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From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd
Musical Comedy in America
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From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd
ByCecil A. Smith, Glenn Litton
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1987
eBook Published 7 January 1987
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
Pages 400
eBook ISBN 9780203063507
Subjects Arts
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Smith, C.A., & Litton, G. (1987). Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203063507
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First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
PART ONE 1864–1907
chapter I|5 pages
Before The Black Crook
chapter II|6 pages
The Black Crook
chapter III|3 pages
The Death of Pantomime
chapter IV|3 pages
The Bleached Blondes
chapter V|9 pages
Evangeline and Edward E. Rice
chapter VI|3 pages
The Kiralfys
chapter VII|8 pages
Farce-Comedy
chapter VIII|16 pages
Comic Opera: The First Decade
chapter IX|8 pages
Comic Opera: The Second Decade
part |1 pages
PART TWO 1908–25
chapter X|9 pages
The Gaiety Girls, The Passing Show, and Weber and Fields
chapter XI|22 pages
The Turn of the Century
chapter XII|6 pages
The Merry Widow and the Ziegfield Follies
chapter XIII|9 pages
Before and During the First World War
chapter XIV|12 pages
A New Era
chapter XV|11 pages
New Art and Old Formulas
chapter XVI|11 pages
The Postwar Revue
chapter XVII|7 pages
Musical Comedy from 1919 to 1925
part |1 pages
PART THREE 1925–50
chapter XVIII|7 pages
The Revue Becomes Civilized
chapter XIX|9 pages
Musical Comedy Discovers Contemporary Life
chapter XX|10 pages
The Depression Decade
chapter XXI|12 pages
The New Audience
chapter XXII|19 pages
War and Postwar Years
chapter XXIII|6 pages
The Past, the Present, and the Future
part |1 pages
PART FOUR THE 1950s
chapter XXIV|43 pages
The Book Musical Refined
part |1 pages
PART FIVE THE 1960s
chapter XXV|55 pages
Trouble
part |1 pages
PART SIX THE 1970s
