Through the Screen Door What Happened to the Broadway Musical When It Went to Hollywood

Name: Through the Screen Door What Happened to the Broadway Musical When It Went to Hollywood
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ISBN: 9780810850187

ISBN-10: 0810850184

ISBN-13: 9780810850187

Edition: 2004

Authors: Thomas S. Hischak

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This book is about the transition that musicals went through when they traveled from the stage to the screen. While the approach is critical, the style is readable and yields fascinating knowledge on the many things that did and didn't happen as theatre and film have merged throughout the past century.Hischak'sanalysis covers productions from The Desert Song (1927), to Chicago (2002).

Book details

List price: $87.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Scarecrow Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/8/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 9.98" wide x 8.38" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



The swinging door : an introduction



Sometimes the melody doesn't linger on



How boy met girl



Close copies



Star light, star bright



Ah, sweet operetta!



Waiting for the revues to come out



Too hot to handle



Why can't the English?



What were they thinking?



In for the long run



Reverse order



Nonmusical films that were turned into Broadway and off-Broadway musicals



Nonmusical plays that were turned into movie musicals



Academy Award-winning musicals



Tony Award-winning musicals