Musical Comedy in America: From The Black Crook to South Pacific, From The King & I to Sweeney Todd

by Smith,Cecil A.

• ISBN13: 9780878305643
• ISBN10: 0878305645
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1987-01-07
• Publisher: Routledge

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Table of Contents

Foreword to the First Edition	p. ix
Foreword to the Second Edition	p. xi
1864-1907
Before The Black Crook	p. 2
The Black Crook	p. 7
The Death of Pantomime	p. 13
The Bleached Blondes	p. 16
Evangeline and Edward E. Rice	p. 19
The Kiralfys	p. 28
Farce-Comedy	p. 31
Comic Opera: The First Decade	p. 39
Comic Opera: The Second Decade	p. 55
1908-25
The Gaiety Girls, The Passing Show, and Weber and Fields	p. 64
The Turn of the Century	p. 73
The Merry Widow and the Ziegfield Follies	p. 87
Before and During the First World War	p. 93
A New Era	p. 102
New Art and Old Formulas	p. 114
The Postwar Revue	p. 125
Musical Comedy from 1919 to 1925	p. 136
1925-50
The Revue Becomes Civilized	p. 144
Musical Comedy Discovers Contemporary Life	p. 155
The Depression Decade	p. 160
The New Audience	p. 170
War and Postwar Years	p. 182
The Past, The Present, and The Future	p. 201
The 1950s
The Book Musical Refined	p. 208
The 1960s
Trouble	p. 252
The 1970s
An Uncertain Comeback	p. 300
Index	p. 351
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