Authors: Scott Miller
ISBN-13: 9780325003573, ISBN-10: 0325003572
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: 1st Edition
SCOTT MILLER is the founder and artistic director of New Line Theatre, an alternative musical theatre company in St. Louis. He holds a degree in music and musical theatre from Harvard University, and he has been writing, performing in, and directing musicals since 1981. He has written four books on musical theatre for Heinemann, including Let the Sun Shine In (2003), Rebels with Applause (2001), Deconstructing Harold Hill (2000), and From Assassins to West Side Story (1996).
Scott Miller once again pulls back the curtain on some of the greatest, most important American musicals, taking you on a mind-blowing tour of the milestones in the history of musical theatre.
Acknowledgments | ||
Overture | ||
1 | The Cradle Will Rock (1937) | 1 |
2 | Pal Joey (1940) | 18 |
3 | Oklahoma (1943) | 31 |
4 | Anyone Can Whistle (1964) | 48 |
5 | Hair (1967) | 66 |
6 | Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1968) | 91 |
7 | The Ballad of Little Mikey (1994) | 125 |
8 | Songs for a New World (1995) | 140 |
9 | Floyd Collins (1996) | 158 |
10 | Rent (1996) | 183 |