Musical Comedy in America

From The Black Crook to South Pacific by CECIL SMITH From The King and I to Sweeney Todd by GLENN LITTON.

FOREWORD TO THE FIRST EDITION, FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION, PART ONE: 1864-1907 I Before The Black Crook II The Black Crook IV The Bleached Blondes V Evangeline and Edward E. Rice VI The Kiralfys VII Farce-Comedy VIII Comic Opera: The First Decade IX Comic Opera: The Second Decade PART TWO: 1908 -25 X The Gaiety Girls, The Passing Show, and Weber and Fields XI The Turn of the Century XII The Merry Widow and the Ziegfield Follies XIII Before and During the First World War XIV A New Era XV New Art and Old Formulas XVI The Postwar Revue XVII Musical Comedy from 1919 to 1925 PART THREE: 1925 -50 XVIII The Revue Becomes Civilized XIX Musical Comedy Discovers Contemporary Life XX The Depression Decade XXI The New Audience XXII War and Postwar Years XXIII The Past, The Present, and The Future PART FOUR: THE 1950s XXIV The Book Musical Refined PART FIVE: THE 1960s XXV Trouble 252 PART SIX: THE 1970s XXVI An Uncertain Comeback