Author:
Kenrick, John.
Edition Statement:Second edition.
Imprint:New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017.
Description[x], 338 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction: "Let's start at the very beginning" -- 1. Ancient times to 1800 : "Playgoers, I bid you welcome!" -- 2. Continental operetta (1840-1900): "Typical of France" -- 3. Music halls and minstrel shows: when ribaldry and racism sang and danced -- "The music of something beginning" : American explorations (1624-1890) -- 5. Object all sublime : Gilbert and Sullivan (1880-1900) -- 6. Vaudeville and burlesque : From small time to big time -- 7. The merry widow : refusing to say "I love you" -- 8. A new century : Herbert, Cohan, and Berlin (1900-13) -- 9. Florenz Ziegfeld : The Follies and beyond -- 10. Jerome Kern and American ascendance (1914-19) -- 11. Career in profile : Al Jolson, "the world's greatest entertainer" -- 12. The 1920s, part I : Hot times and great talents (1920-29) -- 13. The 1920s, part II : Show boat--premature revolution -- 14. Depression era miracles (1930-30) : "I guess I'll have to change my plan" -- 15. Rodgers and Hammerstein, a new beginning (1940-60) : "They couldn't pick a better time" -- 16. After Oklahoma! (post-1943) : Broadway's golden age -- 17. Anatomy of a hit : My fair lady -- 18. Career in profile : Ethel Merman -- 19. Abbott, Robbins, and Fosse (1950-63) -- 20. More golden age musicals (1950s-1960s) -- 21. The 1960s : "The parade passes by" -- 22. The 1970s, Part I : Sondheim and Prince -- 23. The 1970s, Part II : "You gotta hang on till tomorrow (1970-79) -- 24. The 1980s : "And the wind begins to moan" -- 25. The 1990s : "The American dream" -- 26. The 2000s : "Where did we go right?" -- 27. The 2010s : Tourists reign supreme -- 28. The future.
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