The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built /
"Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more...
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New York :
Sarah Crichton Books,
2016.
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| Editie: | First edition. |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- Overture
- Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers
- The wizard and I : the "I want" song
- If I loved you : conditional love songs
- Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise
- Bushwhacking 1 : second couples
- Bushwhacking 2 : villains
- Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens
- Adelaide's lament : stars
- Tevye's dream : tent poles
- La vie bohaÌeme : curtain: act 1
- Intermission
- Clambake : curtain up: act 2
- Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish
- All er nothin' : beginning to pack
- The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event
- I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene
- You can't stop the beat : the end
- Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie
- of all people
- changed Broadway musicals forever
- Listening to Broadway.