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Rebels with Applause: Broadway's Groundbreaking Musicals » (1st Edition)

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Authors: Scott Miller
ISBN-13: 9780325003573, ISBN-10: 0325003572
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Heinemann
Date Published: July 2001
Edition: 1st Edition

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Author Biography: Scott Miller

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).

Book Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Overture
1The Cradle Will Rock (1937)1
2Pal Joey (1940)18
3Oklahoma (1943)31
4Anyone Can Whistle (1964)48
5Hair (1967)66
6Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1968)91
7The Ballad of Little Mikey (1994)125
8Songs for a New World (1995)140
9Floyd Collins (1996)158
10Rent (1996)183

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