An overview of musical theatre offers information on Britain's provincial theatres, American stages outside New York, new shows, revivals, and biographical sketches of singers and actors around the world.

Encyclopedia of the Musical Theatre

Reference

Gänzl, Kurt

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Schirmer

This is a comprehensive guide to 75 great musicals from the 1890s to the 1990s. Actor, author and producer, Karl Ganzl, provides full production information, casts, plot synopses, song titles and notes about each show. The work is illustrated throughout with photographs of the original Broadway productions. The Broadway shows featured include The King and I, Jesus Christ Superstar, Damn Yankees, Grease, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Annie, The Sound of Music, Gypsy, Sweeny Todd, Evita, Show Boat, 42nd Street, Anything Goes, Cats, Oklahoma, Hello Dolly , Fiddler on the Roof, Carosel, Hair, South Pacific, Phantom of the Opera, Guys and Dolls and Miss Saigon'.

Ganzl's Book of the Broadway Musical: 75 Favorite Shows, from H.M.S. Pinafore to Sunset Boulevard

Humor & Entertainment

Schirmer Books

Ganzl's Book of the Musical Theatre

Lamb, Andrew

MacMillan & Co., Ltd.

From the pre-Gilbert and Sullivan 1860s to the 1980s, this important reference surveys more than a century of British light musical theatre, including its writers and composers. Gänzl provides a wealth of information on the book, lyrics, and music of over 800 London musicals, including contemporary reviews, cast lists, performances, plus pertinent notes gleaned from a study of surviving scores and libretti. Volume 1 traces the development of the genre between 1865 and 1914, describing its roots in burlesque and opéra-buffe, and discussing the comic opera tradition and the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, the flowering of the so-called musical comedy under George Edwardes, and the important influence of the British musical theatre around the world, particularly in America. Volume 2 covers, among other topics, the reciprocal influences on the British musical theatre of the American style, the advent of the dance-and-laughter musicals of the 1930s, the rock operas of the 1970s, and the subsequent development of the modern British musical in its second period of international prominence, highlighted by such hits as Evita and Cats.

British Musical Theatre: 2 VolumesVolume 1: 1865-1914^L Volume 2: 1915-1984

Oxford University Press

GANZLS BOOK OF THE MUSIC

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

RANDOM HOUSE UK

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Lydia Thompson: Queen of Burlesque (Forgotten Stars of the Musical Theatre)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

In over 2700 entries, Kurt Ganzl covers the whole genre of musical theatre from the mid-19th century to the present. His encyclopaedia includes plot summaries for over 1000 shows, principally from London and Broadway, but also including the European operetta tradition. Over 900 entries are devoted to singers and actors, with the balance devoted to all other aspects of the genre, from set design to production, and from authors to costumes. Ganzl's previous reference works have established him as an authority on the London and Broadway musical, and on the recorded history of the style. The book is illustrated with over 200 half-tones from Ganzl's collection of theatrical memorabilia, and is fully cross-referenced.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Musical Theatre. 2 vols.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Blackwell*publishers

What are the essential records that should form the heart of any collection of musical theatre? Where do the best recordings fit in the history and development of the musical? Are original recordings of hit shows of the 1950s and 1960s preferable to modern re-creations? How do film soundtrack and original cast recordings compare to other commercial issues? If a collection has basic representative records from one area of the musical theatre, what are the best additional albums to supplement and enrich that area of music? In this guide Ganzl answers these questions and gives his opinions as to the essential basic discs for any collection of musicals. He assesses the merits of "highlights" and full-score recordings and compares most available or historic recordings of the repertory core. The book also provides information on the recorded history of musical theatre.

The Blackwell Guide to the Musical Theatre on Record

Music

Blackwell Pub.

Offers a glimpse of all the facets of production of the hit musical of romance and intrigue in the south of France, and includes the libretto

The Complete Aspects of Love

Studio

Musicals: The Complete Story [hardcover] Kurt Ganzl [Jan 01, 1995]

Musicals: The Complete Story

Movies

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

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