The musical theatre
Subtitle: a celebration
By: Alan Jay Lerner.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Musicals -- History and criticism
Description: This is the fascinating story of 150 years of the musical theatre by one of the great legends of Broadway. Filled with inside stories and backstage anecdotes, this book traces the fascinating development of the musical, which had its origins in Offenbach's Vienna, came to Gilbert and Sullivan's London, and finally landed in America, where it found its finest flowering.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 237.
Includes index.