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Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage

(9/14/2011)

Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time. Natasha Korda reveals that the purportedly all-male professional stage relied on the labor, wares, ingenuity, and capital of women of all stripes, including ordinary crafts- and tradeswomen who supplied costumes, props, and comestibles; wealthy heiresses and widows who provided much-needed capital and credit; wive...

Labors Lost: Women's Work and the Early Modern English Stage

The Frightful Stage: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-century Europe

(9/1/2011)

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance. The theater provided the most significant form of mass entertainment and was the only arena aside from the church in which regular mass gatherings were possible. Therefore, drama censorship occupied a great deal of the ruling class's time and energy, with a particularly focus on proposed scripts that potentially threatened the existing political, legal, and social order. Th...

The Frightful Stage: Political Censorship of the Theater in Nineteenth-century Europe

Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: The Ballet d'Action

(8/31/2011)

The 'ballet d'action' was one of the most successful and controversial forms of theatre in the early modern period. A curious hybrid of dance, mime and music, its overall and overriding intention was to create drama. It was danced drama rather than dramatic dance; musical drama rather than dramatic music. Most modern critical studies of the ballet d'action treat it more narrowly as stage dance, and very few view it as part of the history of mime. Little use has previously been made of the most r...

Mime, Music and Drama on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: The Ballet d'Action

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933

(8/2/2011)

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, advancements in communication and travel encouraged widespread international cultural exchange, and Americans increasingly came into contact with Russian culture and theatrical performance. A number of factors, including emigration from Russia, world war, revolutionary activities in both Russia and the United States, and developments in modernism in the American theatre influenced the way those performances were received by American artists and audiences. Examini...

Russian Culture and Theatrical Performance in America, 1891-1933

Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans

(8/2/2011)

A forgotten yet award-winning playwright, Cal Yeomans was one of the founders of gay theatre whose work was fueled by gay liberation and extinguished by the AIDS epidemic. Exploring both sex and sexuality so candidly, he burst the boundaries of what was considered acceptable. His writings were not only manifestations of the sexual liberation of the times, but were also attempts to overcome what he had been raised to despise. Schanke's examination of Yeomans' life and legacy allows a rare explora...

Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans

Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages

(7/15/2011)

What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations, the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers a...

Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904-2009

(7/10/2011)

Recounting the 106-year stage and screen history of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, Bruce K. Hanson updates and expands his 1993 volume on "The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up." Hanson traces the origin of Barrie's tale through the first London production in 1904, to various British and American theatrical and film productions up to and including the stage versions of 2010. Included are interviews with actresses Dinah Sheridan, Mary Martin and Sandy Duncan, all of whom portrayed Peter Pan on stage, and Bet...

Peter Pan on Stage and Screen, 1904-2009

The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years

(7/1/2011)

On a warm, humid night in June of 1962, four amateur actors sat on stools in the Court House of Niagara-on-the-Lake for their first performance of Don Juan in Hell from George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. It was a "modest" first performance, without the pomp and circumstance of other theatre openings, and many were unsure of the lifespan of such a theatre experience. So began founder Brian Doherty's Shaw Festival, or as it was humbly called in the beginning, A Salute to Shaw. Entering its...

The Shaw Festival: The First Fifty Years

Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747

(7/1/2011)

In the first half of the eighteenth century, a new comic plot formula dramatizing the moral reform of a flawed protagonist emerged on the English stage. The comic reform plot was not merely a generic turn towards morality or sentimentality, Aparna Gollapudi argues, but an important social mechanism for controlling and challenging political and economic changes. Gollapudi looks at reform comedies by dramatists such as Colley Cibber, Susanna Centlivre, Richard Steele, Charles Johnson, and Benjamin...

Moral Reform in Comedy and Culture, 1696-1747

Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance Venice

(7/1/2011)

Of enduring historical and contemporary interest, the anatomy theater is where students of the human body learn to isolate structures in decaying remains, scrutinize their parts, and assess their importance. Taking a new look at the history of anatomy, Cynthia Klestinec places public dissections alongside private ones to show how the anatomical theater was both a space of philosophical learning, which contributed to a deeper scientific analysis of the body, and a place where students learned to ...

Theaters of Anatomy: Students, Teachers, and Traditions of Dissection in Renaissance

Medieval Roles for Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic

(6/30/2011)

Ranging from France and Russia to America in the throes of world war and revolution, Medieval Roles for Modern Times investigates how critics and creative artists made medieval culture a part of their modern world through theatrical role playing. On both the Left and the Right across Europe, partisans used medieval drama to express the ideological struggles dividing them. Helen Solterer explores the case of the Thophiliens, a Parisian youth group in the 1930s and 1940s whose members included Rol...

