The world of musical comedy : the story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists
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The world of musical comedy : the story of the American musical stage as told through the careers of its foremost composers and lyricists
（A Da Capo paperback）
Da Capo Press, [1984] c1980
4th ed., rev. and enl
- : pbk
Available at 14 libraries
Note
Reprint. Originally published: San Diego : A.S. Barnes, 1980
1st pbk printing in 1985, 2nd pbk printing in 1986 -- T.p. verso
"Supplemented with author corrections" -- T.p. verso
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Acclaimed through three editions for its uniquely informative and entertaining style, this fourth edition of Stanley Green's World of Musical Comedy updates and enlarges the theatrical scope to include such recent shows as A Chorus Line, Barnum, They're Playing Our Song , and Annie . In a format that provides biographies of all the leading figures in the musical's development, Stanley Green manages to convey the spirit of the Broadway stage, its musical make-believe, and yet remain objective about the creative swings in its history and the careers of its individual creators. Everyone is here: Victor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman, Marvin Hamlisch, and many others,not in a quick run-through but in vivid detail accompanied by pertinent interviews and photographs.This latest edition contains an expanded appendix that lists the casts, credits, songs, and recordings of every Broadway musical written by these illustrious and industrious composers and librettists. As always in a Stanley Green book, the research is exhaustive and impeccable, the presentation enjoyable, the judgments fair. From America's foremost theatre historian, here is another edition of a classic theatre chronicle.
Table of Contents
- * Foreword by Deems Taylor * Prologue * Victor Herbert * George M. Cohan * Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach * Sigmund Romberg * Jerome Kern * Irving Berlin * George and Ira Gershwin * Vincent Youmans * Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart * B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson * Cole Porter * Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields * E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane * Harold Rome * Kurt Weill * Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II * Leonard Bernstein * Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe * Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green * Frank Loesser, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Meredith Wilson * Bob Merrill * Stephen Sondheim * Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick * Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Martin Charnin * Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, Michael Stewart * Jerry Herman * John Kander and Fred Ebb * Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
- Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion
- Galt Mac Dermot
- Burt Bacharach and Hal David * Sherman Edwards
- Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford
- Gary Geld and Peter Udell
- Stephen Schwartz * Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
- Charlie Smalls
- Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, Carole Bayer Sager
- Elizabeth Swados
- Carol Hall
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