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Author Kenrick, John.

Title Musical theatre : a history / John Kenrick.

Imprint New York : Continuum, 2008.

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  782.14 KEN    Check Shelf
Description 408 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index.
Contents Ancient times to 1850 : "Playgoers, I bid you welcome!" -- Continental operetta (1840-1900) : "Typical of France" -- American explorations (1624-1880) : "The music of something beginning" -- Gilbert & Sullivan (1880-1900) : "Object all sublime" -- The birth of musical comedy (1880-1899) : "It belong'd to my father before I was born" -- A new century (1900-1913) : "Whisper of how I'm yearning" -- American ascendance (1914-1919) : "In a class beyond compare" -- Al Jolson : "The world's greatest entertainer" -- The jazz age (1920-1929) : "I want to be happy" -- Depression era miracles (1930-1940) : "Trouble's just a bubble" -- A new beginning (1940-1950) : "They couldn't pick a better time" -- Broadway takes stage (1950-1963) : "The street where you live" -- Rock rolls in (1960-1970) : "Soon it's gonna rain" -- New directions (1970-1979) : "Vary my days" -- Spectacles and boardrooms : "As if we never said goodbye" -- Musical comedy returns (the 2000s) : "Where did we go right?"
Summary "Like every art form, musical theatre has been changing and evolving since its inception more than 2000 years ago. Musical Theatre: A History presents a history of stage musicals from the earliest accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, for whom songs were common elements in staging, to Jacques Offenbach in Paris during the 1840s, to Gilbert and Sullivan in England, to the rise of music halls and vaudeville traditions in America, and eventually to "Broadway's Golden Age" with George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber."--Jacket.
Subject Musicals -- History and criticism.
Musicals. (OCoLC)fst01030814
Musical (DE-588)4040801-2
Musicals.
Chronological Term Geschichte
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Online version: Kenrick, John. Musical theatre : a history. New York : Continuum, 2008 (OCoLC)639786119
ISBN 9780826428608 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0826428606 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
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