Musical theatre : a history /
Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students--and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, a...
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| Format: | Książka |
| Język: | angielski |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Methuen Drama,
2017.
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| Wydanie: | Second edition. |
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Spis treści:
- Introduction: "Let's start at the very beginning"
- 1. Ancient times to 1800 : "Playgoers, I bid you welcome!"
- 2. Continental operetta (1840-1900): "Typical of France"
- 3. Music halls and minstrel shows: when ribaldry and racism sang and danced
- "The music of something beginning" : American explorations (1624-1890)
- 5. Object all sublime : Gilbert and Sullivan (1880-1900)
- 6. Vaudeville and burlesque : From small time to big time
- 7. The merry widow : refusing to say "I love you"
- 8. A new century : Herbert, Cohan, and Berlin (1900-13)
- 9. Florenz Ziegfeld : The Follies and beyond
- 10. Jerome Kern and American ascendance (1914-19)
- 11. Career in profile : Al Jolson, "the world's greatest entertainer"
- 12. The 1920s, part I : Hot times and great talents (1920-29)
- 13. The 1920s, part II : Show boat--premature revolution
- 14. Depression era miracles (1930-30) : "I guess I'll have to change my plan"
- 15. Rodgers and Hammerstein, a new beginning (1940-60) : "They couldn't pick a better time"
- 16. After Oklahoma! (post-1943) : Broadway's golden age
- 17. Anatomy of a hit : My fair lady
- 18. Career in profile : Ethel Merman
- 19. Abbott, Robbins, and Fosse (1950-63)
- 20. More golden age musicals (1950s-1960s)
- 21. The 1960s : "The parade passes by"
- 22. The 1970s, Part I : Sondheim and Prince
- 23. The 1970s, Part II : "You gotta hang on till tomorrow (1970-79)
- 24. The 1980s : "And the wind begins to moan"
- 25. The 1990s : "The American dream"
- 26. The 2000s : "Where did we go right?"
- 27. The 2010s : Tourists reign supreme
- 28. The future.