| Description |
408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Continuum, ©2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index. |
| Summary |
This is a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the 1840s all the way up to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway as it we know it today. Wide-ranging in content, it covers Europe, the UK, and North American traditions and developments. |
| Contents |
Ancient times to 1850 : "Playgoers, I bid you welcome!" -- Continental operetta (1840-1900) : "Typical of France" -- American explorations (1624-1880) : "The music of something beginning" -- Gilbert & Sullivan (1880-1900) : "Object all sublime" -- The birth of musical comedy (1880-1899) : "It belong'd to my father before I was born" -- A new century (1900-1913) : "Whisper of how I'm yearning" -- American ascendance (1914-1919) : "In a class beyond compare" -- Al Jolson : "The world's greatest entertainer" -- The jazz age (1920-1929) : "I want to be happy" -- Depression era miracles (1930-1940) : "Trouble's just a bubble" -- A new beginning (1940-1950) : "They couldn't pick a better time" -- Broadway takes stage (1950-1963) : "The street where you live" -- Rock rolls in (1960-1970) : "Soon it's gonna rain" -- New directions (1970-1979) : "Vary my days" -- Spectacles and boardrooms : "As if we never said goodbye" -- Musical comedy returns (the 2000s) : "Where did we go right?" |
| Subject |
Musicals -- History and criticism.
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Musicals. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Subject |
Musicals. |
| ISBN |
0826430139 (paperback) |
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9780826430137 (paperback) |
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