| Description |
x, 380 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Continental European operetta from Offenbach to Lehár: -- Paris and the Rise of Offenbach -- Third Republic Paris -- The Viennese Waltz Operetta -- Fin De Siecle -- Habsburg Twilight -- Comic opera and musical comedy: Britain and America: -- Gilbert and Sullivan and British Comic Opera -- Gaiety Girls -- The American Melting Pot -- America Ascendant -- The Musical Comes of Age -- Continental European round-up: -- The "Annees Folles" -- The Troubled 1930s -- European National Schools -- The musical since World War II: -- The Golden Age of the American Musical -- Lyricists' Musicals in the Golden Age -- Coleman, Kander and Edd, Herman, and Sondheim -- Postwar London -- Towards the Twenty-First Century |
| Subject |
Musicals -- History and criticism.
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Musicals. |
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Musical theater -- History and criticism.
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Musical theater. |
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Musicals. |
| Note |
150 years of popular musical theater |
| Added Title |
One hundred fifty years of popular musical theatre |
| ISBN |
0300075383 alkaline paper $35.16 |
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