The 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-1618-0 (ISBN)
From Show Boat and Oklahoma! to Wicked and Hamilton, the musical is constantly evolving thanks to the contributions of some of theatre’s most prominent figures.
Never have musicals been more popular than they are today. With live television broadcasts of shows like Rent and Hairspray and films like Mean Girls and Shrek being adapted to the stage, musicals—as well as the creators and artists who bring them to life—are at the forefront of popular culture.
In 100 Most Important People in Musical Theatre, Andy Propst profiles the individuals who have helped shape this beloved art form. Songwriting greats such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber are some of the familiar names in the book. So, too, are performers such as Nathan Lane, Ethel Merman, Audra McDonald, and Patti LuPone, and directors and choreographers such as Bob Fosse, Harold Prince, Jerome Robbins, and Tommy Tune. Readers learn not only about these men and women’s exceptional lives and achievements, but can peek backstage at such groundbreaking shows as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, West Side Story, Company, and A Chorus Line, among others. Period reviews and interviews highlight both the shows and the people who contributed to them.
The profiles in 100 Most Important People in Musical Theater provide a terrific history of musical theater, guiding readers from the era of operetta and the ascendancy of the book musical to the emergence of the concept musical and contemporary productions—from The Mikado and The Phantom of the Opera to Fun Home and Hamilton. This book is an invaluable addition to any musical theatre fan’s library, and will also appeal to researchers and scholars.
Andy Propst is an arts journalist and author. His career has encompassed work with New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joseph Papp and Tony Award–winning director George C. Wolfe, as well as five years on-air at XM Satellite Radio’s XM 28 On Broadway channel. His writing has appeared in The Village Voice, Time Out/NY, Backstage, and The Sondheim Review and online at the site he founded, AmericanTheaterWeb.com, as well as TheaterMania.com and BroadwayDirect.com. He served as a judge for the Obie Awards (three years) and as a member of the nominating committee for the Drama Desk Awards (four years). In addition, he has served as a mentor for both the National Critics Institute and the National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He also teaches criticism for the Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy portion of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.
Contents
Preface
George Abbott
John Murray Anderson
Boris Aronson
George Balanchine
Michael Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett
Irving Berlin
Leonard Bernstein
Marc Blitzstein
Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse
Gower Champion
Carol Channing
George M. Cohan
Cy Coleman
Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Agnes de Mille
Alfred Drake
William and Jean Eckart
Lehman Engel
Dorothy Fields
Harvey Fierstein
William Finn
Jules Fisher
Bob Fosse
George Gershwin
Ira Gershwin
W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
Oscar Hammerstein II
E. Y. “Yip” Harburg
Edward “Ned” Harrigan and David Braham
Lorenz Hart
Moss Hart
Victor Herbert
Jerry Herman
Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
John Kander and Fred Ebb
George S. Kaufman
Jerome Kern
Michael Kidd
Michael John LaChiusa
Nathan Lane
Jonathan Larson
Arthur Laurents
Gertrude Lawrence
Carolyn Leigh
Alan Jay Lerner
Goddard Lieberson
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Frank Loesser
Patti LuPone
Galt MacDermot
Cameron Mackintosh
Hugh Martin
Mary Martin
Audra McDonald
Alan Menken
Ethel Merman
David Merrick
Jo Mielziner
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Zero Mostel
Trevor Nunn
Joseph Papp
Cole Porter
Harold Prince
Tim Rice
Chita Rivera
Jerome Robbins
Richard Rodgers
Sigmund Romberg
Stephen Schwartz
Irene Sharaff
Hassard Short
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake
Oliver Smith
Stephen Sondheim
Michael Stewart
Charles Strouse
Jule Styne
Ed Sullivan
Jeanine Tesori
Tommy Tune
Jonathan Tunick
Joseph Urban
Gwen Verdon
Robin Wagner
Ethel Waters
Kurt Weill
Bert Williams
Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 64 b/w photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 186 x 260 mm |
| Gewicht | 780 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5381-1618-9 / 1538116189 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-1618-0 / 9781538116180 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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