Directors and the New Musical Drama
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Directors and the New Musical Drama

British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s

  1. 234 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Directors and the New Musical Drama

British and American Musical Theatre in the 1980s and 90s

About this book

This is one of the first books to offer a rigorous analysis of the enormous changes in the musical theatre during the 1980s and 90s.  In addition, it focuses on the contribution of well-known, serious theatre directors to the mainstream Musical Theatre and it is the first book to offer a dual Anglo-American perspective on this subject.

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Year
2008
Print ISBN
9780230601291
eBook ISBN
9780230611245

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Anglo-American Perspectives
  9. 1. Harold Prince in Context
  10. 2. From Cabaret to Sweeney Todd: Musical Drama on Broadway
  11. 3. Cultural Barricades: Readingthe West End Musicals
  12. 4. Beyond the Logos: West End Musical Drama
  13. 5. New Horizons: Nonprofit Musical Drama
  14. 6. Nonprofit Directors in the 1990s
  15. 7. Rethinking Revivals
  16. 8. Staging the Canon: British Directors and Classic American Musicals
  17. 9. The Legacy of the 1980s and 90s
  18. Interviews
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index

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