Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theater

Name: Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theater
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ISBN: 9780393929065

ISBN-10: 039392906X

ISBN-13: 9780393929065

Edition: 2010

Authors: Larry Stempel

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Here for the first time is the whole history of the musical, on Broadway and off. Stempel combines original research#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;including a wealthy of primary sources and archival holdings#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;with deft and insightful analysis, and explores the rich strands of musical theater by genre and type, looking at not only how musicals work but also how they serve as barometers of social concerns and bearers of cultural values. Beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849, Stempel traces the growth of musicals from minstrel shows and burlesques, through the golden age of Show Boat and Oklahoma!, to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent. Stempel examines…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Limited
Publication date: 9/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 848
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.92" long x 0.15" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

Larry Stempel, an associate professor of music at Fordham University and a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, was a member of Lehman Engel's BMI Musical Theater Workshop. He lives in Mount Vernon, New York.



Illustrations


Preface


Introduction: Before The Curtain



Out Of The Nineteenth Century



Transition Stages


The Astor Place Riot


Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Musical


The Black Crook



Variety Stages


From Minstrelsy to Vaudeville


Harrigan and Hart


Weber and Fields


Williams and Walker



A Transatlantic Muse


Operetta: The Golden Age


Light Opera in America


American Light Opera



Into The Twentieth Century



The Native Wit


Cohan and Times Square


Berlin and Tin Pan Alley


Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern: The Princess Theater



The Cult OfRomance


Operetta: The Silver Age


Romberg and Friml


Show Boat



A Shadow Of Vulgarity


Revues: Spectacular and Intimate


Musical Comedy/Musical Farce Comedy


Jazz-Age "Jazz"



Broadway Songbook


The Gershwins


Cole Porter


Rodgers and Hart



The Script Angle


A Musical Play


Oklahomal; The Musical Play


Literate Musical Comedy



Musical Theater: The New Art


Rodgers and Hammerstein


Lerner and Loewe


Harnick and Bock



Opera, In Our Own Way


Opera on Broadway


Broadway Opera


West Side Story



The Great American Showshop


The Abbott Touch


Harburg's Circle


A Loesser Orbit


Comden and Green-and Styne



Toward The New Millennium



Away From Broadway


Early Alternative Musicals


The Off Broadway Renaissance


Farther "Off" and Coming Back



The Metaphor Angel


Cabaret and the Concept Musical


Prince, Sondheirn & Co


Sondheim After Prince



A Dancing Place


The Ballet-Directors: De Mille and Robbins


The Hoofer-Directors: Champion and Fosse


A Chorus Line and After



Distancing Effects


Rice, Lloyd Webber, and Rock Opera


Mackintosh and the Megamusical


Disney and the Movical



Another Broadway ...Another Show


Revivals


Antimusicals


Sondheim's Children


Notes


Works Cited


Selected Historical Discography


Credits


Index