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how Broadway shows are built

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how Broadway shows are built

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Sarah Crichton Books
Language
English
Pages
312

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Subjects
Analysis, appreciation, History and criticism, Musicals, Production and direction, Musicals, history and criticism, nyt:culture=2016-04-10, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed
Places
United States

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Cover of: The secret life of the American musical
The secret life of the American musical: how Broadway shows are built
2016, Sarah Crichton Books
in English - First edition.
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Table of Contents

Overture
Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers
The wizard and I : the "I want" song
If I loved you : conditional love songs
Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise
Bushwhacking 1 : second couples
Bushwhacking 2 : villains
Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens
Adelaide's lament : stars
Tevye's dream : tent poles
La vie bohème : curtain: act 1
Intermission
Clambake : curtain up: act 2
Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish
All er nothin' : beginning to pack
The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event
I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene
You can't stop the beat : the end
Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie, of all people, changed Broadway musicals forever.

Edition Notes

Includes index.

"Listening to Broadway": pages 271-294.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
792.60973
Library of Congress
ML1711 .V37 2016, ML1711.V37 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 312 pages
Number of pages
312

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27200117M
Internet Archive
secretlifeofamer0000vier
ISBN 10
0374256926
ISBN 13
9780374256920
LCCN
2015023713
OCLC/WorldCat
912140643

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