The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations

Contributors Acknowledgements About the Companion Website Introduction Part I: An introduction to the Stage-to-Screen Adaptation CHAPTER 1 "And I'll Sing Once More": A Historical Overview of the Broadway Musical on the Silver Screen DOMINIC McHUGH CHAPTER 2 From Novel to Stage to Screen: Adapting Roberta GEOFFREY BLOCK CHAPTER 3 Getting Real: Stage Musical vs. Filmic Realism in Film Adaptations from Camelot to Cabaret RAYMOND KNAPP CHAPTER 4 The Party's Over: On the Town, Bells are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York MARTHA SHEARER CHAPTER 5 Into the Woods from Stage to Screen MARK EDEN HOROWITZ Part II: The Politics of Adaptation CHAPTER 6 Li'l Abner from Comic Strip to Hollywood JAMES LOVENSHEIMER CHAPTER 7 Fidelity vs. Freedom in Milos Forman's film version of Hair ANDREW BUCHMAN CHAPTER 8 "An Elegant Legacy": The Aborted Cartoon Adaptation of Finian's Rainbow DANIELLE BIRKETT CHAPTER 9 Little Shop of Horrors: Breaking the Rules all the Way to the Big (Enormous, 12-inch) Screen JONAS WESTOVER CHAPTER 10 The Fascinating Moment of Godspell: Its Cinematic Adaptation in the Shadow of Jesus Christ Superstar and Leonard Bernstein's Mass PAUL LAIRD Part III: Biography and Identities: Race, Sexuality, and Gender CHAPTER 11 Adapting Pal Joey: Post-War Anxieties and the Playmate JULIANNE LINDBERG CHAPTER 12 "Too Darn Hot": Reimagining Kiss Me, Kate for the Silver Screen HANNAH ROBBINS CHAPTER 13 "A Humane, Practical, and Beautiful Solution": Adaptation and Triangulation in Paint Your Wagon MEGAN WOLLER CHAPTER 14 "A Great American Service": George M. Cohan, the Stage, and the Nation in Yankee Doodle Dandy ELIZABETH CRAFT CHAPTER 15 Cole Porter's List Songs on Stage and Screen CLIFF EISEN Part IV: Stars and Adaptation CHAPTER 16 Loud, Pretty, Strong, White [Repeat]: The Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy Operettas at MGM (1935-1942) TODD DECKER CHAPTER 17 Brigadoon and its Transition to MGM Musical: Adapting a Stage Show for Star Dancers SUSAN SMITH CHAPTER 18 "Is this the right material, girl?": How Madonna Makes Us Like Eva But Not Necessarily Evita RICHARD ALLEN CHAPTER 19 The Streisand adaptations DOMINIC McHUGH Part V: Multiple Adaptations of a Single Work CHAPTER 20 The Shifting Sand of Orientalism: The Desert Song on Stage and Screen WILLIAM A. EVERETT CHAPTER 21 "You Will Know That She is Our Annie": Comparing Three Adaptations of a Broadway Classic IAN SAPIRO CHAPTER 22 The Three Faces of Rio Rita JOHN GRAZIANO Part VI: Audiences, Producers, Studios CHAPTER 23 Lost in Translation: The Strange Case of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel TIM CARTER CHAPTER 24 Carol Burnett and the Ends of Variety: Parody, Nostalgia, and Analysis of the American Musical ROBYNN STILWELL CHAPTER 25 Flamboyance, Exuberance, and Schmaltz: Half a Sixpence and the Broadway Adaptation in 1960s Hollywood AMANDA McQUEEN CHAPTER 26 The Producers and Hairspray: The Hazards and Rewards of Recursive Adaptation DEAN ADAMS CHAPTER 27 Rescoring Anything Goes in 1930s Hollywood ALLISON ROBBINS Bibliography Index