Broadway musicals a hundred year history

• Main Author: Lewis, David H. 1940- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Jefferson McFarland 2002
• Subjects: Musicals > History and criticism > United States
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This is a survey of Broadway musicals all through the 20th century, from the Tin Pan Alley-driven comedy works of the early part of the century, to the integrated musical plays that flourished in the heyday years of midcentury, and to the rock era, concept musicals, and the arrival of British playwr...

Table of Contents:

• Songs in revolt
• Misery?s coming around
• Lyrical courage
• On to the Hit Parade
• Cockeyed optimists
• Fie on goodness!
• The age of Abbott
• Your own thang
• The roads he didn?t take
• What they did for love
• Muddy concepts
• Sir Musical
• A helicopter lands
• Desperate openings
• Revival roulette
• Cirque du Disney
• Long ago and far ahead.