Her Turn on Stage
Subtitle: The Role of Women in Musical Theatre
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers; McFarland
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780786498611
Subjects: Theatrical producers and directors; Women in the theater; Musicals, history and criticism
Description: "Audiences for musical theater are predominantly women, yet the shows onstage are frequently created and produced by men. Onstage, female characters are often victims or sex objects and lack the complexity of their male counterparts. Offstage, women are under-represented among. While other areas of the arts rally behind gender equality, musical theater seems to disregard women"--