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The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey
The Broadway musical, one of America's most distinctive contributions to Western music, has been chronicled, dissected, described, and debated, but never until now has its essential element--that glorious music--been analyzed directly in any significant detail. Moving beyond the anecdotes, production histories, and generalizations about theatrical style that mark so much o...more
Hardcover, 400 pages
Published
May 24th 1990
by Oxford University Press, USA
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I had to read The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey for a school elective I took on Western musical theater; and I found it to be one of the best critical surveys done on Broadway Musicals.
The mere fact that it breaks down the growth and development of Broadway Musicals from a distinguished group of stage performances along the theater district at Broadway to a world-renown genre of musical theater into stages of maturity from as early as Kern and Hammerstein II's Show Boat to Sond...more
The mere fact that it breaks down the growth and development of Broadway Musicals from a distinguished group of stage performances along the theater district at Broadway to a world-renown genre of musical theater into stages of maturity from as early as Kern and Hammerstein II's Show Boat to Sond...more
The selections of music were what made the book, overall, more successful. As a fan of theatre (and a student), I found the book extremely informational.
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