MARC Record from Library of Congress

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020 $a9780195384000 (alk. paper)
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn301948414
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050 00 $aML1711.8.N3$bB56 2009
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100 1 $aBlock, Geoffrey Holden,$d1948-
245 10 $aEnchanted evenings :$bthe Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber /$cGeoffrey Block.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $axxxiii, 446 p. :$bill., music ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 411-424) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : setting the stage -- Act I : Before Rodgers and Hammerstein. Show boat : in the beginning ; Anything goes : songs ten, book three ; Porgy and Bess : Broadway opera ; On your toes and Pal Joey : dance gets into the act and "sweet water from a foul well" ; The cradle will rock : a labor musical for art's sake ; Lady in the dark and One touch of Venus : the Broadway stranger and his American dreams ; Stage versus screen (1) : before Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Act II : the Broadway musical after Oklahoma!. Carousel: the invasion of the integrated musical ; Kiss me, Kate : the taming of Cole Porter ; Guys and dolls and The most happy fella : the greater Loesser ; My fair lady : from Pygmalion to Cinderella ; West side story : the very model of a major musical ; Stage versus screen (2) : after Oklahoma! -- Epilogue : the age of Sondheim and Lloyd Webber. Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the park with George : happily ever after West side story with Sondheim ; The Phantom of the opera : the reigning champion of Broadway.
650 0 $aMusicals$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory and criticism.