
Beyond Broadway
The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
Stacy Wolf(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 15. January 2020
Book
Hardback
392 pages
978-0-19-063952-5 (ISBN)
Description
The idea of American musical theatre conjures up images of bright lights and big city, but its lifeblood is found in local and amateur productions at schools, community theatres, summer camps, and more. In Beyond Broadway, author Stacy Wolf considers the widespread presence and persistence of musical theatre in U.S. culture, and examines it as a live, pleasurable, participatory experience of creating, watching, and listening. Why does local musical theatre flourish in America? Why do so many Americans passionately engage in a century-old artistic practice that requires intense, person-to-person collaboration? Why do audiences flock to see musicals in their hometowns? How do corporations like Disney and Music Theatre International enable musical theatre's energetic movement through American culture? Touring from Maine to California, Wolf visits elementary schools, a middle school performance festival, afterschool programs, high schools, summer camps, state park outdoor theatres, community theatres, and dinner theatres, and conducts over 200 interviews with practitioners and spectators, licensors and Disney creatives. In Beyond Broadway, Wolf tells the story of musical theatre's abundance and longevity in the U.S. as a thriving, joyful activity that touches millions of lives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
30 photos.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
752 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-063952-5 (9780190639525)
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Person
Stacy Wolf is Professor in the Program in Theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. She is also the Director of the Program in Music Theater and Director of the Princeton Arts Fellows program. She is the author of A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (2002), Changed for Good: A Feminist History of the Broadway Musical (2011), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the American Musical (2011).
Author
Professor, Program in Theater & Director, Princeton Art FellowsProfessor, Program in Theater & Director, Princeton Art Fellows, Princeton University
Content
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Junior Theatre Festival and Broadway Junior
Chapter 2: Backstage Divas
Chapter 3: High School Musicals and Into the Woods
Chapter 4: Community Theatre
Chapter 5: The Sound of Music at Outdoor Summer Musical Theatres
Chapter 6: Girls' Jewish Summer Camps in Maine
Chapter 7: Disney Goes to School
Chapter 8: Dinner Theatres in Colorado: A Road Trip
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index
Chapter 1: The Junior Theatre Festival and Broadway Junior
Chapter 2: Backstage Divas
Chapter 3: High School Musicals and Into the Woods
Chapter 4: Community Theatre
Chapter 5: The Sound of Music at Outdoor Summer Musical Theatres
Chapter 6: Girls' Jewish Summer Camps in Maine
Chapter 7: Disney Goes to School
Chapter 8: Dinner Theatres in Colorado: A Road Trip
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Index