edu

I really love this idea and would be interested in participating in terms of nostalgia and the waltz. I would focus on A Little Night Music and Do I Hear a Waltz, as well as one other that I would need to come up with! Probably something from operetta?