The Cambridge Companion to the MusicalThe Cambridge Companion to the Musical provides an accessible introduction to one of the liveliest and most popular forms of musical performance. Written by a team of specialists in the field of musical theatre especially for students and theatregoers, it offers a guide to the history and development of the musical in England and America (including coverage of New York s Broadway and London s West End traditions). Starting with the early history of the musical, the volume comes right up to date and examines the latest works and innovations, and includes information on the singers, audience and critical reception, and traditions. There is fresh coverage of the American musical theatre in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British musical theatre in the middle of the twentieth century, and the rock musical. The Companion contains an extensive bibliography and photos from key productions. |
Contents
American musical theatre before the twentieth century | 3 |
musical theatre in New York | 29 |
American and British operetta in | 47 |
AfricanAmerican musical theatre Show Boat | 63 |
American musical comedies of | 77 |
British musical theatre 19351960 John | 101 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein Ann Sears 120 | 120 |
The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s to the 1960s | 137 |
Stephen Sondheim and the musical of the outsider Jim Lovensheimer 181 | 181 |
Choreographers directors and the fully integrated musical | 197 |
Distant cousin or fraternal twin? Analytical approaches to the film musical | 212 |
is rock a fourletter word on Broadway? | 231 |
the creation internationalisation and impact | 246 |
Notes 266 | 266 |
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Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein | 167 |
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