Title: The world of musical comedy : the story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists /
Authors: Green, Stanley.
Publisher: A.S. Barnes ; Tantivy Press,
Year: 1980
Subjects: Musicals United States History and criticism; Composers United States; Librettists United States.
Contents: Foreword / Deems Taylor -- Preface -- Prologue -- Victor Herbert -- George M. Cohan -- Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach -- Sigmund Romberg -- Jerome Kern -- Irving Berlin -- George and Ira Gershwin -- Vincent Youmans -- Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart -- B.G. DeSylvia, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson -- Cole Porter -- Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields -- E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane -- Harold Rome -- Kurt Weill -- Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II -- Leonard Bernstein -- Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe -- Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green -- Frank Loesser, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Meredith Willson -- Bob Merrill -- Stephen Sondheim -- Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick -- Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Martin Charnin -- Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, Michael Stewart -- Jerry Herman -- John Kander and Fred Ebb -- Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt ; Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion ; Galt MacDermot ; Burt Bacharach and Hal David -- Sherman Edwards ; Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford ; Gary Geld and Peter Udell ; Stephen Schwartz -- Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey ; Charlie Smalls ; Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, Carole Bayer Sager ; Elizabeth Swados; Carol Hall -- Appendix -- Index.