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  title info:
    title: Showtime
    sub title: a history of the Broadway musical theater
  title info:
    title: Show time
  name:
    name part: Stempel, Larry.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 826 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Showtime brings the history of Broadway musicals to life in a narrative as engaging as the subject itself--beginning with the scandalous Astor Place Opera House riot of 1849 to such groundbreaking works as Company and Rent.
  table of contents: Before the curtain -- Out of the nineteenth century, Transition stages. The Astor Place Riot ; Uncle Tom's Cabin, the musical ; The Black Crook ; Variety stages. From minstrelsy to vaudeville ; Harrigan and Hart ; Weber and Fields ; Williams and Walker ; A transatlantic muse. Operetta : the golden age ; Light opera in America ; American light opera -- Into the twentieth century. The native wit. Cohen and Times Square ; Berlin and Tin Pan Alley ; Bolton-Wodehouse-Kern : the Princess Theater ; The cult of romance. Operetta : the silver age ; Romberg and Friml ; Show Boat ; A shadow of vulgarity. Revues : spectacular and intimate ; Musical comedy/musical farce comedy ; Jazz-age "Jazz" ; Broadway songbook. The Gershwins ; Cole Porter ; Rodgers and Hart ; The script angle. A musical play ; Oklahoma! : the musical play ; Literate musical comedy ; Musical theater : the new art. Rodgers and Hammerstein ; Lerner and Loewe ; Harnick and Bock ; Opera, in our own way. Opera on Broadway ; Broadway opera ; West Side Story ; The great American showshop. The Abbott touch ; Harburg's circle ; A Loesser orbit ; Comden and Green-- and Styne -- Toward the new millennium. Away from Broadway. Early alternative musicals ; The Off Broadway renaissance ; Farther "off" and coming back ; The metaphor angle. Cabaret and the concept musical ; Prince, Sondheim & Co. ; Sondheim after Prince ; A dancing place. The ballet-directors : De Mille and Robbins ; The hoofer-directors : Champion and Fosse ; A chorus line and after ; Distancing effects. Rice, Lloyd Webber, and rock opera ; Mackintosh and the megamusical ; Disney and the movical ; Another Broadway-- another show-- Revivals ; Antimusicals ; Sondheim's children.
  note: Larry Stempel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-782), discography (pages 783-785), and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Musicals
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: ML1711.8.N3 S73 2010
  classification: 792.609747/1
  identifier: 9780393067156 (hardcover) :
  identifier: 9780393929065 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0393067157 (hardcover)
  identifier: 039392906X (pbk.)
  identifier: 2010019704
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100510
    record change date: 20151202112843.0
    record identifier: in00002645053