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• George Abbott
• John Murray Anderson
• Boris Aronson
• George Balanchine
• Michael Bennett
• Robert Russell Bennett
• Irving Berlin
• Leonard Bernstein
• Marc Blitzstein
• Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
• Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
• Gower Champion
• Carol Channing
• George M. Cohan
• Cy Coleman
• Betty Comden and Adolph Green
• Agnes de Mille
• Alfred Drake
• William and Jean Eckart
• Lehman Engel
• Dorothy Fields
• Harvey Fierstein
• William Finn
• Jules Fisher
• Bob Fosse
• George Gershwin
• Ira Gershwin
• W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
• Oscar Hammerstein II
• E.Y. "Yip" Harburg
• Edward "Ned" Harrigan and David Braham
• Lorenz Hart
• Moss Hart
• Victor Herbert
• Jerry Herman
• Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
• John Kander and Fred Ebb
• George S. Kaufman
• Jerome Kern
• Michael Kidd
• Michael John LaChiusa
• Nathan Lane
• Jonathan Larson
• Arthur Laurents
• Gertrude Lawrence
• Carolyn Leigh
• Alan Jay Lerner
• Goddard Lieberson
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Frank Loesser
• Patti LuPone
• Galt Macdermot
• Cameron Mackintosh
• Hugh Martin
• Mary Martin
• Audra McDonald
• Alan Menken
• Ethel Merman
• David Merrick
• Jo Mielziner
• Lin-Manuel Miranda
• Zero Mostel
• Trevor Nunn
• Joseph Papp
• Cole Porter
• Harold Prince
• Tim Rice
• Chita Rivera
• Jerome Robbins
• Richard Rodgers
• Sigmund Romberg
• Stephen Schwartz
• Irene Sharaff
• Hassard Short
• Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
• Oliver Smith
• Stephen Sondheim
• Michael Stewart
• Charles Strouse
• Jule Styne
• Ed Sullivan
• Jeanine Tesori
• Tommy Tune
• Jonathan Tunick
• Joseph Urban
• Gwen Verdon
• Robin Wagner
• Ethel Waters
• Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Kurt Weill
• Bert Williams
• Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.

From Show Boat and Oklahoma! to Wicked and Hamilton, the musical is constantly evolving thanks to the contributions of some of theatre's most prominent figures. Never have musicals been more popular than they are today. With live television broadcasts of shows like Rent and Hairspray and films like Mean Girls and Shrek being adapted to the stage, musicals-as well as the creators and artists who bring them to life-are at the forefront of popular culture. In 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre, Andy Propst profiles the individuals who have helped shape this beloved art form. Songwriting greats such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber are some of the familiar names in the book. So, too, are performers such as Nathan Lane, Ethel Merman, Audra McDonald, and Patti LuPone, and directors and choreographers such as Bob Fosse, Harold Prince, Jerome Robbins, and Tommy Tune. Readers learn not only about these men and women's exceptional lives and achievements, but can peek backstage at such groundbreaking shows as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Company, and A Chorus Line, among others. Period reviews and interviews highlight both the shows and the people who contributed to them. The profiles in 100 Most Important People in Musical Theater provide a terrific history of musical theater, guiding readers from the era of operetta and the ascendancy of the book musical to the emergence of the concept musical and contemporary productions-from The Mikado and The Phantom of the Opera to Fun Home and Hamilton. This book is an invaluable addition to any musical theatre fan's library, and will also appeal to researchers and scholars.
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• Preface
• Chapter 1 - Childhood Dreams
• Chapter 2 - The Revuers Emerge, Soar, and Coast
• Chapter 3 - Taking the Town
• Chapter 4 - Turning to the 1920s
• Chapter 5 - Theatrical Disaster... Cinematic Success
• Chapter 6 - Broadway to Hollywood and Back Again
• Chapter 7 - Turning Back the Clock
• Chapter 8 - Theatrical Adventures On Screen and On and Off Stage
• Chapter 9 - Serious Screen Fare, but Flying High on Stage
• Chapter 10 - Hollywood Passes, Broadway Says 'Yes'
• Chapter 11 - Throwing a Stage Party and a Cinematic Revel
• Chapter 12 - A Movie, Some TV EL and Jukeboxes
• Chapter 13 - Writing a Darker Musical Fairy Tale
• Chapter 14 - Stage and Screen Confections ... and Something a Little Deeper
• Chapter 15 - Part of the Times, Personally and Professionally
• Chapter 16 - Going Backstage, Then Getting Nostalgic [
• Chapter 17 - Returning (Artistically) to the 1930s
• Chapter 18 - Ten Years of Performing and Writing
• Chapter 19 - A Follies Finish and Farewell Bibliography Index.
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Betty Comden and Adolph Green were the writers behind such classic stage musicals as On the Town, Wonderful Town, and Bells Are Ringing, and they provided lyrics for such standards as "New York, New York, " "Just in Time, " "The Party's Over, " and "Make Someone Happy, " to name just a few. This remarkable duo, the longest-running partnership in theatrical history, also penned the screenplays for such cinematic gems as Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon. In the process they worked with such artists as Leonard Bernstein, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Judy Holliday, and Jule Styne. They Made Us Happy is the first book to tell the full story of their careers, lives, and work, starting with their acclaimed appearances as part of the sketch troupe the Revuers and moving through their bi-coastal lives as a pair of Broadway's top writers and two of Hollywood's most valued scribes. The book takes readers on a trip through almost the entirety of the twentieth century, and along the way there are appearances by the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Greta Garbo, and Charlie Chaplin. Author Andy Propst brings both their produced work to life as well as many of the projects that that never made it to the stage or the screen, including an aborted musical version of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth, a bio-pic about director-choreographer Busby Berkeley, and their version of the book for Cole Porter's musical Out of This World. Comden and Green's wit and deft satire inspired laughs during their lives, and their musicals and movies have endured, amusing generation after generation. It's work that will always be making audiences happy.
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He penned songs such as Witchcraft and The Best Is Yet to Come (signature tunes for Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett, respectively) and wrote such musicals as Sweet Charity, I Love My Wife, On the Twentieth Century, and The Will Rogers Follies - yet his life has gone entirely unexplored until now. You Fascinate Me So takes readers into the world and work of Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award-winning composer/performer Cy Coleman, exploring his days as a child prodigy in the 1930s, his time as a hot jazz pianist and early television celebrity in the 1950s, and his life as one of Broadway's preeminent composers. This first-time biography of Coleman has been written with the full cooperation of his estate, and it is filled with previously unknown details about his body of work. Additionally, interviews with colleagues and friends, including Marilyn and Alan Bergman, Ken Howard, Michele Lee, James Naughton, Bebe Neuwirth, Hal Prince, Chita Rivera, and Tommy Tune, provide insight into Coleman's personality and career.
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