Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to SondheimOxford University Press, 2004 - 410 páginas The classic musicals of Broadway can provide us with truly enchanted evenings. But while many of us can hum the music and even recount the plot from memory, we are often much less knowledgeable about how these great shows were put together. Now, in Enchanted Evenings, Geoffrey Block offers theatre lovers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of the best loved, most admired, and most enduring musicals of Broadway's Golden Era. In this documentary history, we find insightful studies of fourteen musicals in all including such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Anything Goes, Porgy and Bess, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story. The book's particular focus is on the music, showing how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block sheds light on why particular musicals have adapted to changing times and are still performed in high schools, colleges, and community theaters across the country, while others languish in comparative obscurity. Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, this book is an essential reference as well as a riveting history. |
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... American Theatre , 2d . ed . Copyright © 1992 by Oxford University Press , Inc. Reprinted by permission . The Cradle Will Rock , Lady in the Dark , and One Touch of Venus were written by the author especially for this book . On Your ...
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... Foul Well " 85 6. The Cradle Will Rock : A Labor Musical for Art's Sake 115 7. Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus : The Broadway Stranger and His American Dreams 133 Act II : The Broadway Musical After Oklahoma ! 8. ix.
... Foul Well " 85 6. The Cradle Will Rock : A Labor Musical for Art's Sake 115 7. Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus : The Broadway Stranger and His American Dreams 133 Act II : The Broadway Musical After Oklahoma ! 8. ix.
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Contenido
I | xiii |
II | 3 |
III | 17 |
IV | 19 |
V | 41 |
VI | 60 |
VII | 85 |
VIII | 115 |
XII | 157 |
XIV | 159 |
XV | 179 |
XVI | 197 |
XVIII | 225 |
XIX | 245 |
XX | 274 |
IX | 133 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim Geoffrey Holden Block Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim Geoffrey Holden Block Sin vista previa disponible - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
American Musical artistic Atkinson audiences ballet Bernstein Billy Blitzstein Broadway musical Buzzard Song Carousel cast Catfish Row character chorus collaboration composer conductor contrast Cradle Will Rock dance dialogue dramatic Dream duet Eliza Example Fair Lady film final Follies Frank George Girls Goes Guys and Dolls Happy Fella Heyward Higgins Higgins's Ibid integrated Julie Junior Kate Kern Kiss Kreuger Kurt Weill later Lerner and Loewe libretto Liza Loesser Magnolia major Maria melodic Mister motive musical comedy Musical Theater Night notes Oklahoma opening opera orchestral original Pal Joey performances piano play popular Porgy and Bess Porgy's Porter production Published libretto Published vocal score Ravenal Ravenal's rehearsals Reno reprise revival rhythm rhythmic Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers and Hart Rosabella Scene Shaw's Show Boat sing Somewhere Sondheim stage sung theme There's Toes Tony Touch of Venus triplets tryouts typescript waltz West Side Story wrote York Theatre Critics