An edition of The secret life of the American musical (2016)

The secret life of the American musical

how Broadway shows are built

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An edition of The secret life of the American musical (2016)

The secret life of the American musical

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

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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
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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

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

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