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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jones, Chris, 1963- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Methuen Drama, 2019.
Subjects:	Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 21st century. Theater and society > United States > History > 20th century. Theater and society > United States > History > 21st century. Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century. Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

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.