"The Broadway Song is a practical and comprehensive guide to the formal characteristics of key Broadway songs on a song-by-song basis, including main voice type, secondary voice qualities, range, and tessitura, as was as larger contextual information about the musical and the ch…
This second edition offers theater lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best musicals. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the eighteen musicals he discusses. He reveals how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, …
The 1950s saw an explosion in the American musical theater. The Broadway show, catapulted into the limelight in the 1920s and solidified during the 1940s thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein, now entered its most revolutionary phase, brashly redefining itself and forging a new kind…
"New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers, and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals this is the first single-vo…
"New York City's Broadway district is by far the most prestigious and lucrative venue for American performers, playwrights, entertainers, and technicians. While there are many reference works and critical studies of selected Broadway plays or musicals this is the first single-vo…
"Unlike today, Broadway's influence reached out beyond its confines to influence culture throughout the fifty states. If you were a sophisticate (or wanted to be one), you knew what was happening on Broadway." "Ethan Mordden re-creates this lost world as only he can, telling us …
Focuses on successful productions and notable flops that highlight the difficulties in adapting the Old and New Testaments for the stage, requiring a balance of religious and commercial considerations through a blend of spectacle, authenticity, sincerity, and irony.--
Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals, ranging from early spectacles like Ben-Hur (1899) to more familiar works such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. What happens when a culture's most sacred text enters its most commercial performance ven…
The author of this title explores classics from Broadway's golden musical age, looking at "Brigadoon", "Annie, Get Your Gun", and "South Pacific" amongst others.
Discusses 1940's musicals, including "Oklahoma," "Carousel," "Pal Joey," "On the Town," "Annie Get Your Gun," "Finian's Rainbow," "Brigadoon," "Kiss Me, Kate," and "South Pacific."
Mordden continues his history of the Broadway musical with a look at the decade that brought us some of the greatest hits of our time, such as Chorus Line and Annie, as well as the greatest musicals in the ouevre of Stephen Sondheim.
