Boy Loses Girl Broadway's Librettists

Name: Boy Loses Girl Broadway's Librettists
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ISBN: 9780810844407

ISBN-10: 0810844400

ISBN-13: 9780810844407

Edition: 2002

Authors: Thomas S. Hischak

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A lively and informative look at the careers, works, and characteristics of the major librettists of the American theatre. Included are dozens of men and women who wrote the books for Broadway musicals over the past one hundred years, from George M. Cohan to the present day. Boy Loses Girl presents a whole new perspective for looking at the American musical theater. For film students, scholars and enthusiasts of the American musical theatre.

Book details

List price: $93.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/23/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 5.82" wide x 8.66" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Writing Little Books: An Introduction



The American Idea: George M. Cohan



Oh, Boy! Oh, Lady! Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse



High Jinks and Pipe Dreams: Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II



Strike Up the Band: George S. Kaufman and Fellow Wits



Blossom Time: Dorothy Donnelly and Other Early Librettists



Hooray for Anything Red, Hot, and Blue! Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse



Charley, Flora, Fiorello, and the Yankees: George Abbott and Company



The New Yorkers: The Fields Family



Flahooley's Rainbow: E. Y. Harburg and Fellow Conspirators



Applause on the Town: Betty Comden and Adolph Green



On a Clear Day: Alan Jay Lerner



Flying High, Taking a Chance: B. G. De Sylva and Others in the 1930s and 1940s



Hallelujah, Gypsy! Arthur Laurents



Guys and Dolls and Stockings: Abe Burrows and Others in the 1950s



To the Forum, in the Park, into the Woods: Stephen Sondheim's Collaborators



Carnival on the Roof: Michael Stewart, Joseph Stein, and Peter Stone



Getting an Act Together: Gretchen Cryer and Others in the 1960s and 1970s



The Kiss of Ragtime: Terrence McNally



The Producers: The 1980s, 1990s, and Beyond


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