Back Stage Pass: A Survey of American Musical Theater
Edition: 1
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 463
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Back Stage Pass: A Survey of American Musical Theater delivers a comprehensive cover on the development of Theater. From the early years of theater entertainment, to the dawn of a new millennium, this book visits each breakthrough that Broadway theater has acquired in America. Back Stage Pass also follows individuals who have impacted Broadway into what it is recognized for today.
Chapter 1
The World of Musical Theatre:
Introduction, Overview, Theory, and Basics
Chapter 2
Forging the Way:
Musical Theatre Antecedents
Opera, Ballad Opera, Comic Opera, Operetta
W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Melodrama
Minstrelsy
Burlesque, Extravaganza and The Black Crook
Vaudeville
Harrigan and Hart
American Operetta and Victor Herbert
Chapter 3
Early 20th Century:
Musical Theatre Pioneers and Birth of a Genre
George M. Cohan
Florenz Ziegfeld
Bert Williams
Jerome Kern
Oscar Hammerstein II
Dorothy Fields
Actor Spotlights (Anna Held, Fanny Brice)
Chapter 4
The Jazz Age and Great Depression:
Musical Theatre as America’s Songbook
George and Ira Gershwin
Irving Berlin
Cole Porter
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Actor Spotlights (Al Jolson, Ethel Waters)
Chapter 5
Midcentury America:
The Golden Age of American Musical Theatre
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Agnes de Mille
Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
George Abbott
Jerome Robbins
Leonard Bernstein
Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Frank Loesser
Jule Styne
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
Actor Spotlights (Ethel Merman, Alfred Drake, Mary Martin)
Chapter 6
Swinging ’60s to the Early ’90s:
Rethinking and Revolutionizing Musical Theatre
John Kander and Fred Ebb
Bob Fosse
Michael Bennett
Galt MacDermot, James Rado, and Jerome Ragni
Jerry Herman
Cy Coleman
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Stephen Sondheim
Actor Spotlights (Angela Lansbury, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters)
Chapter 7
The Dawn of a New Millennium
and the Current State of American Musical Theatre
Contemporary Sung-Through (Opera) and Operetta Musical
Nonlinear or Concept Musical
Reflexive Musical
Integrated Book Musical
Revival and “Revisal”
Screen-to-Stage Musical
Rock/Pop Rock Musical
Jukebox Musical
Contemporary Choreographer/Directors and the Dansical
Racial/Ethnic Diversity and the Contemporary Musical
Producers and the Current Broadway Market