Women in American musical theatre
Subtitle: essays on composers, lyricists, librettists, arrangers, choreographers, designers, directors, producers and performance artists
By: edited by Bud Coleman and Judith Sebesta.
Contributors: Coleman, Bertram E., 1956-; Sebesta, Judith, 1966-
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780786433827
Subjects: Women musical theater producers and directors -- United States; Women composers -- United States; Women choreographers -- United States; Musical theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Description: "These essays examine the history of women in musical theatre, providing biographical descriptions; interpretations of their productions; and several accounts of how being a woman affected their careers"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Will you remember" : female lyricists of operetta and musical comedy / Korey Rothman; title: Hallie Flanagan and Cheryl Crawford : women pioneer producers of the 1930s / Barbara Means Fraser; title: Twentieth-century women choreographers : refining and redefining the showgirl image / Anna Wheeler Gentry; title: A composer in her own right : arrangers, musical directors and conductors / Jennifer Jones Cavenaugh; title: Working with the boys : women who wrote musicals in the golden age / Gary Konas; title: Designing women / Tish Dace; title: Helburn, Dalrymple, and Lortel : a triumvirate of great producers / Bud Coleman; title: "Open a new window, open a new door" : women directors take the stage / Anne Fliotsos; title: Social consciousness and the "search for new directions" : the musicals of Gretchen Cryer, Nancy Ford, and Elizabeth Swados / Judith Sebesta; title: The rise of the female director/choreographer on Broadway / Mary Jo Lodge; title: From revolution to revelation : women performance artists and the transformation of American musical theatre / Woodrow Hood.