Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater

James Leve is a Professor of Musicology at Northern Arizona University. Donelle Ruwe is Professor and Chair of English at Northern Arizona University.

1. Children, Childhood, and Musical Theater: an Introduction

James Leve and Donelle Ruwe

2. Beginning with Do Re Mi: Childhood and The Sound of Music

Ryan Bunch

3. Walt Disney, Dr. Benjamin Spock, and the Gospel of Ideal Childrearing: Creating Superlative Nuclear Families in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Bedknobs and Broomsticks

William A. Everett

4. Saving Mr. [Blank]: Rescuing the Father through Song in Children’s and Family Musicals

Raymond Knapp

5. Dickensian Discourses: Giving a (Singing) Voice to the Child-Hero in Oliver! and Copperfield

Marc Napolitano

6. Ghetto Chic: Utopianism and the Authentic Child in The Me Nobody Knows (1970)

Donelle Ruwe

7. Little Girls, Big Voices: Annie

James Leve

8. Urchins, Unite: Newsies as an Antidote to Annie

Marah Gubar

9. Agency, Power, and the Inner Child: The "Revolting Children" of Matilda the Musical

Helen Freshwater

10. Children’s Musicals for Educational and Community Settings

Lauren Acton

11. Broadway Junior

Stacy Wolf

Bibliography of Scholarly Sources