Acclaimed through three editions for its uniquely informative and entertaining style, this fourth edition of Stanley Green’s World of Musical Comedy updates and enlarges the theatrical scope to include such recent shows as A Chorus Line, Barnum, They’re Playing Our Song, and Annie. In a format that provides biographies of all the leading figures in the musical’s development, Stanley Green manages to convey the spirit of the Broadway stage, its musical make-believe, and yet remain objective about the creative swings in its history and the careers of its individual creators. Everyone is here: Victor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman, Marvin Hamlisch, and many others—not in a quick run-through but in vivid detail accompanied by pertinent interviews and photographs.This latest edition contains an expanded appendix that lists the casts, credits, songs, and recordings of every Broadway musical written by these illustrious and industrious composers and librettists. As always in a Stanley Green book, the research is exhaustive and impeccable, the presentation enjoyable, the judgments fair. From America’s foremost theater historian, here is another edition of a classic theater chronicle.
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Stanley Green, a lecturer, radio commentator, magazine writer, and editor, has authored Starring Fred Astaire, The World of Musical Comedy, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story, and Ring Bells! Sing Songs!:Broadway Musicals in the 1930's.
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ALTHOUGH THERE WERE many earlier examples of dramas interspersed with music and dancing, The Black Crook, in 1866, was the first truly successful venture in America to combine the two forms of entertainment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
principal songs, first song hit, musical opened, musical theatre, first act finale, musical stage, rehearsal pianist, additional songs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Victor Herbert, Ethel Merman, Culver Pictures, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, Frank Loesser, United States, George Abbott, Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, World War, Harold Prince, Show Boat, Arthur Schwartz, Public Library, Sigmund Romberg, Harold Arlen, Lorenz Hart, Walter Kerr New!
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ALTHOUGH THERE WERE many earlier examples of dramas interspersed with music and dancing, The Black Crook, in 1866, was the first truly successful venture in America to combine the two forms of entertainment. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
principal songs, first song hit, musical opened, musical theatre, first act finale, musical stage, rehearsal pianist, additional songs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Oscar Hammerstein, Victor Herbert, Ethel Merman, Culver Pictures, George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, Jule Styne, Frank Loesser, United States, George Abbott, Richard Rodgers, Kurt Weill, World War, Harold Prince, Show Boat, Arthur Schwartz, Public Library, Sigmund Romberg, Harold Arlen, Lorenz Hart, Walter Kerr New!
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