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Books on: musical theatre history

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American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle

Book by Gerald Bordman; Oxford University Press, 1992

Subjects:

Musicals--United States--History And Criticism

Collections: Entire Library

Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition ...
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Gerald Bordman's American Musical Theatre has become a landmark book since its publication in 1978. It chronicles American musicals, show by show and season by season, and offers a running commentary and assessment as well as providing the basic facts about each production. This updated edition includes the new shows that have opened on Broadway since the original publication. Also included are over a hundred musicals that were turn-of-the-century, cheap-priced touring shows which never played Broadway, but were the training ground for many theatre greats.
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Musical Theatre in America: Papers and Proceedings of the Conference on the Musical Theatre in America

Book by Glenn Loney; Greenwood Press, 1984

Subjects:

Musicals--United States--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

MUSICAL THEATRE IN AMERICA...Conference on the History of American...program for the Musical Theatre in America...Conference on the History of American...footnote to the history of the late...century English musical theatre as we have...
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Stage It with Music: An Encyclopedic Guide to the American Musical Theatre

Book by Thomas S. Hischak; Greenwood Press, 1993

Subjects:

Musicals--Encyclopedias

Collections: Entire Library

A one-stop source for information on the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient A-Z dictionary format. Coverage extends from the genre's nineteenth century beginnings to the present. Included are ...
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A one-stop source for information on the American musical theatre, Stage It with Music packs an astonishing quantity of facts as well as insights and anecdotes into a convenient A-Z dictionary format. Coverage extends from the genre's nineteenth century beginnings to the present. Included are entries on over 300 individual shows, musical series, performers, composers, lyricists, librettists, directors, designers, music directors, orchestrators, choreographers, producers, producing companies and other theatrical institutions, as well as related topics and genres. Thoroughly indexed, the volume also includes a chronology of musical shows and a bibliography. As fascinating as its subject, Stage It with Music will lure the student or researcher into delightful and rewarding browsing.
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Gower Champion: Dance and American Musical Theatre

Book by David Payne-Carter, Brooks McNamara, Stephen Nelson; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

Champion, Gower--1921-1980, Choreographers--United States--Biography, Dancers--United States--Biography, Theatrical Producers And Directors--United States--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

Gower Champion's career spanned the years during which American musical theatre was transformed from a crude popular entertainment into a sophisticated art form. As the director and choreographer of Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, and other Broadway musicals, he was central to that transformation. This ...
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Gower Champion's career spanned the years during which American musical theatre was transformed from a crude popular entertainment into a sophisticated art form. As the director and choreographer of Hello, Dolly!, 42nd Street, and other Broadway musicals, he was central to that transformation. This book is the first extensive treatment of his life and contribution to dance and American musical theatre. The volume draws on the holdings of various special collections, is informed by careful analyses of Champion's scripts, and depends on information gathered through interviews with those who knew and worked with Champion throughout his legendary career.
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The Show Makers: Great Directors of the American Musical Theatre

Book by Lawrence Thelen; Routledge, 2000

Subjects:

Musicals--Production And Direction, Theatrical Producers And Directors--United States--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

The Show Makers are twelve of the most creative and influential directors of the contemporary musical theatre. Lawrence Thelen creates lively portraits of theatre people at work: James Lapine's early involvement with photography becomes an influence on Sunday in the Park with George; Harold Prince's ...
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The Show Makers are twelve of the most creative and influential directors of the contemporary musical theatre. Lawrence Thelen creates lively portraits of theatre people at work: James Lapine's early involvement with photography becomes an influence on Sunday in the Park with George; Harold Prince's early desire to be a playwright is rechanneled into directing; George C. Wolfe speaks of the ongoing involvement of black artists with musicals since the last century; Jerome Robbins, in his final interview, considers collaboration and the role of dance in the musical. Lawrence Thelen's book is part theatre history, part interview volume, part celebration. Richly anecdotal, it communicates the passion and joy that motivate our wizards of the musical stage.
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Journal Articles on: musical theatre history

