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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Stempel, Larry.     Subjects     Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stempel, Larry.       by title:      Showtime : a history...         MARC Display

Showtime : a history of the Broadway musical theater / Larry Stempel. by Stempel, Larry. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2010. Subjects Musicals -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism. ISBN:  9780393067156 (hardcover) : 9780393929065 (pbk.) 0393067157 (hardcover) 039392906X (pbk.) Description:  xx, 826 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), music ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  Before the curtain -- Out of the nineteenth century, Transition stages. The Astor Place Riot ; Uncle Tom's Cabin, the musical ; The Black Crook ; Variety stages. From minstrelsy to vaudeville ; Harrigan and Hart ; Weber and Fields ; Williams and Walker ; A transatlantic muse. Operetta : the golden age ; Light opera in America ; American light opera -- Into the twentieth century. The native wit. Cohen and Times Square ; Berlin and Tin Pan Alley ; Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern : the Princess Theater ; The cult of romance. Operetta : the silver age ; Romberg and Friml ; Show Boat ; A shadow of vulgarity. Revues : spectacular and intimate ; Musical comedy/musical farce comedy ; Jazz-age "Jazz" ; Broadway songbook. The Gershwins ; Cole Porter ; Rodgers and Hart ; The script angle. A musical play ; Oklahoma! : the musical play ; Literate musical comedy ; Musical theater : the new art. Rodgers and Hammerstein ; Lerner and Loewe ; Harnick and Bock ; Opera, in our own way. Opera on Broadway ; Broadway opera ; West Side Story ; The great American showshop. The Abbott touch ; Harburg's circle ; A Loesser orbit ; Comden and Green-- and Styne -- Toward the new millennium. Away from Broadway. Early alternative musicals ; The Off Broadway renaissance ; Farther "off" and coming back ; The metaphor angle. Cabaret and the concept musical ; Prince, Sondheim & Co. ; Sondheim after Prince ; A dancing place. The ballet-directors : De Mille and Robbins ; The hoofer-directors : Champion and Fosse ; A chorus line and after ; Distancing effects. Rice, Lloyd Webber, and rock opera ; Mackintosh and the megamusical ; Disney and the movical ; Another Broadway-- another show-- Revivals ; Antimusicals ; Sondheim's children. Requests:  0 Summary:  Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself--beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849 to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Nonfiction 792.60974 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 792.60974 St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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