Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from "Show Boat" to Sondheim - Hardcover

Block, Geoffrey Holden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195107918 ISBN 13: 9780195107913

Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 1997

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The classic musicals of Broadway can provide enchanted evenings, but while many 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. What was the inspiration for Rodgers and Hart's "Pal Joey", or Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel"? Why is Maria's impassioned final speech in "West Side Story" spoken, rather than sung? In this volume, the author offers theatre lovers a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the best loved, most admired and most enduring musicals of Broadway's golden era. Readers will find studies of such favourites as "Show Boat", "Anything Goes", "Porgy and Bess", "Carousel", "Kiss Me, Kate", "Guys and Dolls", "The Most Happy Fella", "My Fair Lady", and "West Side Story". Block provides a documentary history of 14 musicals in all - plus an epilogue exploring the plays of Stephen Sondheim - showing how each work took shape and revealing, production by production, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to the early 1960s and beyond.

Biografía del autor:

About the Author: Geoffrey Block is Professor of Music at the University of Puget Sound School of Music, in Tacoma, Washington. He has published widely on the Broadway musical and is also the author of three books on Charles Ives.

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• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0195107918
• ISBN 13: 9780195107913
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 431