Enchanted Evenings
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-538400-0 (ISBN)
Readers will find such all-time favorites as Show Boat, Carousel, Kiss Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, and Phantom of the Opera. Geoffrey Block provides a documentary history of each of the musicals, showing how each work took shape and revealing, at the same time, how the American musical evolved from the 1920s to today, both on stage and on screen. The book's particular focus is on the music, offering a wealth of detail about how librettist, lyricist, composer, and director work together to shape the piece. Block also includes trenchant social commentary and lively backstage anecdotes. Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Kurt Weill, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and other luminaries emerge as hardworking craftsmen under enormous pressure to sell tickets without compromising their dramatic vision. The second edition includes a greatly expanded chapter on Sondheim, a new chapter on Lloyd Webber, and two new chapters on the film adaptations of the main musicals featured in the text (including such hard to find films as the original 1936 version of Anything Goes and the 1959 film adaptation of Porgy and Bess).
Packed with information, including a complete discography and plot synopses and song-by-song scenic outlines for each of the fourteen shows, Enchanted Evenings is an essential reference as well as a riveting history.
A solid and fascinating work that should become a model of how to investigate and report on the evolution of a musical. Block's research is persuasive and his writing vivid. . . Indispensable for anyone who cares to know more about Broadway musicals than Playbill can provide."
--Steven Bach, The Los Angeles Times Book Review
Geoffrey Block, Distinguished Professor of Music History at the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, is the author of Ives: "Concord" Sonata (Cambridge, 1996) and Richard Rodgers, the inaugural volume of the Yale Broadway Masters series, for which he serves as general editor. He is also the editor of The Richard Rodgers Reader (Oxford, 2002) and the Series Editor for Oxford's new Broadway Legacies.
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; APPENDIX A. SOURCES, PUBLISHED LIBRETTOS, AND VOCAL SCORES; APPENDIX B. LONG RUNS 1920S-1980S; APPENDIX C. THE FORTY LONGEST-RUNNING BOOK MUSICALS ON BROADWAY; APPENDIX D. SHOW BOAT; APPENDIX E. ANYTHING GOES; APPENDIX F. PORGY AND BESS: SONGS, ARIAS, AND THEMES; APPENDIX G. ON YOUR TOES: BROADWAY 1936 AND BROADWAY REVIVAL 1983; APPENDIX H. PAL JOEY: BROADWAY 1940 AND BROADWAY REVIVAL 1952; APPENDIX I. THE CRADLE WILL ROCK: BROADWAY 1937; APPENDIX J. LADY IN THE DARK: BROADWAY 1941; APPENDIX K. ONE TOUCH OF VENUS: BROADWAY 1943; APPENDIX L. CAROUSEL: BROADWAY 1945; APPENDIX M. KISS ME, KATE: BROADWAY 1948; APPENDIX N. GUYS AND DOLLS: BROADWAY 1950; APPENDIX O. THE MOST HAPPY FELLA: BROADWAY 1956; APPENDIX P. MY FAIR LADY: BROADWAY 1956; APPENDIX Q. WEST SIDE STORY: BROADWAY 1957; APPENDIX R. FOLLIES: BROADWAY 1971 AND LONDON REVIVAL 1987; NOTES; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 12.11.2009 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 15 black and white halftones, 64 line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 658 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-538400-8 / 0195384008 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-538400-0 / 9780195384000 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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