Musical Theatre
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Musical Theatre: A History
By John KenrickThe hilarious mock ballad “Adelaide's Lament” has the showgirl reading a medi- cal textbook explaining the psychosomatic symptoms that she suffers because of her endless engagement, and her nightclub routine “Take Back Your Mink” ...
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Musical Theatre: A History
By John KenrickFarmore typical werea series of spoofs starring Broadway's reigning musical clowns of the1890s, Joseph Weber (1867–1942) and Lew Fields (1867–1941). They metas schoolboys onNew York's Lower East Side,formed a comedy team,and worked on ...
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Musical Theatre: A History
By John KenrickAs she descends Higgins's staircase in a sumptuous ball gown, she has clearly become a lady. Higgins begins to exit, then turns and offers Eliza his arm—which a true lady deserves. This scene is also completely Lerner's, and gives the ...
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Musical Theatre: A History
By John KenrickKey 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 ...
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Musical Theatre: A History
By John Kenrick"Like every art form, musical theatre has been changing and evolving since its inception more than 2000 years ago. Musical Theatre: A History presents a history of stage musicals from...
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Musical Theatre
By Gerry TebbuttMusical Theatre
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Musical Theatre: A History
By John KenrickMusical 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 ...