Rise up! : Broadway and American society from Angels in America to Hamilton /

Penned by one of America's best-known daily theater critics and organized chronologically, this lively and readable book tells the story of Broadway's renaissance from the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster that was Spiderman: Turn off the Dark through the unparalleled finan...

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Main Author: Jones, Chris, 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2019.
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505 0 |a 2016: Prologue -- 1993: An Angel lands -- 1994: The emergent power of the solo voice -- 1996: Fighting urban gentrification and paying Rent -- 1997: The Lion King roars and the family returns to Broadway -- 1999: A short-order cook with a long path to Broadway -- 2001: Grief, metamorphoses, and transformation -- 2002: The pull of Las Vega and the rise of meta -- 2002: Edward Albee, the love of a goat, and the death of off-Broadway -- 2007: A recession thwarted by an ironic blast from Chicago -- 2010: A boulevard of broken dream dreams, awakened -- 2010: Bloody bloody wiki wiki self-awareness -- 2011: Unlucky : Spider-man and the great Broadway overreach -- 2014: A dream, no longer deferred -- 2016: Love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love. 
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