The Sound of Musicals
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 2012
96 pages
978-1-84943-312-9 (ISBN)
Description
The world of musicals is beautiful, complex, hilarious, hard-headed, and improbable. It is as hard to make a great musical as it is to fly a spaceship to the moon and there are at least as many moving parts. Why is a great musical as significant a theatrical achievement as, say, King Lear?
In this entertaining new title in Oberon Masters Series, Ruth Leon tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors and the pioneers of the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic while trying to reveal the truth behind the eternal question - what are musicals and why do we love them?
In this entertaining new title in Oberon Masters Series, Ruth Leon tells all about the composers, the lyricists, the directors and the pioneers of the stage musical on both sides of the Atlantic while trying to reveal the truth behind the eternal question - what are musicals and why do we love them?
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-84943-312-9 (9781849433129)
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Person
RUTH LEON is a writer, editor, producer and international authority on the musical theatre, who has worked with an astonishing line of talent stretching from Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, back to earlier giants of American music such as Agnes de Mille and Aaron Copland. She is also a biographer (of giants such as Gershwin), and theatre and TV director.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Why Musicals?
- 1. Something Wonderful
- 2. Only Make Believe
- 3. Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'
- 4. Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat
- 5. Wouldn't It Be Loverly?
- 6. Something's Coming
- 7. Let Me Entertain You
- 8. Miracle of Miracles
- 9. Being Alive
