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Beautiful mornin' : the Broadway musical in the 1940s /
"Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and a kick line from its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a formula for the assembly of spare parts--star comics, gene...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Music and girls are the soul of musical comedy," one critic wrote, early in the 1940s. But this was the age that wanted more than melody and a kick line from its musical shows. The form had been running on empty for too long, as a formula for the assembly of spare parts--star comics, generic love songs, rumba dancers, Ethel Merman. If Rodgers and Hammerstein hadn't existed, Broadway would have had to invent them; and Oklahoma! and Carousel came along just in time to announce the New Formula for Writing Musicals: Don't have a formula. Instead, start with strong characters and atmosphere: Oklahoma! with its murderous romantic triangle set against a frontier society that has to learn what democracy is in order to deserve it; or Carousel's dysfunctional family seen in the context of class and gender war. With vitality and occasionally outrageous humor, the author ranges through the decade's classics--Pal Joey, Lady in the Dark, On the Town, Annie Get Your Gun, Phinian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, Kiss Me, Kate, and South Pacific. The 1920s created the musical and the 1930s gave it politics. In the 1940s, it found its soul. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes index. |
| ISBN: | 0195351762 9780195351767 9780195128512 0195128516 1429400412 9781429400411 1280530472 9781280530470 |