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Summary:

Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself--beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849 to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent.

Table of Contents:

• Before the curtain
• Out of the nineteenth century, Transition stages. The Astor Place Riot ; Uncle Tom's Cabin, the musical ; The Black Crook ; Variety stages. From minstrelsy to vaudeville ; Harrigan and Hart ; Weber and Fields ; Williams and Walker ; A transatlantic muse. Operetta : the golden age ; Light opera in America ; American light opera
• Into the twentieth century. The native wit. Cohen and Times Square ; Berlin and Tin Pan Alley ; Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern : the Princess Theater ; The cult of romance. Operetta : the silver age ; Romberg and Friml ; Show Boat ; A shadow of vulgarity. Revues : spectacular and intimate ; Musical comedy/musical farce comedy ; Jazz-age "Jazz" ; Broadway songbook. The Gershwins ; Cole Porter ; Rodgers and Hart ; The script angle. A musical play ; Oklahoma! : the musical play ; Literate musical comedy ; Musical theater : the new art. Rodgers and Hammerstein ; Lerner and Loewe ; Harnick and Bock ; Opera, in our own way. Opera on Broadway ; Broadway opera ; West Side Story ; The great American showshop. The Abbott touch ; Harburg's circle ; A Loesser orbit ; Comden and Green
• and Styne
• Toward the new millennium. Away from Broadway. Early alternative musicals ; The Off Broadway renaissance ; Farther "off" and coming back ; The metaphor angle. Cabaret and the concept musical ; Prince, Sondheim & Co. ; Sondheim after Prince ; A dancing place. The ballet-directors : De Mille and Robbins ; The hoofer-directors : Champion and Fosse ; A chorus line and after ; Distancing effects. Rice, Lloyd Webber, and rock opera ; Mackintosh and the megamusical ; Disney and the movical ; Another Broadway
• another show
• Revivals ; Antimusicals ; Sondheim's children.

Author/Creator:

Stempel, Larry

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Showtime: a history of the Broadway musical theater [by Stempel, L.]

Subjects:

Musicals — New York (State) — New York — History and criticism

Musicals

New York (State) — New York

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 687-782), discography (p. 783-785), and index.

Physical Description:

xx, 826 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

ML1711.8.N3 S73 2010

ISBNs:

9780393067156 (hardcover)
9780393929065 (pbk.)
0393067157 (hardcover)
039392906X (pbk.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010019704

OCLC Numbers:

601094018