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Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process (Theater in the Americas)
Bruce Kirle
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Description for Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process (Theater in the Americas)
Paperback. Pursuing the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre, this book demonstrates Broadway's ability to bridge seemingly insoluble tensions in soceity - from economic and political anxiety surrounding WWII to generational conflict and youth counterculture to corporate America and the "me" generation. Series: Theater in the Americas. Num Pages: 304 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AVGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Pursues the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre. In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the audience is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products of the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives of their own in the complex transformation from page to stage. Using lenses borrowed from performance studies, cultural studies, queer studies, ... Read more
Pursues the social and historical contexts of a particularly unfinished theatrical genre. In this fresh approach to musical theatre history, Bruce Kirle challenges the commonly understood trajectory of the genre. Drawing on the notion that the world of the author stays fixed while the world of the audience is ever-changing, Kirle suggests that musicals are open, fluid products of the particular cultural moment in which they are performed. Incomplete as printed texts and scores, musicals take on unpredictable lives of their own in the complex transformation from page to stage. Using lenses borrowed from performance studies, cultural studies, queer studies, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Series
Theater in the Americas
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809326679
SKU
V9780809326679
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About Bruce Kirle
Bruce Kirle is an associate professor of theatre at Roosevelt University in Chicago.
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