The Routledge companion to musical theatre
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The Routledge companion to musical theatre
(Routledge theatre and performance companions)(Routledge companions)
Routledge, 2023
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Gives a truly comprehensive breadth of coverage of every aspect of musical theatre, from its history to how it is produced to how it is experienced. This makes for an ideal primer for any aspect of the subject.
Takes a deliberately global approach, citing at least one non-Western case study in each chapter, in keeping with the global outlook of much contemporary teaching and scholarship.
Musical Theatre is one of the main growth areas in Theatre and Performance, with dedicated conservatories, departments and a core place on all performing arts degrees.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Diane Paulus
Part 1: What
Introduction: On Musicals
San Bao
Musical Theater Mobilities: Around the World in Eighty Years
David Savran
An American in Tokyo? Musical Theatre Dance's Transnational Movements
Ryan Donovan
"How a World Can Seem So Vast": The Craft of Musical Theatre Dramaturgy
Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald
The Singing Voice
Masi Asare
"The Song Is You": Song Types and Genres in Musical Theatre
William A. Everett
Part 2: When
Introduction: Dark Primal Energy, Ancestor Memory, and American Exceptionalism
Andre De Shields with Kenneth J. Cerniglia
From Ballad Opera to Minstrelsy and Back: Social Class, Race, and Gender on the North American Musical Stage
Kristin Moriah
From the 1870s through World War I: The Spectre and Spectacle of the Human Body
Maya Cantu
Boom to Bust: Genre Borders, Color Lines, and Women Stars in the Musical between the World Wars
Todd Decker
World War II and the Cold War: Reflections and Refractions of Ourselves, Then and Now
Dominic McHugh
Since the 1980s: The Global Musical Theatre Ecology
Kelsey Blair
Part 3: Who
Introduction: Who Makes a Musical?
Georgia Stitt
Musical Theatre Training in the Twenty-First Century: A Primer
Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman
"Forget About the Boy": Women and Creative Collaborations in Musical Theatre
Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler
Good Gals Wear Black: Offstage Labor and the Musical
Christine Snyder
Mediated Taste: The Role of Critics
Paul R. Laird
From Stage Door to Cyberspace: The Digital Evolution of Musical Theatre Fandom
Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim
Part 4: How
Introduction: How Musicals Work: A Press Representative's View
Chris Boneau
Fitting the Slipper: The Art of Adaptation for the Musical Stage
William A. Everett
Harnessing Technology: The Evolving Labor of Design in Musical Theatre
Virginia Anderson
Humming the Scenery: The Aesthetics of Musical Theatre Spectacle
Douglas L. Reside
"That's Showbiz, Kid": Casting as Process and Product
Ryan Donovan
The Foundation, Function, and Future of the Musical Theatre Director
Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy
How Dancers and Choreographers Work: The Laboring Bodies of Musical Theatre
Joanna Dee Das
"The Name on Everybody's Lips": Marketing Musical Theatre
Laura MacDonald
A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals
Samuel Yates
Part 5: Where
Introduction: Scenes from a Showbiz Couple's Travelogue
Kim Varhola
Centers of Musical Theatre
Alex Badue, Jennifer C.H.J. Wilson, Laura Milburn, Leesi Patrick, and Sir Anril P. Tiatco
Pilots and Petticoats: Original Musicals in Continental Europe
Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Mikolajczyk
The Broadway-Style Musical in/and Global Asias: 1920-2019
Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka
"One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York": US American Regional Theatres and New Musical Theatre Development
Claudia Wilsch Case
"We're All in This Together": Student and Amateur Performances
Kenneth J. Cerniglia
Mediated Musical Theatre
Sam O'Connell
Part 6: Why
Introduction: Into the Theatre
Yilun (Della) Wu
Journeys to the Past: The Uses of Memory and Nostalgia in Musical Theatre
Bryan M. Vandevender
What's in a Name? The Multiplicities of the Musical
John Koegel
Interrogating America's National Myth Onstage: Case Studies on the Individual and the Community in U.S. Musical Theatre
Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf
Translating Race in Musical Theatre
Ji Hon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Mendez Rios
"Art Isn't Easy" (and Neither is Commerce): The Musical Stays in the Money
Michael Schwartz
"World"-Traveling, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Making of Musicals in the Twenty-First Century
Trevor Boffone
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