The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre

Laura MacDonald is Assistant Professor in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University. With William A. Everett, she edited The Palgrave Handbook of Musical Theatre Producers (2017). She writes about long-running musicals on Broadway, in Europe, and in East Asia. Ryan Donovan is Assistant Professor of Theater Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity (Oxford) and Queer Approaches in Musical Theatre (Bloomsbury), and he co-edited the special issue of Studies in Musical Theatre on musical theatre dance.

Foreword

Diane Paulus

Part 1: What

Introduction: On Musicals

San Bao






Musical Theater Mobilities: Around the World in Eighty Years
David Savran




An American in Tokyo? Musical Theatre Dance’s Transnational Movements
Ryan Donovan




"How a World Can Seem So Vast": The Craft of Musical Theatre Dramaturgy
Lindsey R. Barr and Laura MacDonald




The Singing Voice
Masi Asare




"The Song Is You": Song Types and Genres in Musical Theatre
William A. Everett

Part 2: When

Introduction: Dark Primal Energy, Ancestor Memory, and American Exceptionalism

André De Shields with Kenneth J. Cerniglia




From Ballad Opera to Minstrelsy and Back: Social Class, Race, and Gender on the North American Musical Stage
Kristin Moriah




From the 1870s through World War I: The Spectre and Spectacle of the Human Body
Maya Cantu




Boom to Bust: Genre Borders, Color Lines, and Women Stars in the Musical between the World Wars
Todd Decker




World War II and the Cold War: Reflections and Refractions of Ourselves, Then and Now
Dominic McHugh




Since the 1980s: The Global Musical Theatre Ecology
Kelsey Blair

Part 3: Who

Introduction: Who Makes a Musical?

Georgia Stitt




Musical Theatre Training in the Twenty-First Century: A Primer
Amy S. Osatinski and Bud Coleman




"Forget About the Boy": Women and Creative Collaborations in Musical Theatre
Arianne Johnson Quinn and Clare Chandler




Good Gals Wear Black: Offstage Labor and the Musical
Christine Snyder




Mediated Taste: The Role of Critics
Paul R. Laird




From Stage Door to Cyberspace: The Digital Evolution of Musical Theatre Fandom
Adam Rush and Stephanie Lim

Part 4: How

Introduction: How Musicals Work: A Press Representative’s View

Chris Boneau




Fitting the Slipper: The Art of Adaptation for the Musical Stage
William A. Everett




Harnessing Technology: The Evolving Labor of Design in Musical Theatre
Virginia Anderson




Humming the Scenery: The Aesthetics of Musical Theatre Spectacle
Douglas L. Reside




"That’s Showbiz, Kid": Casting as Process and Product
Ryan Donovan




The Foundation, Function, and Future of the Musical Theatre Director
Mary Jo Lodge and Anne Healy




How Dancers and Choreographers Work: The Laboring Bodies of Musical Theatre
Joanna Dee Das




"The Name on Everybody’s Lips": Marketing Musical Theatre
Laura MacDonald




A Critical Guide to Code-Meshing, Multilingualism, and Musicals
Samuel Yates

Part 5: Where

Introduction: Scenes from a Showbiz Couple’s Travelogue

Kim Varhola




Centers of Musical Theatre
Alex Bádue, Jennifer C.H.J. Wilson, Laura Milburn, Leesi Patrick, and Sir Anril P. Tiatco




Pilots and Petticoats: Original Musicals in Continental Europe
Jeroen van Wijhe and Jacek Mikołajczyk




The Broadway-Style Musical in/and Global Asias: 1920-2019
Sissi Liu and Rina Tanaka




"One of the best ways to please the locals is to go to New York": US American Regional Theatres and New Musical Theatre Development
Claudia Wilsch Case




"We’re All in This Together": Student and Amateur Performances
Kenneth J. Cerniglia




Mediated Musical Theatre
Sam O’Connell

Part 6: Why

Introduction: Into the Theatre

Yilun (Della) Wu




Journeys to the Past: The Uses of Memory and Nostalgia in Musical Theatre
Bryan M. Vandevender




What’s in a Name? The Multiplicities of the Musical
John Koegel




Interrogating America’s National Myth Onstage: Case Studies on the Individual and the Community in U.S. Musical Theatre
Katie Welsh and Stacy Wolf




Translating Race in Musical Theatre
Ji Hon (Kayla) Yuh and Emilio Méndez Rios




"Art Isn’t Easy" (and Neither is Commerce): The Musical Stays in the Money
Michael Schwartz




"World"-Traveling, Diversity, Inclusion, and the Making of Musicals in the Twenty-First Century

Trevor Boffone