Red, hot & blue
Subtitle: a Smithsonian salute to the American musical
By: Amy Henderson and Dwight Blocker Bowers.
Contributors: Bowers, Dwight Blocker.; National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution); National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American History in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781560986980
Subjects: Musicals -- United States -- Exhibitions; Musical films -- United States -- Exhibitions
Other titles: Red, hot, and blue
Description: A survey of the Hollywood and Broadway musical from vaudeville to today's major revivals.
Notes: "An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, October 25, 1996, through July 6, 1997"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-253), discography (p. 254-261), and index.
"An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, October 25, 1996, through July 6, 1997"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-253), discography (p. 254-261), and index.
"An exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, October 25, 1996, through July 6, 1997"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-253), discography (p. 254-261), and index.

Table of contents: title: A fine romance; title: Setting the stage: street scene, 1866-1906; title: Curtain up: the rise of the Impresario, 1907-1927; title: Light the lights: Broadway and Hollywood, 1927-1942; title: The heights: Broadway and Hollywood, 1943-1959; title: Side by side by side: redefinition and revival, 1960-present.