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Provides listeners--whether they know musical theater well or not at all--with the tools and background necessary to grasp or gain an understanding of the highly variegated structure and character of the Broadway musical over the last century.
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Book Details
Table of Contents
A great big Broadway show : Wicked
The roots of American musical theater : The great Ziegfeld
The beginnings of integration : Very good Eddie, Shuffle along and Show boat
The great depression and the American songbook : Anything goes and Porgy and Bess
A golden age of Broadway : Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rock on Broadway : Hair
Concept musicals : Sondheim! The birthday concert and A chorus line
Megamusicals : Andrew Llloyd Webber: Gold album and Les misérables
Musicals for the MTV generation : Rent and Spring awakening
Diversity and integration : Hamilton.
Edition Notes
"Timeline": pages xiii-xvii; "Glossary": pages 209-216.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-219), discography (page 221-223), videography (page 223), and index.

