The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built / Jack Viertel.
Viertel, Jack (Theatrical producer), author.
2016
ML1711 .V37 2016 (Mapit)
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Title The secret life of the American musical : how Broadway shows are built / Jack Viertel.
Author Viertel, Jack (Theatrical producer), author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 0374256926 (hardcover)
Published New York : Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description xvii, 312 pages ; 24 cm
Call Number ML1711 .V37 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 792.60973
Summary "Americans love musicals. Americans invented musicals. Americans perfected musicals. But what, exactly, is a musical? In [this book], Jack Viertel takes them apart, puts them back together, sings their praises, marvels at their unflagging inventiveness, and occasionally despairs over their more embarrassing shortcomings. In the process, he invites us to fall in love all over again by showing us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next"--Dust jacket flap.
Note Includes index.
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Overture
Curtain up, light the lights : opening numbers
The wizard and I : the "I want" song
If I loved you : conditional love songs
Put on your Sunday clothes : the noise
Bushwhacking 1 : second couples
Bushwhacking 2 : villains
Bushwhacking 3 : the multiplot, and how it thickens
Adelaide's lament : stars
Tevye's dream : tent poles
La vie bohème : curtain: act 1
Intermission
Clambake : curtain up: act 2
Suddenly Seymour : the candy dish
All er nothin' : beginning to pack
The small house of Joseph Smith, the American Moses : the main event
I thought you did it for me, momma : the next-to-last-scene
You can't stop the beat : the end
Curtain call : how Woodie Guthrie
of all people
changed Broadway musicals forever
Listening to Broadway.

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