Musical Comedy in America
Subtitle: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Theatre Arts Book
Published: January 7, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780878305643
Subjects: United States; Performing Arts; Music, American; Musicals; Genres & Styles - Musicals; Theater - Stagecraft; Performing Arts / Theater / General; History and criticism; Musical revues, comedies, etc
First sentence: minstrelsy. From this time onward, the minstrel show enjoyed a life-span of about twenty-five years before fading from the New York scene, outmoded by such white-face variety shows as those presented by Tony Pastor in his Music Hall after 1864, and by the elaborate productions that followed on the heels of the Black Crook.