Acclaimed through three editions for its uniquely informative and entertaining style, this fourth edition of Stanley Green's
World of Musical Comedy
updates and enlarges the theatrical scope to include such recent shows as
A Chorus Line, Barnum, They're Playing Our Song , and
Annie . In a format that provides biographies of all the leading figures in the musical's development, Stanley Green manages to convey the spirit of the Broadway stage, its musical make-believe, and yet remain objective about the creative swings in its history and the careers of its individual creators. Everyone is here: Victor Herbert, Sigmund Romberg, Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim, Cy Coleman, Marvin Hamlisch, and many others,not in a quick run-through but in vivid detail accompanied by pertinent interviews and photographs.
This latest edition contains an expanded appendix that lists the casts, credits, songs, and recordings of every Broadway musical written by these illustrious and industrious composers and librettists. As always in a Stanley Green book, the research is exhaustive and impeccable, the presentation enjoyable, the judgments fair. From America's foremost theatre historian, here is another edition of a classic theatre chronicle.
By:
Stanley Green
Imprint: Da Capo Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 4th New edition
Dimensions:
Height: 272mm,
Width: 214mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 1.154kg
ISBN: 9780306802072
ISBN 10: 0306802074
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 22 March 1984
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
General/trade
,
A / AS level
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unknown
* Foreword by Deems Taylor * Prologue * Victor Herbert * George M. Cohan * Rudolf Friml, Otto Harbach * Sigmund Romberg * Jerome Kern * Irving Berlin * George and Ira Gershwin * Vincent Youmans * Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart * B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson * Cole Porter * Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz, Dorothy Fields * E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen, Burton Lane * Harold Rome * Kurt Weill * Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II * Leonard Bernstein * Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe * Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green * Frank Loesser, Richard Adler and Jerry Ross, Meredith Wilson * Bob Merrill * Stephen Sondheim * Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick * Charles Strouse, Lee Adams, Martin Charnin * Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh, Michael Stewart * Jerry Herman * John Kander and Fred Ebb * Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt; Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion; Galt Mac Dermot; Burt Bacharach and Hal David * Sherman Edwards; Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford; Gary Geld and Peter Udell; Stephen Schwartz * Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey; Charlie Smalls; Marvin Hamlisch, Edward Kleban, Carole Bayer Sager; Elizabeth Swados; Carol Hall
Stanley Green, a lecturer, radio commentator, magazine writer, and editor, has authored Starring Fred Astaire, The World of Musical Comedy, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story, and Ring Bells! Sing Songs!:Broadway Musicals in the 1930's.
