The Cambridge Companion to the Musical

William A. Everett is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City. His articles and reviews have appeared in a number of journals including American Music, Opera Quarterly, and the Journal of the American Viola Society and he is also the author of British Piano Trios, Quartets, and Quintets, 1850–1950: A Checklist (2000). Paul R. Laird is Associate Professor of Musicology in the Dept of Music and Dance, University of Kansas. He is the author of Towards a History of the Spanish Villancico (1997), and Leonard Bernstein: A Guide to Research (2002), and co-editor with Craig H. Russell of Res Musicae: Essays in Honor of James W. Pruett (2001).

List of illustrations; Introduction William A. Everett and Paul R. Laird; Part I. Adaptations and Transformations: Before 1940: 1. American musical theatre before the twentieth century Katherine K. Preston; 2. Birth pangs, growing pains, and sibling rivalry: musical theatre in New York, 1900–1920 Orly Leah Krasner; 3. Romance, nostalgia, and nevermore: American and British operetta in the 1920s William A. Everett; 4. Images of African-Americans: African-American musical theatre, Show Boat, and Porgy and Bess John Graziano; 5. The melody (and the words) linger on: American musical comedies of the 1920s and 1930s Geoffrey Block; Part II. Maturations and Formulations: 1940 to 1970: 6. 'We Said We Wouldn't Look Back': British musical theatre, 1935–1960 John Snelson; 7. The coming of the musical play: Rodgers and Hammerstein Ann Sears; 8. The successors of Rodgers and Hammerstein from the 1940s through to the 1960s Thomas L. Riis and Ann Sears with William A. Everett; 9. Musical sophistication on Broadway: Kurt Weill and Leonard Bernstein Bruce D. McClung and Paul R. Laird; Part III. Evolutions and Integrations: After 1970: 10. Stephen Sondheim and the musical of the outsider Jim Lovensheimer; 11. Choreographers, directors, and the fully integrated musical Paul R. Laird; 12. Distant cousin or fraternal twin? Analytical approaches to the film musical Graham Wood; 13. From Hair to Rent: is rock a four-letter word on Broadway? Scott Warfield; 14. The megamusical and beyond: the creation, internationalization and impact of a genre Paul Prece and William A. Everett.