American Musicals: The Complete Books and Lyrics of Eight Broadway Classics 1927 -1949 (LOA #253)
Show Boat / As Thousands Cheer / Pal Joey / Oklahoma! / On the Town / Finian's Rainbow / Kiss Me, Kate / South Pacific
The Broadway musical is one of America's great indigenous popular forms, a glorious hybrid that emerged out of our speech, our tempo, our moral attitudes, our way of moving (as Leonard Bernstein put it). Now, in this first volume of a landmark two-volume collection, The Library of America presents eight enduring masterpieces charting the Broadway musical's narrative tradition from the groundbreaking Show Boat (1927) through the start of the genre's Golden Age in 1949. Based on new research, this historic collection presents the complete libretto of each musical in its Broadway opening night version, making these beloved stories available as n…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59853-258-6
- EAN: 9781598532586
- Produktnummer: 15524211
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 800 S.
- Masse: H20.9 cm x B13.4 cm x D3.5 cm 654 g
- Gewicht: 654
Über den Autor
Laurence Maslon is an arts professor in the Graduate Acting Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The author or editor of several books about musical theater, including The South Pacific Companion, he co-wrote two episodes of the Emmy-winning Broadway: The American Musical with Michael Kantor, as well as the companion volume. He also wrote the acclaimed American Masters/Thirteen documentary Richard Rodgers: The Sweetest Sounds. He lives in New York.
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