Musical Theater

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Musical Theater

Explore key works on musical theater across arts and culture -- dance, drama, film, music, and literature -- with titles selected by RCL editors. Resources for College Libraries (RCL) features 90,000+ core titles for academic libraries, curated by Choice/ACRL subject specialists and available at rclweb.net.

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American musical theatre : a chronicle
Bordman, Gerald Martin.
Paper Book
Hailed as "absolutely the best reference book on its subject" by Newsweek, American Musical Theatre: A Chronicle covers more than 250 years of musical theatre in the United States, from a 1735 South Carolina production of Flora, or Hob in the Well to The Addams Family in 2010. Authors Gerald Bordman...
Music fundamentals for musical theatre
Riley, Christine (Music director)
Ebook
Musical theatre students and performers are frequently asked to learn musical material in a short space of time; sight-read pieces in auditions; collaborate with accompanists; and communicate musically with peers, directors, music directors and choreographers. Many of these students and performers...
Musical theatre : a history
Kenrick, John.
Paper Book
'Musical Theatre' is a comprehensive history of stage musicals, from the time of the ancient Greeks to Paris during the 1840s to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Broadway as we know it today.
The Great White Way : race and the Broadway musical
Hoffman, Warren
Paper Book
Broadway musicals are one of America's most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often thought to be just frothy entertainment, really have to say about our country and who we are as a nation? The Great White Way...
America's musical stage : two hundred years of musical theatre
Mates, Julian
Paper Book
Mates shows the musical stage in all its guises--from burlesque to musical comedy to grand opera--from its beginnings in pre-Revolutionary America to the present day. He deals sensitively with the recurrent aesthetic question of popular versus highbrow art and also looks at critical reactions to...
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