Milestones in Musical Theatre (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lodge, Mary Jo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Milestones in Musical Theatre tracks ten of the most significant moments in musical theatre history, from some of its earliest incarnations, especially those crafted by Black creators, to its rise as a global phenomenon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000896268
• Artikelnr.: 68109300

Autorenporträt

Mary Jo Lodge is Professor of Theater at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, the current Producing Artistic Director for the Lafayette Theater Department and an active director/choreographer and musical theatre scholar.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Setting the stage for musical theatre milestones
Mary Jo Lodge
1. Early successful shows on Broadway by Black creators and the movement
away from minstrel stereotypes
Eric M. Glover
2. The musical goes legit: From H.M.S. Pinafore to South Pacific
Paul R. Laird
3. "An Ally in the Fight": The civic engagement of activist musicals
Virginia Anderson
4. The ascension of the director of the Broadway musical
Mary Jo Lodge
5. "To being an us for once, instead of a them": Musical theatre aesthetics
and youth-oriented musicals
Barrie Gelles
6. Megahits and megamusicals: Achieving worldwide success with shows that
(seem to) run forever
Raymond Knapp and Holley Roplogle-Wong
7. Global musical hits beyond American shores
Olaf Jubin
8. From the West Side to Washington Heights: Transforming Latinx
representation in American musical theatre
Colleen Rua
9. My Fair Lady in Japan: The dawn of the East Asian musical theatre boom
Rina Tanaka
10. Women in charge: Female creative teams and Waitress
Paige Allen and Stacy Wolf