Millie Taylor challenges existing thinking on musical theatre. She suggests that 'integration', created through the signification of 'realism' and attributed particularly to the book musical, is simply a construction.
In Musical Theatre, Realism and Entertainment, Millie Taylor explores the ways in which musical theatre reaches out to and involves its audiences. Taylor investigates how pleasure is stimulated by vocal, musical and spectacular performances.
"The Stage Works of Philip Glass discusses Glass's stage works from 1976 up to the present day, with chapters established according to different criteria. Three introductory chapters address the validity versus invalidity of terms such as minimalism, post-minimalism, postmoderni…
Western music reached China nearly four centuries ago, with the arrival of Christian missionaries, yet only within the last century has Chinese music absorbed its influence. The emergence of "Westernized" music from China -concurrent with the technological advances that have mad…
"Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson …
"Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre ... dominated by women ... achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian W…
"Emerging in the 1850s, elocutionists recited poetry or drama with music to create a new type of performance. The genre--dominated by women--achieved remarkable popularity. Yet the elocutionists and their art fell into total obscurity during the twentieth century. Marian Wilson …
The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers