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An edition of Musical theatre (2010)

Musical theatre

a history

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Musical Theatre: A History presents a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the earliest accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, for whom songs were common elements in staging, to Jacques Offenbach in Paris during the 1840s, to Gilbert and Sullivan in the UK, to the rise of music halls and vaudeville traditions in America, and eventually to "Broadway's Golden Age" with George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The 21 st century has also brought a popular new wave of m....

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Continuum
Language
English
Pages
408

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History and criticism, Musical theater, Fine Arts, Musicals, history and criticism, History

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Musical Theatre: A History
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Musical Theatre: A History
2017, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
in English
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Musical Theatre: a History
2010, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Musical Theatre: A History
2010, Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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Musical theatre: a history
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Table of Contents

Ancient times to 1850 : "Playgoers, I bid you welcome!"
Continental operetta (1840-1900) : "Typical of France"
American explorations (1624-1880) : "The music of something beginning"
Gilbert & Sullivan (1880-1900) : "Object all sublime"
The birth of musical comedy (1880-1899) : "It belong'd to my father before I was born"
A new century (1900-1913) : "Whisper of how I'm yearning"
American ascendance (1914-1919) : "In a class beyond compare"
Al Jolson : "The world's greatest entertainer"
The jazz age (1920-1929) : "I want to be happy"
Depression era miracles (1930-1940) : "Trouble's just a bubble"
A new beginning (1940-1950) : "They couldn't pick a better time"
Broadway takes stage (1950-1963) : "The street where you live"
Rock rolls in (1960-1970) : "Soon it's gonna rain"
New directions (1970-1979) : "Vary my days"
Spectacles and boardrooms : "As if we never said goodbye"
Musical comedy returns (the 2000s) : "Where did we go right?"

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-393) and index.

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782.1/409
Library of Congress
ML1700 .K46 2010eb, ML1700 .K46 2010, ML2054.K46 2009, ML1700.K46 2010

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1 online resource (408 p., [16] p. of plates)
Number of pages
408

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OL27076370M
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musicaltheatrehi00kenr_924
ISBN 10
144119178X, 0826430139
ISBN 13
9781441191786, 9780826430137
LCCN
2010563583
OCLC/WorldCat
676695842
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
CBID160288

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