Musical Theatre
A History
Edición de la obra Musical theatre
| Autor | John Kenrick |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Bloomsbury Academic & Professional |
| Fecha de publicación | 2010 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 424 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781441148117 |
| Número de Cutter | K36m |
Musical Theatre: A History presents a comprehensive history of stage musicals from the earliest accounts of the ancient Greeks and Romans, for whom songs were common elements in staging, to Jacques Offenbach in Paris during the 1840s, to Gilbert and Sullivan in the UK, to the rise of music halls and vaudeville traditions in America, and eventually to "Broadway's Golden Age" with George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Oscar Hammerstein, Leonard Bernstein, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The 21 st century has also brought a popular new wave of m....