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Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical

Journal article by Jessica Hillman; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 26, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that the overwhelming majority of musical theatre creators have been Jewish. She ventures...engine in forming the mid-twentieth-century musical. Chapter 2, titled "Cantors Sons, Jazz...analysis. She writes most strongly when using history to contextualize the musicals, often in...
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Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theater

Journal article by Mary Jo Lodge; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 25, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Musical Theater and American Culture (Book)--Book reviews, Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre. By John Bush Jones...the theatre and/or musical theatre history professor, as they...Culture examine the history and culture of musical theatre in a chronological...
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The Selling of la Cage Aux Folles: How Audiences Were Helped to Read Broadway's First Gay Musical

Journal article by Norman Hart; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 23, 2003

Subjects:

Gays--Portrayals, depictions, etc., La Cage aux Folles (Theater)--History, Theatrical producers and directors--Behavior

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...threatened by a homocentric musical during a time when homosexuality...Poiret, opened at the Theatre de Palais Royale in...currently is Director of Musical Theatre at James Madison University...English Forms of American Musical Theatre" at Hofstra Cultural...
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Parody and Double Consciousness in the Language of Early Black Musical Theatre

Journal article by David Krasner; African American Review, Vol. 29, 1995

Subjects:

Black theater--Analysis, Musical theater--Analysis, Wit and humor, Musical--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...dance, and musical comedy (57...literature, and theatre surfaced, suggesting...that the history of art in this...discussing black musical theatre, critics have...Rise of Black Musical Theatre at the Turn...American Art in History. New York...
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Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America

Journal article by John R. Poole; Theatre History Studies, Vol. 24, 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...produced for regional circuit theatres or local Temperance Halls...Mother is dead," skits, short musicals, and even, in one case, a "pro-prohibition musical for children" (164). In...the temperance movement as theatre is inexorably eclipsed by...

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Magazine Articles on: musical theatre history

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Great Expectations: Why Are the Country's Top Musical-Theatre Artists Flocking to Virginia's Tiny Signature Theatre?

Magazine article by Nelson Pressley; American Theatre, Vol. 16, April 1999

Subjects:

Musical theater--Management, Schaeffer, Eric--Works, Signature Theatre--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...Antrobuses wacky lurch through history? At the shows onset, Loudon...able to deliver some of the musicals philosophy: "This life, this...for the new Kander and Ebb musical is more stressful than most...think its been hard on the theatre and the staff." Like the...
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Pop Goes the Musical: Musical Theatre Finally Turns on to the Tunes Everybody in the World Has Been Listening to for Years

Magazine article by John Istel; American Theatre, Vol. 20, March 2003

Subjects:

Mamma Mia! (Theater), Musical theater--Public opinion, Musicals, Popular music

Collections: Entire Library

...because theyre not hamstrung by a Golden-Age-of-Musicals legacy that tends to compel stateside theatre artists and audiences to treat the art form...Cats, the longest-running Broadway show in history, Mamma Mia! is consistently one of New Yorks...
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A Nationwide Boom: The Not-for-Profit Musical Factory; Resident Theatres Believe in the Journey of Musical-Theatre Artists, Not in Hits

Magazine article; American Theatre, Vol. 23, April 2006

Subjects:

Drama--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Performances, Entertainment industry--Management, Music--Criticism and interpretation, Music--Performance, Musical performance--Criticism and interpretation, Musicians--Performances, Plays--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Performances

Collections: Entire Library

...including 25 premieres. He says of this history, "Ive been at this game for a long time...Goodspeed joined forces with North Shore Music Theatre, in Beverly, Mass., to re-assess and co-produce Ted Kociolek and James Racheffs musical Abyssinia, which began its life at Goodspeed...
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Entertaining America: Jewish Anxiety about Inclusion Is a Formative Strain in America's Musical-Theatre Heritage

