Showtime
Subtitle: a history of the Broadway musical theater
By: Larry Stempel
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 826
ISBN-13: 9780393067156; 9780393929065
Subjects: History and criticism; Musicals; History
Other titles: Show time
Description: Brings the history of Broadway musicals to life-- from the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849 to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 745-782), discography (p. 783-785), and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Before the curtain; title: Transition stages. The Astor Place Riot ; Uncle Tom's Cabin, the musical ; The Black Crook; title: Variety stages. From minstrelsy to vaudeville ; Harrigan and Hart ; Weber and Fields ; Williams and Walker; title: A transatlantic muse. Operetta : the golden age ; Light opera in America ; American light opera; title: The native wit. Cohen and Times Square ; Berlin and Tin Pan Alley ; Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern : the Princess Theater; title: The cult of romance. Operetta : the silver age ; Romberg and Friml ; Show Boat; title: A shadow of vulgarity. Revues : spectacular and intimate ; Musical comedy/musical farce comedy ; Jazz-age "Jazz"; title: Broadway songbook. The Gershwins ; Cole Porter ; Rodgers and Hart; title: The script angle. A musical play ; Oklahoma! : the musical play ; Literate musical comedy; title: Musical theater : the new art. Rodgers and Hammerstein ; Lerner and Loewe ; Harnick and Bock; title: Opera, in our own way. Opera on Broadway ; Broadway opera ; West Side story; title: The great American showshop. The Abbott touch ; Harburg's circle ; A Loesser orbit ; Comden and Green... and Styne; title: Away from Broadway. Early alternative musicals ; The Off Broadway renaissance ; Farther "off" and coming back; title: The metaphor angle. Cabaret and the concept musical ; Prince, Sondheim & Co. ; Sondheim after Prince; title: A dancing place. The ballet-directors : De Mille and Robbins ; The hoofer-directors : Champion and Fosse ; A chorus line and after; title: Distancing effects. Rice, Lloyd Webber, and rock opera ; Mackintosh and the megamusical ; Disney and the movical; title: Another Broadway... another show. Revivals ; Antimusicals ; Sondheim's children.