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An edition of Showtime (2010)

Showtime

a history of the Broadway musical theater

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Brings the history of Broadway musicals to life-- from the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849 to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent.

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W.W. Norton & Co.
Language
English
Pages
826

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Subjects
History and criticism, Musicals, History, Musicals, history and criticism, Musical theater, New York Times reviewed
Places
United States, New York (State), Broadway (New York, N.Y.), New York

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Table of Contents

Introduction. Before the curtain
Transition stages. The Astor Place Riot ; Uncle Tom's Cabin, the musical ; The Black Crook
Variety stages. From minstrelsy to vaudeville ; Harrigan and Hart ; Weber and Fields ; Williams and Walker
A transatlantic muse. Operetta : the golden age ; Light opera in America ; American light opera
The native wit. Cohen and Times Square ; Berlin and Tin Pan Alley ; Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern : the Princess Theater
The cult of romance. Operetta : the silver age ; Romberg and Friml ; Show Boat
A shadow of vulgarity. Revues : spectacular and intimate ; Musical comedy/musical farce comedy ; Jazz-age "Jazz"
Broadway songbook. The Gershwins ; Cole Porter ; Rodgers and Hart
The script angle. A musical play ; Oklahoma! : the musical play ; Literate musical comedy
Musical theater : the new art. Rodgers and Hammerstein ; Lerner and Loewe ; Harnick and Bock
Opera, in our own way. Opera on Broadway ; Broadway opera ; West Side story
The great American showshop. The Abbott touch ; Harburg's circle ; A Loesser orbit ; Comden and Green... and Styne
Away from Broadway. Early alternative musicals ; The Off Broadway renaissance ; Farther "off" and coming back
The metaphor angle. Cabaret and the concept musical ; Prince, Sondheim & Co. ; Sondheim after Prince
A dancing place. The ballet-directors : De Mille and Robbins ; The hoofer-directors : Champion and Fosse ; A chorus line and after
Distancing effects. Rice, Lloyd Webber, and rock opera ; Mackintosh and the megamusical ; Disney and the movical
Another Broadway... another show. Revivals ; Antimusicals ; Sondheim's children.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 745-782), discography (p. 783-785), and index.

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New York, NY
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Classifications

Library of Congress
ML1711.8.N3 S73 2010, ML1711.8.N3S73 2010

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Pagination
xx, 826 p., [16] p. of plates
Number of pages
826

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OL27121510M
ISBN 10
0393067157, 039392906X
ISBN 13
9780393067156, 9780393929065
LCCN
2010019704
OCLC/WorldCat
601094018

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