Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical 0195054253, 9780195054255, 9781423736226, 9780195363753

Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and wom

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Table of contents :
Contents......Page 10
Introduction: Broadway, 1900......Page 14
1. The Score......Page 18
2. The Urban Ethnic Emergence......Page 33
3. The Great Glorifier......Page 45
4. The Heroine......Page 60
5. The Top Banana......Page 69
6. The Book......Page 83
7. The New Style of Score......Page 92
8. The New Style of Heroine......Page 119
9. The Jazzmen......Page 132
10. The Choreographers......Page 141
11. The Musical Play......Page 149
12. A Newer Style of Heroine......Page 164
13. The Superdirectors......Page 176
14. The State of the Art......Page 193
A Selective Discography......Page 208
B......Page 250
F......Page 251
J......Page 252
M......Page 253
S......Page 254
Z......Page 255

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