Beautiful mornin'
the Broadway musical in the 1940s
by Ethan Mordden
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"With the vitality and occasionally outrageous humor that Ethan Mordden's readers take for granted, the author ranges through the decade's classics - Pal Joey, Lady in the Dark, On the Town, Annie Get Your Gun, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, Kiss Me, Kate, and South Pacific.
He also covers illuminating trivia - the spy thriller The Lady Comes Across, whose star got so into her role that she suffered paranoid hallucinations and had to be hospitalized; the smutty Follow the Girls, damned as "burlesque with a playbill" yet closing as the longest-run musical in Broadway history; Lute Song, in which Mary Martin and Nancy Reagan were Chinese; and the first "concept" musicals, Allegro and Love Life. Amid the fun, something revolutionary occurs. The 1920s created the musical and the 1930s gave it politics.
In the 1940s, it found its soul."--BOOK JACKET.
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Beautiful mornin': the Broadway musical in the 1940s
1999, Oxford University Press
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0195128516 9780195128512
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