Alex Bádue
Assistant Professor of Music
Alex Bádue is a musicologist specialized in musical theater, American music history, and Latin American music. His research concentrates on the American musical as a genre and examines musical and dramatic aesthetics, conventions, and originalities that different composers, lyricists, and book writers employed to create musicals in different decades of the 20th and 21st centuries.
His main focus is the compositional processes, musical structures, reception, and social impact of musicals by William Finn, Michael John LaChiusa, Jonathan Larson, Jeanine Tesori, and Disney musicals. He also conducts research on Brazilian musical theater and the interactions between Latin-American and U.S. American popular music industries.
Recent Courses Taught
Art of Active Listening
The Broadway Musical
From Bach to Bartók
Latin American Music
Intro to Music Theory
Advanced Topics in Music Theory
Selected Publications
- Why Aren’t They Talking? The Sung-Through Musical from the 1980s to the 2010s. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- “There May Be Something There That Wasn’t There Before: New Songs in Disney’s Broadway Musicals." In The Oxford Handbook of the Disney Musical. Oxford University Press, 2025.
- “Orpheus in Hell: Adaptation and Reimagination of a Myth in Rio de Janeiro’s Musical Theatre.” Studies in Musical Theatre 18, vol. 3 (2024).
- “Crossing Over Popular and Classical Traditions Through Musical Theater.” In Navigating Stylistic Boundaries in the Music History Classroom: Crossover, Exchange, Appropriation. Routledge, 2024.
- “Queer Performance and Indecent Theology in the Gospel according to Porta dos Fundos,” co-authored with Jeff Jay. Theology and Sexuality 28 (July 2023).
- “Inimitable City: Assimilation and Adaptation of Foreign Musical Theatre in Rio de Janeiro.” In The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre. Routledge, 2023.
- “Animated Broadway: Disney and Musical Theater in the 1990s and early 2000s,” co-authored with Rebecca S. Schorsch. American Music 39, no. 2 (2021).
- “Performing Gender, Sexuality, and Jewishness in the Songs of William Finn’s Musical Falsettoland (1990).” Studies in American Jewish Literature 38, no. 2 (2019).
Professional Affiliations
American Musicological Society
Society for American Music
International Society for the Studies of Musicals
Appointed to the Faculty
2022Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
M.M., University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music
B.M., Federal University of Paraná
