Broadway bodies : a critical history of conformity /

Broadway Bodies offers a new telling of Broadway history, exploring how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. Author Ryan Donovan unpacks Broadway's inclusion of various forms of embodied difference while exposing its simultaneous am...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Donovan, Ryan (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Musicals > Casting. Musicals > Auditions. Physical-appearance-based bias. Musicals > Political aspects. Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century. Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History > 21st century. Musicals > New York (State) > New York > 20th century > History and criticism. Musicals > New York (State) > New York > 21st century > History and criticism. Comédies musicales > Auditions. Discrimination fondée sur l'apparence physique. Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire > 20e siècle. Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire > 21e siècle. History & Criticism. MUSIC. PERFORMING ARTS. Acting & Auditioning. Musicals > Casting Musicals Musicals > Auditions Physical-appearance-based bias New York (State) > New York New York (State) > New York > Broadway Theatre studies. Performing Arts. 1900-2099 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History
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Table of Contents:

Cover Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Companion Website
Introduction: The Broadway Body
1. "I Saw What They Were Hiring": Casting and Recasting A Chorus Line
2. Dreamgirls, Size, and the Body Politics of Padding
3. "Must Be Heavyset": Casting Fat Women in Broadway Musicals
4. La Cage aux Folles and Playing Gay
5. "Keeping It Gay" on The Great White Way
6. Deaf West's Awakening of Broadway
7. Musicals, Physical Difference, and Disability
Epilogue: Recasting Broadway
Notes
Bibliography
Index