The happiest corpse I've ever seen
Subtitle: the last twenty-five years of the Broadway musical
By: [by] Ethan Mordden
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780312239541
Subjects: Musicals; Geschichte 1978-2003; Comédies musicales; History and criticism; Musical; Histoire et critique
Description: "The true Broadway musical from the days of Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Merman, Preston, Channing, Fosse, and Robbins was finally dead. Unfortunately, the burial has not yet taken place. In The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen, Ethan Mordden takes the reader to the Broadway musical's wake and is unsparing in his acerbic and witty look at the condition of the corpse."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- -- 1. The; title: great tradition -- -- 2.; title: Close a little faster -- -- 3. The; title: music of the night -- -- 4.; title: Big deals -- -- 5.; title: Lie to me -- -- 6.; title: New talent -- -- 7.; title: What exactly is an Off-Broadway musical? -- -- 8.; title: Victors/Victorias -- -- 9.; title: Five special shows -- -- 10.; title: Junk is a genre -- -- 11.; title: Why can't Susan Smith and Timothy McVeigh have a musical? Hitler has one -- -- 12. I dreamed I saw Fosse in my maidenform bra; or, The last five years; title: Index.