Musical! :

Flinn, Denny Martin.

Musical! : a grand tour : the rise, glory, and fall of an American institution / Denny Martin Flinn. - New York : London : Schirmer Books ; Prentice Hall International, c1997. - xv, 556 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Antiquities -- The dark ages -- The renaissance -- The Beggar's opera -- Comic operas -- The Black crook -- Operettas -- Revues -- George M. Cohan -- The Princess musicals -- Show boat -- Porgy and Bess -- Agnes De Mille and Oklahoma! -- Jerome Robbins and West side story -- Michael Bennett and A Chorus line -- Directors and choreographers -- The black musical -- The rock musical -- The English musical -- The off-Broadway musical -- Classics, major and minor -- Bookwriters -- Lyrics -- Music -- Decline and fall -- Into the woods -- Finale ultimo -- Appendix : Broadway on film.

002864610X (alk. paper)

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Musicals--History and criticism.--United States

ML1711 / .F57 1997