One More Kiss : The Broadway Musical in the 1970s

by Ethan Mordden

• ISBN13: 9780312239534
• ISBN10: 031223953X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Ethan Mordden's new entry in his history of the Broadway musical looks at an era that brought us not only the gritty reality of "A Chorus Line" and the brilliantly bittersweet works of Stephen Sondheim, but also the nostalgic crowd-pleasers "No, No, Nanette" and "Annie." It was a time when Broadway both looked to its past, but also to its future and allowed reality to enter. Mordden writes of the last time we ever saw true greatness on the stage of the Broadway musical.

Author Biography

Ethan Mordden is the author of Make Believe, Everything's Coming Up Roses, Beautiful Morning, and Open a New Window.

Table of Contents

Conclusion

The Age of Sondheim

All Those Glittering Years: Follies

If Everyone Got What They Wanted: Musical Comedy I

Decca Broadway: Americans in London

Why Can't We All Be Nice? The Dark Musical

Nobody Does It Like Me: Pippin and Seesaw

It's a Bore: The Dreary Musical

Keep It Hot: The Concept Musical

I Could Be at Home with My Seven Maids: The Revival

Were You Saying Something? Off-Broadway

Haven't We Met? The Revue

I Really Don't Want to Write a Musical About Some Man Who Is Running From the Nazis. I Want to Do Something With Showgirls: Musical Comedy II

Evolution Papa: Three "Don't" Musicals

Don't Pop the Head, Cassie! Three Classics

Please Sign the Book On Your Way Out the Door: The 1979-80 Season

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