Enchanted evenings : the Broadway musical from Show boat to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber / Geoffrey Block.

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ML1711.8 .N3 B56 2009

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Author/Creator:

Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-

Language:

English

Imprint:

2nd ed. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Format:

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-424) and index.

Contents:

Show boat : in the beginning
Anything goes : songs ten, book three
Porgy and Bess : Broadway opera
On your toes and Pal Joey : dance gets into the act and "sweet water from a foul well"
The cradle will rock : a labor musical for art's sake
Lady in the dark and One touch of Venus : the Broadway stranger and his American dreams
Stage vs. screen (1) : before Rodgers and Hammerstein
Carousel : the invasion of the integrated musical
Kiss me, Kate : the taming of Cole Porter
Guys and dolls and The most happy fella : the greater Loesser
My fair lady : from Pygmalion to Cinderella
West side story : the very model of a major musical
Stage vs. screen (2) : after Oklahoma!
Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the park with George : happily ever after West side story with Sondheim
The Phantom of the opera : the reigning champion of Broadway.

Subjects:

ISBN:

9780195384000
0195384008