Enchanted Evenings : The Broadway Musical from 'Show Boat' to Sondheim and Lloyd Webber.
Geoffrey. Block
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (615 pages)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the First Edition -- A New Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Using the Enchanted Evenings Website www.oup.com/us/enchantedevenings -- Overture -- 1. Introduction: Setting the Stage -- Act I: Before Rodgers and Hammerstein -- 2. Show Boat: In the Beginning -- 3. Anything Goes: Songs Ten, Book Three -- 4. Porgy and Bess: Broadway Opera -- 5. On Your Toes and Pal Joey: Dance Gets into the Act and "Sweet Water from a Foul Well" -- 6. The Cradle Will Rock: A Labor Musical for Art's Sake -- 7. Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus: The Broadway Stranger and His American Dreams -- 8. Stage versus Screen (1): Before Rodgers and Hammerstein -- Act II: The Broadway Musical after Oklahoma! -- 9. Carousel: The Invasion of the Integrated Musical -- 10. Kiss Me, Kate: The Taming of Cole Porter -- 11. Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella: The Greater Loesser -- 12. My Fair Lady: From Pygmalion to Cinderella -- 13. West Side Story: The Very Model of a Major Musical -- 14. Stage versus Screen (2): After Oklahoma! -- Epilogue: The Age of Sondheim and Lloyd Webber -- 15. Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Sunday in the Park with George: Happily Ever After West Side Story with Sondheim -- 16. The Phantom of the Opera: The Reigning Champion of Broadway -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Available online at www.oup.com/us/enchantedevenings -- Synopses -- Discography and Filmography: Selected Original, Revival, Film, and Studio Casts -- Appendix A: Sources, Published Librettos, and Vocal Scores -- Appendix B: Long Runs: Decade by Decade 1920s-2000s -- Appendix C: The Forty Longest-Running Musicals on Broadway 1920-1959 and 1920-2008 -- Appendix D: Show Boat: 1927-1994 -- Broadway 1927.. - Principal Changes in Selected Stage Productions and Films (1928-1994) -- Manuscript Sources for Ravenal's Entrance and Meeting with Magnolia -- Appendix E: Anything Goes: 1934, 1962, and 1987 -- Broadway 1934 -- Off-Broadway Revival 1962 -- Vivian Beaumont Revival 1987 -- Appendix F: Porgy and Bess: Songs, Arias, and Themes (1935) -- Appendix G: On Your Toes: Broadway 1936 and Broadway Revival 1983 -- Appendix H: Pal Joey: Broadway 1940 and Broadway Revival 1952 -- Appendix I: The Cradle Will Rock (1937) -- Appendix J: Lady in the Dark (1941) -- Appendix K: One Touch of Venus (1943) -- Appendix L: Carousel (1945) -- Appendix M: Kiss Me, Kate (1948) -- Spewack Libretto Draft (May 28, 1948) -- Appendix N: Guys and Dolls (1950) -- Appendix O: The Most Happy Fella (1956) -- Appendix P: My Fair Lady (1956) -- Appendix Q: West Side Story (1957) -- Libretto Drafts 1 (January 1956) and 2 (Spring 1956) -- Appendix R: Follies: Broadway 1971 and London Revival 1987 -- Broadway 1971 -- London Revival 1987 -- Appendix S: Sweeney Todd (1979) -- Thematic Reminiscences in Sweeney Todd Final Sequence Beginning with "City of Fire!" -- Appendix T: Sunday in the Park with George (1984) -- Appendix U: The Phantom of the Opera (1988) -- Outline of The Phantom of the Opera, Act I, Scenes 5 and 6 -- Outline of The Phantom of the Opera, Act II, Scene 7 -- Notes.. - The second edition of Enchanted Evenings offers an illuminating behind-the-scenes tour of some of America's best loved musicals. Focusing in particular on the music, Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing at the same time how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The volume includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text.
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