Medieval Roles for Modern Times: Theater and the Battle for the French Republic

The Stanislavsky System of Acting: Legacy and Influence in Modern Performance

(6/16/2011)

Konstantin Stanislavsky, the Russian director and actor and co-founder, in 1898, of the Moscow Art Theatre, was the originator of the most influential system of acting in the history of western theatre. Many of Stanislavsky's concepts are widespread in popular thought on acting; this 2008 book offers a evaluation of the basis of his ideas, discussing whether the system has survived because Stanislavsky made discoveries about acting that are and always have been scientifically verifiable, or whet...

The Stanislavsky System of Acting: Legacy and Influence in Modern Performance

Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde

(6/16/2011)

'I love acting - it is so much more real than life,' Oscar Wilde famously wrote. Acting Wilde demonstrates that Wilde's plays, fiction, and critical theory are organised by the idea that all so-called 'reality' is a mode of performance, and that the 'meanings' of life are really the scripted elements of a dramatic spectacle. Wilde's real issue was whether one could become the author of his own script, the creator of the character and role he inhabits. It was a question he struggled to answer fro...

Acting Wilde: Victorian Sexuality, Theatre, and Oscar Wilde

Theatre Translation Is All About Interpretation: Trilingual Journey of the Musical "Cabaret"

(6/15/2011)

This book invites you to look at theatre translationas a process, a living and ever-changing system thatprofoundly depends on the target audience. The authorinvestigates the interrelation between the translatedtheatre text, the final production, as well as theTranslator and the Actor, who become the maincharacters of this book. Along with theatretranslation, it touches upon the genres of musical,cabaret and Travestie. Based on differentinterpretations of the musical “Cabaret” in America,Germ...

Theatre Translation Is All About Interpretation: Trilingual Journey of the Musical "C

French Theatre Today: The View from New York, Paris, and Avignon

(6/15/2011)

In 2005 literary and film critic Edward Turk immersed himself in New York City’s ACT FRENCH festival, a bold effort to enhance American contact with the contemporary French stage. This dizzying crash course on numerous aspects of current French theatre paved the way for six months of theatregoing in Paris and a month’s sojourn at the 2006 Avignon Festival. In French Theatre Today he turns his yearlong involvement with this rich topic into an accessible, intelligent, and comprehensive overvi...

French Theatre Today: The View from New York, Paris, and Avignon

Black and Asian Theatre In Britain: A History

(6/9/2011)

Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘The Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other representations in the sixteenth century, through to the emergence of black and Asian actors, co...

Black and Asian Theatre In Britain: A History

Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens

(6/1/2011)

Greek drama has been subject to ongoing textual and historical interpretation, but surprisingly little scholarship has examined the people who composed the theater audiences in Athens. Typically, scholars have presupposed an audience of Athenian male citizens viewing dramas created exclusively for themselves--a model that reduces theater to little more than a medium for propaganda. Women's theater attendance remains controversial, and little attention has been paid to the social class and ethnic...

Theater of the People: Spectators and Society in Ancient Athens

Set in Stone: The Cell Block Theatre

(6/1/2011)

The Cell Block Theatre was the hub of Australian avant-garde theater, music, and dance in the 1960s and 1970s, but it was built fora very different purpose. This is the fascinating story of how a derelict wing of Darlinghurst Gaol—the home of Sydney’s most notorious female criminals—not only became a place of creative freedom and ingenuity, but also housed early performances from artists such as John Bell, Nick Cave, Yvonne Kenny, David Malouf, Peter Sculthorpe, and Jim Sharman. Richly ill...

Frank McGuinnesss Dramaturgy of Difference and the Irish Theatre

(6/1/2011)

This book is the broad application of queer theories to the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness, the only author in Ireland to consistently utilize gay and lesbian themes in his writing. McGuinness continually represents sexual difference in his character development in a way that previous Irish authors have not. In particular McGuinness portrays homosexual protagonists in his dramas, allowing the queer the narrative prerogative, not merely a secondary role in the...

Frank McGuinnesss Dramaturgy of Difference and the Irish Theatre

Staging the People: Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project

(5/11/2011)

The Federal Theatre Project stands alone as the only national theatre in the history of the United States. This study re-imagines this vital moment in American history, considering the Federal Theatre Project on its own terms – as a “federation of theatres” designed to stimulate new audiences and create locally-relevant theatre during the turbulent 1930s. It integrates a wealth of previously undiscovered archival materials with cultural history, delving into regional activities in Chicago,...

