Musical Theatre Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Theatre Histories write by Millie Taylor. This book was released on 2022-11-17. Musical Theatre Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Musical theatre is often perceived as either a Broadway based art form, or as having separate histories in London and New York. This textbook explores how, in reality, there have been frequent and substantial interactions between the West End and Broadway (and elsewhere) out of which musical theatre has developed, and through which it continues to transform. Musical Theatre: A Transatlantic History depicts the musical as neither American nor British, but both and more. Through multiple thematic 'histories', students are taken on a journey from the art form's European and American origins through to African American influences, the 'Golden Age', the 'British Invasion' and 'Megamusicals'. The authors analyse new models and styles, revival culture and the place of social media in projecting the form into the 21st century. Each chapter offers case studies and key concept boxes to identify, explain, and contextualise key discussions, offering an accessible study of a dynamic and evolving medium. Written and developed for undergraduate students of musical theatre, this introductory textbook provides a newly focused and alternative way of understanding musical theatre history"--
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Theatre write by John Kenrick. This book was released on 2017-07-27. Musical Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Musical Theatre: A History is a new revised edition of a proven core text for college and secondary school students – and an insightful and accessible celebration of twenty-five centuries of great theatrical entertainment. As an educator with extensive experience in professional theatre production, author John Kenrick approaches the subject with a unique appreciation of musicals as both an art form and a business. Using anecdotes, biographical profiles, clear definitions, sample scenes and select illustrations, Kenrick focuses on landmark musicals, and on the extraordinary talents and business innovators who have helped musical theatre evolve from its roots in the dramas of ancient Athens all the way to the latest hits on Broadway and London's West End. Key improvements to the second edition: · A new foreword by Oscar Hammerstein III, a critically acclaimed historian and member of a family with deep ties to the musical theatre, is included · The 28 chapters are reformatted for the typical 14 week, 28 session academic course, as well as for a two semester, once-weekly format, making it easy for educators to plan a syllabus and reading assignments. · To make the book more interactive, each chapter includes suggested listening and reading lists, designed to help readers step beyond the printed page to experience great musicals and performers for themselves. A comprehensive guide to musical theatre as an international phenomenon, Musical Theatre: A History is an ideal textbook for university and secondary school students.
Theatre Histories
Theatre Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theatre Histories write by Phillip B. Zarrilli. This book was released on 2010. Theatre Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Providing a clear journey through centuries of European, North and South American, African and Asian forms of theatre and performance, this introduction helps the reader think critically about this exciting field through fascinating yet plain-speaking essays and case studies.
Musical Theatre
Musical Theatre - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Musical Theatre write by John Kenrick. This book was released on 2010-03-25. Musical Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Musical Theatre- A History presents a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the earliest accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, for whom songs were common elements in staging, to Jacques Offenbach in Paris during the 1840s, to Gilbert and Sullivan in the UK, to the rise of music halls and vaudeville traditions in America, and eventually to Broadway’s Golden Age with George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leondard Bernstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The 21st century has also brought a popular new wave of musicals to the Broadway stage, from The Producers to Spamalot. Musical Theatre- A History covers it all, from the opening number to the curtain call, offering readers the most up-to-date history of the art form. Informative and entertaining, Musical Theatre offers an accessibly written history of the musical theatre, richly illustrated with anecdotes of shows and show people. It is cause for celebration for those working in the theatre as well as its legion of fans.
Strike Up the Band
Strike Up the Band - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strike Up the Band write by Scott Miller. This book was released on 2007. Strike Up the Band available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Strike Up the Band focuses not only on what happened on stage but also on how it happened and why it matters to us today. It's a different kind of history that explores the famous and, especially, the not-so famous productions to discover the lineage that paved the way to contemporary musicals. Digging into 150 shows, Miller offers a forward-looking perspective on treasures from each era--such as Anything Goes, West Side Story, Hair, and Rent--while also looking at fascinating, genre-busting, and often short-lived productions, including Bat Boy, Rocky Horror Show, Promenade, and The Capeman, to see how even obscure or commercially unsuccessful musicals defined and advanced the form. Moving decade by decade, Miller offers insight and inside information about the artistic approaches various composers, lyricists, bookwriters, and directors have taken, how those approaches have changed over time, and what social and historical forces continue to shape musical theatre today. He provides a strong sense of what groups have historically controlled the industry and how other groups' hard work and vision continue to change the musical theatre landscape for the better. In fact, Strike Up the Band opens a new and vitally important discussion of the roles played in the musical's history by people of color, by gays and lesbians, by people with disabilities, and by women. It frames musical theatre as an important, irreplaceable piece of American history and demonstrates how it reflects the social and political conditions of its time--and how it changes them." -- Publisher's description.
