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All that jazz : the life and times of the musical Chicago /

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In 1975, the Broadway musical Chicago brought together a host of memes and myths, the gleefully subversive character of American musical comedy, the reckless glamour of the big-city newspaper, the mad decade of the 1920s, the work of Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon (two of the greatest talents in the musi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mordden, Ethan, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Kander, John. > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Drama > History and criticism.
Musicals > United States > History and criticism.
Musical films > United States > History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Broadway & Musicals.
PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • The city: unregulated capitalism
  • The era: "Be nonchalant ... light a Murad"
  • The play: "Like hell you're through!"
  • The first movie: Amos is the hero
  • The invention of the satiric musical: How can you tell an American?
  • The second movie: "I'm going to make a character man of you if you don't behave yourself"
  • Fosse & Verdon and Kander & Ebb: "You have to act your dancing"
  • The musical: "No show is worth dying for"
  • The revival and the third movie: "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit!"