The Musical as Drama

Candide(Voltaire), 22, 79, 91 “Can’t Help Lovin’ Dat Man”: and the chorus as a melody, 107; as a diegetic number, 105–9; refrain ...

Ebb, Fred, 22–23, 76, 210 Edwards, Cliff, 79 Egoyan, Atom, 59 Eliot, T. S., 4, 4n6 Engel, Lehman, 5, 5n10 ensemble numbers, 76–7 ...

Hammerstein (continued) the duet “Someone Will Teach You,” 41n; and the ideology of community, 82–86, 85n8, 88–89; and the kitch ...

Lahr, John, 20n Lancaster, Elsa, 26 LaTouche, Jerome, 22 Laurents, Arthur, 48–49, 140 “Laurey Makes Up Her Mind,” 50–51 “Laurey’ ...

musicals (continued) sophistication, 114–16; and dra- matic and recognitions, 41–43, 47, 52; as farces, 17–18; forerunners of, 1 ...

ensemble in, 84–85; and the “for- getting” of American Indians in, 85; gay and lesbian response to, 85n8; as an integrated music ...

“Poor Thing,” 170 popular (pop) songs, 27–28, 28n, 34–35n5, 56, 132; AABA structure of, 197–98, 198n13; allusion in, 111–12; tor ...

Smith, Alexis, 189–91, 194 Smith, Sheila, 189 “Soliloquy,” 42–43 “Some Enchanted Evening,” 88, 131 “Someone in a Tree,” 202–4, 2 ...

Walker, George, 145 Warchus, Matthew, 195n Ward, Matthew, 158 Watkins, Maureen, 23 “We Both Reached for the Gun,” 176 “We Do Not ...

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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 ...