Staging the People: Community and Identity in the Federal Theatre Project

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

(6/13/2006)

The year 1599 was crucial in the Bard's artistic evolution as well as in the historical upheavals he lived through. That year's output—Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It and (debatably) Hamlet—not only spans a shift in artistic direction and theatrical taste, but also echoes the intrigues of Queen Elizabeth's court and the downfall of her favorite, the Earl of Essex. Like other Shakespeare biographers, Columbia professor Shapiro notes the importance of mundane events in Shakespeare's art...

Shakespeare

(1/17/2002)

Like Burgess's early novel, Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life, this equally delightful factual treatment of what we know of the Bard combines Burgess's stimulating erudition and his well-informed imagination. The result is at once a speculative biography, a theatrical history, and a re-creation of the Elizabethan age. Whether a vivid retracing of the evolution Elizabethan theater, a bravura reconstruction of the first performance of Hamlet, an infiltration of the intricaci...

Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to the Toxic Avenger

(2011)

Although the venue Off Broadway has long been the birthplace of innovative and popular musicals, there have been few studies of these influential works. Long-running champs, such as The Fantasticks and Little Shop of Horrors, are discussed inmany books about American musicals, but what of the hundreds of other Off-Broadway musicals? In Off-Broadway Musicals since 1919, Thomas Hischak looks at more than 375 musicals, which are described, discussed, and analyzed subjectively, with particular atten...

Off-Broadway Musicals Since 1919: From Greenwich Village Follies to the Toxic Avenger

The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in Austria and Central Europe

(2004)

Both dramatic and musical theater are part of the tradition that has made Austria - especially Vienna - and the old Habsburg lands synonymous with high culture in Central Europe. Many works, often controversial originally but now considered as classics, are still performed regularly in Vienna, Prague, Budapest, or Krakow. This volume not only offers an excellent overview of the theatrical history of the region, it is also an innovative, cross-disciplinary attempt to analyse the inner workings an...

The Great Tradition and Its Legacy: The Evolution of Dramatic and Musical Theater in

The Great Theatres of London

(2004)

With the recent influx of A-list stars like Nicole Kidman, Kevin Spacey, and Matt Damon vying to perform on the London stage, never has the West End enjoyed such a high profile. This updated edition of The Great Theaters of London—with brand new sections on the Almeida, the Donmar Warehouse, Shakespeare’s Globe, the Young Vic, and more—is a timely celebration of the cultural history behind each of the great London theaters. Handsomely illustrated, and with A–Z entries, this is the perfec...

Women's Gidayu and the Japanese Theatre Tradition

(1997)

Women's gidayu is a traditional form of Japanese musical narrative. During its 350 year history it has had to cope with the problems imposed by a theatrical culture dominated by men, but has survived and is now receiving greater recognition than ever before. This is the first book in English on women's gidayu and introduces the performers, their musical narratives and the politics of their survival within Japanese performing culture. It offers a case study of the continuation of a music within t...

Women's Gidayu and the Japanese Theatre Tradition

The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical

(2004)

The true Broadway musical from the days of Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Merman, Preston, Channing, Fosse, and Robbins was finally dead. Unfortunately, the burial has not yet taken place. In The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen, Ethan Mordden takes the reader to the Broadway musical's wake and is unsparing in his acerbic and witty look at the condition of the corpse.

The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen: The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musica

A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By, About, or Involving African Americans

(1993)

This comprehensive reference book provides succinct information on almost thirteen hundred musical stage works written and produced from the 1870s to the 1990s involving contributions by black librettists, lyricists, composers, musicians, producers, or performers or containing thematic materials relevant to the black experience. Organized alphabetically, they include tent and outdoor shows, vaudeville, operas and operettas, comedies, farces, spectacles, revues, cabaret and nightclub shows, chil...

A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works By,

Book of World-Famous Libretti: The Musical Theatre from 1598 to Today

(1984)

In this handsome and invaluable book, James Fuld, author of The Book of World-Famous Music, examines the libretti of 167 works of musical theater. For each opera, operetta, or musical comedy libretto, he supplies a facsimile of the title page (see opposite) and, facing, all the relevant facts that can be gleaned from a close study of the original publication. In addition to a description of the physical properties of each libretto, you will find, for example, the date and place of the first perf...

