The Broadway musical is America’s legendary contribution to the world of performing arts. This class examines a musical’s component parts and how a successful Golden Age musical was constructed. Using video clips, we will follow the life of a musical from a writer’s pen and composer’s piano to the Broadway stage.

Tom Powderly has delivered seminars on land and sea for groups as diverse as The US Agency for International Development (USAID), The State of Delaware, The American Society of Travel Agents, The Cruise Line Association, and the Ocean Liner Society in London. Tom was awarded an honorary Life Membership by the Travel Institute for his contributions to professionalism in the travel industry, and is a two term Past President of the Society of Travel and Tourism Educators. He was named an Honorary Captain of the Cunard liner, QE2. Tom regularly teaches classes on theater and travel in the University of Delaware’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) program in Wilmington and online.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Delaware is a volunteer based, learning cooperative for adults 50+. The Speaker’s Bureau is a group of our instructors who are part of our community outreach effort on education. For more information and to learn how to participate in OLLI, visit olli.udel.edu