Broadway Babies: The People Who Made the American Musical |  | Author: Ethan Mordden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0195054253
Dewey Decimal Number: 782.810973
EAN: 9780195054255
ASIN: 0195054253
Publication Date: June 23, 1988
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Vividly recreating the unique pleasure of experiencing a song-and-dance show, Broadway Babies spotlights the men and women who made a difference in the development of American musical comedy. Mordden's account features such show people as Florenz Ziegfeld, Harold Prince, Bert Lahr, Gwen Verdon, Angela Lansbury, Victor Herbert, Liza Minnelli, and Stephen Sondheim, and such musicals as Sally, Oh Kay!, Anything Goes, Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Follies, Chicago, and countless others.
While theatrical historians traditionally have emphasized the role of the authors of musicals, Mordden also examines the personal styles of the directors, choreographers, and producers, in order to demonstrate not only what the musical became but what it was. The volume includes an extensive discography--the first of its kind--which offers a virtually self-contained history of recorded show music.
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Essential! November 2, 2009
Bruce Balick (Minneapolis)
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If I could only have one book on the American musical this would be it. Mordden goes into much more detail in his decade by decade books on the genre, but his major themes, brash perceptions, and constant wit are laid out with style and precision in this volume, which takes the musical to the time of Sweeney Todd.
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