Book of World-Famous Libretti: The Musical Theatre from 1598 to Today

Broadway and Corporate Capitalism: The Rise of the Professional-Managerial Class, 1900-1920

(2009)

Broadway and Corporate Capitalism examines two overlapping and, in many ways, symbiotic phenomena of early 20th century America—the emergence of the Professional-Managerial Class within American corporate capitalism and the evolution of Broadway. Michael Schwartz shows how the class movements moved—literally and figuratively—to the rhythm of noisy, frenetic farces, highly charged business and sports melodramas, and exuberant musicals. This book brings to life the representative plays, play...

Broadway and Corporate Capitalism: The Rise of the Professional-Managerial Class, 190

Musical Comedy in America

(1987)

Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd

Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater

(2008)

Drawing on hundreds of operas, singspiels, ballets, and plays with supernatural themes, Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests argues that the tension between fantasy and Enlightenment-era rationality shaped some of the most important works of eighteenth-century musical theater and profoundly influenced how audiences and critics responded to them. David J. Buch reveals that despite—and perhaps even because of—their fundamental irrationality, fantastic and exotic themes acquired extraordinary ...

Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Th

Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s

(2001)

The 1960s formed the decade in which the Rodgers and Hammerstein era ended and the next era of modern concept musicals began. In Open a New Window, Ethan Mordden continues his history of the Broadway musical by looking at the decade that bridged the gap between the romantic, fanciful entertainments that came before to the time when "dark" musicals such as Company and A Little Night Music were commonplace. In the 1960s, Camelot was the climax of the romantic musical play that had its roots in suc...

Open a New Window: The Broadway Musical in the 1960s

Music and Theatre in France 1600-1680

(2000)

During the course of the 17th century, the dramatic arts reached a pinnacle of development in France; but despite the volumes devoted to the literature and theatre of the ancien régime, historians have largely neglected the importance of music and dance. This study defines the musical practices of comedy, tragicomedy, tragedy, and mythological and non-mythological pastoral drama, from the arrival of the first repertory companies in Paris until the establishment of the Comédie-Française.

A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film

(1995)

Chronicling the early musical film years from 1926 to 1934, A Song in the Dark offers a fascinating look at these innovative films, the product of much of the major experimentation that went on during the development of sound technology. Illuminating the entire evolution of this new sound medium, Richard Barrios shows how Hollywood, seeking to outdo Broadway and vaudeville, recruited both the famous and the unknown, the newest stars and the has-beens, the geniuses and the hustlers. The results w...

A Song in the Dark: The Birth of the Musical Film

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Montiverdi

(2008)

This book describes the many ways in which music was used in Italian theatrical performances between the late fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In particular, it concentrates on Polizano's Orfeo, Machiavelli's commedies, the Florentine intermedi and early operas, and the first operas in Venice.

Music and Theatre from Poliziano to Montiverdi

Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue

(2009)

Christian theatre has rich roots, from ancient Hebrew dramas to medieval plays, but where does it fit in today's media-saturated society? Performing the Sacred is a fascinating dialogue between a theologian and theatre artist, offering the first full-scale exploration of theatre and theology. The authors illuminate the importance of live performance in a virtual world, of preserving the ancient art form of storytelling by becoming the story. Theologically, theatre reflects Christianity's central...

Performing the Sacred: Theology and Theatre in Dialogue

Ring Bells! Sing Songs! Broadway Musicals of the 1930's

(1971)

Broadway Musicals of the 1930's

African American Theatre: An Historical and Critical Analysis

(1994)

A landmark work in the study of Black theater and drama, African American Theatre offers the first comprehensive history of a major cultural phenomenon until now too often neglected. In this fast-paced investigation, Hay seeks out the origins of Black theater in social protest, as envisioned by W.E.B. Dubois, and as a formal branch of arts theater. Divided between these opposing forces--the activist and the artistic--Black theater, Hay argues, faced conflicts of identity whose traces still haunt...

African American Theatre: An Historical and Critical Analysis

Broadway Musicals, 1943-2004

(2005)

On March 31, 1943, the musical Oklahoma! premiered and the modern era of the Broadway musical was born. Since that time, the theatres of Broadway have staged hundreds of musicals—some more noteworthy than others, but all in their own way a part of American theatre history. With more than 750 entries, this comprehensive reference book provides information on every musical produced on Broadway since Oklahoma’s 1943 debut. Each entry begins with a brief synopsis of the show, followed by a thre...

Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World

(1997)

Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth--all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analyzing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs such as "Jim Crow," "Zip Coon," and "Dan Tucker." The first book on the b...

Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and their World

Coming up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s

(1998)

The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 20s and solidified during the 40s thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein, now entered its most revolutionary phase, brashly redefining itself and forging a new kind of storytelling. In Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s, Ethan Mordden gives us a guided tour of this rich decade. With loving detail, Mordden highlights the shift in Broadway from shows that were mere star v...

Coming up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s

Broadway Theatre

(1994)

Examining the rich history of Broadway theater certainly is not a new topic, but Harris, who teaches theater at Texas Christian University, successfully synthesizes decades of writings on the subject to prove a worthy point: the art of theater and the business of theater always have been and always will be in conflict. That said, many live dramas, which surely altered the way America saw itself and made a lot of money, blossomed from this fundamental contradiction. On the flip side of the same c...

The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical

(2005)

Mark N. Grant thoroughly investigates all aspects of the Broadway musical as he traces the transformation of singing and melody, libretto and lyric writing, dance rhythms, sound design, and choreography and stage direction through three distinct eras: the formative period (1866-1927), the golden age (1927-1966), and the fall (1967 to the present). He explores how and why the unsophisticated genre of pre-1920s musical comedy evolved into the creative, innovative, and immensely popular theater pro...

The Rise and Fall of the Broadway Musical

American Song: The Complete Musical Theater Companion, 1900-1984. Two volumes

(1985)

These companion volumes to Bloom's important American Song: The Complete Musical Theatre Companion (LJ 7/96) and Hollywood Song: The Complete Film and Musical Companion (LJ 3/15/95) focus on popular songs from the early 1890s to 2000, defining "Tin Pan Alley" broadly to incorporate tunes ranging from George M. Cohan's patriotic gems to "easy listening" (e.g., Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach). Rock, country, folk, and other genres are not treated here. Although these works are presented as Volumes ...

American Song: The Complete Musical Theater Companion, 1900-1984. Two volumes

The Musical: A Concise History

(1997)

The musical is an endless source of fascination and enjoyment for audiences around the world. Now the rich and colorful history of musical theater is brought to life in this beautifully illustrated volume. A valuable companion for anyone who loves the musical, this engaging, informative work tells the dazzling story of the international musical stage over three centuries, from The Beggar's Opera to Sunset Boulevard. Highlighting especially those shows that have entertained "most of the people m...

The Influence of Italian Entertainments on Sixteenth-And Seventeenth-Century Music Theatre in France, Savoy and England

(2001)

The essays in this work focus on courtly musical entertainments in early modern Europe, providing a framework in which to locate the many aesthetic considerations which lay behind the creation of opera and other musical forms, and through analyses of individuual events, the modalities of the circulation and adaption of a so-called Italian model throughout Europe. They highlight the constant evolution of the musical entertainments of the Baroque age, and in so doing, invite the reader to re-exami...

The Influence of Italian Entertainments on Sixteenth-And Seventeenth-Century Music Th

Ganzl's Book of the Broadway Musical: 75 Favorite Shows, from H.M.S. Pinafore to Sunset Boulevard

(1995)

Ganzl's Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre [RBB S 1 94], the 1995 Dartmouth Medal Honor Book, and Ganzl's Book of the Musical Theatre [RBB Je 15 89] both cover musical theater around the world. This new title is a spinoff highlighting 75 Broadway musicals, a few of which are too recent to have been included in his encyclopedia. Each entry gives full production information, casts, plot synopses, song titles, and notes about film versions. Each is liberally illustrated with photographs from the ...

Ganzl's Book of the Broadway Musical: 75 Favorite Shows, from H.M.S. Pinafore to Suns

One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s

(2003)

A Broadway musical about a single man living in Man-hattan who's surrounded by married couples? A show about aging chorines haunted by the ghosts of their past? Another performed on a bare stage featuring chorus dancers that lands on Broadway like a juggernaut? Reality came knocking in the 1970s when, Company, Follies, and A Chorus Line, all taught Broadway a new way to sing. Mordden's latest volume in his history of the musical looks at an era that brought us the gritty reality of A Chorus Line...

One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s

Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695 - 1705

(2009)

From 1695 to 1705, rival London theater companies based at Drury Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields each mounted more than a hundred new productions while reviving stock plays by authors such as Shakespeare and Dryden. All included music. Kathryn Lowerre charts the interactions of the two companies from a musical perspective, emphasizing each company's new productions and their respective musical assets, including performers, composers, and musical materials. Lowerre also provides rich analysis of th...

Music and Musicians on the London Stage, 1695 - 1705

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