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Open A New Window » (1st Edition)
Authors: Ethan Mordden
ISBN-13: 9781403960139, ISBN-10: 1403960135
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: 1st Edition
Author Biography: Ethan Mordden
Ethan Mordden is the author of Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s, Everything's Coming Up Roses: The Broadway Musical in the 1950s, and Beautiful Mornin': The Broadway Musical in the 1940s.
Book Synopsis
From "Camelot" to "Cabaret" Ethan Mordden takes on Broadway's richest decade.
New York Times Book Review
A breezy, thoroughly diverting delight...Mordden is such a vivacious guide that, by himself, he can make the old shows sing....
Table of Contents
| 1 | What's in It for You?: The Shows of 1960 | 1 |
| 2 | Twice as Much Grief: Camelot | 23 |
| 3 | Expect Things to Happen; or, Don't Look Back: Musical Comedy I | 34 |
| 4 | A Romantic Atmosphere: The Gay Life and She Loves Me | 57 |
| 5 | Nothing More to Look Forward To: Old Talent | 69 |
| 6 | Summer Is Over: New Talent | 94 |
| 7 | Eye on the Target: Funny Girl | 120 |
| 8 | When Messiah Comes: The Super-Director | 131 |
| 9 | Hearts Grow Hard on a Windy Street: Cabaret | 152 |
| 10 | All Caught Up in Her Oo-La-La: The English Musical | 162 |
| 11 | Have You Got Charm?: The Off-Broadway Musical | 175 |
| 12 | Look Around Your Little World: The Dark Show | 192 |
| 13 | Everybody Has the Right to Be Wrong: Good Ideas and Bad Ideas | 216 |
| 14 | What Did I Have That I Don't Have?: Musical Comedy II | 230 |
| 15 | Don't Want to Know: Three Shows of 1969 | 250 |
| Index | 267 |
Subjects
Entertainment
Music Books General & Miscellaneous
Entertainment Theater Musical Theater / Broadway
Nonfiction Entertainment Theater
Music Books General & MiscellaneousEntertainment
Theater Musical Theater / BroadwayNonfiction
Entertainment Theater