The Broadway musical : a critical and musical survey [1 ed.] 9780195054347, 0195054342, 9780195074826, 0195074823

Musical Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak 9781098329310

Musical Misfires: Three Decades of Broadway Musical Heartbreak looks at 151 musicals that did not run long enough to be

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Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s 0195128516, 9780195128512

"Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age t

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Musical Meaning: Toward a Critical History 9780520928329

Lawrence Kramer has been a pivotal figure in the development of the controversial new musicology, integrating the study

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How to Survive a Killer Musical: Agony and Ecstasy on the Road to Broadway 1493075748, 9781493075744

When the young composer-lyricist Douglas Cohen first secured the musical rights to the novel No Way to Treat a Lady by W

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Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon: Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical 2015048691, 2015051237, 9781442266766, 9781442266773

One of the most successful shows in Broadway history, The Book of Mormon broke box office records when it debuted in 201

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Disintegrating the Musical: Black Performance and American Musical Film 9780822384106

The history of African Americans in film musicals and their reception by Black audiences and critics.

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Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory 0190073721, 9780190073725

Thousands of shows have opened on Broadway. Why do we remember some and not others? The musical theatre repertory is no

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One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s [1st ed.] 031223953X, 9780312239534, 9781403980328

A Broadway musical about a single man living in Man-hattan who's surrounded by married couples? A show about aging

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Tell it to the World: The Broadway Musical Abroad 0190249536, 9780190249533

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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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