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041 _aeng
050 0 0 _aML1950
_b.L38 1986b
082 0 0 _a782.8109
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100 1 _aLerner, Alan Jay,
_d1918-1986.
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe musical theatre :
_ba celebration /
_cAlan Jay Lerner.
264 1 _aLondon :
_b Collins,
_c 1986.
300 _a240 pages, 16 pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c27 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIncludes index.
504 _aBibliography: p. 237.
505 _aIntroduction -- The Founding Father -- The City that Danced -- England -- The Land of the Free -- 'America's Franz Schubert' -- The Master -- Lyrics By ... -- Oscar Hammerstein II -- The Early Days -- The Composers -- G.G. -- Rodgers and Hart -- Cole -- I Want to be Happy -- Dietz and Schwartz -- 'Destiny's Tot' -- Postscript to the Twenties -- The Depression -- Porgy and Bess -- A Muesli of Musicals -- Oklahoma! -- From Lyricism to Reality: The Forties -- One Extended Season: The Fifties -- The Great Rebellion: The Sixties -- Sound and Fury: The Seventies to the Present.
520 _aThis is the fascinating story of 150 years of the musical theatre by one of the great legends of Broadway. Filled with inside stories and backstage anecdotes, this book traces the fascinating development of the musical, which had its origins in Offenbach's Vienna, came to Gilbert and Sullivan's London, and finally landed in America, where it found its finest flowering.
650 0 _aMusicals
_xHistory and criticism.
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