Describes and analyzes over 375 Off-Broadway musicals produced between 1919 and 2009, providing essential data about each show, describing its plot and score, and offering an opinion on it merits.
Composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959). With t…
In fourteen years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harwick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together.
In 14 years of collaboration, composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved musicals together, most famously 'Fiddler on the Roof', but also the enduring audience favourite 'She Loves Me'. With their charm, humour, and boundless musical …
Composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick wrote seven of Broadway's most beloved and memorable musicals together, most famously Fiddler on the Roof (1964), but also the enduring audience favorite She Loves Me (1963), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! (1959). With t…
A sourcebook of writings on music for film, bringing together fifty-three critical documents. It includes essays by those who created the music and outlines the major trends, aesthetic choices, technological innovations, and commercial pressures that have shaped the relationship…
From Maria in 'West Side Story' to Tracy Turnblatt in 'Hairspray' and Elphaba in 'Wicked', female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre from the start…
From Maria in 'West Side Story' to Tracy Turnblatt in 'Hairspray' and Elphaba in 'Wicked', female characters in Broadway musicals have belted and crooned their way into the American psyche. In this book, Stacy Wolf illuminates the women of American musical theatre from the start…
The musicals discussed here are among the most beloved in the canon--"West Side S\story," "Cabaret," "A chorus line," "Phantom of the Opera," and many others--with special emphasis on the blockbuster "Wicked." Along the way, Wolf demonstrates how the musical since the mid-1940s …
