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Summary:

"Victorians on Broadway" is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of live stage musicals from the mid- to late twentieth century adapted from British literature written between 1837 and 1886. Investigating musical dramatizations of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, and others, Weltman considers what cultural and interpretive work adaptations such as "The King and I" (1951), "Oliver!" (1960), "Sweeney Todd" (1979), and "Jekyll and Hyde" (1997) accomplish when they are adapted for the Broadway stage. In addition, Weltman examines what these musicals teach us about the Victorian books from which they derive. "Victorians on Broadway" also provides us with a great deal of background theater history, making sure that we can understand how "the American musical" developed its own generic specificity. The book moves chronologically, reflecting the major developments in American musical theater, and Victorian-sourced Broadway musical adaptations have been produced at each stage: the Golden Age of Broadway, the musical theater experiments of the 1970s and 1980s that focus as much on concept as story (exemplified by Stephen Sondheim), and the era of pop megamusicals, revealing the Broadway musical's debt to melodrama. Organizing these chapters chronologically situates the adaptations within the history of musical theater and focuses attention on how they fit into aesthetic and intellectual movements"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Broadway, Victorian Venus, and the Middlebrow
• 2. King and Who? Race, Dance, and Home
• 3. Performing Jewishness in Oliver!
• 4. Dickens, Cultural Anxiety, and Victorianness in Sweeney Todd
• 5. Metz-Mystery of Edwin Drood
• 6. Goblin Market, Performance, and Sexuality
• 7. "Bring on the Men" and Women: Melodrama and Gender Performance in Jekyll and Hyde
• 8. Broadway's "Jane! Jane! Jane!".

Author/Creator:

Weltman, Sharon Aronofsky, 1957- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Victorians on Broadway: literature, adaptation, and the modern American musical [by Weltman, S.A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Victorians on Broadway [by Weltman, S.A.] (Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2020 — ISBN 9780813944319; LCCN 2020017314)

Related Series:

Book collections on Project MUSE

Subjects:

Musicals — United States — 20th century — History and criticism

Musical theater — United States — History — 20th century

English literature — 19th century — Influence

Musicals — Stories, plots, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

ML1711.5 .W45 2020eb

ISBNs:

9780813944333 (electronic book)
0813944333 (electronic book)
9780813944319 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780813944326 (paperback) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2020017315

OCLC Numbers:

1154080791

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6121457 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16835205