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Music correspondent Kirsten Zemke looks at the phenomenon of the "11 o'clock number" - the theatre term for a big, show-stopping song. The Broadway power-ballad was typically played late in the second act of a two-act musical - usually around 11pm. Kirsten will talk about the defining aspect of the songs, and how the convention is still present today.
Kirsten Zemke is an ethnomusicologist at the University of Auckland's School of Social Sciences.
