Research Catalog

Title

American musical theatre : a chronicle / Gerald Bordman.

Author

Bordman, Gerald Martin

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.

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Details

Description

viii, 749 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

Covers every musical that has appeared on Broadway, including importations and revivals, plus major musicals produced for other large U.S. cities. Includes synopsis of plot, biographies of actors, songwriters, librettists, and producers, and some examples of lyrics and dialogue.

Subjects

• Musicals
• Comédies musicales
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Geschichte 1866-1978
• Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
• Musicals > United States > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Musicals
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Comédies musicales.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Origins to 1866 -- 2. Act one: early successes -- Scene one: Opera Bouffe and native elements, 1866-1878 -- Scene two: H.M.S. Pinafore and the great transformation, 1878-1892 -- 3. Intermission: further British influences and new stirrings, 1892-1902 -- 4. Act two: the emergence of American talent, 1902-1907 -- 5. Intermission: Viennese operetta and the American retreat, 1907-1914 -- 6. Act three: the birth of the modern musical, 1914-1921 -- 7. Intermission: the Cinderella era, 1921-1924 -- 8. Act four: the golden age of the American musical, 1924-1937 -- Scene one: songwriters' shows as pure entertainment, 1924-1929 -- Scene two: depression and "talkies": Broadway's answer, 1929-1937 -- 9. Intermission: Broadway's response to the swing era -- 10. Act five: the American musical as a conscious art form -- Scene one: Americana amid a new seriousness, 1942-1951 -- Scene two: increasing problems: lowering standards, 1951-1965 -- 11. Intermission: exhaustion, 1965-1969 -- 12. Act six: full circle?; or, return of the Brits -- Scene one: startlingly new, delightfully old, 1969-1981 -- Scene two: a musical trade imbalance, 1981-1990.

ISBN

0195023560

LCCN

^^^77018748^/MN/r902

OCLC

3543506

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library