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Dan Dietz - Complete Book Of 1950s Broadway Musicals - 9781442235045 - V9781442235045
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Complete Book Of 1950s Broadway Musicals

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Description for Complete Book Of 1950s Broadway Musicals Hardback. Num Pages: 478 pages. BIC Classification: AVGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 290 x 225 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1371.
The Broadway musical came of age in the 1950s, a period in which some of the greatest productions made their debuts. Shows produced on Broadway during this decade include such classics as Damn Yankees, Fiorello!, Guys and Dolls, The King and I, Kismet, The Most Happy Fella, My Fair Lady, The Pajama Game, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, and West Side Story. Among the performers who made their marks were Julie Andrews, Bob Fosse, Carol Lawrence, and Gwen Verdon, while other talents who contributed to shows include Leonard Bernstein, Oscar Hammerstein II, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Cole Porter, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
478
Condition
New
Number of Pages
478
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442235045
SKU
V9781442235045
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Dan Dietz
Dan Dietz is a former professor of composition, world literature, and modern drama at Western Carolina University. He is the author of Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007 (2010) and The Complete Book of 1960s Broadway Musicals (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).

Reviews for Complete Book Of 1950s Broadway Musicals
Anyone who enjoyed Dietz’s Complete Book of 1960s Broadway Musicals will welcome this new volume, which covers every show from Happy as Larry (January 1950) through Vernon Duke’s flop The Pink Jungle (closed pre-Broadway December 1959)
206 shows altogether.  As he did in the earlier title, Dietz discusses all book musicals with new music, revivals, revues, new operas, imports, and other works that appeared ... Read more

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