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Musical Comedy in America

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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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Musical Comedy in America book

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
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203063507
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

ABSTRACT

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

chapter XXVI|49 pages

An Uncertain Comeback

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