Broadway Musical Revue category: 202 books
Broadway to Main Street
How Show Tunes Enchanted America
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
The music of Broadway is one of America's most unique and popular calling cards. In Broadway to Main Street: How Show Tunes Enchanted America, author Laurence Maslontells the story of how the most beloved songs of the American Musical Theater made their way from the Theater District to living rooms...
by Dan Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Despite the stock market crash of October 1929, thousands of theatregoers still flocked to the Great White Way throughout the country’s darkest years. In keeping with the Depression and the events leading up to World War II, 1930s Broadway was distinguished by numerous political revues and musicals,...
Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks
A Very Opinionated History of the Broadway Musicals That Did Not Win the Tony Award
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
"Wait..Gypsy didn't win the Tony for Best Musical?"
That's a question that gets asked over and over again, every time a new Rose takes to the runway in the Broadway classic "Gypsy". In "Strippers, Showgirls and Sharks", the popular syndicated theatre critic Peter...
by Dan Dietz
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
For Broadway audiences of the 1980s, the decade was perhaps most notable for the so-called “British invasion.” While concept musicals such as Nine and Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George continued to be produced, several London hits came to New York. In addition to shows like Chess,...
The Secret Life of the American Musical
How Broadway Shows Are Built
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losing their minds in an insatiable love affair with the American musical. It often begins in childhood in a darkened theater, grows into something more serious for high school actors, and reaches...
The Great White Way
Race and the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Broadway musicals are one of America’s most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation?
The Great White Way is the first book...
Singing and Dancing to The Book of Mormon
Critical Essays on the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
One of the most successful shows in Broadway history, The Book of Mormon broke box office records when it debuted in 2011 and received nine Tony awards, including Best Musical. A collaboration between Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of the show South Park) and Robert Lopez (Avenue Q), the show...
Hamilton
The Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A backstage pass to the groundbreaking, hit musical Hamilton, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Eleven Tony Awards, including Best Musical, including the award-winning libretto, behind-the-scenes photos and interviews, and exclusive footnotes from composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Lin-Manuel...
One More Kiss
The Broadway Musical in the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Ethan Mordden's new entry in his history of the Broadway musical looks at an era that brought us not only the gritty reality of "A Chorus Line" and the brilliantly bittersweet works of Stephen Sondheim, but also the nostalgic crowd-pleasers "No, No, Nanette" and "Annie."...
So, You're the New Musical Director!
An Introduction to Conducting a Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2002
So, You're the New Musical Director! is aimed at the person who has music training but little or no experience with musical theatre, the high school choral director with a degree in music education, or the actor participating in community theatre productions. It details the duties involved in directing...
Open a New Window
The Broadway Musical in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
In the 1960s, the Broadway musical was revolutionized from an entertainment characterized by sentimental standards, such as Camelot and Hello, Dolly!, to one of brilliant and bittersweet masterpieces, such as Cabaret and Fiddler on the Roof. In Open a New Window, Ethan Mordden continues his history...
The Happiest Corpse I've Ever Seen
The Last Twenty-Five Years of the Broadway Musical
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
For Ethan Mordden, the closing night of the hit musical, 42nd St. sounded the death knell of the art form of the Broadway musical. After that, big orchestras, real voices, recognizable books and intelligent lyrics went out the window in favor of cats, helicopters, yodeling Frenchmen, and the roof...
To Broadway, To Life!
The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2010
To Broadway, To Life! The Musical Theater of Bock and Harnick is the first complete book about these creative figures, one of Broadway's most important songwriting teams. The book draws from personal interviews with Bock and Harnick themselves to offer an in-depth exploration their shows, including...
The Broadway Song Companion
An Annotated Guide to Musical Theatre Literature by Voice Type and Song Style
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
The Broadway Song Companion is the first complete guide and access point to the vast literature of the Broadway musical for the solo performer. Designed with the working actor in mind, the volume lists every song from over 210 Broadway shows, giving the name of the character(s) who sing(s) the song,...