Musical Theatre
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group; Continuum
Published: February 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780826428608
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Musical theatre; Theory of music & musicology; Performing Arts; Performing Arts/Dance; Theater - History & Criticism; Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal; History & Criticism - General; History and criticism; Musicals
Description: "Like every art form, musical theatre has been changing and evolving since its inception more than 2000 years ago. Musical Theatre: A History presents a history of stage musicals from the earliest accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, for whom songs were common elements in staging, to Jacques Offenbach in Paris during the 1840s, to Gilbert and Sullivan in England, to the rise of music halls and vaudeville traditions in America, and eventually to "Broadway's Golden Age" with George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber."--Jacket.