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Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical

By Ethan Mordden

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1988
ISBN
0195054253, 9780195054255, 9781423736226, 9780195363753
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14436776 bytes)
Pages
256\255
Topic
Art Music: Guitar
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy. Mordden's account features such show people as Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, Bert Lahr, Gwen Verdon, Angela Lansbury, Victor Herbert, Liza Minnelli, and Stephen Sondheim, and such musicals as Sally, Oh Kay!, Anything Goes, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Follies, Chicago, and countless others. While theatrical historians traditionally have emphasized the role of the authors of musicals, Mordden also examines the personal styles of the directors, choreographers, and producers, in order to demonstrate not only what the musical became but what it was. The volume includes an extensive discography--the first of its kind--which offers a virtually self-contained history of recorded show music.

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