Great North American Stage Directors Volume 4

Henry Bial is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Kansas, USA. Chase Bringardner is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Auburn University, USA.

List of Figures
Series introduction, James Peck (Muhlenberg College, USA)
Acknowledgments

Introduction. Henry Bial (University of Kansas, USA) & Chase Bringardner (Auburn University, USA)

George Abbott
1. Speedy Entertainment: How the Abbott Touch Shaped the Mid-Century Musical, Alisa Roost (Hostos Community College, USA)
2. The Abbott Legacy, Bud Coleman (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
3. The Critic’s Darling, Henry Bial (University of Kansas, USA)

Vinnette Carroll
4. The Remaining One-Third: Vinnette Carroll and the Urban Arts Corps, La Donna L. Forsgren (University of Notre Dame, USA)
5. An Architect of Feeling: Vinnette Carroll and Her Broadway Gospel Musicals, Brian Granger (Mary Baldwin University, USA)
6. Vinnette Carroll, Langston Hughes, and the Creation of the Gospel Song-Play, Hillary Miller (Queens College, City University of New York, USA)

Harold Prince
7. Hal Prince Assumes Direction of a Genre, Paul R. Laird (University of Kansas, USA)
8. “A Show Every Year Like Clockwork”: Harold Prince’s Illustrious Career as a Revolutionary Musical Theatre Director and Creative Producer, Barbara Wallace Grossman (Tufts University, USA)
9. Producing Phantoms: Hal Prince and the Mega in the Mega-Musical, Chase Bringardner (Auburn University, USA)

Notes on Contributors
Index