The Musicals of Cole Porter
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The Musicals of Cole Porter

Broadway, Hollywood, Television

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The Musicals of Cole Porter

Broadway, Hollywood, Television

About this book

Cole Porter (1891–1964) remains one of America's most popular composer-songwriters, known for the many urbane, witty, romantic songs he wrote for stage musicals and Hollywood films. Porter was unique among his contemporaries for writing both the music and lyrics for his compositions. To this day, several of his numbers—"Night and Day," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "You're the Top," and "I Get a Kick Out of You," to name a few—endure as standards.

In The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television, Bernard F. Dick presents a critical study of Porter's Broadway and movie musicals, and his one foray into live television, Aladdin—covering the period from his first failure, See America First (1916), to the moderately successful Silk Stockings (1955), which ended his Broadway career. Taking a chronological approach, interspersed with chapters on Porter's "list songs" that owe much to such operas as Mozart's Don Giovanni and Rossini's The Barber of Seville; his love songs, often bittersweet and bleakly poignant; and, above all, his love of figurative language, Dick discusses in detail the various literary sources and cultural reference points that inspired the lyrics to Porter's numbers. The first volume of its kind exclusively dedicated to exploring the extensive body of work by this influential twentieth-century songwriter, The Musicals of Cole Porter is a compelling resource for readers interested in the craft of a great composer-lyricist.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter 1: Following His Fancy: See America First, Hitchy-Koo of 1919, Greenwich Village Follies, and Paris
  8. Chapter 2: The List Song: Wake Up and Dream, Fifty Million Frenchmen, and The New Yorkers
  9. Chapter 3: Ça c’est l’amour: The Cole Porter Love Song
  10. Chapter 4: La vie est gai: Gay Divorce
  11. Chapter 5: An Errant Nymph and an Ex-Evangelist: Nymph Errant and Anything Goes
  12. Chapter 6: A Cole Porter Primer: Prosody and Figurative Language
  13. Chapter 7: Strange Bedfellows: Cole Porter and Moss Hart’s Jubilee
  14. Chapter 8: Triple Threat: Ethel Merman, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope in Red, Hot and Blue
  15. Chapter 9: 1938, A Year to Remember—You Never Know and Leave It to Me
  16. Chapter 10: Porter’s Bawdy: Du Barry Was a Lady
  17. Chapter 11: The War Years: Panama Hattie, Let’s Face It!, Something for the Boys, and Mexican Hayride
  18. Chapter 12: Strange Interludes: Seven Lively Arts and Around the World
  19. Chapter 13: Journey’s End: Kiss Me, Kate
  20. Chapter 14: Regards to Broadway: Out of This World, Can-Can, and Silk Stockings
  21. Chapter 15: Porter in Hollywood
  22. Chapter 16: A Less-Than-Grand- Finale: Aladdin
  23. Epilogue
  24. The Musicals of Cole Porter (1891–1964)
  25. Notes
  26. Index
  27. About the Author