Magazine article by Wendy Wasserstein; American Theatre, Vol. 21, July 2004

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...to hold on to, particularly at this time in our history. Her vision for the theatre is not just a positive one--its communal. The...that the vehicle for Jewish self-expression in the musical theatre has been artifice. This is a result not...
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The outside Man: Once Wary of Musical Theatre, Recording Artist Duncan Sheik Is Doing His Part to Expand the Form

Magazine article by Nicole Estvanik; American Theatre, Vol. 23, May-June 2006

Subjects:

Musicians--Interviews, Sheik, Duncan--Interviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Roundabout--and Connecticuts Long Wharf Theatre, which had planned to co-produce--set...a rave in Variety ("a beguilingly dark musical tragedy begging to be produced") and a...first musical in the Atlantics 20-year history, but artistic director Neil Pepe had been...

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Newspaper Articles on: musical theatre history

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Lindsay Makes Theatre History (and He Didn't Even Say a Word)

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 7, 2006

Subjects:

Theater--Theater reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Tony Blair. Now he has made theatrical history - even though he didnt have to say a single...Lindsay took part in the worlds first live theatre advert. Dubbed Live Ad, the three-minute...Shakespeare or Ibsen or a Greek play to a musical like Spamalot or Billy Elliot." Lindsay...
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IT'S PLAYTIME; This Is a Caption, This Is a Caption , This Is a Caption ; Unhappy Families: The Moody Cast of Is This about Sex? ; American Burlesque Star Julie Atlas Muz Is the Star of Gorgeous Morons at the New Theatre ; Atlas Muz in Gorgeous Morons ; School Daze: The Pupils in the History Boys

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 28, 2007

Subjects:

Dublin Theatre Festival

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Pupils in the History Boys...forDublins Theatre Festival...Outkast. This musical productionis...pupils in The History Boys ULSTER BANK DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL...PAVILION THEATRE Tel: 01...Sex? o The History Boys o James...
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Players at Work: At Cottage Theatre, a Musical about Jobs

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 9, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...David Larsen is the musical director. PLAY PREVIEW Working What: A Broadway-style musical based on Studs Terkels oral history of work in America Where: Cottage Theatre, 700 Village Drive, Cottage Grove When: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2:30 p.m...
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M2:THEATRE: Stepping in for Musical

Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), June 25, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

M2:THEATRE: Stepping in for Musical. Byline: EXCLUSIVE BY DIANE...the largest arena tour in British history and featured hits including 5,6,7...The Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musical tells the Biblical story of Joseph...
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Culture Theatre: The Original Gang Show; A Classic Jamaican Gangster Film from the 1970s Has Been Reborn as a Hit Stage Musical. Terry Grimley Looks at the Second Coming of the Harder They Come

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 19, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Reborn as a Hit Stage Musical. Terry Grimley Looks...sell-out runs at the Theatre Royal Stratford East...run reflects the on-off history of a proposed national...actors. He didnt like theatre actors in the cinema...projecting to the back of the theatre, whereas in the cinema...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: musical theatre history

3 results

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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Freedley and J. A. Reeves, A History of the Theatre (3d ed. 1968); M. Esslin...1984); P. Hartnoll The Theatre: A Concise History (rev. ed. 1985) and, ed...1990); G. R. Kernodle, The Theatre in History (1990); F. H. Londre, The...
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Walcott, Derek

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a journalist and founded the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. Walcotts meticulously honed...avant-garde, he writes eloquently of the history, landscape, everyday life, and multiracial...Odyssey (1992), and The Capeman (1997), a musical (and Broadway flop) written with Paul...
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Stockholm

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...opera house (opened 1898); the Royal Dramatic Theatre (opened 1908); numerous museums, including...a zoological garden. Stockholm has a lively musical, theatrical, and literary life. History Founded in the mid-13th cent. on the site...

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