The Musical as Drama

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CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Preface ix CHAPTER ONE Integration and Difference 1 CHAPTER TWO The Book and the Numbers 31 C ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS Figure1. Fred and Adele Astaire in a pose from Lady, Be Good 16 Figure 2. The turning point in Guys and Dolls 45 F ...

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PREFACE A NUMBER of writers on the theatre and its history have come to think of the Broadway musical as one of the most importa ...

around which one can think about the musical as a form of art. My chapters are not primarily about Kern or Rodgers and Hammerste ...

where I introduced the subject into the curriculum about six years ago, I ask the students not to wonder if the musical is up to ...

come under discussion. I have picked broadly known musicals in order to avoid spending time on plot summaries and other general ...

along with the year of the original production and publication details for the libretto when one is in print. The description of ...

Lyrics, Ira Gershwin. Direction, Moss Hart. Musical sequences staged by Hassard Short. Orchestration, Kurt Weill. Settings, Harr ...

tings, Tony Straiges. Movement, Randolyn Zinn. Orchestration, Michael Starobin. Libretto published by Dodd, Mead, 1986. Sweeney ...

uncommon professionalism. The copyediting by Marjorie Pan- nell was especially notable. I am also indebted to the staffs of the ...

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Chapter One INTEGRATION AND DIFFERENCE Integration: From Wagner to Broadway T HE American musical has been accompanied by a the- ...