The scope of this book allows him to do things that he could not do in the decade-by-decade series. For example, in a chapter titled "The Rodgers and Hammerstein Handbook," he covers all the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:23AMMuch of Todd Decker's Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical should prove fascinating to readers who have a deep interest in the creation and performance history of this classic, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMIt seems that any biographer of Lorenz Hart has to deal with a basic difficulty: relatively little is known about Hart's private life. Although his public life was well-documented, his priva…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:24AMDominic McHugh's Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady is the latest book to recount the history of a single musical in a scholarly and analytical fashion.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:00AMWhen people discuss the great innovators of the American musical, certain names-Hammerstein, Kern, Sondheim, Prince, Gershwin-are likely to be mentioned, but Irving Berlin is not one of them…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:30PMThe book covers Sondheim's musicals written after 1981 ... along with miscellany from all periods of his career, including a handful of lyrics from his student work.
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